Rainmen CC at Great Tew, thirty five overs
www.pitchero.com/clubs/bodleiancc/teams/255079/match-centre/0-5106064 In fair weather and in good spirits the team arrive at their spiritual home and as lovely a place to spend the afternoon as you could wish for, Great Tew, to face the Rain Men, an off-shoot of the Captain's Scott's XI. Skipper Matthew wins the toss and bats, conditions are warm with cloud cover and possible rain at some point. Dips and Roy McMillian round off the team with a few regulars awol. The usual openers are late (pub? deli?) so Dips and James open. Rain Men have some useful bowlers, line and length making scoring shoots tricky but Dips starts to put away anything loose, and this approach is carried on with James, then Phil, David Shackleton, Matthew and Roy. Bodley take advantage of a) some loose stuff and b) the lovely outfield at Tew to put on an impressive 190 off 35. Tea, usual rules apply in this covid world, I can't be the only one longing for a proper cricket tea? Taking the field Phil opens, with Stuart from the other end. Stuart's first ball is a regulation rank full toss but he makes amends a few balls later with a cleaned bowled, helped out by the batsmen playing a pre-determined shot...and missing. We bowl well, James as economical as ever, and good spells from Gav and Andrew. The heroes of the innings though are the two Davids. Messrs Shackleton and Busby, as different a pair of cricketers as you could imagine, both bowl three perfect overs, and both pick up three wickets. It's always good to get Dave B bowling, one of the joys of Bodleian cricket and in many ways our not so secret weapon. Rain Men are bowled out for below sixty as Bodley find their mojo and take wickets at regular intervals, but hopefully enjoyed the game as much as we did (well, maybe not as much). A thoroughly enjoyable game and hopefully the start of a regular fixture. SA, GJ
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