Beakey Blasts Borough

A welcome first win for the Stiffs at home to Attenborough. A bone dry pitch emerged from under the covers after swift work by Cowlard and son with morning rain circling the Field of Dreams.

We bowled first and restricted Attenborough to 147-8 off a reduced 36 overs.

This was an innings of two edges. Cowlard and Beakey were convinced of an edge behind. Your reporter heard nothing from beyond the boundary, but more importantly umpire Dimps was unmoved. Beakey lost half his match fee by rolling the ball back at Dimps in frustration, and was fit to explode when the batsman apologised for not walking.

Several overs later it was the same combination as Butch dived to take a smart catch from a ball that seemed to be a bump ball. However the batsman walked and honours were even.

Around this storm in a tea cup our fielding was excellent. Sam Nice took a smart catch and then threw in for a run out to take the day's fielding point. Chris See-Soar and Young Macca were also sharp in the field.

Leggy was a little out of sorts having missed his eight hours of beauty sleep, after a 2 am arrival home. The Boss had about 30 yards variation in length, and was in danger of being locked in Ted's new coffin, but had the last laugh taking a wicket off the final ball to get us a third bowling point. Liam was the pick of the bowlers taking 3-31.


Tea by Ted was a plentiful affair, enough to satisfy even the hungry First Teamers. Apricot jam tarts were your reporter's retro favourite.

In reply Ted and Ernie made over a 100, years that is. Ern as usual hit the ball to places where a field couldn't be set on the way to 25. Boom Boom looked set to bat through until a rush of blood saw him chip to mid on for 37.

Beakey played the innings of the day making exactly 50. It was hard to choose between a glorious extra cover drive and a deft guide through third man as the shot of the day. In any case Cowlard took that award with a straight six into the compound. Kitch chipped a quick 10, and Leggy defended one end, to allow AC (21 n/o) to seal the win with a trademark mow to mid wicket.

A comfortable six wicket win and 19 points in the bag.