"It's got to be-e-e-e-e--e-e perfect. It's got to be-e-e-e-e-e-e-e worth it. So many people take second best but I won't take anything less. It's got to be-e-e-e-e-e-e perfect". So sang the big nosed, big chinned lead singer from Fairground Attraction. Captain Prefab may well have warbled something similar as he drove home in the car on Thursday night as the Colts had just been as near perfect as a bunch of middle-aged, out of shape, over the hill indoor cricketers can possibly be. If indoor cricket be the food of love then there were some wives and girlfriends waiting at home who didn't know what they were in for (or maybe they did....). In this Bo Derek of a performance just about everything went right. The Bams won the toss and again asked the Colts to bat despite a heavy defeat in the Cup the week before. In fact the Bams bowling looked stronger with the return of "Jeremy" to bowl some serious wheels but the Colts batting was stronger with the return of David "Bo Diddeley" Whiteley and Mike "Bo Selecta" Howard. Completing our line up were Steve "Bo Tox" Ball, Simon "Bo Peep" Williams and Rupert "Bo Weekly" Garrett.
The first overs were sedate with no sign of the chaos to come as Bo Prefab (31 in 19) and Bo Diddeley (45* in 26) ticked over to be 49-0 from 4 overs with a few iffy runs and some poor calling having not opened together this season. It was the introduction of "Jeremy" that started things moving as an astonishingly wide wide (think Harmison but wider) saw his over go for 15. After that, the next 6 overs went for 142. That's 23 point something an over. The runs from the overs in sequence went 20,21,23,31,24,23 and the Bams are far from the worst bowling attack in this league. It was awesome striking. Bo Selecta (28* in 6: 4,3,3,5,8,5) and Bo Tox (25* in 6: 4,5,3,4,6,3) had incredible strike-rates and Bo Peep (25* in 11) chipped in as well so that Bo Weekly (10* in 5) at No.6 came in with still fully 3 overs to go. There were 4 x 8's to the back wall and whilst the score-board said 207-1 in 12 overs, the score-sheet actually adds up to 217. The only blemish was a "Bo's Up" between Prefab and Rupes that led to an easy run out. On the Blog (saddo that he is) your scribe can only find reference to a score of 189-3 also against Bamville in 2005 but the writer at that time refers to it then as our second best score ever. Have the Colts ever done "double top" before and made 200 ? Where is Benedict on Sky when you need him ?
The bowling was good too with "Weeping" Willo (2.3-0-20-3) making a strong case for MoM status. His leg breaks were fiendish and prompted him to consider writing his biography a la Graeme Swann. Unfortunately using a similar title "The Breaks are Leg" makes little sense. Bo Selecta (1-0-1-1) clean bowled the oppo skipper in one brilliant over. A word also for Rupes (3-0-27-1) who was tidy from the start and put in a fine performance of his own. Apart from a couple of tough catches whilst in "Full Court Press" mode there was little wrong in the field either. The only cheating that we did was to try and sneak in a couple of 5-ball overs just to get in the bar early.
As the young actress said to the bishop: "I don't know what that was exactly but I liked it and we're doing it again".
Can this level of performance possibly be maintained ?
MoM : Simon "Weeping Bo Peep" Williams. No disgrace with the bat and a fabulous spell with the ball including a jaffa to Jeremy.
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