DID THEY JUMP? OR WERE THEY PUSHED?

Woodside gratefully accepted a bow wrapped victory from Menston last night in perhaps the most exciting victory in years, maybe ever.

The match had so much incident, we may need a team of infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters to log all the action.

It started off with a fine knock from JK who struggled through Tom's plodding innings to leave the field undefeated. Tom on the other hand slowly crafted reasonable enough knock ( too fast for nurdling, too slow for tonking), which actually had BOUNDARIES, YES BOUNDARIES. Maybe 3 or 4 of the ultra rare beauties! It was like spotting a flock of dodo's. Being chased by a unicorn on a griffon, with Lord Lucan doing a dance nearby. Like a fairy story.

The rest of the batting burbled along well enough to leave Menston with a reasonable enough 128 (from 18 overs), to chase.

They found this total easy to follow because of the wonderful JWSTEAD scoreboard.

Menston's batting rate soon began to climb despite a couple of decent overs from Ste Stead. The main problem was the dodgy fielding from the wall side of the ground, Eddie's longest over of all time and JK trying to bowl on a 170 yard pitch.

Before we knew it, Menston needed 8 runs from 5 overs with 4 wickets left. They thought it was all over, well it wasnt now.

The fight back began with Nick's overs, then Baines' cooly bowled overs featuring a spectacular ultra high catch from wedding ring free Nick which caused minor panic in their team. Another runout, a batter played on, then Jim fell down a mole hole with great dignity and poise.

Suddenly, they still needed only 8 but had only one wicket left... Up to the crease stepped legendary bowler Jim Stead (now mole free) who followed Baines' wicket maiden, with one of his own...

After 4 balls right in the block-hole, the batsmen knocked one to fielder Baines', one batsmen set off, one didn't, Baines through the ball to Jim ( didn't want to risk throwing it to Tom no doubt), who'calmly' turned, and destroyed the wickets.

From 8 runs from 5 overs with 4 wickets left, to 8 runs needed ALL OUT.