Club friendly day

Our winter season starts next weekend. So today, our club had a "friendly", an informal day where all the different grades turned up (including some juniors), got randomly allocated into separate teams and beat the snot out of each other.

Unfortunately, I turned up late after the first round had already finished. I was informed the teams were already allocated and there was no room for me, dangit! 36 players turned up so they created four 9-player teams and set up a round robin competition. Each team played each other - in each match, they had 9 over innings where every player bowled 1 over, including the wicketkeeper. I disconsolately decided to hang around and at least watch one game.

I must admit, it was exciting and enjoyable stuff as the first team scored 97 runs in 9 overs. In a nailbiting chase, the chasing team looked to have them pegged only to fall away in the last over, falling 10 short. As I was preparing to go home, I was informed that one guy had been injured and they needed me to play. I restrained myself from air punching out of respect for the injured guy.

Our team batted first. The openers were devastating, smashing fours and sixes like nobody's business. The first 3 overs went for around 40 runs. It was Twenty20 on steroids. Towards the end of the innings (eg - a few overs later), I came in at #6. First ball, medium pace, inswing. I hate inswing. I clumsily defended. Okay, that's enough to get my eye in. Time to tonk. Next ball, similar inswinger. Big swing. Bails went flying. Second ball duck. After returning to the clubhouse, two guys commented it was a "solid duck". I have no idea what that means.

So that was my triumphant return from injury to club cricket. A duck. But at least it was a solid duck. Out in the field, I came in to bowl my over at the 7 over mark. So a couple of overs away from the end of the innings. Plenty of wickets in hand. Shortened boundaries. A required run-rate of 10. Not the friendliest environment for a flighty legspinner.

First ball, a bit flat and a bit short, of course. Pulled to deep mid-wicket for a single. Second ball, the batsman charged, played over it, wicketkeeper fumbled the ball, batsman got back into his crease! I hate missed stumpings. It's hard enough getting it past the bat. Next ball, tried the quicker arm ball, slipped down the leg side, glanced for 3. The rest of the over went for singles. 7 runs for 0 wickets - under par so not too bad. Would really have liked that one wicket though.

Our team made the final so a bonus game to play. Sweet! Batting first, our openers came out hard once again, reaching 50 after 4 overs. I was pushed down the order to #8 (in a 9 player side, mind you). Obviously my solid duck had impressed the captain. I didn't get to bat as we made it to 98 with wickets to spare in our 9 overs. Impressive stuff though I really thought we'd crack the 100 after breaching 50 at the 4 over mark.

The chasing side started solidly. One of our spinners came on in the 4th over and was hit for three consecutive sixes. I could feel nervous adrenaline growing with each over as I knew sooner or later, I'd have to bowl my over. Preferably sooner - not a big fan of death bowling. By the time I came on to bowl, they needed 30 runs off 3 overs. Considering they were going at over 11 per over, it was very doable. I tried to shrug off the nervous tension, loosen the shoulders. I read some legspinner somewhere say he always tried to be "as loose as a goose" before bowling. Having seen the results when I bowled tense, "loosey goosey" has been my mantra ever since.

First ball, finally, not short and flat. A hint of flight, the batsman charged, played over it, this time the wicketkeeper swallowed it up and whipped off the bails with the batsman several metres out of his crease. A new batsman comes in. Next ball, almost a carbon copy. Well flighted, he charges, plays over it, another stumping! On a hattrick, that's never happened before! Then the square leg umpire pipes up, "That's a no-ball" What, is this a joke?! He explains that the keeper caught the ball in front of the stumps so he can't give it out. My own personal Braddyline! To add insult to injury, the no-ball meant the next ball is a free hit.

I throw the next ball up, give it plenty of air. The batsman starts to advance, hesitates (probably thinking about the two consecutive stumpings, one including him), retreats back to his crease, attempts to dab it to third man, misses. The ball goes through the keeper's hands and the batsmen run a bye. I find myself earnestly hoping this isn't the wicketkeeper for our club side this winter.

The batsman now on strike uses his feet well against me and gets to the next ball on the full, sends it to deep mid-wicket for two. I hate bowling to twinkle toed batsmen. Bowling to bad batsmen, I can look like Shane Warne. Lead-foot tailenders either stay rooted to the crease or charge injudiciously and get stumped. But when I bowl to good batsmen, suddenly I look like Bryce McGain. There's absolutely no margin for error for a flighty legspinner - the full balls are turned into full tosses, they rock back for the short balls and have all the time in the world to send it whereever they like.

So the rest of my over went for several twos - my figures at the end of the over were 1 for 8. Would've loved 2 for 8 but these things happen (just seem to happen to me a lot). Considering the required run rate was 10 per over, not too bad. They ended up falling about 16 runs short and we won the final. Prize - two cartons of beer for the winning side. At first I thought it was two cartons per person but was quickly informed it was two cartons for the whole team.

Reflecting on the day afterwards, it actually worked out quite well. My captain has this disconcerting habit of commenting on my batting rather than bowling after net sessions. My goal since the start of last winter was to get him thinking of me as a legspinner first, tailend batsman second. Today, I batted crap but bowled reasonably well. So hopefully it will continue to shape a picture in the captain's head. Maybe I'll need to bat extra crappy in the first few matches just to lock that image in. Shouldn't be that hard the way I batted today.

Posted by JC on Sun 26 Apr

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