Saturday 6th May ~ Tong v Notton

An Expensive Drop!

Had the weather forecasters got it wrong! Rain by 5pm they said but glorious sunshine greeted us at the 2.00pm start.

Butts did it again 100% record in tossing the coin this season won 0 lost 2. Again we field first, James Mullaney bowled with real hostility but with absolutely no luck at all. Phill opening at the field end looked shattered after ball one as usual but managed to get to 10 overs. After last week we thought our fielding could not get any worse, we were wrong! Dropping Nottons opening batsman on 20 odd only for him to bat 44 overs for 128 not out was in hindsight quite an expensive mistake. On the positive side the fines are racking up at a tremendous rate its going to be one hell of an end of season do. Notton end up 239 – 5 probably 40 more than we should have let them get. 4 dropped catches and a few misfields Champagne moment has to be Duncans dropped catch (ask him about it)

Tea, kindly presented this week by Nick Sowerby, an interesting array of Indian Samosas Bajis and cheese butties. I’m sure it will catch on! And then the weather forecasters got it right. A steady drizzle set in to start the Tong innings turning an already interesting Tong pitch into an unplayable tong pitch. Shaun out for 0, sorry Shaun cant blame the pitch for yours, Butts gets bowled with a ball that hits 4 inches from the base of the stump but pitches half way down, Débutante Derek looked like he was going to set the world on fire with the hardest and sweetest timed square cut ever to grace the ground. And then another shooter. Whilst all this is going on Kadar is impatiently smashing the ball to all parts and making the rest of the top order look very silly. Nick fell next far too tired from making teas to be able to bat. Adam gave good support to Kad until Kad was dubiously given out on 74 team score about 95. Another good partnership then between Adam and Jani, then Adam fell. Enter Phill Taylor. As Phill will tell you he is not the most technically correct batsman Tong have but by God he hits it a long way. 65 runs 6 sixes and 4 fours (running is also not a strong point) Runs came quickly then but so did wickets 24 balls to go 24 runs needed 3 Wickets left, 18 runs needed 23 balls left 3 wickets left. 18 runs needed all out.

A gallant effort came to an abrupt end with some good bowling from P Lawson.

An old cricketing adage of catches win matches certainly came right today we dropped and lost.

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