Second team slaughtered at Barrow Gurney

The return to the team of Mark ‘Cleft Foot’ Stephens and Fraser Moron made little difference to the ailing Gifford second team when they lost by eight wickets at Barrow Gurney.

Electing to bat, the Village were bowled out for a miserable 78 with only the lesser talented Semple looking up for the challenge with 13 runs.

Stephens and Moron predictably went for ducks, as did self-styled superstar Calum Meaney May-Morph.

Bone idle drunken student, Nigel Johnson, dropped from the first team after a string of piss poor performances, scratched his way to nine runs before being bowled.

With such a small target to bowl at, it was imperative the village kept the run rate down.   Sadly, Stephens creaked his way up to open the bowling at one end and with Harry Black spraying the ball all over the shop at the other, the home team were soon strolling to victory.

Things improved a lot when Stephens and Black were replaced by young Taff and Lewis Jefferies but the damage had long been done by then.

There were plenty of smiles in the village team at the end of the game as the lads headed for an extra early start in the Beaufort Arms.

John Black is 59.