Legge's XI Start Strongly

Leggy's Sunday XI made a winning start to the season beating old friends Colston Bassett by 9 runs.

Pre-match excitement revolved around playing kit. Leggy showed the folly of a pie and Guinness winter diet that had transformed his playing jumper into a supportive corset. Drurs meanwhile was phoning all parts of South Notts in search of a pair of creams to avoid batting in his shorts.

We batted first and lost Chris See-Soar early. Duncan Disorderly swatted a quick 19. Drurs and Marc Bailey took the score beyond 100, the Chairman making 40, while Bails smashed a run a ball 54. Beakey cut his way to an unbeaten 34 and we reached 162 after 40 overs.

Tea was plentiful, the retro highlight being Mr. Kipling's Bakewell Tarts.

In reply Colston looked well set reaching 100 for the loss of just 2 wickets. The home side were helped by more rubbish catching. After the First team's shambles in the field, Bails showed that he would fit in perfectly spilling a simple slip chance. Leggy showed he had picked up a few tips after a substitute appearance the previous day, making a meal of a simple lob to cover. And Billy claimed the sun and his hair was in his eyes after shelling another sitter. Drurs showed that basic hand eye co-ordination was not a thing of the past with two catches.

We bowled tightly and eventually forced break-throughs. Billy caused the dangerman to tread on his stumps and at 130-4 the game was in the balance with 33 needed off 8 overs. This became 140-6 with 3 overs left after a run out and a wicket for Leggy. Youngsters Sam Neece and Ben Healey ripped through the tail-enders taking 2 wickets each to leave the home side all out on 152. Wickets were spread around: Neece 3-24, Healey 2-17, Harrison 2-23, Legge 1-17, Soar 1-21.

A fine win and a fun game.