{"id":12635,"date":"2015-01-18T21:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T13:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/?p=12635"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T06:24:36","slug":"bashers-slayers-lumberjack-18-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/bashers-slayers-lumberjack-18-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Bashers Slayers Lumberjack, 18 January"},"content":{"rendered":"

The morning dawned hazy and cold, as Shitshoes, Peking & Messi arrived at the Camel just in time to see Starc claim the first Indian scalp at the MCG before heading off to the Arena. It was an empty & frosty Arena, and we discovered the Hot Dogs were short meaning Malpass & Cummings would play from the Hot Dogs A side. Korean, Sharapova & Long Dong arrived soon after to make up the Bashers Slayers team.<\/p>\n

Bashers Slayers 90 vs Hot Dogs 101<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shitshoes won the toss & decided to bat first, so he opened up with Peking for a solid 40 run partnership. Peking was in fine attacking form with some crashing ondrives, & Shitshoes followed up a couple of outs with some big shots to get the runs back. Sharapova & Long Dong followed with a scratchy partnership that started badly with Sharapova out caught, & then bowled in the first over. Messi & Korean finished strongly, with Korean top scoring with 26 runs. Messi was a little unlucky to be caught twice to incredible catches by the Hot Dogs fielders. The Bashers ended up with a competitive 90 run total.<\/p>\n

The Hot Dogs began strongly, & Sharapova had a no-ball meltdown, consistently bowling Woodstock style short deliveries in the first third of the pitch. Peking bought the Slayers back into the game with a great spell that included a sharp stumping by Korean. Messi claimed 3 wickets in his over, & then Korean followed it up with another as the Hot Dogs reached 57 after 8 overs (the same as the Slayers). The last Hot Dogs pair of Malpass & Cummings took toll of a couple of shaky overs from Korean and Shitshoes. Long Dong finished with a sharp return catch to end the game, but the Hot Dogs had edged past to win by 11 runs.
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\nPudong 82 vs Bashers Slayers 87<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robbie, from Pudong, won the toss & decided to bat first. Messi picked up a wicket in the first over, but the Pudong opening pair kept calm & put together an impressive partnership of 45. Shitshoes, Korean & Sharapova claimed 5 wickets in the second partnership to put the brakes on the Pudong runrate. Long Dong finally woke up at the back net & impressively claimed a couple of good catches too! Pudong didn’t take risks in their final partnership, but Long Dong still threaded one through the legs of a batsmen trying to pad up & into the stumps. Messi also finished with a couple of wickets to keep the Pudong total to a middling 82.<\/p>\n

The batting order in the second game was kept the same, so Shitshoes & Peking began with a wicketless 43 run partnership. Peking shrugged off a back injury to top score with 24 runs. Long Dong was bowled first ball by the slowest, loopiest long-hop, but then fought back with Sharapova to end the partnership just 3 runs short of the Pudong total. We were feeling confident as Messi & Korean strode in to bat, & the first over put the Bashers in front by 4 runs. Then the game got interesting as the Bashers lost 4 wickets in 5 deliveries (including a Chirag hat-trick). The game see-sawed as runs, dot balls & wickets saw the Bashers drop to 81 with four deliveries left. Messi came through with a 4, & then Korean kept calm to block out the game for a hard fought Bashers win by just 5 runs.<\/p>\n

So the Bashers stay near the top of the table with another good weekend. Shitshoes, Peking & Messi headed back to the Camel for a bite to eat & a few quiet drinks, while watching Australia claw their way to victory with an over to spare.<\/p>\n

\"Sharapova<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sharapova<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Korean<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Korean<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Long<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Long<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Messi<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Peking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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