"Quick - let's piss on the pitch - Coley's lost the toss"
HWRCC 129 all out
Ashstead CC 130 for 7
A glorious day, a good match. Skipper Cole was in charge for his first outing on the back of Skipper Smith losing the previous week.
Cole made an immediate impact, clearing the deer excrement from the pitch at a rate of knots, clearly the First XI had not bothered the day before, judging by the poo's hardness it was not recent activity.
No excuse Tongy! Skip could do nothing about the deer wee just short of a length at both ends which caused a few problems, indeed Skipper Smith extracted maximum movement from the piss during his spell. Word has it someone had tried to replicate marking of territory Saturday night or early Sunday morning but only managed to find the ice machine instead: warm drinks in bar later.
Anyway, Skipper Cole lost the toss and the oppo quite nicely asked us to bat on a urine ridden deck. Same animals tried to run on to the pitch just before start but were quickly pushed away. Clearly some fun had been had on Saturday night so much so that half the team were struggling to stand up. DMJ and Ed opened up, DMJ got given to the seamer who was doing all sorts out of the slash, strangely after that decision we seemed to be happy to give our men out, Charlie horrendously done by Mo and Skipper Smith done by a very grumpy Charles. Schoolboy error from Edmunds never the give the Skipper.
Charlton looked good but them smacked long hop down mid wicket's throat, Charlie High in, Fin smacked a very quick 30 before trying to blast one too many but highly entertaining. Skipper Cole came in to witness Mo do Charlie High with a shocker, Mo's finger up quicker than DBW on Viagra. It was Mo's last game at Wick, an emotional and subdued Mo at that, perhaps he thought only way to get wicket in last game was to umpire! Mo then got done himself by DMJ although it was plumb. Even more grumpy Charles E did Skipper Smith, Tim hit some nice shots and Skipper Cole held all together with patient 32 before trying to push score along, young guns Smith and Will Taylor saw us to 129. Credit to oppo, fielding was excellent and bowling tight.
A good tea. Smiths opened up looking resplendent in their new shirts, their 16 over opening spell removing four top order decent bats for not many. Young Smith out doing old Smith 3-1. Will had a go but got a bit of tap from the Skipper whose 50 took game away from us, Tim got one, Fin got one thanks to great catch from Cole to remove skipper but damage had been done, Mo did get wicket - and they got it in 40th over. Great effort.
A few drinks after whilst we watched Goldie's fit teaching friends. Why didn't my teachers look that good?
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