This week’s game saw us travel in the glorious sunshine to Borden.
Things got off to a great start as the toss lost, as tails never fails, and we was stuck into bat. Scoring was relatively slow to begin the innings as both openers Pussy and Semtex struggled to find the gaps, with both falling early. This brought Vice and skipper for the day into bat and with some quick-fire boundaries saw the total rise in no time at all but was dismissed for 16. If this wasn’t enough this was soon followed by a great strop where banging and crashing could be heard inside and out of the changing room. Cricket at its best. Dartsy was in next and was able to steady the ship and get the Stone innings back on track scoring 54 with ten 4s as others fell around him. However, admiring your shot will always cause you trouble, especially if you have my fathers pace, and despite the fielder dropping the ball a quick throw saw the bails flying with Dartsy well out. This brought myself to the crease and I’m sorry, dad, I had to outdo this time. Scoring 69 with five 6s (one of the boundaries was very small) and six 4s. Joe and I formed a partnership of 100 despite both being dismissed in the last over we finished on 207 (byes helped greatly).
Tea. One of the best you could ask as for, as seen on the Stone Cricket twitter page, accompanied by a very interesting chat over what distinguishes a biscuit from a chocolate bar. Result: Still undecided, I leave it to the floor. Skip, not wanting to name names, but I did hear murmurs that this could even be better than yours and I would completely disagree (Please pick me xx).
Onto the bowling, which was initially very unrewarding with little to no chances being given away by the opposition batsman despite some tight stuff from Walkling 6 overs 0/21 and Candyman Miller 6 overs 0/18 who’s still looking for his first Stone wicket (Wasn’t brought up once). With 20 overs remaining we was all in bemusement at how they were scoring so quickly with them on 88 only needing 120 to win. For those who struggle with Maths, it’s a run a ball. Both of their openers reached 50, somehow, but it was now time for Dino to be brought into the attack, which sees him take 4/19 from 8. It wasn’t to be for us this week but always looking for the win the final over saw another Stone aggressive field with five Slips, Leg Slip, Gully in place and two up close on either side it was exciting times. Nothing came, obviously. Borden finished on 157 for 5 and the game ended in a draw (a winning one).
Down to the Pub and Shit Bag was shared this week by Walkling and Lawrence for “Love Island Chat”. Apparently, we aren’t a Love Island Club so you have been warned.
Ainsley’s ‘Spicy’ player of the day was awarded to Jack for 69 from not as many balls, which is why I was given the honour to write this rather long match report. Sorry.
– Jack