It was a brilliant Saturday.
We bowled them out for 146 in 31 overs.
We were coasting,
then had a collaspe. I was in at the death.
We needed three or
four more runs in like 7 overs 9 down, and we ran two byes.
Their skipper cried out that
there was one short, which there wasn't and he duely got told off by the
umpires.
We then lost our last
wicket (not me, I was standing at non strikers end) and thus proceeded to
tie the game.
The other bunch of wank*rs
starting shouting and crying with joy and we were obviously gutted. We
came off and were mopping around until somebody said
"god damn it if
only we had run those two byes correctly. That short run cost
us the game."
At which I said
"what short run ? There wasn't one."
So off I trot to the
scorers to see if they had marked 1 or 2 runs. They had marked 1.
So I was like "it was two runs, neither of the umpires called a short run,
it was their cheating captain" (bunch of cheating bar-stewards
they were)
At which point the
scorers called over the umpires, and there my friends it descended into some
typically pakistani vs sri lankan fight, they were going mad, I though it was
going to kick off. We were just grinning
There
were phone calls to I don't know who, recounts of score books etc etc and after
15mins of waiting around and almost getting my head kicked in, the umpires awarded us the game
:-))
(in actual fact the
scorers had also missed a no ball in the last but one over, so
we had scored two more than them)
So we go mad, the
cheating moaners F*ck off straight away without waiting for the presentation,
one of them had even pinched the cup but their skipper bought it back to us!
Most amusing.
you'd have to have been there to believe it. I'd never seen anything like
it...... In fact you may remember last year I got verbally
abused on the pitch for calling a no ball when the bowler bowled our batsman, well
it was the same team :-)) Great satisfaction, especially as they had won the
cup in 2004 and 2005 :-))))))))
Having said that, not
entirely sure one can change the result of a game after it’s
concluded can you?
Who cares its just nice to
get one over a sour bunch of cheating bar-stewards, who gave it loads
all day, appealing every time the ball threatened to even touch the bat,
shouting out when the ball was in the air and the wicket keeper was underneath
it (he dropped it) ....
Legg turned in his
usual performace, 6.3 - 2 -15 -
2
First spell of five overs
went for 5, bowled two crap overs, followed by three good ones, then came
back to wipe out their tail.... inc "sending" their
last batsman back, their number 8. He'd given me some swamp fever in
my sixth over hitting me onto the footy pitch straight back over my head, good
shot to be fair, but he couldn't resist giving me some jip.
So in the next over
when I pinged his off stump back and he was staring at the wicket
(astroturf pitch, played true) amazed he could have been bowled by a white boy,
I gave him the heave ho.
Could and would
have been ruder but didn't really want to start anything
there and then, if I had known how it was going to
finish........ Nevermind. He was a real f*cking p*ick to be
honest..... .-))
Anyways, Champion of Switzerland, not bad :-)))