The first of the seasons one day games and the last before Xmas Break was played on Saturday, with us running a pretty 2nd against current back markers Parramatta Leagues. We had a close game against these guys in Round 1 of the season and this time the game was again very close, but this time we were on the wrong side of the lady luck.
End result was a 11 run loss that went right down to the last few overs. We had bowled out Parramatta for 165 in their 40th (of 42) overs and we were pretty ordinary in the field in the first session with Parramatta 5/104 after only the first 21 overs. Pete Nahlous though bowled 8 overs in the second half of the innings and finished with 3/28 off 8. Excellent for a leg spinner in the back end of a low grade cricket match...
Chasing, yours truly and Wayne Agius got off to a flying start of 0/32 off only 4 overs with both of us not interested in singles. But I was out for 12 (3 boundaries) in the 5th over and then we lost another 4 wickets before we had reached 50 odd. Horrendous collapse.
Then Noyz and Pete combined again and got the side down to a managable 40 to win in the final 10 overs before Noyz knicked one to the keeper. Joe Puglisi came in and scratched a half dozen whilst supporting Pete before he went and Terry Hoban at #10 was bowled with 14 runs from 18 balls required.
Enoch Harris at #11 had to block out the 6th ball of the 40th over to allow Pete to retain the strike and instead went for glory which turned to a miss hit drive to mid-off and we were all out 11 short of the total.
The game though was played in good spirits and even though Parramatta are running last they have lost a number of close ones and are apparently the defending premiers in this grade!
Cricket takes a hiatus until January 7...
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