Well, after around seven months of inactivity (with the exception of a couple of curries and a net session), the season got under way last night against the Orthopaedic.
Unfortunately - or fortunately, depending on your point of view - I didn't make the game (it's a long story, but essentially it boils down to the fact that I can't use a fax machine). And I'm not being unduly modest when I say that I'm pretty sure my presence would have had no impact on the result. Having said that, our team was without several other key players, including the likes of star batsmen Brian Cole and Carl Dulson and Brian's ever-reliable father, Gareth.
On an extremely windy evening and with the usual early-season uneven bounce of the Orthopaedic wicket, we struggled to 65-odd all out. According to my sources, we only managed a couple of boundaries in our innings - courtesy of our two big hitters, skipper Justin Evans and the mercurial Steve Daulby.
In reply, we bowled well but the total was 25 runs short and the Orthopaedic made it with overs to spare and eight wickets in hand. Jamal Penrose, who opened the bowling with Steve, and Justin took the wickets. Justin's was (and I quote from Justin here) 'a beautiful piece of leg spin bowling'.
Next week we play BT at Oswestry School on Tuesday night. Hopefully we'll kick-start our season with victory...
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