End of Over 17: 90-4, runrate=5.29, reqrunrate=5.94 (285-10)
Rock 4-0-26-0
Whing* 33 (28 balls)
Crouch 27 (23 balls)
Last Wicket: Butcher c. Carden b. Smyth 9 (FOW: 30/4)
As you can see, I was in deep trouble, but some valiant knocks here. They just came out and played positive cricket. Won't win, but it is fun to watch for now:
16.4 6 Rock to Whing
Wonderful! Clean strike back over Rock's head and it goes all the way!
27.1 W Bolder to Whing
Tried to smash that through the cover area, but Chaplow was perfectly positioned and takes the catch at chest height.
Fun while it lasted. 129/5 after 27.1, no hope from here. Made 48 off 61 he did. Arthur Dennis in...
29.6 1 Bolder to Crouch
Worked around to deep square leg for the single.
And that's his fifty! Well played.
He needs to make atleast 80 to make up for the 79 runs he conceded...
30.3 6 Rock to Dennis
Dennis whacked that all the way out of the ground!
I've lost this, but it's nice to see they haven't given up the fight
135 runs off 116 balls. One things for sure, they'll want to go down in a blaze of glory
7 off his best bowler (Who took 3/15 in his fist spell, and is averaging under 10 this season!!). 126 off 108 balls, with no-one else to come.
99 balls left, 122 runs to win.
33.6 W Smyth to Andrews
That's gone like a rocket to Carden who has caught a wonder catch!
33.5 W Smyth to Dennis
Yorker! Played all around it and his stumps have been scattered.
Ah well, did well enough to reach 150 against this attack. Something makes me feel he demoted on purpose. That, or the league above is a league where I do NOT want to promote too...
117 off the last 15 needed. Crouchy and an Abysmal batter with two worthlesses to come.
Crouch on 65. He needs to wallop another 15, or else he is on a strict no-alcohol diet for the remainder of the season, and I know that'll kill him...
35.5 W Smyth to Rheams
Rheams hammers that one, but Rock foils him and takes a great catch deep on the boundary.
That's gotten rid of the abysmal. Folkes the new man in, for his first bat ever. Is he a hidden talent waiting to shine?
35.6 1 Smyth to Folkes
Folkes chips it over the infield and it lands safely in no-man's land on the leg side and they can jog a single.
His first run ever! And he's off to a flier, strike rate of 100!!
36.6 W Rock to Folkes
Oh dear, bowled by a full toss, that should really have been given the treatment.
Atleast he lasted 7 balls. 170/9. Tuckett the new man in, and Crouch creams a four...
37.5 1 Smyth to Tuckett
Solid stroke to cover, Carden misfields and a single is the result.
Tuckett scores a run!
And then Crouch gets another four
Crouch 74 (77 balls)
6 more, and he makes up (Somewhat) for conceding 79. And imagine, all this and he is hungover
Tuckett gets another single, then a 3!!!
He's made 5 off 7 now, outscoring Rudi (0 off 1) again
But he's kept strike! To Smyth!(6/34)!
39.2 4 Smyth to Tuckett
Wide of off, chopped into the gap past point and over the rope for the boundary.
That didn't just happen!
Either way, it's all over now. Crouch failing to make up for conceding 79 runs, although he'll argue he was not-out...
39.6 W Smyth to Tuckett
Big inswinging yorker crashes into his pads. Massive appeal and given!
9 off 11, not bad for the last batter.
I lose by 92 runs, not bad at all. Probably his closest match this season
