Gifford lose mid week game to Hambrook

A large crowd assembled at the Village tonight for the T20 cricket slog against Hambrook, captained by that well known traitor and hapless net minder Ryan ‘Moaty’ Edwards.

Hambrook batted first and just as it seemed the visitors were gaining the upper hand, Moaty was clean bowled by a struggling Chucker Lamb, weighed down by an oversized liver thanks to an arduous weekend wallowing in the mud at the Pilton Music Festival.

Dunty and his son Five Bellies were among the wickets, as was Joe Black.  Morph was desperately unlucky to drop an extremely difficult catch, described by his team mates as ‘a fucking dolly’ but foul-mouthed gobshite millionaire businessman Bowers somehow managed to cling on to three catches.

There was high comedy towards the end of the Hambrook innings when Five Bellies Dunt spilled a straightforward catch and the ball ended up in front of bone idle layabout student Nige, who for a bit of fun threw the ball in limp-wristed fashion to the far end, accidentally breaking the stumps and running out the opposition batsman.

With only 144 to chase down, Matt Semple ran up the innings top score of 34.  Sadly, those at the other end were not quite supportive.

Guy Long managed to run himself out and the wickets tumbled dramatically.

Dunt senior scraped a miserable seven and Morph strode to the wicket.

After carefully blocking a few gentle full tosses, Morph unaccountably opened his shoulders and for the first time in his life smashed the ball over the covers for an unlikely boundary.

Having accumulated the second top score of eight runs, Morph then dealt with the medium pace bowler in the only way he knows, bowled all over the place as soon as he pitched the ball up.

The large crowd had left long before the Village tumbled to an inevitable defeat having got nowhere near the Hambrook score.

Man of the match – Calum Meaney May Morph.