The first game in the Covid 19 Pandemic. Played on a lovely sunny day at Mopsies Park, Basildon, Essex. Our team allegedly was a 2nd XI, but looking around I saw mostly players that would normally be playing in the 3rd and 4th XI. I reckon the average age of our players must have been about 52 with 4 blokes over the age of 60 and only one player under 20.
The opposition on the other hand were all pretty young, with no one under 20 and no-one over 40? So we had our work cut out. Thankfully we got to bowl first in a 40 overs game.
All the Covid 19 regulations were adhered to with everyone sitting apart and disinfectant and alcohol cleaning fluids all over the place. The ball was cleaned every 10 overs and all sorts of other things went on, that I'm not going to go into, but I reckon we were pretty safe.
This was a nice bunch of blokes and the game was played in the good spirit. I apologise for any incorrect spellings of people's names, they were taken from the batting cards.
No.1 - Andrew Barker____________________________________________________
No.4 - S Ahmed____________________________________________________
No.7 Tejinder Sharda____________________________________________________
That's it for this team, there was one other bloke J.Sheikh who scored runs at No.10, but can't seem to make any sense of the notes I made in the game as it was during Rob Brooks overs and being a spinner I had very little time to make notes.
Overall my impression was they were very positive from the outset looking to make runs from the off and then they appear to bat deep and all of them looking to score runs right from the 1st ball they face. They described themselves as a bowling team and I'd go along with that, they all bowled pretty fast and very straight.
Looking at the scoring with regards the bowling analysis I noticed there appeared to be some unorthodox symbols and some anomalies, so this gave me an idea for another post on scoring and the symbols that are used. I'm aware that people do have different ways of doing this and that it doesn't matter that much as long as it all adds up at the end of the game. Here's my take on it - it can be found via the following links
One of our batsmen - Al McIver was moaning during the game about the lack of involvement in the game, the ball just wasn't coming to him and by the end he'd fielded the ball once. Then he went out to bat (See above) at No.3 for us and he was bowled first ball by Rajapakshe and this is how he left the middle stump...
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