| CHSOB CC Select XI vs.
Aberdare School Staff XI
Scorecard
Not satisfied with taking
on 16-year olds in his banging in nails classes, Richard Jenkins brought
an Aberdare Staff side down to the Diamond Ground with an air of
confidence. On the other hand, CHSOB were undefeated so far this season,
and with Colin Morgan in the side, anything could happen. To him,
mostly.
The Old boys won the
toss, which was a moral victory as far as they were concerned and should
have meant that we could have gone straight to the bar without the
necessity of putting pads on, but unfortunately that wasn't allowed and
the game had to go ahead.
Bryan Patterson and Rich
Mynott got the innings off to a good start, until Curly got a rush of
blood to the head and ran himself out my a mile. His 'who me, ref?'
innocent expression, carefully honed over thirty years of rugby, cut no
ice with the umpire who gave him out without the need for the third
umpire. Colin Morgan came and went, claiming his wrist was hurting him,
although the cynics amongst us would say he was just preparing the
ground for potential excuses. This brought the old silver fox to the
crease, Nigel Stephenson, who soon proved that age is no barrier by
knocking up a swift 40. Sounds like his saturday nights, which usually
involved knocking up a swift 40 year old. The best dressed player
award was made to the next batsman, Andy Ward, who may soon have a
contract with Dulux for their new paint-on shorts product.
Spare a thought for poor
old Richie Breakspeare. A new lad to the game, bravely turning out
despite his inexperience and always willing to give 100%. How callous
then, of the old timer Mr. Ian Thomas, who thought it appropriate to
call Richie on a run reminiscent of wearing a Swansea shirt on the Bob
Bank. He departed without troubling the scorers. Worse was to follow
when during his first ever bowling spell, he was denied a tremendous
maiden wicket by Colin Morgan putting down a catch that even Martyn
Wiltshire with his girlie sized hands could have caught. Wiltshire
himself cannot be too happy with his performance, outplayed as he was in
every aspect by Sarah Evans, who returned better bowling figures,
crashed a quick 13 not out and in fact, proved that its not just
Martyn's hands that are girly.
The Old Boys eventually
set a respectable target of 151 to win, at a run rate of 7 and a half an
over. Cormack was achieving this in pints of Strongbow per over. Progress towards the target was respectable
until a blistering spell by Richie Mynott took two in two balls,
including Sean Ward for a massive golden duck. Tension quickly mounted
with Jenkins facing the hat trick ball. A dodgy umpiring decision denied Rich a
hat-trick and no doubt the prize of a Harlequin in the club after. The
next ball was by no means less controversial. Jenkins chipped the ball
to Breakspeare who dropped it. When Jenkins next looked up, he was
pleasantly surprised to see Marytn Wiltshire standing next to him. After
a couple of minutes polite chat, it was decided that it was Martyn who
was indeed out.
Jenkins then settled into
his Boycott-type routine, and it looked as if he was batting with
something one of his students knocked up in his class. It was left to
the Aberdare tail to get a move on and get the score over a hundred,
eventually closing the innings on 109 for 9.
Scorecard
All in all, a rather good
day out was had by all! Thanks to all the Old Boys and the School for
turning up.
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