Our home debut brought no respite as another of the big hitting teams visited Cottam Hall. As expected, eyebrows were raised when everyone saw the state of the pitch. Thankfully Steve won the toss and elected to field (no brainer!) Also thankfully I decided to bowl well this week and took advantage of the sideways movement and the Buxtons batsmens' desire to swing at the ball, thus producing a couple of high shots for Lever and Gregson to pounce on. The Capatain joined in as ever and with Alcock and Snape only needing to bowl an over each to end the innings, we had bowled out one of the top teams for only 55. (Crippling half of them in the process by the way they walked off the pitch!)
However Wyre don't like to make things easy and as soon as the friendly banter between Mike and the slips had begun, he was walking back with a duck. That's 2 ducks in the last 3 innings, not the form of the FCL's top batsman...! Greggy soon followed but Amos and Moyes dug in before Abbott was required to batter a quickfire 30* and end the match.
Overall a very satisfying day to take 4 wickets against a good team and to get the season off to a good start with a win and a draw against two of our title challengers. Next week, our annual trip to Steve's favourite pitch in the league at Anchorsholme!
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