An easy win last night, against the whipping boys, Frogmore, who finished bottom of the league with just one win last year. On the basis of last night, their batting might mean they stay there again but their bowling shows some hope for them.
I won the toss and inserted. We had an interesting debate on who should keep, with Dave and Tim S initially being too polite as to who minded least taking the gloves. This was resolved in the end by Tim M being decisive and donning the glove and pads for the first time indoors. Dave opened the bowling and started swinging the ball immediately mixing some excellent deliveries that would have had the slips licking their fingers with others causing the umpire to stretch his arms. Tim S took the second over bowling straight and getting some bounce then completed the over with a lovely slower ball which hit their opener plumb in front. There were then several run outs, mostly down to poor calling from the opposition, at least two at the bowlers end that didn’t even require throws to complete the dismissal. John Cowan came and produced two excellent overs aside from one short delivery that as often happens was hit beautifully towards cover but quickly ended up back in the bowler hands to complete an easy run out. Neil and I completed the bowling and as I might have expected, it was a complete reversal of form for me from Tuesday, bowling to a left hander I simply couldn’t get the line right and conceded a horrendous number of wides. However, Neil fortunately finished off their innings with a lovely caught and bowled off the side wall in the 9th over, leaving them 76 all out.
The two Tims opened the innings. Tim M started well working the ball around but Tim S fell early dancing down the track and turning an inswinging good length delivery into a yorker and lost his off stump. Dave went in next and played well again, but their bowling was not as bad as their batting. More than one of their bowlers made good use of the swinging conditions, which accounted for Dave with another rare LBW decision to a ball that just shaped away. Neil went in next and Tim M retired having reaching 25, leaving me hopefully to play out the final 10 runs for victory. However I lasted only two balls missing a straight one going for a duck to complete a wretched evening (;-(. John Cowan then came out and hit some lusty blows square of the wicket, almost hitting one straight back to the keeper, not quite and these were enough to complete the win reaching 77 for 3 after only 7 overs. This gave us full bonus points, which seems odd, given that I think we played much better on Tuesday night and yet only failed to get the last bonus point.
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