Stiffs In A Spin

With the Firsts rained off, The Postman and Chairman made their way to Carrington Caribs, via Trumpton, happy in the knowledge that the Stiffs were on the verge of posting a big score batting first. Sadly 60-2 on departure had turned to 73-8 on arrival as Caribs young spinner ripped through our middle order.

All out for 75 was about 50 short of a half decent score.Tea was without doubt the highlight of the day, and perhaps the season.

An enormous fruit platter was the 5-a-day centrepiece with juicy melon slices, joining kiwi fruit and freshly cored pineapple. Not to be outdone the cake tray sagged under the weight of retro angel cake and coffee sponge. The Youth Policy were also satiated with pizza slices and sweet popcorn. Leggy stocked up on Starburst and Parma Violets from the sweet tray to keep him going for the reply. A 10/10 was denied only by the absence of celery and dips.

Sam and Liam bowled tightly keeping the young openers to only 15 off the intial 10 overs. Liam made the breakthrough hitting leg stump, then Beakey made a great leg side stumping off Big Ted, appealing to our square leg fielder as the umpire had wandered almost to leg slip!

A scoreboard discrepancy nearly turned into an international incident, with Leggy wagging his finger like Shakoor Rana, as frustrations boiled over.

The odd run didn't matter as Caribs sent in their big hitter to finish the contest quickly, smashing three massive sixes off Benji, off good balls!