St's met MB Blue on a very green looking St Albans 1. The pitch appeared to not have had a shave since last weekend and I was lucky enough to win the toss (I should say Mario lost the toss as it was his call) and we bowled first, mainly because we had a stack of batters but limited bowling options so wasn't confident we could defend a total.
Mario and Tonks opened up against the pace of Wellsy and the non pace of Flav. 38 on the board after 11 with a change of bowling, the skipper coming on and having instance impact removing Tonks for 19. 2 overs later and Iggs took a great stumping down leg side again from me to see Mario on his way for 12 (44/2). Andy Mayo strode out and remained for the rest of the innings, scoring a beautiful 77* and shared a good 4th wicket partnership with Watts (28) to see the MP boys end with 154/4. All our bowlers bowled well to keep MP to this total.
Jimmy and Gibby faced up to Nath Columbus and Fish to start the innings. The runs came at a healthy rate but unfortunately for us so did the wickets, 17/1, 27/2, 37/3, 47/4, 59/5, 90/6 before Rich Mather was joined by Flav for a match winning partnership of 42 before we lost 2 more wickets to see us 146/8. Potty joined Wellsy and over number 34 saw the winning runs hit with us 155/8. Rich made a solid 41 with Flav chipping in with 26. Columbus 2/13 off 8 and Fish 3/45 the best of the MP bowlers.
A good game of cricket followed by the 2 team sharing a few beers and a lot of laughs.
Cheers Potty
