Ramblers Disaster

Hi all,

One of my favourite things to do in Summer is to play cricket for the Coromandel Valley Ramblers Cricket Club, something I have been doing now for 33 seasons.

This season I am Captain of the section 2 side.

Saturday was our first game of the season. I lost the toss and we were sent into bat. After our 40 overs we had knocked up 199 runs in what was a pretty good effort. Most batsmen got some good practice out in the middle which will hold us in good stead for later on.

We went out into the field with confidence and enthusiasm and the wickets started to fall regularly. After 20 overs the home side were 8/91. We had an unbeatable hold on the game or did we. The North Haven Captain smashed our attack all over the park to make a centuryand to guide them to a 2 wicket victory.

In the end we just weren't consistent enough with the ball and the result from a certain win to a soul destroying loss. Not the ending I felt we deserved or expected.

This leaves us with plenty of work to do in game 2 next week and I will expect we have all learnt a big lesson from this game. It certainly aint over til its over!!!!!!

Until next time


Steve Davenport