Last man standing
So we once again faced the CBB’s last night in a crucial FTL fixture, crucial because we’d just found out that the god-fearing biblical disciples that are the mighty Glenwood had somehow sneaked past us in the current league standings.
Anyways Griff was late again, think he had detention or something so Stagg Senior continued to substitute, won the toss and put the Baa Baas into to bat on what looked like a pretty bumpy strip.
They started steadily but tight lines from Greenfly and Immy kept things in our favour and wickets began to follow. Judith Chalmers lookalike Cob once again deputised behind the stumps and did look a touch ropey blaming sunburn from his latest holibobs for his lack of mobility. Imran ended with 2 for 2 and The Big G got 0 for 4 off his 2 overs so Canes off to a top start.
Angle, Normy and Jaffa continued the purple vain of form and all got wickets. Catches for G Star and Bowen but DC’s for COB, Normski and Jaffa who tried a one handed effort when 2 would have worked even better, give yourself double the chance next time eh Jaff?
All in all, quality throughout and some further cheap overs by Danny, Stagg Senior, Bowen, Phil and Jezza restricted the CBB’s to 81 off 18 overs.
This season the Canes have not lacked confidence due to the superb performances, etc, etc, but we all know that complacency can sometimes come and bite you where it hurts. We were all thinking, smash the 82 in quick style then off to the pub for the Dutch Semi (think I watched a video of that name once??
Complacency struck ouch!!
Wickets tumbled, and everyone was in the same boat putting up no resistance whatsoever to a pretty decent pace attack, out, out, out, out, etc. The highlights were Jaffa 5 ball duck, golden quack for Angle and “The Cow” spreading himself like Dairylea to catch Griff out in the covers.
So there we were, 30 odd for 9 wickets, last men standing were Imran and GStar (Greenfly, Gareth, Big G, haven’t decided on the best nickname for him yet!).
They started to prod the ball around and got a few boundaries rocking. Murmurs from the boundary were “come one put us out of our misery and let go watch football”, but GStar and the now hissing Khan had other ideas. We suddenly started to realise that with still plenty of overs left, if they could hang around the impossible could be achieved, got to believe you see.
Runs kept coming and we were within sight. Then Big G went for a six with about 10 needed but fortunately to catch was spilled over the rope for 4, breath again, phew hang in there boys!
Stagg Senior offered to cycle Sullys mountain bike naked if we pulled this one out of the bag and understandably the Canes were worried that this might just happen. Go Immy, go Gareth, go bowler who bowled a wild one for 4 byes which brought the Baa Baa’s to their knees and put the Canes back on top of the FTL after a ridiculously unexpected victory.
Good skills lads, top effort again, G Star was superb (13no) but got to give MOM to Immy (15no and 2 for 2).
- Stagg Senior