Last Tuesday's game proved a handful of things. The main point
proven though was that Indoor Cricket is a team sport. If one or two
players in the side are off their game... well... disastrous result
set in. So that's what happened when Rob and yours truly stepped up
to the crease. We had that score board lit up like a flashing
Christmas tree! Minus 24 was our end result. We played bad but to
the credit of the fielders from Unfinished Business, they took some
unbelievable catches at my expense. To top off our luck I could on
an extra run at the end which needed a direct hit from the opposite
end of the field to effect a run out. Sure enough it was a spot on
hit and Rob was out. Just to emphasise the point... we had no luck!
Details are scares but the main result is that Blackout won last
Tuesday's match up against Stumped which will go down as a much
needed win with the losses building up as of late. We won after
fielding first and having to chase a total of 90 runs. End result
was all 4 skins won at 113-90. Big thanks to Harry & Ali from Lions
Pride who filled in and help lift the team.
They'll be some changes coming to the site as it is agreed that
while we have a good looking site... well... it's been without much
content of late. So here's to kick off the creative juices... a
video I spotted on You Tube. I may get encouraged to do some video
highlighting of our own soon!
It had been sometime since I last donned the Black for the side and
I was hoping for a good game to get me back into the Blackout
spirit. However it wasn't to be despite what seemed to be a
competitive start against the very side that had humiliated us to
the tune of 200 runs to something. The opening 2 overs showed
promise as we kept them to a measly 3 runs. But they awoke to reveal
a devastating batting line up and scored 15 and then 27 runs in the
next two overs. Despite then keeping the 2nd pair to 22 runs with
great tight bowling we slipped and let the opposition go unchecked
to rack up 135 mainly thanks to 2 sixes scored in the double points
over to contribute 26 runs more.
Our batting reply was mediocre to say the least except for Chris who
inspired myself to sneak loads of extra runs and wear me out in the
process! Also Rashid and Richo attempted to make the most of a bad
situation in winning their skin as well. However the damage was
already done and a convincing win was had by Lakemba Physio.
