Back to Back wins for the Mad Dogs vs Newtown Fathers

Tim Carroll:

A great days cricket and the rain thankfully stayed away

We won the toss and I decided to have a bat hoping to post a competitive total.

BATTING

Billy & I opened the batting - Billy's average took a dent nicking one outside off - not an ideal start - I managed a 12 runs before missing a straight one - 30-2 !!

JP & Richard - steadied the ship seeing out some tight bowling - A good knock from JP saw him retired at 25 and some useful runs from Richard

Jez & Garvs - had a very productive partnership - upping the run rate they scampered between the wickets like a couple of scouse tea leafs - Garvs got 30 odd including coming back in for the last ball and smashing it to the boundary.

Good contributions also by Luke & Phil -

Strangest dismissal went to GB - with an mysterious hit wicket

Some hysterical running by gareth who's shades kept on slipping off his sun screened nose

A competitive total - of 183-9 of 35 Overs - a good collective team effort

BOWLING

An all round great effort with the ball and with the fielding

Great opening spell from Garvey - 2-10 of five overs at a brisk pace - befitting of his Caribbean roots

A mesmerising spell from Keith - with a few balls that genuinely turned - from memory got 3 wickets with a few hitting the pegs

Good medium pace efforts - from Luke / Billy / JP / Phil & Richard - all very economical making it tricky for the Newington Dads to get close to the target

Solid keeping from Jez behind the stumps - interesting decision to shun the stumping opportunity

With tight bowling & fielding and a decent total - we had the luxury of offering the final two overs of Four N Twenty Pies and still won by 40 Odd runs

Keen to see if we can introduce a few awards

Man of the Match - Garvs with a good all round performance with Bat & Ball almost undone by a rare drop in the field - a spectacular bit of fielding in the deep where he stopped the ball at full stretch moving into a headstand which he held for a few seconds - contender - JP & Keith

The Phil Tufnell Award - Usually plenty of contenders for this award - but overall a good fielding effort all round - Garvs probably sneaks it by virtue of his drop ( he was heckled by Billy in his defence )

The Jonty Rhodes Award - For best fielding is shared between - Luke for his misfield followed by a run out and Richard taking a diving catch at Mid On

All round super effort and enjoyable day

Thanks to those who put there hand to help with food etc

Bring on the Aussies - The Mad Dogs looking for 3 IN a row. - Keith please forward to Phil