Another bad day at the office

by Rick Johansen

Just another day at Stoke Gifford Cricket Club as both teams plunged to predictable defeats.

The firsts ‘entertained’ St Mary Redcliffe and batted first.
‘Five Bellies’ Dunt failed yet again as did almost everyone else, apart from foulmouthed gobshite Bowers who slogged his way to 37, Matt Semple who got 20-odd, Martin Black and Nigel who bludgeoned 16.
Highlights were Martin falling over and grabbing a single when, if he’d stayed on his feet he’d have sailed through for an easy three and Nigel’s civil partner Henry Winterman who charged the 12 year old opposition spin bowler and was stumped by four yards.
At least the village recovered to 142 after at one stage being 39-5 off 24 overs but nine successive runless and strokeless overs did not help their cause and they set the opposition a mere 143 to win.
The visitors struggled home by 10 wickets with just 24 overs to spare.
Dunt, after lecturing his fielders for spilling catches last week, managed to drop a dolly as did the luckless Lamber.
Gorgeous ginger bombshell Guy Long was unable to play because his girlfriend told him he had to help her move from her flat.
Meanwhile, the seconds stormed to an emphatic defeat at Abbots Leigh where at least one Long, the red-faced one, turned up and scored 72 runs.  The lesser spotted Semple lashed 32 and Calum ‘call me May’ Meaney made a brilliant two runs which he insisted should have been four as the ball crossed the boundary rope but no one else saw it.  He also managed two simple catches.
Jack Burton found his natural level with a spectacular 14.

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