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Fylde 187 for 9
S.McKenzie 34
M.Finch 30
P.Holden 4 for 55
M.Thompson 4 for 61
Longridge 151 all out
J.Fairclough 48
A.Furniss 6 for 27
Quiz Night, come the quiz night, you’ll be asked lots of questions, in the town of Poulton, there may be some pages out of history! Lets ride with Dave down the street, by the courtesy of Steven’s feet, When your at the Quiz Night, have a yabba dabba doo time, a dabba doo time, we’ll have a gay old time! Basically, get yourself to quiz night this Saturday the 19th July, down at the FCG.
Marcel, put your pads on!
Onto the cricket, on a blazing day we had our usual warm ups, some throw downs, some bowling before moving onto some fielding where Power decided to try and hit the moon, I think he may have succeeded, I took a skier right on the end of the finger, I must stress that I did catch it, and its still extremely sore David, you will not be allowed to hit the ball in throw downs again!!!! I then wandered across for the toss, which I promptly lost and we were inserted on a very wet track, I was not too bothered by this as sometimes early on is the best time to be batting on such a track.
Barry and Rupert got us off to a flier picking of some short bowling which really did not seem the most sensible length to be bowling on such a track. The 5 an over opening stand was finally broken when Barry decided he could not be bothered hitting the ball in the compound so just helped it round the corner straight to deep backward square. I must admit I thought he had top edged it but he insists that he middled it but just did not try and hit it hard, just a thought boss, next time, smoke it and worry about it later!
Rupert was out shortly after as well lost our way after a promising start, Whatkey the dotmachine and I began slowly rebuilding before I and Marcel were out, Marcel was stumped, have a word with Leaps fella! Whatkey was eventually out hitting a legside half volley straight to backward square leg before exploding; his bat was thrown on the way back to the pavilion before all hit kit was roughly thrown into his bag before wandering off to the nets with a large piece of rope in his possession! I’m not sure Whatkey was with it at times on Sat, having been taking to me about a new bowler coming on at the same end we had just had an over from! How you did not win WOW I am not sure!
Our innings was given some impetus by a free flowing Beefsteak who tucked in especially to their spinner, there was a rather large noise after one such hit exited the FCG and it has left a rather large dint in a supporter’s car. This was of course beefy under instructions to play himself in as he had 15 over’s to bat, first ball to the spinner one bounce 4, next ball 4, dot, six, dot, six! I may joke at this juncture but it was an important innings for us, destructive as ever Beefdog!
Steven was batting slightly lower than normal and hit a lovely six towards the nets which got us over the line for our 3rd batting point, Stuart batted nicely before also losing his wicket and Smudger and Steven saw us home, finishing on 187 for 9. As we wandered through for tea a lovely treat greeted us, Mr and Mrs Lester had excelled, gaining a 5 star AA rating in the process with a fine spread of teas, tomato’s cut into shapes I cannot describe, salad in wonderful arrangements and chucks of cheese Paul Nutter would have been proud of. Thanks again for your help, much appreciated, and extremely nice!
We again had an awe inspiring team talk at the break before we steamed out determined with extreme purpose. We started well restricting runs and the pressure told as Stuart made the first breakthrough, it appeared as though Longridge were trying to keep wickets in hand before launching towards the end as the progress was slow, we also bowled very well to restrict on a helpful pitch. The weather had made it so with the ball gripping the surface and popping at time, again there was nothing for bowling short.
Golden arm Smith stuck next removing Barton, who had played himself in well and was beginning to try to up the scoring rate, not an easy thing to do to change so quickly and he attempted to get after a ball that was not there to be driven and the ball was spooned straight to Dave who never drops it, unless the sun is in his eyes! WOW, Smudger won it, I cannot believe it, for a piece of fielding that was not great, trying to stop it with his left foot before kicking it between feet and knocking it over the boundary for four before nearly falling into a hedge, Bomber was particularly amused. Anyway, the masses spoke and Smudger has won his first WOW!!!
There was one other piece of fielding of note, well it amused me anyway. Barry Willis, diving full length to his right, with his left hand to a ball that was barely moving, if it was a Pie barm fella, you would have stopped it would nt you. On the whole fielding was good this weekend, much better than it has been the last couple of weeks anyway, it just shows how practicing the fielding helps.
The Longridge skipper played a very good knock before finally being dismissed, and having to step over his leg stump on the way to the pavilion, at this stage the FCG massive turned the screw, it was the key wicket which effectively won the game. There were still some dangerous batsmen left but momentum was with us, the force, you could say, and 10 points were gained with an over to spare. At this stage there was a large crowd down as both the seconds and thirds had won, a cracking weekend for the club for the second week running, long may it continue!
Onto other news, I was watching the film Top Gun the other evening on Sky One, a classic film, apparently its an iconic film for some, and sometimes your ego is writing cheques your body can’t cash, but that’s another story. Anyway, it was maybe an hour in or so and the pilots were playing volleyball, athletes these boys just in shorts, but then I had to do a double take!!! Who should be stood there watching, shirt off, white as a sheet? Barry Willis eating a pie!! Unbelievable Jeff!!!!!!!
Right I shall leave you on my way to Russia in Jelly-licious bag of gummy bears that had been infiltrated by the evil king of cactus humour, the yellow bonsai tree shaped Opal Fruit which led me to be descending from the depths of despair metaphorically of course into a whirlpool of blame which coincidently is next to Elvis Presley’s mothers house.
Moscow
Dave
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New Longton (1), Norcross (2), No Game (3)
VENUE
New Longton, FCG,
DATE
Saturday 13th September
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