Mills
& Reeve 93-5 (Lanceman 27*, S Morgan 2-14, P Morgan 2-17) beat Jagex 91-9
(Nigri 23, Parrish 17*, Hadcock 4-7) by 5 wickets.
It was a weird, topsy turvy game last night with highlights including.
About as good a start as we could have dreamed of, with 27 runs
plundered for no wicket by the 3rd over, courtesy of Jamy “Batter Up”
Nigri.
Jamy being bowled, which bizarrely resulted in our biggest batting
collapse in years.
Van Daal pushed hard and kept the score ticking over before falling
caught.
Jones perished for 3 hitting a wide one to a short offside catcher.
Piers Morgan chipped in with a couple of 4’s, before he managed a very
strange top edge to a short offside player.
Richard was cleaned up by the stand out bowler on the night, Hadcock,
and possibly by the ball of the game, pitching on a length outside off and then
seaming in to take leg stump.
Justin stuck around for a bit before being bowled by the same chap who
had Richard.
McClarty stuck around for a bit before returning a caught and bowled chipping
one gently back to the bowler.
Steve Morgan bopped in with a streaky as a bacon sandwich four, before
being bowled by the irrepressible Hadcock.
Parrish chipped in with a decent score, although was dropped twice.
Charmed life.
Fardell and Parrish did their best Boycott impression at the end to add 20
for the last wicket. They couldn’t see the team to the 20th over,
with Fardell bowled off his pads by a straight-ish one.
Hadcock managed to secure 2 wicket maidens. Someone (Neil) said before
the game that we had way too much batting…
We had to do really well to have any hope of winning this one, and so we
started off at something of a flyer, with brothers S and P Morgan opening. Both
secured early wickets by teasing an edge behind to Jamy Nigri behind the
stumps.
Steve saw one caught, Piers also saw one caught. Neither of the brothers
wanted the other to do better.
Chirp in the field was high, and at one point the opposition were 4
wickets down after 4 overs with ten runs on the board. Batters 1, 2 and 3 didn’t
trouble the scorers, and batsman 5 chipped in with 1.
Pickett and Lanceman for the opposition bedded down and built their
first partnership. Pickett led a charmed life, offering two difficult caught
chances, and almost playing a wild swipe on. Lanceman didn’t offer a sniff.
Fielding was generally good, tough catches aside. Van Daal prowled the
boundary well, and mostly people picked up and threw in effectively.
Edwards bowled a decent couple of overs, bowling Pickett with that
dreaded ball that is straight at the middle of the stumps.
Parrish also had a decent spell at the other end, although the
partnership, and the following batsmen (including Hadcock) had managed to
steady the ship and keep the scoring up so that the target was easily in reach.
Neil said something nasty about my mum, and said he had to question my
captaincy decisions at the end: lovely.
