Braywood (A) – 24.7.11

Braywood 210-9
Zia 5-45, Withers 2-30

RUASCC 121-8
Baker 43, Koslicki 21

Match drawn

Look, I’m going to keep this fairly brief. We’ve seen all this before and there’s only so many times you can write the same match report.

Braywood bat first… opener scores 83… Zia takes five wickets… everyone else doesn’t… dropped catches… 46 overs on a hot day… Braywood 210-9.

Batting collapse! Innocuous bowling… Eagle straight full toss… 34-5… Recovery! Baker caught when looking well set on 43… Pensioner Ken Stewart playing anti-cricket… RUASCC 121-8. Match drawn.

You get the gist. Now for the trivia:

* The first two overs (bowled by Koslicki and Waqar) both followed exactly the same sequence: five dot balls followed by a six. Not seen that before.

* RUASCC’s bacon was saved by a 53-run sixth-wicket partnership between Baker and Koslicki in the middle third of the innings. For symmetry fans, we scored 34 runs in the 15 overs before that partnership and 34 runs in the 15 overs after it.

* With a solid 1 not out, Ashman pushed his season’s average up from 2 to 2.5.

Sounded like we missed a good day at Lord’s too.

RUASCC Highlight: Zia’s first class off-spinner to break the opening partnership – spun through the gate and clipped the top of off. Koslicki’s six into the pony field and Carpenter’s catch to get rid of Nunn were both good too.

RUASCC Man of the Match: Zia. Just for a change.

RUASCC Team: Eagle (capt), Zia, Carpenter, Baker (wkt), Sirfraz, Waqar, Koslicki, Jagesh, Stewart, Ashman, Withers