The weather is warming up!  The touring team season is in full swing with games hard fought from schools to military, with friends old and new.  Below is a match report from Johnnie G, our Captain and wicketkeeper!  Unusually this was played in a rare May shower.

Royal Horse Artillery 29/30 May 2010

The Saturday 40 overs game was a tight game with a low score to defend. We were 53 for 7 at 22 overs. They had some good quickish & precise bowlers and the mat was a little damp early in the game so our batsmen found it a little hard to play. Mike Caruana played a steady innings and I backed him up to make an important stand of 83 to have a score to defend of 135 in the end.

Our bowlers did well to contain the RHA batsmen. They had a 3/4of good hitters and with less than 4 an over required our score was gettable. Our biggest turning point was when Derek Ali came on to bowl and he did a great job! At one point he was on a hattrick but unfortunately was denied the honour. We got them all out for 110. Well done to all our bowlers and great fielding.

On Sunday -  Ronnie, our guest Chris Munroe, Javed Shah and Andy Naudi had to do the "honours" of batting in the rain! Our visitors didn't mind and said, "We're here to play cricket", so we started the game with a reduced match of 30 overs per side. Of course when it got a little too slippery in the outfield ( after about 12 overs)  the umpire Pierre correctly and wisely stopped play till it cleared up a bit. We had an early lunch and we were lucky the skies cleared up in the afternoon.

Ronnie batted really well and Joy tested his shoulder out too but it was our Andy Naudi who kept the game "alive" with some great hits for his 88. Well done Andy (to follow Nowell's & Andy Lenard's innings lately!).

It was always going to be quite a task for RHA to reach our 161, but we fielded great, apart from Will Nicholls who kept complaining about the grass being wet!!! OK....he was standing in the middle of a large 4 inch deep puddle at short 3rd man at the time!! The Marsa guys didn't let their captain down and took 4 very good catches! Andy Lenard flew to his right at short covers and took a blinder one handed! Ronnie ran quite a few metres to take his catch just off the grass! I ran towards square leg to take a skier and Regan just gobbled up an off drive belter!  And what a way to finish the game.......our Richard Rogers took his first wicket! A "caught and bowled". The batsman hit it straight up in the air and Richard took a good catch to seal the win!!! It was a pat on the back and high fives for Richard!

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