evertonfan
Chairman of Selectors
The Cost of Victory
May 13th 2007 - Well that has to be the strangest 5 wicket haul ever. We skittled Kent out well before lunch and yet again we won by an innings. The odd thing was that Kent didn't try to play for a draw and instead they came out hell-bent on slogging the absolute crap out of our bowling. To some extent it worked as I conceded 85 runs in my 11 overs. On the plus side, I took 5 wickets which give me 9 in total for the match. I may have been expensive but who cares? We won and I got 5 wickets.
My first wicket was just a simple delivery on middle stump which could have and probably should have been clipped away for four but Jaarsveld decided that he wanted to hit me over cow corner. He failed.
The second one was quite simply, a slog gone wrong. Justin Kemp tried to hit me out of Old Trafford but he could only succeed in picking out Dom on the boundary.
The third was an almost identical dismissal as this time it was Rob Key's turn to hole out in the deep with Murali taking a solid catch.
And yet again in another case of identical symmetry, Tyrone Henderson decided to give Murali some catching practice in the deep.
You've pretty much guessed how the 5th one falls right? Smithy manages to take hold of a steepling catch offered to him by Rob Ferley.
It was unbelievable. Four of my five wickets were exact carbon copies of each other as Kent self-destructed. I woke up this morning expecting a hard days work but what I get now is the rest of the day off after a quite remarkable Kent batting display.
Quite rightly it was Stewy who got the MOM award after his superb double hundred give us a commanding first innings total.
Forget the runs conceded, it's the wickets column that I enjoy reading.
May 13th 2007 - Well that has to be the strangest 5 wicket haul ever. We skittled Kent out well before lunch and yet again we won by an innings. The odd thing was that Kent didn't try to play for a draw and instead they came out hell-bent on slogging the absolute crap out of our bowling. To some extent it worked as I conceded 85 runs in my 11 overs. On the plus side, I took 5 wickets which give me 9 in total for the match. I may have been expensive but who cares? We won and I got 5 wickets.
My first wicket was just a simple delivery on middle stump which could have and probably should have been clipped away for four but Jaarsveld decided that he wanted to hit me over cow corner. He failed.
The second one was quite simply, a slog gone wrong. Justin Kemp tried to hit me out of Old Trafford but he could only succeed in picking out Dom on the boundary.
The third was an almost identical dismissal as this time it was Rob Key's turn to hole out in the deep with Murali taking a solid catch.
And yet again in another case of identical symmetry, Tyrone Henderson decided to give Murali some catching practice in the deep.
You've pretty much guessed how the 5th one falls right? Smithy manages to take hold of a steepling catch offered to him by Rob Ferley.
It was unbelievable. Four of my five wickets were exact carbon copies of each other as Kent self-destructed. I woke up this morning expecting a hard days work but what I get now is the rest of the day off after a quite remarkable Kent batting display.
Quite rightly it was Stewy who got the MOM award after his superb double hundred give us a commanding first innings total.
Forget the runs conceded, it's the wickets column that I enjoy reading.
