[themaclad]

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Onwards and downwards we go after our 5th successive defeat one bit of good news, we won the toss and given our batting strength or rather lack of it we put Ingol into bat.
As they sailed to 60 without loss it looked as though we were looking down the barrel of chasing something over 200 although Sam Hain was dropped in the second over by Rob Abbott. Rob thought he shoud have caught it although it was down by his ankles.
A genorous supply of wides and no balls helped the score along before we got a bit of luck Hain was given out LBW looked unfortunate however it was the Ingol umpire that gave him out.
From then on we started to work our way through the batting order quickly the score became 65-3 with Dennis and Macken both going to Dave Lever. Parkinson and Rasool took the score to 95 before Gregson surprised Rasool by actually pitching one on the wicket, he was so surprised he sent it straight to Warburton at mid off who took the first of his three catches.
126 the next two wickets fell in the same over yours truly getting them both Zolly edged one to slip were Warburton stuck out a hand and low and behold the ball stuck. The batsman was convinced he had hit the ground not the ball and off he went. Maritz was even less convinced when being given out LBW, to be fair to him I could have had him LBW the ball before but was not sure. He played a sweep shot missed and was in front of all three, he had to walk.
Parkinson skied one to Dave Lever who took a really decent catch withnthe ball going away from him as he turned, it gave Warburton his first wicket for the club.
I then bowled Chapa who scored all his runs by hitting them upwards over point, he missed a straight one.
Warburton cleaned up the other two with a good catch of his own bowling diving to catch it. Mat is not how your say slim great athleticism though, chasing 154.
Me 3-22 and Matt Warburton 3-23



And off we went in pursuit, a staedy but slow opening partnership of 0 before Amos was bowled by Maritz for 2, Macleod and Gregson took us to 28 before Macleod was caught, Abbott lasted two balls before being caught and bowled by Khan who stuck out his left hand to see the ball stick.
From then on our inner Barcelona took over as we collapsed in tremendous style.
The scorecard reads like one of those telephone numbers from those cheeky little scamps who want to empty your bank account. The last seven wickets went down for 6 runs, yep got a duck tried a calypso flick off my legs really should have been a six but went spiraling upwards into the safe hands of mid on.
Naveed Khan with 5-2 did the damage, so it's of the the group of dearth with the other non winning teams, four games to play can we win one.