FARNDON (4) 234-6
THORESBY
(0) 183-4
Congratulations to Callum
on his maiden fifty for the club, although it was to prove in vain.
Jonesey lost the toss and we were again fielding first,
the wicket as usual looked superb and a high scoring game was expected. Jono and Stu opened the bowling
and kept things very tight, Stu also chipping in with
a wicket. Dancing Dave replaced Jono and quickly
struck, but this brought to the wicket Farndons pro
(well golf anyway) who proceeded to smash the ball all over with a mixture of
nine iron and brutal driver. But the mayhem was brought to an end by Lee who
used the deadly "full bunger" to account for the next two wickets.
There then followed a quiet period before Nige was
introduced to the attack, all went well to start a wicket maiden then carnage
as he was smashed to all parts by a guy wearing a harlequin cap, boxing gloves
and an antique bat!!!. Stu returned and picked up
another wicket but Farndon posted a very good score.
In reply Jonsey
and Jono started well, harlequin man was again in the
act. Seam with hat, seam without, spin with, spin
without. Although it was the introduction of another unusual character a sort
of poor mans merv hughes who made the breakthrough, removing both
openers in quick succession. This brought Rob and Callum
together, both got a little bogged down but tried in vain to raise the run
rate. Rob fell trying to go over the top and Nige
briefly upped the tempo before being caught on the boundary. Jamie then gained
some useful batting practice as he stayed with Callum
as he scored his maiden fifty.
The strange thing about this game was that
on arrival we were greeted by a second umpire which we assumed was with the
opposition. After a few overs we asked Farndon who he was, they replied that they had no idea he
just turns up occasionally!!!!!!!. Although
he did make a fatal error at the end trying to get money out of skipper Jonesey when Nige was safely away
with the takings.
C FLINTON 59 no