Charlton Down Cricket Club

Charlton Down versus  Catistock

Tuesday  09 June 20

Great Expectations -a tale of 2 teams

Well I thought a lovely evening for a game of 20-20. After spending my week-end glued to the sky TV's coverage of the world T 20 tournament my expectations were high.....

On arriving at the ground 10 minutes after the team took to the crease I was informed that skip had fallen first ball and Mark Homewood was already back at the Pavilion. All this action in the first 3 overs I thought I was in for an entertaining game.....

The Saga qualified opening bat was perturbed by the wickets falling around him and decided to join the parade back to the pavilion.

Doylee and Young Adam tried hard to make some runs and made it in to double figures before both of them joined the march by!

Enter Mr Marsh and Slapper now I might be entertained. Mike did a hit and run times 2 before striking a great ball only to be caught on the boundary and Steve fell shortly after ...more to add to the procession back to pavilion

Perhaps Richie Burdett and Jesus could put on a spectacle.. sadly after a couple of swipes they were both out too.....

Ahhh Fagence tells me of his prowess with the bat at the week-end(42 not out) and strides (no limps) to face some balls. Yes at last a boundary..  and another  ...  wow batsman 10 will save the day with the bloke dressed in surfer-dude gear surely that attire will put the bowler off. Greg pushes a few singles and then disaster Fagence fails to make the 42 needed to make this a competitive game.

Oh well surely we can field well and still prevent them scoring 65 runs. Yes my expectations were high.....Statistician at the ready...yes a run rate of 0.216666667...seems possible

Skip elects to bowl Burdett and Marsh and there is a glimmer of hope when both take a wicket. By the 5th over Cattistock need only 15 runs to win when disaster struck..Burdett gets hit for 6 twice...That'll be entertaining tomorrow at work I think.....Fagence fed up with retrieving the ball contemplates taking up hedge trimming at the Cattistock ground.

The 6th over comes round, skip thinks demon tactics, sets 5 in the slips and adopts a new bowler....Is that Lingham rubbing his ball (non-plural)...Surely Lingham can't stop this onslaught??? Of course this is my hero...expectation was again high........They need only 1 run....runrate of 0.0119047691 recurring... could he hold it all together.? My heart pounds......up he swaggers...delivers the ball...WIDE...GAME OVER. Shouts go up that Lingham loses the game for CD.

What a performance! Oh well at least it was sunny! To top it all skip pulls a groin muscle on the way back to the car..guess the team should go join the Aussies in Leicester and prepare thoroughly for the next match.

Reporter: Web Wag