[themaclad]

After a chaotic last two weeks the season duly got of to a truly uninspiration defeat. Let me set the scene the chairman of the club who was also the second team up sticks and has gone to play for Blackpool. The reason for his defection he was not happy about a possible merger between ourselves and the other club in Poulton, Fylde CC
The aid is to keep their young players in the game as they do not have enough teams to keep them happy and they could end up leaving the club and being lost to the game.
His intention was develop our own talent and as such develop the club. Ours is a council ground which has a Pavillion which is a bit tired saying the least.
The only youth players we have are the first team skipper's sons.
We have also lost including with the second team skipper numbered six, including the two top scorers in the first team, plus the clubs all time leading run scorer.
We have had three new players one who has never played cricket before, so basically the merger is a no brainer.
On Thursday when I saw the 8 men who had been selected, thought we would have difficulty actually scoring double figures, yep it was that bad.
We ended up with 10 in the end. However you need 4 bowlers we had three, so the script was win the toss and bat which I duly and as expected we were 4-5 luckily a bit of lusty tail end hitting got us to 29, which was better than the first match last season when we were all out for 26 and lost by 10 wickets.
The first over of their innings went for 15, the first ball of the next over went for 6 so looking at losing within 2 overs however another exocet was heading towards Mars when the subsitute they had lent us took a one handed catch which has already won catch of the season.
We managed to take another wicket before they won
Might be a long season but the aim is just to get a second team out every week