Confidence boosting win or a case of Doyley in the Coconut Shy!

 

Charlton Down beat Puddletown by 36 runs to give a boost to their confidence, after the recent disappointing evening league run.

 

Temporary Skip Smithy won the toss and elected to bat. Ed started larupping balls to all corners and hit a rapid 40, Marky Marky slapped a quick 21, but the rest of us struggled a bit with 8 being a the popular score for individual batsmen. Fortunately E. Xtras was in good form with a solid 26 and Jesus hit a couple of 4's near the end to get us to 137-7 - not bad, but it should have been more. Sadly Zim's fascination with wearing a pink hairband caused much comment, but did nothing for his batting prowess.

 

The usually good Puddletown wicket was starting to play variable bounce tricks and once Wily Fagance had snaffled their opening bat and Ed had uprooted a couple of sets of stumps Puddletown were always behind the rate. A couple of "double overthrow incidents" in the space of an over or so got Temporary Skip a little heated with the troops, but steady bowling from Zarak and Kim, aided by a direct hit run out from Ed meant we cantered to the win.

 

Mention must be made here of Doyley's heroic efforts behind the stumps. Having suffered the emotional trauma being voted "D*ck of the Day" before play started due to initially going to the wrong ground, he then stopped most of the balls coming his way via the erratically bouncing pitch and the variable throws coming in from the fielders.

 

"Senile Old Reporter"

 

PS - and apologies from Temporary Skip for those that he couldn't get into the team on this occasion - we need a rugby team and then we could select 15!