A Win For Steamboat

The Warriors played Hartlington last night with black arm bands and a minutes silence for team-mate John Morris who sadly died last week.

Strangely, the Woodies decided to bat and even more strangely, decided to put King Nurdlers Tom and Baines (pictured), in. Although both had a decent knock, both obviously thought they were playing a 5 day test. In fact Tom's figures (33 n.o.), would have been appallingly slow (off 9 overs) had he not nicked 3 lucky fours off the last over with his funny spinning batting style. So he just got away with it then.

Following this 'steady' opening, the Warriors failed to capitalize having Tim, Gary and Kunz out for about tuppence ha'penny each.

Highlight of the batting was Jim 'what's the Opposite Of Nurdler' Stead, whose 7 ball, blink of an eye innings yielded 3 sixes and 19 runs in total. Tom and Baines should take note, proper batsmen probably shouldn't.

The innings was wrapped by another decent 20ish from Bryan well backed up from ringer Rick, the Woodies finished on 121 off 18 overs.

The Woodies bowling was consistent(ish) with nearly everyone getting a wicket (Jim, Ste, Baines, Tim, Rick and Bryan got 2), Rick's being decent considering he hasn't bowled since 2003. The only let downs were Captain's (pictured above), shoddy as hell, back to usual, more wides than a buffet in Vegas and Gary's mildly wayward 'mixed bag'.

In the end, the Warriors won by 10 despite Paxy's fielding and Ste's drops.