WINNING UGLY
Purley U11 90 for 8 (24 overs)
Sutton U11 92 for 5 (18.4 overs)
Sutton Win By 5 wickets
Sutton U11s maintained their unbeaten start to the league season with a hard
fought victory over a decent Purley side who fought all the way in a low scoring
match. Despite the warnings of overnight rain and threatening cloud throughout,
we were blessed by a dry if humid morning and the big stage at Cheam Road for
the first time this season.
Patrick won the toss again and asked Purley to bat hoping to take
advantage of a slightly green top and any residual overnight moisture (we
thought of that afterwards but it does sound good) and hoping for a return to
the heady days of Deadly Derek spinning out all comers on uncovered wickets.
At this point your usual correspondent deserted his post and so the record of the Sutton response is taken uncut from post match mobile phone interviews with the captain.
oh it was like really sick coz we batted like really good but Purley had a well fast and good bowler Matthew who got me out for like 8 or something with the best ball of the match(!) and then he got Ayrton out I think with another well good ball, but 'Arry was still in and batted like really cool and got like 26 or something when we was losing wickets after Jack hit a well smart 4 but then got out slogging after which I think it was like Marcus, or Eefan or Sammy G or somebody who batted like really good to see us through with like no sweat really although some people like mum were like getting a bit worried I was sure we would be ok as we had loads of like overs and stuff and Eefan and Sam batted like really sensible even though there was a lot of dots and stuff and some like well dodgy calling at times. We could have done a bit like better but Purley had some sick bowlers and we didn’t have to score like really fast so it was ok like and it made no difference that you weren’t there giving us rubbish advice and instructions and by the way do I get paid for this???......
So it was a victory in the end and those who were there will know how close the above is to reality. The scorebook shows a relatively comfortable win but in truth we made it hard for ourselves especially in the field. However, the team is building momentum and getting results which is important of course for confidence. However, we will need to up the ante in games to come and concentrate once again on keeping the oppo under pressure in the field and not giving away cheap runs. Its Reigate Priory next so there will be no room for sloppy cricket. Thanks to Purley and David and Jo in particular for providing good opposition, a bunch of polite boys and a decent match played in good spirit.
