Match report v Frogmore

The Redbourn winfest sadly seems to continue, so with only two games to go for them, they have to lose both for us to overtake them (assuming the won on Tuesday, and they had notched up over 150 by the time we left). With that in mind, these last few games for us seem somewhat secondary and combined with the general economic mood there is less than really serious competitive spirit.

With the opposition running late, the game was already reduced to 11 overs per side. We lost the toss and were asked to bowl and Mike opened the bowling with Dave. Mike bowled to good first overs beating two of their first three for pace in castling them and they lost a wicket to run out in opening over. We had them under serious pressure at the half way point of 40 odd for 4 after 5 overs. With Mike's tail up, he went for broke but lost some of the earlier control, testing Graeme's keeping, spraying it down the legside and getting the ball to lift to the extent that he conceded a chest high no ball. They lost their 5th wicket with a few overs to go, but there last batsman did well pushing the score up to 107 for 5 at the end of 11th over.

Batting was a bit of procession, there was no real incentive to push the run rate, which we kept just on the right side of with Mike and Graeme opening. I went in three and pushed a few quick singles, but became are only wicket loss to a somewhat dubious run out. Dave and Neil finished things off with more than over to spare.

We will need to bowl more accurately and bat with more purpose I feel if we are to topple Redbourn in the final this year.