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Sat 23 Apr 2016
Rickmansworth Cricket Club
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200/8
Watford Town Cricket Club
Ricky 4ths vs Watford Town 3rds

Ricky 4ths vs Watford Town 3rds

Matt Atkins26 Apr 2016 - 19:18
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Ricky Lose by 162 Runs

Ricky 4ths Vs Watford Town
The game did not start to plan, and left Brendan doing his usual rounds to try and replace two drop outs, Having Played Watford town 3rds, 4ths , 5ths a few times over the last few seasons was interesting to see what kind of team we would be up against, to be honest it was not what we were expecting when the opposition skipper announced his team was made up of mainly two’s and threes we were in a uphill challenge, I won the toss and decided to make a game of it and bowl. After a pre game team talk Ricky started like they were the team with the higher league players with two great spells to start from Joe Monk and Rushil Sharma both taking a wicket in there 4 overs and hardly conceding any runs, I decided to do something a bit different and after 8 overs gave the ball to To Tony Mc to see what these batsman made of him and tony turned back time to bamboozle the middle order taking 3 quick wickets leaving Watford town at 40-5 but unfortunately Watford town batted all the way down and a really good innings from their number 6 hitting 96 turned the game, As usual the luck was not with us in the field and every skier edge seem to drop in-between fielders and Watford town finished at 200-8 of their 40 overs
Ricky’s innings started that bad I honestly thought we would not survive the first 10 overs as some rusty shot selections and good bowling left Ricky 10 for 6 but a couple of good partnerships first Rushil and Ken, who surprisingly look so alike when batting was difficult to tell them apart and earned them the nicknames of Ant and Dec then Jon and Ken with Jon smashing his first ever 6. Ricky crawled to 38 all out and lost the last 3 wickets in quick time, was a difficult match but was the start to the season and fun was had by all especially when Chris decided to officially warn a few of the Watford town players in the first over of our innings for appealing excessively

Match details

Match date

Sat 23 Apr 2016

Kickoff

13:00

Meet time

12:00

Instructions

Please meet at RCC by 12pm ready to help setup the pitch for play. If any problems ring Brendan on 07905311380
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