Barnt Green CC 133-5 (Faggie 3-14, Marcus 1-26) beat Quokkas CC 132 all out (Faggie 40, Marcus 19, Rashid 15, Niall 14 no)
It’s been a while since I missed a Quokka tour. Any opportunity to extend time away from Mrs Seagull is usually gratefully accepted, but sadly I had to sit this one out on the touchline with the half time oranges and the fast wheezy boys with a note from matron while the young bloods linked arms for the glorious final scrum down. That said, I am not sure if this should be classified as a tour game or a home game. Either way, it was great for the Brummie Quokkas to have a game that was in their time zone for one. For the rest, train cancellations caused havoc, especially for to the London massif, but even with a 2pm start it would be rude not to arrive at least half an hour late. The good news is Nial has regripped his bat (Ed: Did the last one wear out? Seriously?) The Quokkas were put into bat. Prior to the game Radio John had said the opponents would be a mix of juniors and 6 th team players deemed too incompetent to play on their proper pitch. Sounds about our level. However, looking at our batting scorecard, it may have been the Warwickshire second XI we were facing. I’m sure someone that played will put me straight. Irfan was out for five. Bad start. Haidur and Rashid made double figures, just, with a couple of lovely sixes from the latter, but both were out, caught. Faggie got fed up of Umair dots, so ran him out. Marcus looked good before being caught. Niall’s new grip must surely have had someone else holding it as the scorecard says he scored 14 runs, including two fours. Well played sir. A hundred obviously beckoned, but sadly he ran out of partners. Two runs from the last four batsman including another run out (Evil Dave) was a rather disappointing finish.
No teas. Bad form. Conversation was stilted. Probably.
In reply, our hosts got them with 9 overs to spare. Faggie took three wickets including a nice caught and bowled. Marcus got a wicket and there was a run out of our own. Going by the scorecard, the bowling performance looked pretty good, but we were a few runs short. Post match nourishment was taken at Five Spice restaurant. My regret at missing this game deepens. Seagull