"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are not big enough. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Biffer Zone."
After the disaster of the previous week, KSCC were desperate to get back into winning ways. After winning the toss on the second attempt, Your Brave Leader (TM) elected to bat on a pretty good track that looked to have some runs in it. From the boundary, the wicket looked superb...standing out white against the intensely green grass. Lovely place to play cricket on its day our ground.
El Capitan started solidly, with some drives through mid off and cover. However, Sammy G had left his fluency pants at home and was struggling against the swinging ball early on. Things were still going well though, when El Capitan had a more-frequent-than-it-should-be brain explosion and managed to run himself out trying to sneak a non-existent and unnecessary single from a misfield. The Anternator strode out to the middle for the first time in 2011 and immediately looked to dominate the bowling. Sammy was still playing at ghosts at one end while Ant played some classic power drives that nearly left vapour cones in the air. However, both followed their captain’s lead and handed their wickets away. Sammy found himself run out and Ant swung wildly towards cow corner only to have the very sharp young keeper whip the bails off. Livewire played a couple of trademark pull shots to show some form, but then he was also bowled in his trademark dismissal, playing back to a full straight one. Biffer Burles and Rayzzo then buckled down to try and form a partnership. While Razor battled away for his runs, Biffer Burles started to open up and play his back foot drives...those ones that would possibly set the pages of a cricket text book on fire if they were ever written down. His innings was highlighted by a thunderous (very) straight six that flew beyond the boundary by a mile and landed on the roof of Tommy Reid’s car, which will bear the scar of its encounter with Burles Cricket forever more. The chase for late runs began, but the charge never really came and KSCC lost wickets instead. Duncan was stumped for a well made 67 (or less accurately, for 76) to stand out as the innings of the innings. In the end, KSCC finished on a sub-par 207/9 where a score of 250+ was hoped for.
It would be up to the formidable KSCC bowling unit to do the damage. Early on, North Newton made steady if unspectacular progress. Snooky was bowling OK and Tommy B was doing well to maintain a disciplined line. The openers started to attempt to up the tempo but were thwarted when Tommy B found his way through Number 1 with his first in game execution of his new split finger slowwy. North Newton were looking on target at that point, with an opening partnership of 52 from 12 overs. A surprised Livewire Benny was thrown the ball for a spell and he duly delivered a wicket maiden in his first over, having the threatening left hand opener caught behind. The Golden Boy Freddie Barton then waded into the fray to completely turn the game KSCC’s way. His fourth and fifth overs were wicket maidens. Ant took a well watched catch at cow corner, standing exactly where his captain put him.....in a hole. Tommy B looked as super-casual as ever taking a catch at cover, a rare occurrence against the prodigious turn generated by Frieber. Another three wickets were garnered as he turned the ball a mile to slip through the gap created by an inexperienced batting lineup that intended to drive him all afternoon. The Destroyer then chimed in from the other end to bowl all sorts of stuff, disappearing for a couple of mighty sixes while also picking up the last 3 wickets. The last man was bowled with the last ball of the 37th over just as a forlorn Tommy Reid, who had been warming up for about 20 overs, prepared to mark out his run.
In the end it was an easy victory, but we were still less than convincing for large periods of play. Our batting unit in particular needs to fire, considering we bat all the way down and have a fair bit of talent in there. Still...35 points is 35 points and we sit second on the SCL Div 2 table....behind Middlezoy.
Batting:
D Burles 67
A Williams 40
C Hansen 24
Bowling: o m r w
F Barton 12 3 40 5
S Churchill 5 2 23 3
T Barton 7 1 16 1
B Chant 7 1 20 1
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