Training Log Archive: Big Ev

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20:15/25:52

Another good win, three in a row now, but only the last two count towards season points.

We were playing a team called the Pakistani Express. They were kitted out in Pakistan One-Day uniforms – they looked the business.

We batted first and got 73. Partnerships; 9, 21, 22, 21. I closed again (seems to be my place – I’m good with it).
Their bowling was ok, they were all medium pace swing bowlers, quite a few wides contributed to our total. My partnership was on track for 26+ but I got run out on the last ball.

73 didn’t feel like it would be enough, but overall we did a good job and they only managed about 40 odd. It could have been even better as we fluffed so many chances! My first over went for about 9 with no wickets but four easy chances that all should have been taken. Two drop catches and two simple run outs went begging. One was on me, the batter hit it straight back to me and somehow I missed the stumps. It was weird, for about the first 3 overs we were missing everything! But then we got it together. We created that many chances that the missed ones didn’t really matter much in the end.