Our 1s came up a little short against St Lukes on Saturday. Put in to bat, we struggled along to 168 all out just shy of our 45 overs. Only Bollywood star Shazad Ahmad made an impression with 66 - I came in at 8 with 5 overs left and had to play a totally alien game in hitting a quick 12 (joint 2nd top scorer!).
In reply we got an early wicket, and kept chipping away but they had batting all the way through and won by 5 wickets with about 4/5 overs left.
That for me was the big difference between our 1s level (Div 1) and 2s level (Div 4) - while the oppo bowling attack didn't have anything I couldn't deal with pretty easily, at our 2s level you know if you've got 4 or 5 wickets down you're almost through them - the rest tend to be quite ragged from about 6-11. However, their 6 and 7 were both very accomplished stroke players, and helped see them through alongside their skipper.
EDIT: While I was thanked for my efforts (solid in the field, did OK with the bat), to be fair I'm rather hoping to be back in the 2s for the visit of Beddington next week - would much rather get a proper game batting top 4 than have to come in when the slog's on - if at all!
In reply we got an early wicket, and kept chipping away but they had batting all the way through and won by 5 wickets with about 4/5 overs left.
That for me was the big difference between our 1s level (Div 1) and 2s level (Div 4) - while the oppo bowling attack didn't have anything I couldn't deal with pretty easily, at our 2s level you know if you've got 4 or 5 wickets down you're almost through them - the rest tend to be quite ragged from about 6-11. However, their 6 and 7 were both very accomplished stroke players, and helped see them through alongside their skipper.
EDIT: While I was thanked for my efforts (solid in the field, did OK with the bat), to be fair I'm rather hoping to be back in the 2s for the visit of Beddington next week - would much rather get a proper game batting top 4 than have to come in when the slog's on - if at all!
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