Well done to Schalk van Vuuren, Man of the Match.
Great game - a super effort boys.
Here is Mal Spiro's report:
This was the "big day of sport" - The decider in the one day series at Lords, England taking on the might of the Hawaii (and the rest of the USA) in the Rugby and the footballers had the tricky task of Israel at Wembley.
The biggest contest of course was taking place in the surrounds of Bushy Park as the Plums were in town.
Once again Arse's tactic of getting everyone to the ground early worked perfectly as the first battle of the day took place in the bar. The remote control was doing over time where India were struggling at 8 wickets down whereas New Zealand were about to do the Haka (apologies to Shandy if this is mis-spelt). Boredom soon set in as New Zealand were making Tiramisu out of the Italians so we settled in to the cricket for a while.
After a truly motivating huddle of "let's not lose" Crossbats were fielding. With the Plums openers looking intent on driving Frank and Monica to all part it wasn't long until class showed.
Motivated by the constant reminders to "do it for Margaret" Frank took his scalpel and removed the Plumbs opener.
Monica was also soon in the wickets but for other reasons. His bowling was to say the least wayward and after one beamer the Plumbs skipper saying under his breath "thanks for the apology" ignored by the great grunter. What was to follow was a great set up. The 2nd beamer nearly took batsman's throat out and deflected nicely of his voice box for 4 leg byes.
This infuriated the battle scared skipper as for the 2nd time - No apology. Words were exchanged and Clive's defence of "well, I'm not that fast" probably influence what was to come next ball.
Perfect yorker on his legs - Out, gone. LBW - Pad's was quick to console the batsman (to save future fixtures and possibly our only guaranteed win of the season) and span the line that Clive did infact apologise for the beamers but he "didn't hear him" - This was fiercely denied by Clive!!!
Charlie and Strops quickly mopped up leaving a tricky target of 80. This was 30 more than Arse waned to chase. Crossbats were not flushed with batting talent.
We decided on a straight turnaround. Arse's worries were quickly justified when in no time wickets were falling. Enter Mupe to save the day with 41 - This was our only double figure scorer and with his superb catch in the deep earlier in the day this capped a good day for Mr Dependable.
In the end on paper it was a comfortable 6 wickets win.
Surreally tea was taken after the game and then with thoughts of football and avoiding aging Police fans at Twickenham the day was at an end.
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