Whetstone v BOTWCC 2nd XI
Saturday 19th May 2007
I think it was Iron Maiden who came up with the timeless classic 'Deja Vu' from the album 'Somewhere in Time'. Its not their best LP but worth a listen if you're into that sort of thing.
What is he blathering on about you might justifiably ask yourselves? Who knows, sometimes even I find it hard to keep up. But on this occasion it is only clear sense being made. The deja vu reference being the pertinent comment here.
Why so? Simple. It appears the the Burton OTWCC 2nd XI did pretty much exactly what they did last weekend and took a perfectly good start, screwed it up and tossed it nonchalantly into the trash can.
Yes. They lost. In style.
Having lost the toss this week, Rob Morley was asked to field by the visiting beardy captain and Burton happily obliged. Things started well and after 30 overs and some very steady and economical bowling from Penton, Shipman senior and the aforementioned Morley, Whetstone had only managed a meager score of 67 and had lost 4 key wickets. Things looked good you might think.
Wrong.
In the following 15 overs there were more dropped catches than you could feasibly imagine (Steve Layzell hangs his head in shame for dropping the same bloke three, yes three times) and some slap happy batting from Whetstone, before the visitors cruised to a ridiculous 175 for 7.
I know ! How were they allowed to get over 100 runs in the last 15 overs? Dropping a dozen catches? Crap bowling? Wildly ambitious and freakishly fortunate batting techniques?
Yep, all of the above I'm afraid.
So, having thrown away a sound advantage, in came the Burton batting line up and preceded to curl up its toes in the face of some fairly average bowling.
At least this week they managed to beat the all out for 60 of last weekend at Burbage by a whole 3 runs. I can't even bring myself to type the result. (63 all out)
I'll say no more.
Lets see what happens next week at Braunstone. I wonder how can we bugger that one up?
MATCH STATS
Bowling:
G Penton 11-2-39-2
J Shipman 12-3-20-1
R Morley 12-1-32-3
S Layzell 9-0-60-1
A Archer 1-0-17-0
Batting:
M Russell 21(b)
S Neal 8 (ct)
M Tagg 4 (lbw)
J Shipman 13 (ct)
D Higgins 0 b)
R Morley 9 (ct )
E Everitt Stewart 1 (b)
T Shipman 0 (b)
A Archer 0 (b)
G Penton 0 Not out
S Layzell 0 (b)
Team for whetstone home
1.R Morley
2 S Neal
3 M Russell
4 M Tagg
5 G Penton
6.S Layzell
7 J Shipman
8 Ed Everitt-Stewart
9 T Shipman
10 A Archer
11 Danny Higgins