[themaclad]

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Nottinghamshire broke their three year drought of no victories in four day cricket on Saturday and after a 22 month drought Wyre 2nd XIs also won, the last time yours truly played a pivotal role in the victory which at the time took us top of Division 6, this latest epic brought not only a career best score but a maiden 50 at the age off 66

We won the toss and bowled Stu Walters making his first appearance of the season took a few overs to settle before getting some ryhtym in, he had a few LBW shouts turned down not surprising as their umpire seemed to be looking at the ground when the ball was bowled however in fairness to teh guy he was pretty fair when we were batting, however our umpire more of that later.
Messers Patel and Woodford took the score to 88 scoring with some easy against steady bowling including a 15 overs spell from the skipper Duffield. The visitors only had 10 men
Woodford was first to go a great catch by Dennis the first of two blinders and Patel was bowled by the skipper for 48 and from then it was just a case of chipping away which we did. Clegg and Ahmed put bat to bowl both scored over 20 but it was a steady prossession from then on in and they posted 157 crucially 33.5 overs which meant we had 11 extra overs to get the runs.
Covid rules means for the moment it's bring your own teaswhich in a way spoils the game because the highlight is someone else prpearing a raft of sandwiches, cakes etc.
Back to the game the two New Longton opening bowlers were miserly to say the least at looked at the scoreboard and we had crawled along to 7-2 from 15 overs and by the time the 20 overs had gone we were in deep trouble, Watkinso taking three wickets in his opening spell.
As with last week the support bowlers slightly less better and that's being kind, when Housden bowled Pollard we were 32-6 and in I go.
At teh other end was skipper Duffield afrer his 4-81 with the ball he now had to do his stint with the bat.
My first scoring shot was a four however the difficulty you had batting was the support bowlers bowled some dross however in between the dross you were lible to get the unplayable delivery, so batting was not easy.
Without too much alarm we pushed the score along although did some fly swatting at balls outside the off stump was in more danger of being run out, but on and on we went past 100 with overs to spare needed five an over started to inch closer and closer. The two opening bowlers were brought back on however they were both slightly knackered however our umpire missed countless no balls were Hassan was miles over.
Duffield was first to 50 followed shortly after by myself.
Toe ended the ball back to Hassan with the score at 152 going for 52. We crawled along and needed three of the last over, score were level when the last ball was bowled it went for a bye, victory with Duffers 52 not out.



Looks warm wind was from the North Pole