The day started as always with breakfast. Conducting a poll of the player, the pork sausage was proving quite popular - though a little early for me I must say. We boarded the bus at 8am for a 9:30am game, but we had trouble early with a rough start where our bus driver, Miklo, decided a tour around the school and every bush in the Western Cape was necessary. Once we finally arrived, a very rushed warm up commenced.
As the sun beamed down on Jacques Kallis Oval in the foreground of table mountain, THE Todd walked out to the road in the middle of the ground. Todd implemented the idea of tails never fails, and it prevailed. He sent us in on a brown but very promising deck for batting.
Sadly an early wicket fell which brought Lachie to meet Ben and the two batted superbly taking every opportunity with a bit of poor bowling and fielding. Then Ben dragged one back onto his stumps but surprisingly the bails didn't dislodge. However, two balls later, the bowler made sure of it. Michael was in much earlier than anticipated and batsmen both showed significant fight to settle the ship and we ended on 64 for 2 at drinks.
After drinks, Lachie was doing his best to get the Red Tsunami back on track with a number of long bombs over the boundary. Unfortunately he was caught by the keeper for 47 as he tried to bring up the milestone with one shot. Sadly, many wickets were falling around him. We evidently lost that session finishing on 121 for 6 after 34. The game ended very quickly after drinks with wickets dropping like flies. The Mighty Reds finished all out for 128 and had their work cut out for them in the field on an increasingly hot day.
As the Reds fired up marching onto the field behind their skipper, they were ready to take a few
wickets early with Brendan and Michael (opening the bowling for the first time in a game) but it wasn't the case. The Wynberg batsmen worked hard at the outset and was helped along the way with some runs from Sammy Sundries. The boys never gave up, making the Wynberg boys fight for every run after the first drinks break, but only a few wickets fell making it look ominous for the Red army. Nevertheless, the bowlers and fielders put in the hard yards. Tommy worked hard and pushed through discomfort to pick up a wicket, while Max claimed 2 wickets with some strong fielding by Ben.
Sadly, the Wynberg boys batted with great resistance and won the game only 3 wickets down. Despite the result, the Reds showed great determination and potential leading into our final game of the tour
which will be an absolute cracker. Almost as good as Jez's pre game pitch report - ask around; very funny.
Match report by Double B (Brad and Bruce)
Lachie after his gallant innings of 47 batting at No. 3
Barker trying to restrict the Wynberg Boys on the picturesque Jacques Kallis Oval.
The boys waiting for their lunch to be delivered while taking respite from the sun. It's a tough life...
It doesn't get much better looking than this.
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