Great sunny weather, wonderful ground close to soaring Table Mountain, friendly hosting parents, the wine flowed and a fine BBQ - oh yes, and also a game of cricket.
The SACS cricket team win all their school games and have 5 province players - and they had a BBQ of their own, I am afraid.
Yes, Max did take an early wicket, but then SACS put on around 150, before we made any further inroads in this 35 over game, with one batter scoring 95 and another over 60. Finally, some more wickets fell (Felix 2, Jimmy 2, and Oscar 1), before they reached a total of 249 for 7. Heads did not droop too much and there was some nifty fielding (Felix two catches, Oscar 1 catch) and Simon (wickie) managed a run out and a stumping.
The SACs batting had been very classy indeed with very few misjudgments; sadly their bowling and fielding was almost as good. We managed only 88 off 29 overs against some fiery pace bowlers and a fine spinner. Simon found form with some quality play to topscore with 21, and Henry and Gregor were resilient at the death with scores of 17 and 11. This was a fine achievement by Gregor, as he had been fined by Mr Lewis for falling in the pool with his clothes on, at his hosts house !!
Fell in? Pushed? Or the most likely jumped! The jury is still out lol
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