“It’s alright, we’re a bowling side,” Bambi pipes up optimistically during the mid-innings break. His teammates and scorer\u00a0scoffed.<\/p>\n
Five minutes later, Warcry (2-22 off 4) opens out the innings with two wides.<\/p>\n
“Maybe not,” the club skipper utters under his breath, just moments before the Chinese paceman\u00a0takes down\u00a0the batsman’s middle stump. One down! Warcry sends the next ball flying off the side of the pitch before finishing up the over with five consecutive dot balls. Bridget (4-34 off 6) backed him up with some tidy bowling but saw edges flying all over the pitch to go for a few more runs than anticipated. He soon got tonked for two massive sixes before Rooty, who already had one catch to his name, shared the wealth by switching himself in the field with Bambi, who promptly took a whirling one-handed catch\u00a0at mid-wicket to dispatch the Hangzhou big hitter. Despite picking up four wickets in his first four overs, Bridget failed to capitalize on his remaining 12 balls and finished just shy of a 5-fer, with a few narrow LBW calls keeping him off the honours board.<\/p>\n
Rooty (1-4 off 2) and Fluffer (1-4 off 4) bowled tight, with the latter living up to his name. He also managed\u00a0to fall arse over tit while bowling a bouncer that tested Korean’s vertical reach, injuring himself in the process and coming out of the attack one ball later\u00a0 (he or Skiddy may for some reason try to tell you otherwise, but it is written quite plainly on the scorecard – and I saw it with my own eyes). Not-a-batsman-today Paps (2-8 off 3.3 overs) showed us you really, really don’t need a run-up — after tiring from his two-step action he bowled from a standstill to clean up the Hangzhou tail, or maybe upper order. The shocking batting (or fantastic bowling?) made it hard to tell if they’d\u00a0gotten cocky and batted in reverse order – doesn’t matter anyway does it.<\/p>\n
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