Despite the rather muddy pitch we had an enjoyable friendly vs the Muffers in a a match in which an attempt was made to break the record for the 'most people playing whilst smoking' (I counted five; though Coco -as usual-smoked enough for 11 normal men).The Cross fielded an unusually youthful and athletic side - with a few Cross veterans (McGill, Lawrie, Bates, Ellis) making up the numbers.
Skipper McGill prevailing against Don Wilkie in the battle of the cantankerous er.. captains.
A fluent start from the inform pair of Nipun Metha and C. J. Ellis (both retired on 30) followed by other useful contributions from 'Psycho' Bates (as he is known to Muffers), Vikram and Nawaz took us to 144.
Good bowling performance with good spells from Vikram, Burgess, McGill (adding to his long list of international victims), Bates, Nipun, and particularly Nawaz kept Mufs to just over a hundred -despite some fine striking from one of their openers (Anand Venkatesh). (Though he almost fell to an attempt for catch of the millennium from Andy G/J Pope-they attempted something along the lines of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWO5MO8z4ks )
Some good keeping from Ken -including a nice stumping (!!).
BTW can the person who borrowed my bat at the weekend and put a rather large crack right through the middle of it....
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'Mr Belly' has posted the Mufs perspective-and has included some scores etc.
ReplyDeleteQuick update on the result from the Arbo...
Holy Cross won by 44 runs.
HX 144-5 off 20 overs. Charlie Ellis 31 ret, Nimehta 30 ret, Jon Bates run out 24, V Gaware 30 ret.
Wicket takers for MDAFS:
Anand with an excellent spell of 3-0-14-1, and von Belly with 3-0-16-2 (would have been 3 if Lacey had not tried to catch a steepler with his boobies rather than his handsies).
2 good run outs due to sharp work by Adeel and then Broon.
Other bowling:
N Yelland 3-0-28-0 (bowling radar left in Florida - think line and length kidda!)
Adeel Raza 3-0-18-0 (struggled with wet ball but bowled some good 'uns to Charlie)
Gijs Katgert 2-0-11-0 (improved lengths - kept it tight against the thrash)
Chris Brown 1-0-18-0 (ummm)
Steve Willis 2-0-17-1 (second over showed improvement )
Sutha Rangaswamy 2-0-8-0 (impressive at the end of the innings)
Lea Tsui 1-0-9-0 (final over looked good from the square point/ leg boundary).
MDAFS batting - 100-8 off 20 overs.
Andy Lacey run out 19
Anand Venkatesh 38 not out (had retired at 30)
Neil Yelland retired hurt 18
Charlotte Bacombe ct McGill 1
Sutha Rangaswamy bowled McGill 4
Chris Brown Bowled Nimehta 5
Don Wilkie (celeb captn) Caught Shazad 1
Adeel Raza stumped Lawrie bwd Nimehta 3 (dawdling outside his crease rehearsing shots)
Gijs Katgert caught McGill 4
Stephen Willis run out 0 (suicidal turn for a second)
Lea Tsui not out 2
Belly 12th man and so DNB.
Usual marvellously spirited game with some good comedy award potential moments - livened up by the Pope v Pickles clash where one would say it was stalemate in the arse-kicking contest.
Can't help but agree that the arse kicking contest was a stalemate
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