Metalfold Industries Bloomfield Premier 3 vs Marist P3
Saturday 25th of November at Ongley Park 5
Are these write ups worth the time? I’m not sure, but they have always been done so who am I to stop them? My memory is isn’t great at the best of times but I’ll see if I can dredge up the details of our last 40 over clash before Christmas.
Captain Trout won the toss and decided to have a bowl. It was a pretty windy day and there was a good chance of rain later in the afternoon. Benjamin and Gaz opened the bowling, and it was soon clear that if you had the energy to bowl into the wind you would be rewarded with swing. That swing resulted in Ben bowling a leg side delivery that almost made its way past the diving Lazerjet behind the stumps. This isn’t an unusual occurrence. The unusual part was that Yash Dixit thought that the ball had past the keeper so set off for a run. Lazer removed the bails and Marist had lost their first wicket. Their 2nd and 3rd followed not long after and Ben trapped Nanda Kumar and Akashdeep Beniwal in front, LBW, leaving Marist in trouble at 3 for 20. Chicken replaced Ben bowling into the wind and found plenty of swing and wides. Eventually he found his line and picked up the wicket of Rudi van Heerden, who tried hitting over Ben at point but didn’t quite get enough of it. With Marist floundering at 32 for 4 Seth Tavendale joined the very solid looking Sujay Prabakar at the crease to attempt a resurrection. Gaz who at this point had bowled 5 overs for only 8 runs was replaced by trout. Both batsmen started to rotate the strike and then put away the bad balls. At drinks Marist had made a good recovery and were around 70odd for 4? (Thanks PlayHQ) Kurtis and Sukh opened up after drinks but it took another 10 overs before Kurtis was able to pick up the important wicket of Seth Tavendale, bowled for 43. While Sujay continued to play well the wickets around him continued to fall and Marist scraped through to 146 for 9. Sujay finishing with a chanceless 64*
Jase and Bish opened the batting for us once again. Jase’s tough run continued going out caught for 1. Chicken went into see if he could get an up-close view of Bish’s batting. If he did it wasn’t for long as he was sent packing for a duck. Bish, under selection pressure for a run of low scores answered his critics with a solid looking 49. Trout, who has been consistently threatening to score runs gave a little preview of what might one day be before he was bowled by Akashdeep Beniwal for what was a valuable 33. Randy decided to steady things up a bit and just knocked the ball around while wickets fell at the other end. The damage had been done however and Bloomfield hit the target in the 28th over with 4 wickets remaining.
It is worth noting that the biggest fine in Bloomfield history was issued to Kurtis during this match. After a Marist batsmen hit the ball straight up in the air, the call came from Lazerjet that the catch was his. Kurtis, who was obviously having flashbacks from a game in Dannevirke a few years ago decided to run in from square leg to take the catch. Lazerjet was directly under the ball and with the gloves on, he re-asserted his dominance over the potential catch. Upon hearing another crazed call of “MINE” and the thundering of feet he decided some things just weren’t worth dying over. Kurtis flew in to take the catch he so desperately wanted only to have the ball bobble out of his hands, back into the air. With one final chance to redeem himself, he dove, with glory in his eyes he dove and as the ball left his fingertips for the final time that glory faded and was replaced with both mental and physical anguish as he landed upon the stumps. One can only imagine Kurtis’s thoughts as he lay there sprawled amongst the wickets but it’s unlikely to be about the record 7x maximum fine that will live in Bloomers folklore.
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