Week 14

Stoke St Mary – Away

A fixture which has long been in my diary as it would have been my first away game of the season, but it was never to be.

Carl had 12 players available, plus myself as umpire on the Friday evening, and within minutes of him ordering a pint at the Social Club on that Friday he had lost six of them to the 1^st XI. So with half of the 2^nd XI playing for the first team against Carhampton I suppose this sort of counts as week 13, so I may have to change the heading:

Week 13

Carhampton – Home

With a downpour at about an hour before play was due to start it looked unlikely that this match would go ahead, but with the sun beating its ray down on the ground the match started a little after 3pm, with the game reduced to 30 overs.

Carhampton batted first, they scored 123-8, which proved to be too many for Stowey, as they only made 92. The second team players did contribute, scoring some valuable runs at the end and gaining extra bonus points, which could help in the long run.

Anyway, what did that journalist, Martin Johnson, once say about the England touring team to Australia one year, “there are three things fundamentally wrong with the English team: they can’t bat, they can’t bowl and they can’t field.

Well here is some examples form the Charity Six-a-Side weekend recently held at Over Stowey:

 

 Thanks Shane for the pictures, might try a Thatchers or two now me thinks.