Friday, 22 May 2020
25 Jul Bishops Canning v AVCC
Not a huge amount to say as we lost fairly convincingly.
I arrived, and as having been designated to captain AVCC by our esteemed leader sunning himself in Ireland (guess which bit isn’t true in that statement) I checked to see how many players we had at 5:55, and seeing we didn’t have a full team, hoped I’d win the coin toss and bat.
So, having succeeded in my first objective, we set out to put some runs on the board. Well that didn’t quite go to plan as BC’s opening bowler, left arm around the wicket, proceeded to bowl some very accurate yorkers to Angus, who had happily agreed to open with Ish. Sadly he got a leading edge to the 5th ball, that was slightly going down leg, and scooped the ball to deep square leg. BC’s fielder did his best to drop it, but annoyingly kept hold of the ball as he fell backwards.
BC’s team had looked youthful and full of keen cricketers, so this wasn’t the start we wanted. Ish did well to keep the next ball out, as it was a great yorker on middle stump. So we were 0-1 after 1 over. David Battison joined the fray and with Ish, proceeded to put on 30 runs over the next 5 overs. It was tough going as BC were bowling 4 over stints, and their opening bowler ended up with 3 wicket maidens, only allowing 8 runs off his 2nd over. He bowled Ish in his 3rd over and David in his final over. So after 7 overs, we were 3 for 33 runs. Matt Dancey sadly went quickly, having aimed to hit their spinner for 4, and having missed the ball, left an easy stumping for BC’s wicket keeping skipper.
We then had Louis and Jacques Glibbery in together, and as Jacques was fortunately wearing red trainers, Angus, who was now scoring, could work out who scored which runs, as there was a little debate between the brothers afterwards to check if Jacques had been given some of Louis’ runs!!! They steadied the ship and put on 20 runs before Louis was caught. Adam Pithouse then came in, and came back quickly having missed his 1st ball.
I then ventured in with the score on 68 for 6 after 14.1 overs. A quick cameo from me of 19 supporting Jacques and then annoyingly I scooped one back to the bowler, having changed my mind!!!
Rowan then came in and a late flourish from him and Jacques saw the score pushed to 112 for 7. Rowan got 6 runs not out, and Jacques was our top scorer with 30 not out.
A defendable score, but as mentioned BC had a young team full of cricketers, so we knew we needed to get some early wickets to put them under pressure, and try to keep them to under 5 an over.
Well it started well as after 4 overs they were 20-0, so just going at 5 an over, but sadly no wickets. However they hit out in Adam’s final over, who opened with David, who came back with a wicket in the next, thanks to a catch from me, running it from deep mid-on to take it low down.
But that was the only opportunity we managed to get and from then on it was pretty much the BC batting show. Their other opener retired on 50, his first ever, and the next 2 batsmen started hitting 4’s and 6’s with quite a regularity, and it was all over in the 15th over.
We retired to the Crown in Bishop Cannings for some post match conversation over a beer and very much enjoyed the sausages and chips we were given for tea. BC were a very friendly team and next year we’ll ideally want to turn up with 11, as we were only 10, so were short when fielding, though we probably could have done with 14 or 15.