BARGAIN BAT LICKS LOTHERSDALE

Jim Stead dramatically found 3 lost balls yesterday during another Warriors victory. This completely eclipsed his batting performance in which no-one can remember how many he scored.

Woodside won a marathon match in which over 300 runs were scored in the 20 over match.
Largely thanks to a mammoth innings of 51 by Gangas with a new bargain basement £8 bat, Woodside eventually scored 158 after a slow start. There were also quality innings by Baines, Ste Stead and Steve Dovenor.

There was some dog poo innings from Jim, Tom and the still cursed John Kenny who scored a mighty 1 run between them. Tom gets praise though, for bravely sacrificing his wicket (in a well rehearsed runout maneuver), for someone who could actually get some runs.

Lothersdale batted consistently, and scored runs frequently but were always struggling to stay in touch with the large Warriors score. Some quality bowling from Jim and Baines limited the lothers' runs even while Tom was trying to give away runs with more comedy keeping.

With 6 overs left and Lothersdale needing 56 runs, the warriors were feeling confident, until they realised Tom and comedy Kunz were still to bowl 2 overs a piece.

Kunz started well but the pressure of 3 decent balls eventually made him crack and then proceeded to bowl his usual bollocks for the rest of his over. Like last week , his second over wasn't that bad.

Tom, on the other hand is only a wicket keeper because he bowls like epileptic in an earthquake with roller-boots on. Since we were a man down, he had to bowl, and was promptly tonked around the ground by amateurish tale-end batsmen smiling at the welcome boost to their averages courtesy of the gayest dolly-drops seen this side of the Wizard of Oz.

The Warriors looked like losing for a short while but Baines steadied the ship at the other end. Tom, inspired by Mr Baines, and the ring of steel that was the fielders, holding hands on the boudary, managed to scrape through another crappy over with the last remaining shreds of his dignity still in tact. WELL DONE TOM!

Woodside eventually won with a reasonable 11 run margin.