Injured Heroes Rescue Bedminster's Bazzling Batters

Having turned up at a stunning Pavilion at the new Frys sports facility to play West Utd things looked promising, that was until they clobbered skipper Tryfonos for a £20 key deposit on entry.

Whilst waiting for the key, Tryfonos overheard a conversation between a rather proud receptionist and a new gym member who was being told that he could use the golf course whilst the cricketers were not playing,but thought nothing of this at the time .......

Some 15 minutes later when approaching what resembled the square it was the earlier overheard conversation that sprung to mind when a disgusted Tryfonos found himself removing golf flags from gully and mid off in order to get started.
(Although it was rumoured the flags were an improvement on Mcormack )

Worse yet at 1:15pm there was still no boundaries marked, stumps in the ground or opposition, so Tryfonos rightly claimed the toss and decided to bowl on what was clearly a horrendous deck.

So with the opposition finally arriving and a late start agreed the bowlers set about their work.

Injured 1st teamer George Russel immediately ripping through the West top order Claiming 5 wickets for not a lot with great support from Louis Mason who picked up 2 and John House,Mark Barnes and part timer Reece Johns who all finished with 1 a piece in a performance that saw H Newman finish wicketless yet again.

With Skipper Tryfonos leaving the field injured it was the out of nick Vikash Patel who took the reigns and immediately set the tone by attempting to take what would have been a world class catch at mid wicket, he then applied his tactical genius positioning the 7ft tall giant sub fielder Mawer in just the right place to take a catch that would have sailed over the rest of the team. Unfortunately bean pole Mawer was not as able when it came to a dolly at his ankles which he spilled a few overs later , but never the less Bedminster seemed happy coming off for tea with West 144 all out.

So needing a little over 3 an over Barnes and Roche set about Bazzling the ball for at least 10 overs before Barnes put himself and the rest of the batsmen out of their misery & missed a straight one.

Belcher in next to speed things up was quickly on his way too having been horribly skewered by Roache in a "yes no drat" moment and both Rothero and Johns hung around without much troubling of the scorers apart from to mark the dots, so in 25 overs the above batsman had crawled to a painful 50 runs for the loss of 5 wickets, so it was clear that fill in skipper Patel had to make things happen, and that he did with a solid 24 allowing Bedminster a glimmer of hope whilst Rothero binned off his wicket in typical vegan fashion.
For a moment with the disabled Tryfonos and revived Patel at the crease things seamed positive but this did not last long,
Patel holed out in poor fashion , allowing self proclaimed batting superstar Mason to fall on his sword next getting a 10 ball duck that was beyond village.
With Tryfonos dug in at one end and the injured Russel forced to bat things looked bleak to say the least at 80-8 with only 9 overs remaining but the pair somehow managed to consolidate, accumulating 4 an over in near dark conditions without the use of screens in what must be described as a scene that resembled Armageddon.
With 2 overs left Tryfonos was clean bowled and the game was all but lost bringing in young H Newman who was to be polite not known for his achievements with the bat, but the mere site of Newman must have sparked Russel into action who decided to smash the ball to all parts leaving himself only 2 to win with 2 balls left.......
Russel dispatched the ball back over the bowlers head for four with a ball to spare siting eating his carrots as the reason for his unbelievable feat in actually picking up the ball in the horrendous dark wet conditions.

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