Last Week's Results!
After last weeks washout it was good to get back out in the middle and get some game time under our belts. The weather was not good on sat but like Ritchie in the coast toilets on Thursday night - Sunday produced a pearler!!
Well yesterday was a hard fought game which tested the resolve, integrity and mental stamina of the game. Struck with 3 pull outs a few hours before the game (the worse being a Mr G Bowker who failed to even notify a member of the team of his AWOLness, still in bed with Elly Mariu is not an excuse it is a sin - 1 gonzo skull for you son). Luckily 12th man Joe Ill catch it as long as it is a meat pie McDavitt and Garrett Show Wong stepped up to fill two of the places. The last place resulted in 7 different SOS calls results: Mathers was cleaning pipes, Duncan was at the hospital getting a pertainty test done, Whiteys flatmate was scoring maccas, Lee-anne was watching dawsons creek, Paul was playing santa claus at the st lukes shopping mall, my new flatmate was cooking tea and Sean from IT was playing dungeons and dragons. Dougall was there but couldnt play (still nursing that naked twister injury) but luckily he bought along his brother (gormo).
We batted first and the first 4 batsmen kept the score ticking over quite well with 50 odd from 9 overs. Bad news came to the crease looking like Brenda Brown with a tidy little mini skirt and succeded along with the middle order in slowing the run rate down to snails pace - bad news with 10 from 34 balls (but he did make up for it later). We struggled thru to 95/9 off 20 overs. Garrett Wong had a feeling of dj vu - once again being caught giving his middle stump a tickle up with the up-rooting of his stumps, another pole smashed out of the ground.
We new we had to bowl and field really well to defend our small target, but with some inspirational bowling from Brenda Brown, who is accustomed to defending a small target we barred up and got the job done. Highlights included Bad News saying he was on a hat trick after getting 1 wicket (shocking call from an accountant), stu meiklejohn stopping the game to inform the boys of hot chicks playing soccer on the adjacent field (they had impeciable ball skills as well), and our own version of the seagull incident. The seagull incident: after bowling a pretty nice ball in which the batter played and missed he then gave the umpire and me stick for not calling it wide, this fired me up I then precedded to give him the seagull (per jason gillespe, although my bowling could have been maybe 2km/hour faster) what resulted was a ball that like Garrett at showgirls came on him faster than expected and uprooted his stumps. Lee, Ritchie and Andy bowled nicely as well, Simon Thorburn and Stu Meikes had impresssive moments in the field and Karl Ellwood took an impressive catch down low. It got quite close towards the end with DB Parnell needing 16 off the last 3 overs but we wrapped it up in the 19th over with DB 90 all out. Then the fine session for bad news was held - 1 skull out of gonzo, to which he abliged and also made the moment more special by disrobing and putting the skirt back on. We have photographic evidence that will be released later in the week.
Good stuff guys a nice win
no stats yet - as Garrett is stuck in traffic near fort street so I will forward them on with bad news photos later
The Coup Award: Bad News for wrongly identifying a hat trick ball (thats 3 weeks in a row)
Gonzo Skull: Guy Bowker
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