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Everyone loves a last over thriller and that's what we got as the sun dipped
behind the poplars at Chiswick on Thursday evening. Superstars were invited to field and bowled consistently on
a bright green square, marooned in a sea of rock solid parched earth. Our opponents progressed to the halfway
mark without incident, amassing around 70 runs. Harish Kumar made the first breakthroughs, bowling straight
and with zip. John Bishop then tore the middle order to pieces, taking a 3 wicket maiden and finishing with
2-1-3-3. Now it’s probably not totally fair to mention that the opppent's middle order were perhaps not hugely
experienced cricketers, so we won’t. Michael Duggan snaffled a wicket towards the end and Gary Plahe
bowled a decent last over, leaving Superstars chasing 143.
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Matt Conway set about the bowling from the start at soon retired for 25.
James Hewlett anchored the innings, allowing Paul and Diwikar to cut loose (relatively speaking) and fire
some welcome boundaries. Bishop, Mountain and Konrad all chipped in, but it was Barry Gigg, in his
14,000th game for the club, that saw us home with two balls to spare. He made 24 off 22 balls,
including boundaries in the 19th and 20th overs to ease the nerves of the anxious
Superstars on the boundary. |
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Barry Gigg (c), Michael Duggan, John Bishop, James Hewlett, Harish Kumar, Konrad Chodzko-Zajko, |
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Matthew Conway, Gary Plahe, Diwakar Patwal, Chris Mountain, James Hewlett. |
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