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Vernon Carus 251 for 8
Dave Fisher 94
P.Richardson 51
J.Potter 41 not out
A.Furniss 6 for 56
Fylde 192 for 6
A.Furniss 111 not out
T.Duerden 36
Dave Fisher 3 for 65
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, how are we all today? I must say it is a lovely day for a picnic, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and the second team skipper has conned the con out of his 50!!!! On the Palace Shield website LJ Cool J has decided that Con got none and that he got 50 not out. Unbelievable Jeff!!!!
Back to Saturday, we arrived in what can only be described as a pumped up mood, fists were pumping and there were large cries of “Come on!” I’ve never met up in an atmosphere like that! We departed for Factory Lane in good spirits as we all arrived in plenty of time to begin our warm ups, I'm going to suggest that this is where it first began to go wrong! They were quite possible the worst set of fielding drills I have ever seen, from everyone!!!
The throw downs were not quite as bad but we ended up fetching the balls out of the dyke fairly regularly! With the sun beating down and what looked a decent track I definitely fancied batting first, so there was ever only going to be one outcome, I would lose the toss and we would be asked to field! This was no problem as we had beaten Vernon’s chasing earlier in the season, today though was a completely different game!!
It began badly when Caravan Stu broke down with a pulled hamstring which restricted his afternoons play to just 5 over’s, which was very much a shame as he was bowling well at the time. Once more into the breach dear friends, as Bomber Duerden stepped up to the plate, he bowled a very tidy spell first thing before tiring in the blistering heat! He also made it slightly hotter in the middle after a fiery exchange with the Vernon’s number 4 batsman; this was to continue when the same lad bowled at Tom.
Having won the early opening exchanges the FCG boys wilted in the heat, not through lack of effort just in the onslaught of a very good innings from Vernon’s stand in Captain Dave Fisher. Rupert also bowled well restricting until his final over, but the front line spinner had done a lovely job. With Haguey injured the death bowling fell to Bomber Duerden, I think the Vernon’s batsmen enjoyed this as Bomber found it rather tough going as long on and long off spent most of the time in the other field retrieving the ball, still its not an easy job and Tom kept at it well.
Onto the batting, things did not get off to the greatest of starts as Rupert went first ball of the reply, not ideal when chasing 251. Things did not get much better an over or so later as the jean clad umpire gave Marcel out leg before, also for a blob. Whatkey batted bravely before succumbing to, well a straight one that he played all around, this was after being slapped in what can only be described as a delicate area from a bouncer that did not get up. He got no sympathy, the rest of us were amused!
There was some entertainment later on as I mentioned early, Bomber’s heated discussions with the Vernon’s opening bowler continued as he came out to bat, Bomber got the better of him on this occasion slapping him for 3 sixes, 2 of which were very big! Tom, have got a life when dropped of all places at cow corner, decided he should apologize to avoid a massive send off when he got dismissed! He just about avoided it! Entertaining stuff though!
In the end it was a battling performance from the FCG boys yet ultimately not quite good enough as we fell 60 runs short having never really been in the hunt. 3 points for a hard days graft is not much but it was not a bad return considering Vernon’s were comfortably the better team on the day.
WOW, during the heated exchanges, the wife snatcher shouted something out; I will let you ask him what he said at this juncture, needless to say, it was a little blue. Anyway, Whatkey got the t-shirt for said incident and at the time fair enough, however, during a season of firsts, a couple of weeks ago Smudger got it and now Marcel got it. It was very funny, having followed a guy down the lanes on the way back to the club doing 30 on a straight bit of road Marcel tried to overtake, the guy saw what was happening and floored his car up to the speed limit and stopped Marcel from overtaking, most humorous!!!!!
In other news, did you know that the hit TV series, The Office is to be remade in Russia? That is beside the point, I was watching the end of Twenty20 final, bit of a tight finish, with some shocking fielding in the last over, good win in the end really for Middlesex, happy Jimmy? Anyway, as they were being presented with the trophy and what can only be describe as the keys to a safe full of money I had to do a double take, who was that jumping around just behind Ed Joyce, Barry Willis eating a pie. Unbelievable Jeff.
Right I shall leave you on my way to Russia in a 6 week old Jam Roly Poly pudding with extremely poor peripheral vision during the great storm of 1976 in which it was reputed that Captain Pugwash was discovered to be working as a mascot for the aptly named Sunshine State Penitentiary tiddlywinks team which after all does not matter because I like my eggs sunny side down.
Moscow
Dave
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VENUE
FCG, Withnell Fold, Penwortham
DATE
Saturday 23rd August
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