Railway Taverners 275 – 4 (E. Reilly 122, G. Powles 85*) vs Plastics XI 208 all out (P. Byrne 33, R. Bishop 23)
I woke up the day after Liverpool had won the champions league for the 6th time, hung over and a little tired. The sunlight was shining through my thin, moth ruined curtains so I couldn’t sleep anymore. I walked downstairs to find the mess of the night before. I had had a bbq but couldn’t be arsed to tidy because that’s how it is. I went to cricket and finally found my fellow Plasticians in one of the 32 grounds in Highgate. I practised my bowling to see if I was still any good. I really was – it was the best warm up anyone had ever seen. The match started and you could tell the other bowlers had not had the same quality of warm up as myself. Taverner’s captain, E. Reilly bossed the play scoring 122 and G. Powles (who would be a Welsh international if they could be bothered to form their own team) impressed, scoring 87 not out. I will not discuss the 2 overs I bowled which went for 22. The best bowling figures went to Mark and Jerry who both got 1-38 off of their 8 overs – an impressive return considering the total of 275 the Railway Taverner’s set. I opened the batting with the stoic Robert Bishop. I unfortunately got out for 20 to the ball of the century from Big D. James Dewhirst was next to go, bowled by Buster for a beautiful 4. Robert’s 45 ball 23 came to its end when he was also bowled – this time by Big Andy. Liam was steady in his score of 9 (it took him 15 balls to get off 0) before being caught off Barry’s bowling. It should be noted that Barry is 80 years old - I’m not exaggerating, he was actually 80. Anthony scored 15 but got caught trying to push the tempo. Hughie, brother to captain Jerry, scored 21 (including his first ever 6) before being caught. Saj’s 2ndgame for the club almost ended controversially, with G. Powles threatening to Mankad him. It would have been fair, he was 2 metres down the pitch whenever G. Powles was bowling. Saj learnt from this, but it didn’t stop him getting caught for 10. Mark played a traditional innings where he was caught for 10 at extra cover. The lower order started to hit out as we needed 140 from the last 9 overs. Phil impressed with an unbeaten 33. Bradbury continued to push the tempo with his 16. Jerry decided to scoop his first ball, despite Phil putting together an impressive innings from the other end. He missed the ball, the ball missed the stumps. The Taverners laughed. I’ve got tired of writing this. Anyway, Jerry then batted more traditionally, hit the biggest six since records began before getting out bowled next ball. Mulligan, the bowler, taking his first ever wicket. The plastics were all out for 208 off 38.3 overs. We lost.
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Cricket master 84
7/6/2019 14:06:27
Fair plays
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