Quack! Dave Brilley lobs Pete Ford a pie.
MIMCC 72 all out, Pontblyddyn 2nds a bit more for 2.
Skipper’s Match Report for Saturday 6th August – Mynydd Isa & Maeshafn 2nds v Pontblyddyn 2nds.
A very brief match report today – due in part to a low scoring game and in part that I’ve got a list of jobs today as long as my arm which mean I’m getting black looks as I type…..
Thanks to everyone for pre-match prep. We won the toss and decided very sensibly to bat.
Apples & Abs started well – Apples getting ten in his first over and we got to 9 overs and 36 runs without loss. Abs had a boundary, but a combination of pace at one end and late outswing at the other made it high risk. Apples had a couple put down. Eventually Abs feathered an edge to slip for 8. 36-1.
Skip went in to join Apples and several balls later back he came without troubling the scorers, done for pace and going back to a full one.
Next Will in, a few nervy starters. Apples then had a leading edge to get caught on 24. Will creamed a long leg boundary and then out for 4 lbw. Matt Lloyd tried to get going, but didn’t look comfortable, Prasad didn’t stay there long after edging to slip, Dave Markey, Manish, Venkat, Fordy who spooned a Dave Brilley wide pie to point, Gray who slammed a cover boundary and then out. In short from 36 for 0 we were 72 all out.
It was like a revolving door today things happened that quickly and their bowling too good for us or we just aren’t good enough at batting. Probably its both, but we have seen this several times this season against the higher placed teams.
For a team that has grown the number of medical professionals in its ranks, we see Fagan’s law in action – that a corresponding growing number of players need medical attention. But free prognosis is one thing, fixing things that the laws of nature have decided wont fix that quick is another! So a rather less than full strength team went out to field….
After last week we used spin from the start with such a low total to defend in the hope we might at least pick up a point or two.
Prasad and Venkat from the off and both very sharp. The openers struggled and after 10 overs they were on 34. After 12 overs, Matt and Manish took over. Matt deceptive and in great areas had some great appeals, eventually bowling their opener.
A few overs later Manish saw a big heave on a mis-timed shot loop over Abs, who it has to be said took a fanatstic grab over his shoulder running backwards. Is this 3.0? Whatever the upgrade Abs fielding is really on the money this season.
Pont got there without any further loss and we were all done by 4.30.
A point only, but surely if they batted first we wouldn’t have had that.
Thanks to all – played in a good spirit as always, plenty to work on unfortunately and we are into the core holiday season now so numbers key as ever!