(above)Pez decided to turn to prayer for a catch to be held..
(above)Jimmy got so cocky he started to bat with one hand...
(above)Barney's eye was so good he started the 'no look' defence...
(above)Despite analysis, the hairy man's action could not be faulted...
(above)In the only sprint race of the day, it was Jimmy by a nose...
Editors note- (abusive)Jimmy worked out that if you click on the pics, you get the bigger version. Just hit the 'back'arrow to get back to the blog...
In a day that everything, it was the team with everything that went home for the day with a smile on their face from the Bush view Oval at Wundim on the weekend.
A spate of sledging, boundaries, amazing (not) fielding, centurions, 5 wicket hauls and the best clubhouse this side of the SCG all punctuated a warm breezy day in Wyhundim.
Winning the toss (as he does), Dunko quickly elected to bat, looking forward to throwing the bat around with city boy Mcloskey for a few overs. It was more like a few balls, as Mcloskey was deceived by a slower ball which he spooned to cover. Bugger. The big man looked good too, punching the low full toss the ball before straight back past the bowler.
It was then time for Winydhum nominated 'dangerman' Mazza to bring his pink grip to the crease to do battle. A quick short ball which he played manfully into the deck and he realised he was in a contest. He got the same ball the last ball of the following over and hooked for 4 (off the edge over the keeper's head), which showed the short stuff would not work against him. Not for long anyway- he managed to stick one into the air shortly after and was out, which left Winum in a bouyant mood- one of the dangerous O'Reilly brothers had been dismissed!
Not so long after it was the older O'Reilly on his way after a slippery edge from a late cut and a jag of a catch from the old keeper. Jimmy and Barney were left with the 'get 50 and we win' instructions from the departing batsman.
And indeed they did. a 147 run partnership all but broke the back of the Whyn dim team. Temporarily bouyed by the dismissal of the two defined dangermen, the middle order fired like an Ak 47 all about the over, leaving more than one of the onlooking ducks nervous for their safety. With 9 boundaries in 10 scoring shots at one point, Jimmy was at his century scoring best- giving them nawt to give them the impression they might take him out. 88 runs in boundaries speaks for itself really. Great going nig!
Barney was great in his support, getting to his weekly average, then doubling it with some dominating stroke play and planty of easy singles to turn the strike over. Magic in the middle order, and the Windium Shaman/KADAITJA man was no where to be seen.
While this was going on, Bemboka fielding machine, wizard, Enegizer Bunny and general motivational guru (Google Anthony Robbins), Dave Allen was doing his best to gather enough evidence to have one Wyn dum opening bowler thrown out of the game forever for an action worse that Maz's in the nets. Hard to time fast action snaps on a diggy camera eh, Sherlock? He did get some snaps of some pretty ordinary looking shots from the Bemboka batting wizards though:)
The fireworks concluded with 16 off 2 balls from Dinnie, 7 off 3 from Kamaldo and a solid 15 from the tall timber of Kenny T(close relation of Sax maestro Kanny G).
At 261, the boys could be forgiven for thinking they were set up better than the winudm changerooms. Forgiven indeed- it was not our greatest day out in the field- our bowlers were frustrated by our butter fingers as we dropped more than Motty's dropped his shorts in the last 6 weeks! Tim said that if his petrol prices dropped as much as our fielders, he'd be paying us to take it away! Best thing about the whole dropsie thing is that we still won! Catches can win them, but they certainly can also loose matches and we were good enough, despite our bowlers not being at their peak and the frightenly scary short boundaries.
Even scarier was the scrub over the bank to retrieve the ball- apparently Bega lost two of their C graders down there looking for a lost ball. Never found again...
As our frustration rose, so did the confidence of the Wyhudim (what sort of a town name is that anyway?), 'batsmen. So much so that they were keen to point out to the Bemboka fielders how good they were. Mcloskey pointed out that they couldn't hit the ball off the middle, Jimmy-the team's batting tutor was in fine form telling them how their technique could be improved. Corporal Cantankerous (KT) did his best to also tell them they were no good, but didn't go into technique, prefering character assination. You can get away with shit like that when you're 7feet tall and 124kg.
Despite some heads dipping due to our catching, no one was letting off- Mick bowled out 2-27 in another inspired spell. Donnie and Motty were quick and got a wicket each. KT bowled a bit up and down and had 23 catches dropped from his bowling (at last count) and Dunko almost gave them the game with his first over.
