Scorecard

Greenies blew a golden opportunity to defeat Prison at Smith Rd yesterday. Winning the toss and batting on a rock hard surface in perfect conditions, Rotsey and Ledge started perfectly with a 58 run stand. Rotsey smashing a couple through covers and Ledge hooking Troy David onto the road. The Doc brothers came into the attack and we looked set to dominate but then disaster struck. Rotsey in top nick belted a long hop straight to mid on, Frankie belted a slow loopy full toss straight to Shaeed at cover and then I somehow managed to chip a slow pie straight back to the bowler. In between these 3 terrible shots, Ledge was given out LBW in controversial circumstances when he swiveled to pull, missed and was hit in the ribs. From a controlling 0-58 we fell to 4-67 and our chance had gone. Craig and Jonty did an excellent job to rebuild the innings with a 65 run partnership. The problem being that Bazil and Shaeed came on to bowl and were very difficult to get away. Jonty eventually fell to a freakish catch on the boundary. The fieldsman horribly misjudged the catch by running to far forward but as the ball passed by him he stuck out a hand and somehow the ball stuck. Craig was bowled trying to lift the run rate for 38. The idea was right but the execution off. Hoggy played a tremendous little knock at the end, scampering singles and hitting 3 boundaries to lift us to 183 from 50 overs. It was a day when we needed to score 250 plus. The conditions were perfect and we had the men to do it. Unfortunately, 4 very poor overs cost us and from there Prison essentially shut us out of the game.

The bowling started well with Hector bowling Troy David for a duck in the first over. Frankie got rid of Charlie Greaves and then Hector got an edge from the doc and Prison were 3 down. That bought Gordon and Shaeed to the crease and we needed to strike quickly to have any chance in the match. Unfortunately Gordon was dropped at short cover and Shaeed survived a shaky start when he edged Hector through slips on 3 occasions. You just can't give chances to quality batsman like these fellas and they made us pay with a breezy partnership of 76. We eventually got Shaeed who was brilliantly caught by Dickie at deep mid off, running in and taking a low catch. Unfortunately Gordon continued on his merry way, looking exceptionally classy and finishes on 76 n.o from 73 balls. After the drop catch, he didn't give us a whiff of a chance. Prison knocked off the runs in only 32 overs, which really highlighted how poor our effort with the bat was. 

MOTM - Hector bowled his best spell of the season. Should have dismissed Gordon and could easily have got Shaeed too. Finished with 2-25 from 8. Everyone else went for 6 an over or more.
POTD - Dickie's catch gave us hope before Gordon closed out the match.
COTD - Craig. Dropped Gordon.

We now have to rely on Prison dropping 3 of there next 4 games. Shaeed is off island for a couple of these games so you never know. Meanwhile, we need to win our next 4. We start with Schools in 2 weeks time.