Pleasure Match Report 3/5/09

The day started with Swahili bitching about not being able to find whites in this city. The situation started to look more and more dire as more Basher’s showed up with ‘non-regulation’ equipment. It was starting to look as though the other team would start with a hundred on the board before a ball was bowled. Fortunately, the Business XI were kind enough to allow some of the disorganised Pleasure Bashers to get into their wet white pants so they could take to the field.

After being sent out to bat, or choosing to, it seemed as though it was going to be a rather short game. MadeIn was run out in almost identical fashion as the previous game by an over enthusiastic partner on the second ball, and his opening partner, debutant, Dan “insert a hobbit name” Sammut was cleaned up in the second over. Bashers came and went, and we required our other debutant, Dave “Seinfeld” Silverman to score the only run off a Devil’s should’ve been in the league game bowler. Fortunely, there were some bright spots in the days batting. Long Dong finally survived more than 2 balls, scoring a rapid 9 off 41 deliveries AND running out a partner. Tank survived a plumb lbw shout while still on 0, but without the snickometer and HotSpot, it was impossible to detect the faint nick that he got. Top marks for brilliant umpiring. Tank went on to score a vital 10 off 9. With his dismissal, it brought Zeb to the crease, who doubled the bashers score in quicktime by belting a quickfire 28 off 17. To finish off the Bashers innings, Birdshit put in a captains knock 0*(0), that should help his average. The Bashers finished with a score of 78, or some other forgetable score in the 70s.

With such a low target, the Devil’s thought they were in for an easy win. Capt Birdshit decided to put the fear into the Devil’s batsman by opening with MadeIn. The move was a stroke of genius, as MadeIn decieved the batsmen with juicy fruit that Katie (no show again) would’ve been proud of, wicket off the 3rd ball, courtesy of a well taken skied catch to Seinfeld. Circus took the second over, and his pace soon had the keeper, Turtle, jumping around. Circus managed to bore the batsman in his first over, and the first ball he put on the pitch crashed into the stumps. Two down for bugger all, and the Bashers could smell blood. The Devils took the precautionary measure of using their bunnies to wear down the opening bowlers.

Turtle decided to take matters into his own hands…or rather mouth. The amount of sledging that came from his mouth in this game would be about the same you’d expect from the entire Australian test time over a summer. He repeated sledged out the batsmen, with Zeb, Tank and Bilbo benefitting from support behind the wickets. At 7 down, the Devil’s acting captain came in. Once he skied a ball a whole 1 metre behind him, Turtle called the catch, only to watch it bounce next to the clueless batsman. Still, with 9 runs for the Devils to win, Circus decided to try and york the Devil’s captain, only succeeding in bowling it short and taking a deflection into Alistair’s face. FIRST BLOOD: Circus. After retiring hurt, someother dude spoilt the party and smacked the winning runs.

Man of the Match: Zeb
Dropped catches: Circus, Turtle

Newbies:
* 126 Daniel “Samwise” Sammut
* 127 Dave “Seinfield” Silverman

Fines:
Circus needs to bring a bottle of wine next game
Oscar claims that the scorecard is 100% accurate after a challenge
Zeb and Long Dong need to pay their fine