[themaclad]

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On a red hot day we played bottom of the league Kirkham by the end of the game we had swapped positions with them, due to an earlier swap of fixtures we had to play our home game at Kirkham but as we changed the day to Sunday it we could have actually played the game at home, but saying that we got to play at a decent ground


We won the toss and elected to bat and our openers put on 50 before Neil Hankey departed, the captain soon departed before Messers Harvey and Carter put on 60 plus, got a bit tetchy at time how you say verbals, nt bad for a clash of two teams in the bottom decision,from 121-3 wickets began to fall on a regular basis, Neil Harvey batted through 30 overs before the heat made him run himself out.
Interesting character is Neil previously played for teh club at teh time of formation 2000 left to work abroad, worked as a TV Presenter on Russia Today, had some nteresting comments about the Special One Jose.
We ended up on 188, my epic innings lasted fine balls, missed the first two, defence prod for third. Next two creamed off the middle of the bat, the first well fielded at short cover, the other hammered back at the bowler who juggled the ball before catching it, the wordds dear me were heard. Third innings on this ground third duck.

Luckily the heat had subsided but the home side started off well putting on 49 before the first wicket fell Reddy Jnr caught and Bowled by Lefty Wright. I got Butcher caught on the boundary, decent player this lad.
Took the wicket of Smith who made 64 and then the wicket of Tomlinson who went forward, backwards before walking past teh ball that bowled him.
Sadly though that was our last success as Griffiths and Kilgaggan took them to victory, only four to go we have 10 players this week and we play Wrea Green who are going for promotion. Onwards and Downwards ony