Theale & Tilehurst 228-5
(44 overs)
Saad 2-57, Withers 1-26, Law 1-29
RUASCC 150-6 (41 overs)
Ward 51, Eagle 23, Greenhalf 19 not out
Match drawn
A batsmen’s track we expect in Theale
On a warm weekend in the month of May
Then we lose the toss and start to feel
It’s going to be a bloody long day
The new ball, Withers - it’s risky no doubt
Hit to the boundary as likely as not
First ball of the match: caught Eagle, he’s out!
(But that was the only one Withers got)
Forty-four overs, a long time to bowl
It might have been fewer if we could catch
Ward, Dersh then Withers – it saddens the soul
Our dignity shelled, and maybe the match
Set two twenty-eight, a typical
score
A possible win? More likely a draw
Eagle and Ward started on the right track
Seventy-seven their opening stand
Fifty for Wardy, a brutal attack
An Eagle-hit six is still yet to land
An excellent start, unlikely to last
In a procession our wickets we tossed
When RUASCC turn bad we unravel fast:
Twenty runs later and five wickets lost
Five wickets down, not a hundred yet scored
Can we survive till the end of the game?
Just playing for pride and runs on the board
Working out which of our batsmen to blame
Andy and Ifti both proved to be
sound
The last ball walloped clean out
of the ground
RUASCC Highlight: Eagle’s maximum – you don’t often see him hit six over a proper
boundary.
RUASCC Man of the Match: Ward, despite the two dropped
catches!
Brilliant!
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