CAPTAIN CF'S SEASON BLOG

[andy]

May 11 is the date of our first league game

3rd season of captaincy, cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Durhamfootman]

have you got your team sorted out , CF?

more importantly have you got your sticky bun rota organised? Got to have everybody aware of whose turn it is to buy the sticky buns.

[andy]

my team isnt finalised yet pal, we still have a couple more training sessions left

although me and my fellow captains from our whole club, did have a selection meeting today to discuss draft sides and to make sure we all had our strongest possible sides out, barring injury.

[Durhamfootman]

and the sticky buns?

[GGAS]

Sticky buns are a necessity if good cricket is to be expected.

[andy]

lol the teas and the tea dates are always issued in advance

[GGAS]

lol the teas and the tea dates are always issued in advance

Ha, good to hear! Most important job as captain

[andy]

3rd season of captaincy started today.... not a good start...full report and scorecard to go up tomorrow or monday

[andy]

We had our first league of the season on saturday, which also signalled the start of my 3rd season of captaincy

To say it didnt go well would be an understatement....the first half of the game went ok, but it seemed to get worse as the day went on

This was my side

1.G.Hope
2.I.Barstable
3.T.Hunt
4.N.Maynard (wk)
5.G.Jackson
6.C.Easter
7.R.Mendis (overseas)
8.CAPTAIN CF (C)
9.J.Long
10.P.Terry
11.H.Connor

A couple of changes from last year...my 3 and 4 from last year, have gone up to open the batting as we have a serious injury to one of our openers from last year and our other opener has dropped to no3. Wicket Keeper maynard promoted to 4 this year, as we have a sri lankan overseas who can bat 7 for us... Our overseas Rishwan Mendis is a leg spinning all-rounder, he is 24 years old and apparently played in the sri lankan side as a teenager for their u-13 and u-15 sides...

TOSS: I won the toss and chose to field...chasing went well for us last year so i wanted to go for that method again

I took the new ball and wasted it...Sprayed it around! Went for 24 in my first 3 overs..got a wicket but only because the batsman top edged a half tracker straight up in the air. After 25 overs they were 150-2. I brought on my part time seam option G.Jackson, and he got wickets...he took 4 wickets, all filthy wickets, that were lucky...full tosses mainly, that the batsman kept hitting straight in the air to the fielders...however he at least got the wickets we needed. Our fielding was exceptional led by the ever reliable C.Easter, who bascially spent most of the innings sweeping on the boundary. My overseas bowled 10 overs for 45 taking 1 wicket on a pitch that didnt spin. They reached 240 AO with 8 balls left in the innings.....we were happy with that and felt we could chase that.

However the chase started awfully we lost a wicket in the 3rd over, with G.Hope edging onto his pad and then tickling onto the stumps...and from there it was a nightmare...we were 4 down with only 9 on the board....after 10 overs we, were 20-4 and always struggling...Easter made 40, but the rest of us all struggled, and we limped to 73 AO after 36 overs

NOT A HAPPY CAPTAIN

[braveneutral]

Ouch. Early season jitters?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Impressive sounding overseas player.

[Alviro Patterson]

A couple of changes from last year...my 3 and 4 from last year, have gone up to open the batting as we have a serious injury to one of our openers from last year and our other opener has dropped to no3. Wicket Keeper maynard promoted to 4 this year, as we have a sri lankan overseas who can bat 7 for us... Our overseas Rishwan Mendis is a leg spinning all-rounder, he is 24 years old and apparently played in the sri lankan side as a teenager for their u-13 and u-15 sides...

Any relation to Ajantha Winslow Mendis

Rumour has it Essex are taking a look at your overseas sensation

[Durhamfootman]

Bad luck, CF

hopefully it will just be a case of blowing away a few cobwebs. Did changing the batting order weaken the team? Too early to tell I suppose.

[andy]

i hope so BN!

DFM- i dont think it did, we just all got out to poor shot selection and we will look to clear these errors tonight at training.

[Durhamfootman]

quite right!

give 'em a good, old fashione rollicking tonight........

just make sure you lead by example in the next match

My watchword for this season is 'application'. You can pass that on, and I won't even charge you for its use