v Sutton on the Hill, May 30th
Posted Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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After a great deal of rain the day before the match the Sutton ground was in its usual good condition. Ross the toss headed out to the centre and promptly lost the toss again! Unusually, the Sutton captain decided to put us in to bat so Brian and Howard duly padded up and headed out. Lively is not a word that you tend to associate with Brian these days however, thanks to Howard trading in fours and one overthrow which went to the boundary giving him a five, the start was indeed lively with the run rate hovering around for an over for the first few overs. When the score had reached the mid thirties, unfortunately Brian played his only rash shot of the innings and was caught in the slips. After the match he wryly observed "if I had realised that the batting was going to collapse I wouldn't have played that shot".
Next up was Carpo who went in and signaled his intent with a couple of well struck shots reaching the boundary. Unfortunately this did not last long and the collapse to which Brian referred began, leaving us with a woefully inadequate target of a hundred and twenty something to defend.
After an excellent tea, we staggered out into the field. Sutton had plenty of time and could afford to settle in and steadily moved towards our total by picking off the bad balls. Having said that, the lad who came in at the fall of a (controversial) wicket took about 2 seconds to get set before whacking good and bad balls all over the place, leading to an early drink!
Still, we had the usual thoroughly enjoyable afternoon and evening.
A couple of potential champagne moments - Mickey Wenn (spectating) took a wander round the boundary. At the end of the game, he tried to step over the fence. The legendary long and supple legs of the skipper failed him and he became as one with the aforementioned fence! Fortunately, the electricity was not turned on and also rather furtunately, Dave Evans was on hand to effect the rescue. A shame that so few people were there to witness this bizarre event. The second contender was indeed more widely witnessed - Brian Bennetts First Public Fart! Anyone who was there will confirm that it probably ranks (pardon the pun) amongs the noisiest and smelliest ever released in the Sunseekers changing room.
