3rd XI match report v Watsonians 4s
We pitched up to Craiglockhart with 10 at the toss. Amjid went to Campbell Park with tea for two so he was late (but we had a nice tuna sandwich when he arrived) – had to win the toss and bat with this pitch and only 1 opening bowler!
We won the toss. Tim had an amazing coin to toss with as well. A 1999 Isle of Man £1 coin with this symbol on the back. I have since tried to bid for one on ebay but it went for £5.50 + £1.50 postage and packaging my max bid was £5, just missed out. Excellent find by Mr Bunker.
Anyway we started to bat Mike Nevin and Irfan Butt got us off to an incredible start a 100 run partnership off 20 overs before Mike got out for 40 and Irfan 53. That brought in comedy running duo of myself and Butchy.
After a quick chin wag in the middle of the crease and Butchy saying “I don’t run that quickly” I paused after hitting one to backward point and by that time Butchy was half way down the wicket! I forgot that these 2s guys backed up … so I was run out but not to worry we had a very long tail.
This brought the 50 man in at 5. Ross had stuck by the rule that you have to play hungover in order to score runs so went out on Friday to a pub quiz and got suitably oiled.
New rule for the 3s is based on the following evidence.
At the start of the season before Preston Village I got very drunk at the end of season hockey night out scored 44*. Three weeks ago v Morton I got drunk with work on the Friday night and scored 52. Then two weeks ago the night before Largo, Mark discovered Aussie rum 'Bundy' in an Edinburgh bar and scored 114. I got hammered last week before getting 156* and so did Parker to get 53.
Also during this time when I got 156* Mark got 2 – that’s because he took it easy at the cricket on the Friday night because we had cricket the next day. Also this Friday I took it easy and went to the cinema cause I had been drunk too many Fridays in a row. Stupid mistake.
I can only assume that Mike Nevin was wallpaper hanging when he scored his ton and his fifty. I also assume that Coco has had a few bottles of wine on Friday nights too and that’s why he’s the league’s top wicket taker.
Anyway back to the cricket. Parker and Amjid came in and with a 79 run partnership and some interesting shots they got the run rate up and we were on course to getting over 200.
Amjid finished with 31 before going for another big shot and missing.
Norrie came back to the fold and got 2 runs – but nearly ran parker out! If it wasn’t for him Parker wouldn’t have got his 50 though!!
We finished on 326 – 6. Good effort but we needed to be careful as Watsonians were near the top of the batting league.
Bowling we started very well Amjid going for only 14 runs off his 8 overs. Norrie also opened and after 4 overs got a bit tired so asked to be pulled off (erm, that's a bit too much information - did anyone oblige though?! - Ed). But this tight opening bowling the batsmen tried to go for it and run a silly single to Irfan who ran their no.1 out - big wicket number one.
We then brought Abdul on however, a couple of short balls and Watsonians looked like they were coming right back into it.
So I released the pace … we kept the two lions caged up for the majority of the match and only gave them half an egg sandwich at tea. They were angry and ready to go …
The first four overs of the pace didn’t go well. The young lad and no.2 batsmen were in fine form smashing the ball all over the park … oh the pace wasn’t working.
But then it clicked! Coco took a wicket then Richard.... 6 wickets and 88 runs later we were well on top!
Watsonians got an excellent total of 192 all out in the last over but we were comfortable after Coco and Richard took some very important wickets.
We all piled back to Myreside to drink Watsonians’ beer and eat their nuts. Then to the Green Room where Parker and I stayed before getting chucked out at the outrageous hour of 10pm.
On Saturday we found out one important fact.
In order to bat to the best of our abilities we need to be hungover.
Big night out on Friday night - Bundy rum and Deuchars on tap.
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