2s vs Orpington

2s vs Orpington

Having driven past Tintagel and Stone Henge to get there, Mr Smyth finally arrived at Orpington to complete our side. Another relegated team, another win needed!

After midweek shenanigans the skip needed something massive to avoid a very expensive day out and early signs were positive. Moore with a meltdown in the warmup, failing to believe a happy medium exists between backing up on Mr McCann's toes on the boundary and standing 5 yards in front of the stumps. Sam offered further hope when needing a list of 5 waters and a lucozade to be recited 7 times, a promising candidate for the generation game he is not, especially considering that he came back with 5 bottles of palm wine. God no!

The skip won the toss and elected to bat, Moore and Olufawo put on another 50 stand to put the 2s in a strong early position. Raj and Ben then continued this early work on, batting brilliantly for a 50 and a well compiled first KCL hundred for Benjamin which oozed confidence! Shuk and Ciaran biffed a couple at the end, helping the 2s to reach a competitive and probably just above par score of 201-2. Warned about the risk of theft, the skip eased all worries, ingeniously locking an intruder in the changing room area only for alarms to go off left right and centre.

The second innings was a story of two halves, with Orpington looking strong favourites to win at 90-1 off 18. In truth we didn’t help ourselves, a few too many loose balls, Sam in the outfield showing us his goalkeeping weakness, namely that of the ball coming near him, and Ciaran deciding that when a bat is 3 yards out of his crease at the keepers end it’s best to play a mind game and throw to the bowler. Nonetheless as so often is the case with this team, the Heath resurgence came and it was joyous. Carlos and Spud bowling well in tandem to bring us back into the game needing 4 wickets to win. Shuk, H and Sam all came back on bowling far better, the Heath sealing the deal with a somewhat comical run out.

Great levels of fighting spirit from the lads yet again to turn the game around and we move on to next week at home vs Old Colfes.

MOM- Benjamin Moore

Quote of the day- Sam- ‘Chris what’s 28 divided by 7? Is it 3.8?’

Fine of the week- Skip, very harsh if you ask me.