Match Report Yaadboyz CC v Berbice CC Rd 3

After much thought and a few polite enquiries from other players around the SFSCL, here is our match report of our latest fixture from Round 3 against Berbice CC.

Who can name this ground?

The Yaadboyz arrived at the ground in their usual manner, some on time, some running late, and some still lost and missing in action from the previous night. With only 7 players at the ground for the start, we wondered where and who the other 4 would be to make up our 11 starters. Ravi was running on Guyanese time as per usual and said he would be on time which really meant he would show up around 1 30pm. As for the others, we all started praying for 3 able cricketers to surface from anywhere to help us out.

Altaf was nominated to go and spin the coin this week and called correctly and without any hesitation told Berbice skipper Andy the Yaadboyz will be batting first. We actually had no choice but to bat first considering we only had 7 starters at 12 30 !!!

Johnno and British opened the batting and after a couple of sighters both of them opened up their shoulders to get the innings off to a flying start. Yours truly jockeyed the strike from Johnno regulary (unintentional...honest mate), and entertained his troops from the sidelines with some beautiful shot making all through the cover point  and covers region along the carpet and over the top. (Mr Classic from the touchline would have been proud to witness those classical strokes.....). With over 10 runs an over being scored early on with ease, it was no surprise British completed his 50 by the 7th over of the innings before he was out in the 9th over for a swashbuckling 62.( This 62 of mine was a gentle reminder for all the doubters out there who said I was finished as a batsmen and was over the hill and needed to retire....I guess I still have a little left).

At the break we sat pretty on 107 for 1.

The rest of the innings saw Johnno make 41, new member Vikash hit a promising 24, and Altaf bludgeon 21 to prop up our total to a respectable 197.

Berbice batted beautifully in their run chase with firstly H Muneshwar 53, Jerry 35, and Mikey 60 not out seeing them pass our score in the 23rd over with ease.( I will not embarass any of our bowlers with bowling stats......but they all tried their best on a tough day).

Even though we lost the game with a team short of numbers, we still managed to close down the Yard and helped Hibiscus up their bar sales well into the night as per usual.

Congratulations to Berbice for the win as it is always a pleasure to catch up with some of my ex team mates to share a story or two. Indeed, it was another great day out in the park playing cricket without any dramas and small time bickering between players as we both managed to play the game in the right spirit (the Mankading was nowhere to be seen).

Thanks going out for hosting us to Ramesh and his crew and good luck for the rest of the season.

Next week we play Hustlers 1 at Joe Carter Park in Rd 4.

Match report submitted by the random English Bloke....

N.B 
This match report is dedicated to Tariq from Florida Lightning CC as I  am only going to do match reports when I score runs......(lol)