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Fit fun in April Sun

Trying to pick balanced teams for this early season inter-club match was always going to be tricky. With the powerhouses that are Ian Nutt, Mark Tucker, Sam Moore, Juma and Ralphie all yet to appear, debut Fit-skip Billal, had every right to suggest they alone could deliver a right shoeing when, as it turned out they did/didn’t appear.

As it transpired, Ralphie had a pre-arranged Airfix Red arrow display in his back garden but had failed to let SPOND know. Juma had worked through the night, slept through his alarm and turned up about 4 o’clock. Sammy Moore had too been working through to the wee hours (6.30AM) getting tanked up and did appear circa 2PM but was a shadow of his former self. To be fair I have seen him a lot worse and that is saying something!

Home skip TC did have some big names at his disposal however and so Rob Green and Ian Timms strode forth. With a scorer, an umpire padded up and no one else in the changing rooms, these 2 had to hang around and wait to reinforcements. Green found Jonesy’s opening spell tricky to play with a selection of mistimed cuts rolling back the years. Weed out for 13 undone by a Martin cutter which did keep a bit low. Timmsy with a watchful 14 off 43 balls was finally out bowled by a beauty from Stu Mould. “Anybody but fukkin him!” as he trudged off the first of many humorous moments.

Samuel L, in his 3rd innings of the season nurdled a couple of singles but then committed hari-kari going for a sharp single to the clubs best fielder Stevie Nicks and simply ran himself out. A tardy time keeping Tucker arrived in the nick of time and despite an early edge to Bice which was well held, he went on to score a glorious un-beaten (!) 54 off 45 balls. Raj had a waft around for 6 and Gavlar smashed (mostly Bal) for an high octane 22 off just 11 balls. Bal not happy with a succession of balls being lost into the undergrowth, leaving him with a squidgy dog ball to bowl with which did finally get him a solitary wicket.

2 Smart stumpings from Bice ensured that Billal bagged a couple of wickets to start an ominous looking campaign to be this years bowler of the year. Tony’s Tigers finished on 147 for 9 off 30 overs, with the only man not to get a bat was big TC himself….ffs…again…ffs!