Quokkas CC 201 (Evil Dave 45 no, Umair 36, Saad 27, Faggie 25) beat Not The MCC CC 161-9 (Rashid 4-26, Saad 1-4, Ali 1-15)
What you need of a match reporter is attendance at the game. What you have is me, a small WhatsApp conversation and a scoresheet.
I can see that the game was played at Dogmersfield. That’s a real place apparently.
Parking was at a premium. Umair sorted that out. Niall was unavailable as he was in Miami for the England world cup game. Seagull was also missing as he wanted to see if Louise Werner was still fit. Professor joined him. Dave brought the scorebook. Haider brought a ball. Haider Jr dislocated his shoulder, so had to pull out. Faggie stood in. The pre-match warm up appeared to be a game of croquet.
Haider and Saad opened the batting and got us off to a great start, scoring at will. Rashid got a duck. Faggie and Umair took the score along nicely, while Evil Dave almost scored his maiden half century but ran out of balls, thwarted by Faggie who had reduced the game to 30 overs. 201 was an impressive total.
They supplied an excellent tea. No fish curry though.
Ali and Rashid opened the bowling. Rashid took four more wickets. Ali nearly started a ruckus by appealing too vigorously, but he, Jatin, Radio John, Egg and Saad all got a wicket each. Jatin the pick of the bunch, going for just 23 runs from his 6 overs. There was also a run out. Our opponents also ran out of overs on 161. Another good win for the Quokkas.
After the game, the home team entertained the Quokkas with some tunes about English bottoms on their electric piano. There is a video, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Seagull.