{"id":634,"date":"2010-05-22T22:10:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T22:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=634"},"modified":"2010-05-22T22:10:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T22:10:05","slug":"summer-arrives-and-a-great-days-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/uncategorized\/summer-arrives-and-a-great-days-cricket","title":{"rendered":"Summer arrives, and a great day’s cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A fantastic day today. A cricket match. This time, not the wine trade, but a church match, between two Twickenham based Anglican congregations. One large, one smaller. I was playing for the smaller.<\/p>\n

It was a perfect day in Marble Hill Park, which is a beautiful location for cricket. Mid-20s Centigrade, with a blue sky. We felt lucky. 30 overs a side.<\/p>\n

We bowled first, and I opened. We restricted them to a total of 167-8, which we were quite pleased with. My figures of 6-1-22-2 were OK, but would have been better without a couple of short-pitched deliveries that got hammered.<\/p>\n

We began our response well, and at the half-way point were 80-1. But then we never accelerated, and their bowling attack was strong all the way through. I came into bat late on when 3 overs were left and 30-odd runs were required. I hit the first four balls for two each, but then hit a skier that was caught. Eventually we fell five runs short.<\/p>\n

It was a really fun game, played in a good spirit. I had to umpire a good portion of our innings, and had three good LBW shouts to deal with. All three were missing leg, but it’s quite a hard call when it’s your own teammates.<\/p>\n

We finished off with a refreshing pint of Twickenam Ales Sundancer in the crown – a superbly fresh, citrussy, hoppy brew.<\/p>\n

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