Floored…would have been better if it was a clean floor…
Not good.
They say golf is a great leveler….try cricket on for size!!
Rylands won the toss and decided to bat first on a concrete slab! They were off to a flyer and with the exception of myself and George Cilliers the rest of the bowling lineup got worked over quite horribly.
Player umpires just don’t work. Annie, our scorer, told us after our bowling stint that the opposing players were boasting about the fact that there were plenty of decisions they were supposed to give but never did, like that edge off my bowling, various plum LBW shouts, etc. How can you keep your head up for 40 overs when you go for 6 an over and nothing you do is good enough to get them wickets? We can blame ourselves for some other errors though…like dropping a guy on two that went on to make 50…
Rylands 232/7 in 40 overs.
Bowling figures
G James 1/26 in 8 overs
G Cilliers 1/12 in 2 overs
F O’Niel 3/43 in 8 overs
J Van Gent 1/39 in 8 overs
Concidering that the average run rate they scored at was about 6 an over, and that G Cilliers bowled a lot better in his two overs at the death that his figures suggests, there was not a whole lot more we could have done to stop the runs from flowing, except maybe for hanging on to some sitters in the field!
We went in to bat with the belief that we could chase the total down. We were off to a slow start in the first 4 overs, but then the machine kicked into gear and runs started comming quickly. Brian Fulton and George Kamfer putting on 70 in 14 overs before Fulton played a straight lofted drive into long-on’s hands on the boundary. Out for 41. With the loss of that wicket we still had plenty of batting to come, but unfortunately the machine’s gears broke in half and we lost wickets at regular intervals. My good form did not last and I played a silly shot to get stumped for 21. Kamfer ended on 51 (7 x 4’s) (scoring a lot quicker and with intention we have not seen from him yet (more of the same please, Mr Boeta Dippenaar). Wray ended with a determined 16 (had a runner) and Wayne chipped in with a last ditch effort of 27 at the end. We ended 43 runs shy of their total at 189 all out in 38 overs.
There is a few possitives from the game, but it still hurts knowing that even though they scored 232 we lost the game rather than them winning it.
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