Left_Hander
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Great story LH
It's good to see you writing some of your own stuff after providing a lot of support for other people
Unfortunately, my prediction is that Mental Blank will be lucky to get away with more than a bottom of the table finish.
Nice work
Woah! Cricket_60 is posting in my thread. What an honour! Please come back, this is like two big comebacks in a few days. Duff and yourself!
Anyway thanks for the comment. I find Battrick stories easier because I don't actually have to play the games myself.
A Devasting loss in FC
16/10/07
The pitch was green. We were playing away to Australian Wannabees. Suprisngly the home side won the toss and elected to bat on the green pitch and it seemed to pay off.
Mental Blanks' bowlers were run ragged. They had 155 overs in the field. Mcleod bowled 36 of them and got figures of 2/141. Shackell was the stand-out with 3 wickets off his 33 overs. Trotman topped scored for the home side with 163 off 217 delievers. Australian Wannabees were bowled out for a huge 573.
Trotman scores another run in his knock of 163Mental Blank were at a stable position of 2/191 but then some great bowling by the Wannabees made Mental Blank's batting look woeful. Lampard top-scored with 107 then Richardson with 58 and then Dodds with 38. The next highest was Mr E. Xtras with 18 to his name. Mental Blank were bowled out for 237 and were asked to bat again.
It was all down hill from there for the away side. Richarson was the highest scorer with 55. Lampard was next with 26. We just couldn't put a fight as we were bowled out for 182 meaning the Australian Wannabees won by an innings and 54 runs.
"I am gutted. I thought we would draw that game but we clearly didn't have enough batting strength to do so. We must improve!"
My reaction after the game - Dissapointed.
1 Run Victory Means Fans Go Mental!
19/10/07
We had a home OD game today. The opposition was The New Boonies and I told the boys to take it easy. Boy how did that nearly backfire.
We won the toss and elected to bat first on the flattest of pitches and it worked a treat. We only lost one wicket throught the whole innings - being Nelson Dunn getting out on 133. Richardson (149*) who broke the highest score record by Dunn made a couple of weeks back bettered it today, and Lampard (55*) were the not out batsmen. Mental Blank finishied on 1/345.
Richardson works a single away during his knock of 149*It was going great guns for Mental Blank. We had the away side at 2/95 and looked in control though Sinclair and Mpho had something to say about that. They scored 83* and 35* respectively to near get there side over the line but they fell short by ONE RUN!. Yes you got it. The New Boonies ended their 50 Overs on 5/344 and Mental Blank won by 1 run!
"That was a great effort. I thought we would win that one for sure after the way we batted but they (The New Boonies) dig in deep and full credit to them for that. Our fans should be happy with that victory. *Looks at fan pulling off a chair in excitement. I run over to him*. Stop that please! We just paid to put that in! *Fan stops pulling on chair*"
My reaction - and a fan's reaction after a nailbiting 1 run win yesterday.
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which is the main worrying factor to me. 
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