Pacific v Priory Park

Fielding Lapses Undo Toby's Knock
Pacific v Priory Park at Cavendish Recreation Ground
Sat 10 Sep 2011 at 1.30pm
Lost 4 wickets
Friendly fixture

This was a close game. Next time: fielding practice!
We batted first and posted 173 despite losing two early wickets for no runs. Toby Chasseaud played a captain's innings with 62. It was a very competitive total on a green top and we only lost due to dropping a few catches and some sloppy ground fielding. (Business as usual!)
Other than that, all the new guys played well, particularly Kiwi Richard Wilson with a brisk 25 after being lured out of retirement.
The champagne moment when one of the Priory Park batsmen smashed the ball hard and straight, the non-striking batsman tried to get out of the way but only succeeded in deflecting the ball off his bat perfectly into the hands of mid-on.
This writer has never seen that happen before, and doesn't expect to again.

Pacific v Priory Park

Pacific innings		R	M	B	4	6
Abhinav Ramnarayan	c & b Junior	0	0	0	0	0
Toby Chasseaud	c keeper b Saj	62	0	0	0	0
Giaco Bridgett	b Junior	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Lay	b Saj	18	0	0	0	0
Anosh Bana	run out	0	0	0	0	0
Sandeep Nair	c & b Himansu	12	0	0	0	0
Richard Wilson	lbw b Sid	25	0	0	0	0
Forhad Ahmed	not out	18	0	0	0	0
Ben Le Mare	b Hitesh	11	0	0	0	0
Sudeep Rana	not out	5	0	0	0	0
Ahmed Hussain	did not bat	0	0	0	0	0
Extras	(b 5, lb 2, w 7, nb 4)	18
TOTAL	(49.0 Overs)	173/8

Fall of wickets: 1-1 [Ramnarayan] , 2-1 [Bridgett] , 3-87 [Chasseaud] , 4-91 [Bana] , 5-92 [Lay] , 6-123 [Wilson] , 7-143 [Nair] , 8-164 [Le Mare]

Bowling		O	M	R	W

Priory Park innings		R	M	B	4	6
Amit	c Ahmed b Rana	31	0	0	0	0
Rahif	lbw b Bridgett	2	0	0	0	0
Sabi	c Le Mare b Hussain	21	0	0	0	0
Himansu	c Bana b Hussain	35	0	0	0	0
Shamu	c Rana b Bana	19	0	0	0	0
Saj	c Lay b Hussain	10	0	0	0	0
Sid	not out	10	0	0	0	0
Hitesh	not out	8	0	0	0	0
Extras	(b 0, lb 0, w 0, nb 0)	0
TOTAL	(36.3 Overs)	174/6