Hello forumites, it's cricket time again

[KingsRoadCaptain]

Error noted and rectified. One final q before scorecard is published: It was Andrew who kept wicket, right?

Raju

[Floating Onion]

Stupidly, yes it was!

[mockney piers]

"It was good fun wasn?t it, even if I did go out to a bad decision made by a clearly bias umpire. "

Agreed, pretty iffy decision that. I reckon if the bails land within 20 yards of your stumps (juuuuust) it shouldn't be out.

[Brendan]

They never dislodged. It was a trick of the light.

[KingsRoadCaptain]

Scorecard is done - I've attached it and it's also on our website here

[david_carnell]

And congrats to CitizenEd who managed the somewhat unfathomable feat of smashing the bails to pieces with a fielded throw.

That's raw power for you! Or gravity.

[citizenED]

Thanks for that, David - just a shame my direct hit of the stumps from a pretty deep mid-off was not actually during active play.

Otherwise my contribution to the game consisted of, falling over, perspiring, day-dreaming, aching and standing around whilst guys threw a ball at me. Hmmm....

Happy to report my other unique contribution to the game was getting through the whole day without drinking any beer.

Thanks for organising things Leon.

[LeonWatson]

Cracking game boys - that was awesome.

I was a bit worried you'd either have loads of really good players like Dems or no good players at all. In the end though it turned out to be a well matched game. I reckon if you'd taken another wicket towards the end - if Dems had caught that catch off Keef! - you probably would've won.

The stars of the game were in no order Martin (awesome batting and bowling), Giles (an incredible 45 and good keeping), Jamie Keating (brave and stubborn batting to see us through) and Keef (who really should have taken three or four wickets).

I'm writing up the match report now (in between bouts of doing my job...) and it should be on the website today. Expect many references to Keef taking wickets despite being partially sighted!

[Michael Palaeologus]

How many of our team were partially sober?

[Brendan]

Citizen didn?t drink for all of us.

The man of the match started on the beer with me at 10:30am. Did him wonders, didn?t work so well for me though.

[LeonWatson]

(for the match report)

Anyone know what M Coultart's first name is and A Frith, J Whitcombe and that guy we supplied who was really good - M Bailey???

[mockney piers]

Respectively Cliff (not M at all), Andrew, James and Matthew

[david_carnell]

James Whitcombe

Matt Bailey (I think)

C Coultart (not M) is Cliff

Andrew Frith

[LeonWatson]

Cheers.

[citizenED]

A match report, wow!- Leon when you mention my breaking the bail with a ferocious direct hit from mid-off, could you sort of make out that I actually run someone out.

And if you have any trouble with spelling and grammar just forward the draft to the forum: we've got several pedants on here who'll soon set you right.;-)

[LeonWatson]

Forgot about that bail breaking throw - I think the forces of gravity had a lot to do with it though!

[Keef]

Citizen did make a stunning dive to try and make a catch, it looked great, and he really houldn't have gotten near it, but got a hand to it!

[Keef]

Oh and with regards my eyes, I am indeed registered partially sighted, but I can see the length of the wicket, so doesn't really make a difference when bowling... Batting and catching on the other hand... :-$

[Brendan]

Although to be fair Citizen didn?t really break that bail. The bail broke when it hit the ground after his direct hit, side-on from the leg side boundary, shattered all 3 stumps.

[AllyCat]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Oh, and another mention to Floating Onion, having

> never wickeed before, he was the only one to step

> forward. He had a bit of a struggle at times, but

> absolutely sterling effort!!!

... and I can testify he has the bruises to prove it!

[LeonWatson]

Keef Wrote:

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> Oh and with regards my eyes, I am indeed

> registered partially sighted, but I can see the

> length of the wicket, so doesn't really make a

> difference when bowling... Batting and catching on

> the other hand... :-$

Oh Keef, Keef, Keef I'm a journalist and I'm going to ham it up bigtime - in the same way I would for my paper.

For the purposes of this match report you're going to be more blind than Stevie Wonder in a darkened room with a blindfold on, shortly after he's had molten iron poured into his eye sockets...

[Keef]

Fair enough :)

[LeonWatson]

Match report under the news secton:

www.krcsc.co.uk

[mockney piers]

The news page has some very dodgy rendering issues in in Firefox and Safari, riiiiiight down the bottom of the page...tut tut.

[Brendan]

Mate. How do you manage to spell van Rooyen correctly even getting the capitalisation and spacing right, a feat normally lost on the English, and then get Brendan wrong?

Fucking journalists.