Match Report
Thursday 4th August –v- Woolwich Postal at Avery Hill Park (Ray Willis Trophy)
The skip actually found himself with the luxury of having twelve available players as the GC’s looked to extend their unbeaten record to seven. This however didn’t prevent the usual forfeiture of the toss, with the presence of only six of these men at start time. The oppo skip was typically abrasive for a Postal worker and put us in to bat.
Dave Spence and Neil C opened, taking the skips 'don’t get out' orders a little too seriously scoring only eleven off the first five overs, before Umpire Gibson in cahoots with the GPO gave him out LBW for 3. All too soon Neil opened the gate for some nobbIe to bowl him and with only half a team present it was down to the skip to save face. With the help of Jim runs started to arrive a little more readily, although Jim’s efforts to pervert the course of match were ably spotted and reported to the umpire by Wilf the Wickie. When Jim was out GT took over, cunningly disguised as a Postal Worker and from then on the score moved rapidly along. The Wicket-Keeping Norbert finally shut up and even half congratulated the skip when he was next out, five short of his fifty. Darren took up residence with Glen and took the score to 140 for 4 at the close; Glenn two short of his half ton after some rapid late acceleration.
The oppo reply was solid, in the form of a big fat bastard and their big mouth skip and the score raced to thirty, due largely to the bowling of Neil C. Enter Mark to break the flourishing stand, which he duly did with the aid of a catch from Neil C. After administering a good beating and picking the scabs on his legs we resumed to polish off the rest. Steve L and Dave S ripped out the heart of their line up before more history was made, in the form of Neil M’s first Crusader wicket, emulating Kev’s feat of last week. With the run chase all but over the skip turned to the lesser bowling of Darren and was rewarded immediately with a morale boosting wicket. In fading light the match finished with the oppo well short on 91 for 9.
The Quiz Team moved smoothly into action, as we celebrated another confident performance back at The Crown. After fleecing the machine and marvelling at Neil C’s incredible intellect we settled in for some unashamed female ogling; only disturbed by the odd shouts of ‘Norbert’ and ‘Norris’ that emanated from the Public Bar.
Pen Pictures
Dave Spence - Made up for poor show with the bat with 2 for 3 bowling spell - one of the oglers
Neil Chapman -Utter nonsense
Jim Clements -Impressed with the ball again despite not taking a wicket.
Spud Whale -Anchored the innings despite jibes about being bowled behind legs - Poetry in motion.
Glenn Timms -Batted well -Not lairy enough to be transferred to Woolwich Branch
Darren Moyse -Rumoured to have played an attacking shot - Bowled shit again!
Steve Martin -Heavily clobbered for Subs, Match fees and T-Shirt money – Will we ever see him again.
Steve Lewis -Bowled well to the short leg boundary - Is he turning up late due to poor midweek batting form?
Mark Paine – Enjoyed eating Neil Chapman’s scabs and continued wicket taking streak
Neil Morrison – First Wicket of Career
Gordon Schultz – Despite shouts of Watch that bounce he collected two more catces
Kevin Gibson – Umpired, scored – general good egg
