Vs Coutts Bank
I played this game for the Wisden Cricketer, the world’s best smut magazine.
I turned up after having travel injections in my arms. My left arm wasn’t feeling too dandy. I batted at number 10 or 11 because of this, and went out there and played one effective shot, and one handed reverse sweep off the spinner.
It was dainty and perfect, and went for two to the longest boundary. That was the only ball I got near, and I was run out in the second last over when I and the other dude both called yes and no in the one run.
My bowling went pretty well, the ball came out pretty much how I wanted it too. I got a fair bit of bounce at times as my left arm wouldn’t go very high and my action fell over causing a few unintentional top spinners. I got a couple of wickets, was close to a couple more, but we hadn’t put many on the board, so I had to chase wickets hard. This mean bowling a very flighted ball last ball that ended up in someone’s garden.
We lost pretty easily in the end. Last year we beat them in two games because we beat them so easily the first time.
So I made 2, and took 2/18 off my 4 overs which included 2 sixes.
Because of this game (I suspect) and the shots, I couldn’t move my neck for a full week, meaning i missed a game for Barnes. Next time I won’t get shots on the same day I play cricket.
