икона за подаръкAfter the monsoon season of the last month the rain held off for an afternoon to allow the seconds to finally get their season underway at home versus Sunningwell. With the skipper having been busy in the transfer window new signings Sam Richardson and Punit Sevak joined last season’s absentees Scott and Paul Wyatt in the starting eleven. Due to the weather the match was to be played on the astro a new rule implemented by the OCA. A good score was hard to predict with the slow outfield and uneven bounce on the strip scores from 100 to 180 were being talked about. Having lost the toss we were put into bat with Lucy and JC opening up. Lewis was soon on his way back having not troubled the scorers and then was sent to do the important task of moving the sightscreen for the left hand, right hand combination as JC was joined by Paul. A good partnership was formed as the score edged towards fifty as Jules looked to be getting into his stride before a mix up in the middle led to him being run out. The Marsh Gibbon collapsed then started to happen with Paul, Steve, Guesty, Timmo and Scott out cheaply leaving us struggling at 61-7. Boz was joined by Punit who then put on a match winning partnership with Punit playing the perfect anchor role at this stage of the match leaving Boz to unleash a flurry of boundaries including a six straight into the farm to bring up his first 50 for the club in a truly outstanding innings. However he was to be out done by an audacious switch hit by Punit to cheers from the loyal supporters who had braved the cold to come out and watch. Boz was finally out for 58 trying to hit out at the end greeted by a standing ovation and a massive smacker from his mum as he left the field. Tommy Leonard was the last man out with 3 balls remaining as we posted 127.
Knowing we had a total to bowl at we knew that tight fielding and early wickets would leave us in a very strong position, and this is exactly what we got as the skipper and Stevie T took 3 early wickets leaving Sunningwell struggling at 21-3 off the first 10 over’s. The wickets then dried up and the runs started to flow before the introduction of Tommy into the attack who in a 6 over spell picked up 4 wickets backed up by good catches from Lucy who pulled out a one handed dive for the cameras and a much simpler chance that fell to Timmo. The openers then came back for a second spell and wrapped up in the innings as the rain began to fall as Sunningwell fell 25 runs short of the target they were chasing to put us Top of League.
Big thanks to all the guys that were down early Saturday to set up, Mrs Bosley for another lovely tea and Sunningwell for allowing the game to go ahead.
WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE, SAY WE ARE TOP OF THE LEAGUE!!
