A welcome return to winning ways last night. Murph was left stranded at work pricing some german sausage, or that's what it sounded like, so our new recruit Hedge stepped in resplendent in a shirt fast approaching 20 years old.
I lost the toss and we were invited to bat. Dave and Graeme started solidly with Graeme luckily being dropped off a sitter. The use of a new ball and the reinforcement of the cage meant shots were pinging off the walls and returning to fielders rather too quickly to steal singles easily. Dave was the first victim of this, from a well timed cut that went straight back to the keeper, but the opening stand had made over 50. Bally then helped Graeme up to retiring, pushing up the run rate too before he fell to another run out from a well timed shot. John then joined Hedge who was starting to show his pedigree chum narrowly missing a 10. John fell and I joined Hedge and we kept up a reasonable rate until I also fell to another run out neatly bisecting the sidewall back to the bowler. Graeme and Hedge finished off the overs in fine style reaching 159 for 4.
Long Marston lost their first wicket in the first over to an outstanding catch by Graeme from an upish cut returning to the stumps off Dave. John could not quiet return to hero mode and Steve took over determined to stem the flow of runs from last week with a flatter trajectory. Long Marston lost wickets regularly three to run outs by John, Hedge and myself. At this point they were in deep in trouble but there was no recovery as I took the final two wickets, one a great catch by Hedge off his boots via the sidewall from a hard hit drive. They were 63 all out with two overs to spare.
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