Cavendish Cricket Club

Another home game and another lost toss. I really must do something about my coin flipping technique. In the end it didn’t matter because the opposing captain decided it would be a good day to bowl, even with the fairly gloomy conditions and what turned out to be quite a friendly attack. Brett and Colin got off to a solid start against the openers, running a lot of 2s and 3s and generally making them work very hard without taking any risks. Brett’s recent good form didn’t take long to show itself again as he began to sweetly time the ball through the on-side. Colin switched in to the unfamiliar role of sheet anchor while Brett (111) blasted his way to a truly scintillating 50-ball century. After Brett departed, Justin P was unlucky to be caught without scoring when attempting to continue in a similar vain, bringing Matt (24*) and Colin (52) together for the final few overs. Colin was run out with a direct hit from the boundary on the final ball of the innings going for a fairly safe second run, but the hard work had been done and we took to the field having made a hefty 2/210 from our 20 overs. They were never really in the hunt, which was lucky for us considering we were missing Damo, Ed, Thomas, Dan, Dadhichi, Alan and a host of other recognised bowlers. It was down to the skipper (2/24) to open the attack with JB. After a few runs went in the first couple, we managed to get a stranglehold on the game through some excellent fielding and good line and length bowling. Brett’s evening continued in excellent style with a run out and then and a wicket from the first ball of his spell, and Charles’ improved considerably — starting with a pre-game slips fielding incident involving a nasty blow to the nose and finishing with an excellent double wicket spell. We ended up bowling them out for 88 in around 16 overs to secure our most emphatic win of the season so far.