But then it was cometh the hour, cometh the man as the bloke they call McLoskey was called to the crease and tossed the ball. The man who is second only to Woolley in terms of Woollyness rubbed the pill a few times, tweaked his field and set about..... (To Be continued)
Bit like a mini series this blog sometimes- but I had to give yu something to read before I go to work;)
Bring on Saturday!
In a day that everything, it was the team with everything that went home for the day with a smile on their face from the Bush view Oval at Wundim on the weekend.
A spate of sledging, boundaries, amazing (not) fielding, centurions, 5 wicket hauls and the best clubhouse this side of the SCG all punctuated a warm breezy day in Wyhundim.
Winning the toss (as he does), Dunko quickly elected to bat, looking forward to throwing the bat around with city boy Mcloskey for a few overs. It was more like a few balls, as Mcloskey was deceived by a slower ball which he spooned to cover. Bugger. The big man looked good too, punching the low full toss the ball before straight back past the bowler.
It was then time for Winydhum nominated 'dangerman' Mazza to bring his pink grip to the crease to do battle. A quick short ball which he played manfully into the deck and he realised he was in a contest. He got the same ball the last ball of the following over and hooked for 4 (off the edge over the keeper's head), which showed the short stuff would not work against him. Not for long anyway- he managed to stick one into the air shortly after and was out, which left Winum in a bouyant mood- one of the dangerous O'Reilly brothers had been dismissed!
Not so long after it was the older O'Reilly on his way after a slippery edge from a late cut and a jag of a catch from the old keeper. Jimmy and Barney were left with the 'get 50 and we win' instructions from the departing batsman.
And indeed they did. a 147 run partnership all but broke the back of the Whyn dim team. Temporarily bouyed by the dismissal of the two defined dangermen, the middle order fired like an Ak 47 all about the over, leaving more than one of the onlooking ducks nervous for their safety. With 9 boundaries in 10 scoring shots at one point, Jimmy was at his century scoring best- giving them nawt to give them the impression they might take him out. 88 runs in boundaries speaks for itself really. Great going nig!
Barney was great in his support, getting to his weekly average, then doubling it with some dominating stroke play and planty of easy singles to turn the strike over. Magic in the middle order, and the Windium Shaman/KADAITJA man was no where to be seen.
While this was going on, Bemboka fielding machine, wizard, Enegizer Bunny and general motivational guru (Google Anthony Robbins), Dave Allen was doing his best to gather enough evidence to have one Wyn dum opening bowler thrown out of the game forever for an action worse that Maz's in the nets. Hard to time fast action snaps on a diggy camera eh, Sherlock? He did get some snaps of some pretty ordinary looking shots from the Bemboka batting wizards though:)
The fireworks concluded with 16 off 2 balls from Dinnie, 7 off 3 from Kamaldo and a solid 15 from the tall timber of Kenny T(close relation of Sax maestro Kanny G).
At 261, the boys could be forgiven for thinking they were set up better than the winudm changerooms. Forgiven indeed- it was not our greatest day out in the field- our bowlers were frustrated by our butter fingers as we dropped more than Motty's dropped his shorts in the last 6 weeks! Tim said that if his petrol prices dropped as much as our fielders, he'd be paying us to take it away! Best thing about the whole dropsie thing is that we still won! Catches can win them, but they certainly can also loose matches and we were good enough, despite our bowlers not being at their peak and the frightenly scary short boundaries.
Even scarier was the scrub over the bank to retrieve the ball- apparently Bega lost two of their C graders down there looking for a lost ball. Never found again...
As our frustration rose, so did the confidence of the Wyhudim (what sort of a town name is that anyway?), 'batsmen. So much so that they were keen to point out to the Bemboka fielders how good they were. Mcloskey pointed out that they couldn't hit the ball off the middle, Jimmy-the team's batting tutor was in fine form telling them how their technique could be improved. Corporal Cantankerous (KT) did his best to also tell them they were no good, but didn't go into technique, prefering character assination. You can get away with shit like that when you're 7feet tall and 124kg.
Despite some heads dipping due to our catching, no one was letting off- Mick bowled out 2-27 in another inspired spell. Donnie and Motty were quick and got a wicket each. KT bowled a bit up and down and had 23 catches dropped from his bowling (at last count) and Dunko almost gave them the game with his first over.
But then it was cometh the hour, cometh the man as the bloke they call McLoskey was called to the crease and tossed the ball. The man who is second only to Woolley in terms of Woollyness rubbed the pill a few times, tweaked his field and set about..... (To Be continued)
Bit like a mini series this blog sometimes- but I had to give yu something to read before I go to work;)
Bring on Saturday!
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