BACUP 225-7 ACCRINGTON 89 AO


I WAS WONDERING WHY THERE WAS SO MUCH HAPPINESS AND RADIENCE IN BACUP THIS WEEK THEN I FIGURED IT OUT ......THE WORLDS RICHEST LEADERS MET LAST WEEK
IN GLENEAGLES IN  THE G8 SUMMIT AND THEY MADE A UNANIMOUS DECISION TO WRITE OFF THIRD WORLD DEBT SO AFRICA AND BACUP ARE NO LONGER UNDER THIS CRIPPLING BURDEN.

I HEARD DOWN THE GRAPE VINE THAT BACUP FOLK CELEBRATED THIS MONUMENTAL EVENT BY BURNING A WITCH AT THE STAKE, AND HERBERT THE MONK TOOK
HIS FOLLOWERS TO AN ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO THE LOCAL TEMPLE TO PAY HOMAGE TO ZED THE GOD OF LOVE AND VIRALITY.

ANYWAY BACK TO THE CRICKET.

I WON THE TOSS AND INSERTED THE OPPOSITION IN. WE HAD CONTROL OF THE GAME UP UNTIL THE 35TH OVER WERE BACUP WERE 135-3 BUT LOST THE INITIATIVE WHEN
THE OPPOSITION ACCELARTED AND MANAGED TO GET 90 IN THE LAST 11 OVERS. OUR TARGET WAS 225-7. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE SEEN AN ACCRINGTON TEAM IN CONTROL FOR HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INNINGS AND THEN JUST LOSE IT ALL IN DISASTROUS FASHION?

IF OUR CLUB WERE AN AIRSHIP WE'D BE CALLED THE
'HINDUNBERG'! WEVE MANAGED TO TURN A NEGATIVE THING INTO A CONSISTENTLY NEGATIVE AND PREDICTABLE FORCE NO MATTER HOW HARD WE TRY TO WRESTLE OUT OF IT! THE ONLY THING A CAPTAIN CAN DO IS THINK AS POSITIVE AS HE CAN DO AND TRY TO DRIVE HIS TEAM WITH ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM NO MATTER WHAT THE SITUATION EVEN IF IT DOES MEAN THAT YOUR AT THE RECIEVING END OF A BATTERING FROM 7 FINGERED BATTERS WITH SEVERAL ARMS AND WITH 4 WORDS IN THEIR VOCABULERY, ONE OF THE BACUP BATSMEN EVEN THREW HIS BAT DOWN TO CHALLENGE ONE OF MY FIELDERS TO A PHYSICAL DUAL BECAUSE HE THREW A TANTRUM!

HE WAS WAVING ALL OF HIS ARMS IN THE AIR LIKE AN OCTOPUS CAUGHT IN A SHARKS JAWS!

OUR REPLY STARTED OFF WITH A BANG AND THEN JUST FIZZLED OUT LIKE AN OUT OF DATE CAN OF CHEAP COLA FROM NETTO. WE WERE 57-0 OFF 8 OVERS AND AN ALMIGHTY COLLAPSE RESULTED IN US BEING REDUCED TO 60-6 AND THEN 89 ALL OUT. THE ONLY PERFOMANCES OF NOTE WERE THAT OF NASSER (40), SAM HEAP (20) AND HEARTY BOWLING PERFORMANCES FROM LITTLE MATTY (1-20 OFF 9 OVERS) AND MATTY DONNERS (1-25 OFF 8).

ANOTHER DISSAPOINGTING BATTING PERFORMANCE SPOILT THE MATCH AND RESULTED IN US GETTING A GOOD HIDING AND BEING TAKEN AWAY TO THE GALLOWS OF BACUP.