Not Enough at Nunholm

Our latest voyage of discovery to Port Nunholm again ended in defeat last Thursday when we failed to hold off CC Colts/Annandale Insurance (does anyone know who?) in the home strait.

Skipper Colin Taylor decided to bat first on winning the toss against a mixed looking CC Insurance line up. Sandy McNay and Mike Service made a reasonable enough start until the latter holed early out but disaster then struck.  Possibly mistaking Chris McBride for Tom the Cabin Boy, key batter Geoff Dean attempted to swipe his second delivery, a googly, to leg - only to be hit right in front of the mainmast on the back foot.

McCuaig hits a single to off

McCuaig and McNay, who has been in vintage form with the bat hung around for a fair while until McNay claimed his maximum and Alex Taylor was finally ready to take the wicket.  The score then started to accelerate as Taylor swatted his way to 25 but batting was  not without problems against some very mixed bowling on a wet outfield.  In the event Rory Dean was the only other batsman to seriously trouble the scorers, playing some nice looking shots through the offside.

Typically, Nunholm introduced late arrival and would-be county cricketer Niall Alexander to bowl two overs at the end and Dean and Ian Whitby did well to avoid conceding another wicket as Shipwrecks foundered to 110 at the halfway stage.

The bowling turned out like the batting i.e. somewhat mixed and certainly proved that Reetz, who was dropped early at short mid-wicket, is strongest outside his leg stump. Once McBride followed him to the maximum, it always looked like the target was reachable.  One bright spot was that Alexander was caught C. Taylor b. M. Robinson for not too many and there was a minor celebration when birthday boy Gregory Robinson claimed his first wicketkeeping victim by running out Trefor Williams.

A late attempt to stifle the singles with an umbrella field at least drew out the finish until the end of the nineteenth over but the truth was that Shipwrecks neither batted nor bowled well enough to deserve victory.

Scores: Shipwrecks 110 - 5 (A. Taylor 25 n.o., S. McNay 25 n.o, R Dean 19 n.o) : Annandale Colts 114 - 3.