Month: May 2005

Yesterday saw our first win of the season, against my old team, Harwell International. Although most of their team was borrowed from Wantage Saturday side and Andy Henson. This does not detract from our victory at all. We played the best we've played so far this year. Superb fielding, bowling and batting led us to a great win. David and Graham were the batting stars putting on a partnership of 141 between them. David playing some fine strokes against some tough bowling to score 53 not out and Graham using his usual batting…continue reading →

We had a good game against Cold Ash on their plastic strip yesterday. The weather was variable throughout the afternoon, but didn't really interrupt the cricket. Cold Ash set us a target of 174 to win after some good bowling especially: Peachy 7-1-17-1 Muppet 6-0-23-2 Lurch 4-0-19-2 The outfield was short and the batting strip was favourable to the batsmen, however our opening wickets fell quickly, with Tweeky being run out after being unable to stop at the crease and turn around quickly to get back to the other end (think supertanker). Stout…continue reading →