Well we stuffed that...

Spent this weekend locked in mortal park cricket combat with the entirely Tamil Parramatta Leagues.  In short we lost by a large margin, but we bowled and fielded excellently and yet we couldn’t bowl Parramatta out until 6pm on the Saturday and then got behind in the run chase and it was all over by 5:30pm on the Sunday.  We simply got beaten by the better team on the day and I hope to be honest that they go on and win the Grand Final next week.

We lost the toss and had to field first in overcast skies and we were well on top having them at 2/18 but then their opener went on and made 76 and their number 4 supported him very nicely and they put on about 80 for the 3^rd wicket.  We never gave up and when the break through came we ran through the middle order to have them 7/130 odd but then they put on another decent partnership of 52 for the 8^th wicket to get them to all out for 199.  In a semi, chasing 200 is a very big task.

Then on the Sunday, we got off to a horror start.  Yours truly went for 5 to have us 1/6.  Then it was 2/6 and then it was 3/7.  Not a very nice feeling.  From that point on we were way behind the 8 ball with the need to score runs but also conserving wickets.  The run rate required built up and apart from a nice 41 from Cam Imbesi, we just didn’t get firing.  All out for 105 trying to bat out for a draw… a pretty meek response.

But they played well, we went to the pub and had dinner and of course talk turns away from what might have been to next season.  Considering we got the wooden spoon last season, this was a pretty fair turnaround.  We have our club presentation night next weekend where the trophies are handed out and we get to have a few free drinks and some laughs – and that’s what its all about in the end.