Abandon All Cricket, All Yea Who Enter Here
Bugger me, rain happened
The last match is not an easy one to write up for a few reasons. The first is that I was not playing, I did manage to come and go so watched some if it (was on running daughter around duties for the day), but not all. The second was that it was abandoned at the break, as there was a lot of rain, so not too much to commentate on, but hey, let’s give it a go.
Winton batted first, with the openers scoring 28 before losing a wicket, which is not awful. Although it must be said, there did seem to be something missing. No one could quite explain what or why, but it was generally agreed that the batting at the start lacked a sense of style, grace and all round manly handsomeness. What this was I could not possibly say, but it is an odd game sometimes.
This was then another game where a young lad had to step forward and save the innings. Which Jude Lee did with determination and grit, scoring 51 n.o. while wickets regularly fell at the other end. Due to this, it was more a ‘hold the innings together’ knock, as he never had the freedom to properly get after the bowlers. This is a complement however, as it is harder for a youngster to perform when things are hard than if it was going swimmingly at the other end. We got to 172 a.o in the 39th over. Which for us is a decent score, but strikes me as unders for a game at the Winton Bowl.
And then it started raining and well, didn’t stop. Game abandoned so not much else to say. Apart from I tried the alcohol free Guinness for the first time ever and was impressed. Also, must mention that the gentlemen from Pylewell played the game and dealt with the weather with good humour and grace, so I and I say word up to bredwin, and that.
Elsewhere, most other games were abandoned as well. One of the few that were not was Winton 3s V Cadnam 3s, which Cadnam won in a rain hit DLS result. This was Winton 3s first loss of the season. They retain top spot, just ahead if Bournemouth 4s in second. Behind them two, there are 4 teams all close together, with 0.86 of a point between them all in the battle for third or overtaking the top two. So if either of the top two lose a game, there are plenty of teams waiting to pounce and overhaul them. And the top two teams play each other this week. There are seven games left and the team that wins that one is looking very good for promotion. The team that loses it will not be out of the race, but they will be back with the chasing pack. A high stakes game indeed, with bolas de acero needed.
Whichever captain loses this will have let their team down, their club down but most of all themselves down.
No pressure
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