Firsts Back to Winning Ways

The Firsts won convincingly at the Fortress of Dreams against the visiting Bottesford team who only consisted of 10 players.

Iggy was the stand-in skipper with Tinpot at a wedding and vice skip Bobby Baker crocked. Keyworth won the toss and, after last week's dismal chase, went back to basics by batting first.

The Seconds didn't have a game so Chairman of Selectors Ted was able to wield the Flymo and cut out the chaff from last week's horror show. Our faith in youth continued with Cowlard, Leggy and Meeky called in to add experience. 15 year old Sam Wood was handed his First Team debut after a number of great displays for the 2nds, and to keep the average age of the side under 40.

Notable contributions to the 214-9 were Ian (66), Tom (44) who took his opportunity to bat up the order with some lovely strokes around the ground, Jamie (38), and Sam (13 in 15 balls) hitting a couple of beautiful shots off his legs and a cracking straight drive, and Dangerous Dave Hiller (21) up the order to 9, hitting a superb hooked 6 in the process with eyes fully shut.

Noticeable omissions were Meeky and AC (golden) who survived for 3 balls between them in an over that saw 3 wickets fall.

Bobby was fit enough to butter some bread, and produced a superb retro style plated salad. Such is the standard these days though, that Super-Scorer Shelly thought the tea would benefit from the addition of a few warm buttered new potatoes! Always room for improvement Rob! The crusty bread, homemade coleslaw and potato salad were the highlights.

In reply Bottesford were never in it, being 20/30 runs behind the rate throughout. Some late over slogging got them within 13, but in reality it was never that close; 201-8 at the finish.

Bowling points went to Dave Hiller (7-28-2) , Renders (10-29-2), Ian (12-30-2) and also Sam Wood who cemented an excellent day by taking his first wicket for the first team by knocking over middle stump in a hostile spell.

At one point Leggy was the best fielder on the off side... well he was the only fielder as Iggy bowled to his 8-1 field. Fielding point though went to Meeky who is still as agile as a cat getting down to the ball...it's just the getting up that's the problem!

Over to the Stiffs next week, as no game for the Firsts due to the Keyworth Show.