Posted by Skipper on 20/4/2007, 9:22 am, in reply to "Did we win last night?" Yesterday was an exception. The sun was out and (but A pitch inspection quickly revealed some interesting The Skipper won the toss (continuing with last year's In the same fixture last season, our first three Opening batsman Richie Wilson batted "badly" (his Richie was well supported by fellow opener Cliff Rob Wilson joined the attack in the final over and, in With one ball of the innings to go, the Skipper went In reply, West Island started steadily. Despite an Andy Ball 3-0-17-0 and Ashley Brett 3-0-13-1 were First change bowler Rob Wilson also bowled very well, To be fair to Gary, he was bowling at a fired up With another run out, the final change of bowling came In such times of crisis a Captain calls upon his The introduction of Cliff Marks and his "life partner" With 4 overs left to bowl between them and 5 wickets Marks was first to strike, when Andy Ball took a good Gracey then teamed up with Marks, as Marks took a good In the next over Marks took another wicket, with Andy The final over saw West Island with 2 wickets David Grace is however a man to whom such statistics The second ball of the over went for 1 and, with 4 It was not to be. With a lightning change of pace, Cliff's figures of 2-0-11-2 and Dave's figures of There was little else that happened which is worth Boo turned out for us, but declined to bat or bowl We played the last 10 overs in the dark, as usual. Andy Ball bowled his first 2 overs in a pink shirt, Ash, who had eaten a Madras for lunch, nearly killed The Skipper fell over twice and dropped the ball Pitters (who played every game in 2006) didn't make it Granville also didn't make it as it was his Birthday And finally, Gary started what will inevitably become Boo manged to leave the West Island umpire "It" in Man of the Match - David Grace Welcome to our 14th season. As Ian Pitman is often heard to say - "I love the Old
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Traditionally this fixture is played on a cold, windy
day, often accompanied by more than a little rain.
for the fact that the outfield hadn't been cut or
marked) (that there was a running track painted on
part of the outfield) (that there was a set of
goalposts at extra cover) (and that there was Under
5's football training on the cricket pitch until about
6.30pm), you wouldn't have known that it was West
Island away, in April.
repairs that had been made to the infamous West Island
mat during the winter. One very large repair included
a row of nails, right on the line of off stump, which
Andy Ball immediately decided he would have to hit
with every delivery.
plan of calling "heads" every time) and the 9 man Old
Boys elected to bat.
batsmen mustered a grand total of only 4 runs between
them. This year, our top three managed a more
impressive total of 118.
word, not mine) to carry his bat and be 67 not out at
the end. His innings included a couple of big sixes,
including one off of the final ball of our 16 overs.
Marks, who batted "alright" (his word, not mine) to
score 43, and by Dave Grace "Ah" (his word, not mine),
who was moved up the order to bat at number 3. Dave
batted well and played some fine shots to start his
season with 8 runs. Last Friday's net session at
Ventnor had very clearly paid dividends.
a quick effort to gain valuable extra runs, Rob was
run out for 1.
to the non-striker's end to watch Richie Wilson hit a
six, before returning to the Pavilion 0 not out, with
the total 131-3 off 16 overs.
early run out of their number 2 batsman, West Island
scored at about 6 an over for the first 10 overs.
bowling well and regularly beating the bat, but
wickets were hard to come by.
swinging the ball back into the right handers and
clean bowling Neil Pitman with an excellent delivery.
Rob finished with figures of 3-0-18-1 and was
supported by Gary Freeston who (after claiming he was
trying to make a game of it) finished with figures of
3-0-38-0.
Graham Gosden, who scored 30 runs off of about 10
balls.
with West Island 4 wickets down and with the run rate
still just about on target for an unlikely West Island
victory.
finest men. Men who laugh in the face of danger and
who always eat 2 weetabix and 2 pieces of toast with
lemon curd for breakfast.
David Grace was inspired.
required, it seemed unlikely that West Island would be
cleaned up. The West Island number 4 was well
established, at 30 not out, and Graham Gosden was
still keeping him company.
catch at mid on to dismiss Gosden for 30.
catch in the fading light to give The Legend his first
wicket of 2007.
Ball again taking a good catch at mid on.
remaining and 25 runs required. Both teams had
already hit sixes and it could still go either way.
mean nothing. With the confidence of a South African
bowling at an Englishman, Dave had the West Island
number 4 caught behind for 32. It was a sight to
behold. A thin edge, through to wicket-keeper Richie
Wilson, who looked almost as surprised as the batsman
did when the ball nestled in his gloves off of the
edge.
deliveries left, West island needed 4 sixes for
victory.
Gracey ripped the number 10's stumps out of the ground
(I may be using just a little poetic licence there,
but he did clean bowl him) to see West Island collapse
to 108 all out.
1.3-0-10-3 were quite superb.
mentioning. However :
(due to a shoulder injury).
before realising that he looked ever so slightly like
Julian Clary and deciding to change.
several people who were standing too close to him when
he passed wind.
almost every time that it was thrown to him in the
field.
to the first game of 2007.
(29 not out).
the 2007 Season craze of playing "It" whilst fielding.
about the 12th over of their innings and, as we don't
play them again until August, that umpire has a long
wait on his hands.
Boys"
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