[themaclad]

Another Saturday another defeat, no first teamers in this week, so the fact we were all out for 23 with a stronger batting line up last week meant we had a substantially weaker batting side this week, so win toss bowl was the scenario, we lost the toss and Walton decided to bat.
We ambled out into the field on a warmer day than recently the wind had dropped. We rn out Patel when the score was 10 he should have actually been caught from the same ball but we got the wicket anywhere
We had a couple of lads making debuts Alex Conn bowled a useful spell without taking a wicket moving the ball away from the bat, Bolton went with the score on 54 hitting the first ball from Pollard straight to the skipper at mid off. Harrison soon came and went but a partnership between Preston and Bolton took the visitors to 110 were Bolton was LBW, he wasn't particlarly happy with the decision but had to go
Ex Ingol player Newton joined Preston and the pair of them looked like putting the score to way beyond our limitations, but with 9 overs to go the skipper brought me on.
1st, 33rd and 7th deliveries cleared the boundary although the first six was fingered tipped over the bar by Dave Lever, however the Lever/Mackay partnership got rid of both Preston and Newton, also snaffled Benyon caught behind, whilst at the other end the skipper weighed in with the other three wickets.
Ended up with 3-26 in four overs delivering a vast variety of pies

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Batting was it's usual miserable self from 16-0 to 33-7 when I was run out by a direct throw from the boundary(How dare they it's division 6) Lever went 45-8 soon became 46-9 but Clayton and other debutant Beveridge managed to get us up to 89, Clayton ended up with 25 not out and Beveridge made 15. The annoying fact is that after the two young opening bowler Walton's back up bowlers were not as good.

Plus point 3 points takes us off the bottom for the time being, onwards, upwards onl