Another game, another cup final, this time against the arch enemy the Chav’s, oops sorry the Cav’s. On a beautiful evening and a great looking pitch the Cav’s were put into bat by Skipper Griff who was still hungover from the previous nights FTL Cup celebrations and whose mind was clearly not in the zone at the start of proceedings, wake up Skip!
Driscoll and Angle opened the bowling and after a brisk start Danny got the breakthrough with a devilish delivery. Jeremy took the next wicket with the assistance of a decent catch by Stagg Senior who was quoted as saying “I banked that one and spent the overdraft before it was in my mits”, confidence is the key to safe hands!
The cavaliers continued to pile on the runs and started to look pretty dangerous until Jaffa bowled his Jaffa and caught the sweetest of deliveries in a strange kinda ladylike way taking out the dangerman Marchant. The innings continued to flow with tight bowling from the rest of the canes, two excellent run outs, Cob being the hero with the gloves and then great wickets by Glyn and Jimmy near the death to restrict the Cavs to 125 runs, a total that was very respectable but gettable at a rate of 7 an over.
The opening batters were decided via an email prior to this match. Jimmy had a vision and I quote from his email:
“and I still stand by my claim that this is your wicket Jaff! Cob (who hit the cup winning runs) and Jaff to open”
Jimmy
No-one realised at the time how vital this decision was….
Bowen was chuckling on the boundary about this vision saying that he fancied Jaffa’s chances but the next batsman better pad up now because Cob would be back in the pavilion before Griff could finish his fag, how wrong could he be!!
Cob got off to a blistering start and was scoring at a rate that was double of Jaffa’s. Boundaries flowed and the running between the stumps was impressive, we were all feeling tired just watching. Jaffa continued to back up Champion Cob and the 7 an over rate was being followed comfortably. Then came the moment for Cob to hit his 50th run, a cheeky single down to third man, well done Cobbage, good skills! More boundaries more smacks to cow corner and a couple of dodgy overs put us within sight of the target until Jaffa made a monumental error refusing an easy single and leaving Cob in no mans land, run out for 65!! Cob lost the plot kicking the off stump out of the ground and storming off the pitch, naughty boy but f**ckin hilarious! Made my night Cob, top man!!
Anyways at this stage we suddenly realised that there was still work to do so Jeremy was sent in and told to swing from the hip, hmmm not his forte really but he’s a trier. Jaffa moved onto a superb 50, Jeremy got two great dot balls before being bowled, nuff said! Bowen went in and then Jaffa spanked the winning runs with a boundary and the C & H cup was The Canes property again and rightly so.
Good game, great spirit from both sides and very enjoyable night. Cob even went and apologised to all about the stump incident, true gentlemen at heart but sometimes not head!
Well done Jaffa but Cob gets the Man of the Match.
— DS