MATCH REPORT VS CAVALIERS

THE TOSS WAS WON, AND THE CAVALIERS WERE ASKED TO BAT FIRST ON A WARM AFTERNOON.
WITH RYAN WHITEHEAD NOT TURNING UP FOR THE SECOND YEAR RUNNING THE MOBS WERE DOWN TO TEN MEN. (PS: RYAN WILL NEVER EVER BE ASKED TO REPRESENT THE MOBS AGAIN INCIDENTALLY)
THE RETURNING MARIO SALERI TOOK THE PRIZE WICKET OF LEROY, CAUGHT AT SLIP WITH A FLYING SLIP CATCH BY THE SKIPPER, TO A CHANCE THAT WOULD NORMALLY HAVE GONE TO 4TH SLIP, BUT THE SKIP SHOWED HIS AGILITY BY THROWING HIMSELF FROM 1ST SLIP TO TAKE A POSSIBLE CATCH OF THE DECADE!
SOME FINE TIGHT BOWLING BY THE OPENING BOWLERS MESSRS SALERI AND ROLF TIED UP THE CAVS, CONTINUED BY DEBUTANT BLENKINSOP AND VETERAN YORK AT THE OTHER END.
NEARING DRINKS TIME, IT WAS TIME FOR SPIN, WITH SPINNING LEGENDS SUTHERLAND, SHORT AND ARMSTRONG RIPPING THE BEAST ON A CRACKING WICKET.
SHORT GOT THE LUCKY BREAK, WITH A "FLIGHTED" BALL DECIEVING THE IN FORM "BIG H" WHO WAS CLEANLY AND SWIFTLY STUMPED BY MARK "PRIOR" THOMAS. THE CAVS SKIPPER HOBBLED TO THE CREASE, AND SPENT PLENTY OF TIME PLAYING AND MISSING TO THE SPINNING TRIO.
SHORTY THEN BOWLED A BEAUTY TO TOM WATSON (YES YOU ARE BEING NAMED AND SHAMED) WHO DIDNT JUST EDGE THE BALL TO THE KEEPER, HE PRACTICALLY MIDDLED IT, SO FIRMLY THE "CRRRACCKKKK" NOISE WAS HEARD IN ISTANBUL. UNFORTUNATELY, AT THE TIME SMIRKER WAS TOO BUSY THINKING ABOUT HIS "FARMER GILES" THAN UMPIRING, SO LEFT IT TO THE BATSMAN TO WALK. LUCKILY, WITH IT BEING A SUNDAY, TOM THOUGHT IT BEST TO DO THE "PROPER" SUNDAY THING AND WALK, OH NO MY MISTAKE, HE INSTEAD CHOSE TO STAND THERE LOOKING EXTREMELY GUILTY AND KEEP SAYING "I NEVER HIT IT", WELL LETS JUST SAY - KARMA CAME BACK TO HAUNT HIM LATER!!!

sOME FINE BOLWING FROM EVENTUAL MAN OF THE MATCH ARMSTONG PUT THE PRESSURE ON THE CAVS, AND THEY CLOSED ON 200 ODD.

TEA WAS TAKEN, AND BEER WAS CONSUMED.

tHEN OVER TO THE PISSED/HUNGOVER CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE TO START THE FIREWORKS!!!
BACKED UP BY MESSRS DORRINGTON, YORK, STANGER AND THOMAS, THE MOBS LEGEND MADE MORE HISTORY, SCORING THE FIRST TONNE IN A MOBS SHIRT.
HE WAS DROPPED ON 60 BY THE AFOREMENTIONED "NON-WALKER", BUT BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER THE OPPORTUNITY TO CATCH HIM HE LOOKED A CLASS ACT.

A FINE TEAM EFFORT, WITH SPECIAL MENTION TO SHORTY, NATHAN, MARIO AND OBVIOUSLY SUTHS, PLUS GREAT BACKUP FROM YORKIE AND BLENKS.

WELL DONE LADS, A FINE PERFORMANCE!

NB: THE VIEWS POSTED HERE ARE NOT "OFFICIALLY" THE VIEWS OF MONTAGU OLD BOYS CC , THEY ARE PURELY ONES MANS "OPINION", AND THEREFORE THE CLUB ACCEPTS NO LIABILITY WHETHER LEGAL OR OTHERWISE

THE CAVS SKIPPER HOBBLED TO THE CREASE, AND SPENT PLENTY OF TIME PLAYING AND MISSING TO THE SPINNING TRIO.

NB: THE VIEWS POSTED HERE ARE NOT "OFFICIALLY" THE VIEWS OF MONTAGU OLD BOYS CC , THEY ARE PURELY ONES MANS "OPINION", AND THEREFORE THE CLUB ACCEPTS NO LIABILITY WHETHER LEGAL OR OTHERWISE

....you must have been watching a different game! ... is it you i sue?? lol

SHORTY THEN BOWLED A BEAUTY TO TOM WATSON (YES YOU ARE BEING NAMED AND SHAMED) WHO DIDNT JUST EDGE THE BALL TO THE KEEPER, HE PRACTICALLY MIDDLED IT, SO FIRMLY THE "CRRRACCKKKK" NOISE WAS HEARD IN ISTANBUL.

how dare you question smirkers judgemment!!...................... it was so out it i nearly walked for him!!!

SHORT GOT THE LUCKY BREAK, WITH A "FLIGHTED" BALL DECIEVING THE IN FORM "BIG H" WHO WAS CLEANLY AND SWIFTLY STUMPED BY MARK "PRIOR" THOMAS.

I do believe that the ball was a chest high full toss. Which hit your keeper somewhere rolled down his body off his feet and onto the stumps! Now where its says cleanly and swiftly I believe you to be telling porkies!