Blackout fronted up to the court last night with a very undermanned line up of five. But just as we were to hit the nets one of the five got called away in an emergency leaving us with half a team! Luckily the guys at Hooters are such a sporting bunch that they lent us two of their own players, leaving them one short themselves. This proved to even things up immensely. So with that out of the way Blackout were sent into bat first.
Brett & Mick were in first and after a couple of hiccups involving a run out and being bowled out they finally went on to make 26 valuable runs. Mark and Brian were sent out next and we managed to rack up a respectable 36 runs with no wickets falling. The two borrowed players went out to score 21 runs with a loss of three wickets. Bart was asked to stay on to bat again and the Hooters called on Brian to come out and face the music one more time. With the last pair we score 19 runs. So all up a pretty solid performance just managing to sneak over the century with 102 runs.
Fielding was tough. Holes in the field meant we were stretched to save any runs off the net. It wasn’t until Grumpy’s bowler, Peter C, we struck with two quick wickets but it was too late to win the skin. Their second pair smashed us but in all fairness it was our extras that killed us as all up in that partnership we gave up 28 runs as the majority of no balls and wides were in the Power Play overs. Richo reappeared at this point and it seemed that having that extra player on field had an immediate effect. Richo was unlucky not to get a hat trick and everyone else had a good result with their overs from here on. So we managed to win the last two skins. A special mention here goes to Mick who despite blowing his first over (19 runs off that Power Play over) he composed himself to comeback and had minus 10 to reward his blitz attack.
In the last over we were so close to winning the match it hurt. We only needed two wickets to win as we were defending 102 and they were on 107 at this point. However it wasn’t meant to be as they walked on with 14 runs off the last over to seal the match. This leaves us with only a few rounds left to keep onto our third place on the ladder and next week’s bash against the Spartans will need a full squad if we are to have any chance.
