Match Report: League Game v Chemistry
In every team, in every season, there is one game of a very special kind: The Comedy Debacle. We all know it well, and we’ve all been on the receiving end plenty of times. But this, dear reader, is the tale of the most cartoon-like contest in the history of cricket.
The genius author actually began penning the back-story to the game back in May, carefully constructing emails to several parties. So deceptive were his scheduling plans that he succeeded in keeping the information from himself as well. That’s right, our club Secretary, Dr Damian Gardiner, had planned not one… not two… but THREE different teams to play against on a single evening. Yes, dear friends, it can now be revealed that while we were busily negotiating with the two opposition teams at Churchill, a third calmly waited for us while the birds twittered in the gleaming sunlight at Fitzwilliam Playing Field.
Back at Churchill, when we finally decided our opposition was to be Chemistry (on the basis of Microbiology only having 6 players and no captain present) we lost the toss and were sent to the field. L’Autheur (3/11) opened the attack with JB (2/11) as usual, and as usual the pair had them pinned down immediately. Unfortunately JB’s feet weren’t pinned down quite as well, and after taking a wicket and falling over at the same time, he exited the field to undertake some engineering work on his boots. This brought Crossland (0/20) into the attack, who bowled well and was very unlucky not to have a catch go to hand in the slips. We brought in two slips and a gully for most of the rest of the innings, and finished by terrorising the bad guys with Thomas and Brett (3/20) to have them all out for only 73 after 19.1 overs.
When Brett and Colin strode out the giggle factor increased dramatically as they apparently decided that all 73 runs should really be scored in boundaries, and preferably without any dot balls in between. Brett’s 55 not out was scored from around 20 balls, and in the 5th over alone the pair took 25 runs (4,3,4,4,4,6). Chemistry was duly humbled by 10 wickets in 5.5 overs, and we moved on to 7 wins from 8 games in the League.
B. Miller NO 55
C. Evans NO 15
D. Gardiner 5 1 11 3
J. Benesch 3 0 11 2
E. Crossland 5 0 20 0
B. Miller 5 0 20 3