Morden 2nd XI vs Englefield Green 2nd XI (Away) Won

Morden Corinthians lost toss and were put in to bat. MCCC 133 all out. Englefield Green 32 all out. MCCC won by 101 runs. Nadika 65; Pinkney 4 for 12; Watt 3 for 12.


It promised to be a wet day – although the forecast was wrong. Equally wrong was the forecast that MCCC were in trouble at 37 for 4 and 53 for 6. “Big Nads” came to the rescue with a well constructed 65. We seemed to make batting look difficult and with more ducks on the scorecard than on the local pond – although as the teams “keeper / scorer” who am I to comment?

Simon and Mark went early without troubling the scorer and then Jason and Pal dug in. Quite literally. There was more movement between the trenches in 1914. As they doggedly turned threes into twos and twos in singles the score slowly edged closer to something still unrespectable. Nads then went through more partners than Aza on a Saturday night as we limped to 133 all out.

Spirits were lifted by the usual Englefield excellent teas as we prepared for an ominously short second half.

The first surprise of the day was the announced opening pairing of Mega-Watt and the Pinkney. The second was an honest batsman who walked after tickling one through to the keeper with Englefield on 1-7.

With spirits soaring Mega struck again with an LBW and the Pinkney opened his account with a catch to Jason. 3-8; now the chatter began and hope was restored. Batsman 4 was grabbed by the Nads (never a pleasant experience) to give GP his second of the day (4-9). This soon became 5-9 as the unstoppable power of the Wattage clean bowled the next crease occupant. Then defensive play was only thwarted by GP after Mark “Silver-Fox” clung onto a skyer. A day of surprises was topped surely by a caught and bowled by Pinkney to leave EG on 7-15.

The tired and elated opening pair were switched to Dan and Pal with the latter quickly reducing the opponents to 9-29 with a fine catch by Dan. Himself then finding the edge for the last two with a catch to Aza (lets hope not his only one of the evening) and finally “S” Brown to seal the day.

Reeling from the unlikely outcome and good fortune – the team, I presume, all stopped off on the way home to buy the rollover lottery tickets.

Batting: Nadeeka "big nads" Victor

Bowling: Graham "scoreboard" Pinkney

Moment: Graham's C&B - never seen the man jump like that in my life.