Big up to the two stand-in captains David "Grasshopper" Whiteley and Steve "Object" Ball as they sat on the bowl of destiny and strained hard to produce the goods whilst Chief Oberleutnant Von Prefab took himself off to a conference in Dublin to listen to a lot of dull men talking about heavy machinery.
Frantic text messages were enough to confirm a whopping win against Flamstead (194 in 12 overs - really - ??!!) on the Tuesday but a tenser squeeze by Frogmore on Thursday. Captain Prefab had avoided "Doing an Arsene" by splashing the Colts' cash in pre-season but nobody could have predicted quite how well our new signings would turn out. Rupert "Pat" Garrett, John "The Business" Card, James "Ty" Cobb and Rob "L" Hubbard all did superbly well with bat, ball and even gloves (some of it theirs and some of it begged, borrowed or stolen).
With the regular skipper unable to make much sense of the scorecards (which read a little like the Dead Sea Scrolls) evidence has been established using methods seen on old black-and-white "Baz & Nige" episodes of Sherlock Holmes to see that the Colts 194 was far too much for Flamstead (101 all out and we'll take the bonus points - thanks) whilst the Frogs' 124-3 (or 4) was a teasing little total especially when we were 71-2 off 7 but Bally (26* in 6 balls - really - ??) and The Card (19* in 6 we think) saw us home. In the Flams match Mike Howard (61) played like only a homicidal maniac with a claymore and a kilt can whilst Bally tonked 47 and had 4 "w"'s up his bowling column although some of these might have been run outs.
MoM's : This is tricky as I wasn't even there and my judgement has been clouded by 3 nights on the Black Stuff. Bally was insistent that John Card ("JC3") be given the Frogmore match for getting us home despite a superb effort from "Ty" Cobb with the gauntlets. If Bally doesn't get the award for skippering on Thursday then I feel somewhat duty bound to give him the nod for Tuesday despite Mikey H's efforts (plus Mike jointly held player of the year last season so he now knows that the bar is set a little bit higher for him and 61 out of 194 with 70 coming off the last 4 overs isn't enough to impress us anymore).
Frogmore : Bally for 47 in 16 balls and a 3-0-18-4 (incl. run outs)
Flamstead : John Card for 19* in 6 balls on deyboo)
Now for Redbourn....
Please note and tick y/n for match details for our Cup Quarter Final v. Bamville on Thurs. 13 October 2011 at 9pm.
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