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Livingston 1st XI scored a new club record total before play was abandoned due to rain during Drummond Trinity's reply.
Livingston: 317-9 (50 overs)
Drummond Trinity: 65-0 (17 overs)
Livingston travelled to Inverleith Park for the away fixture against Drummond Trinity. Naved won the toss, and elected to bat on a small ground with a fast outfield, wary of the home team's total of 362 a fortnight ago. Anand and Silky gave Livingston a cracking start. After an opening partnership of 116 off 18 overs, Silky was caught on 40, and a big total was on the cards. Anand continued, and was eventually dismissed for 84 from 58 balls. The run rate inevitably dropped as the mid-order wickets fell, and Drummond started to think about bowling Livingston out. Lakhmir and Naved were in the runs again, and Senthil added to last week's big knock. Feraz, Iain and Jim provided some end of innings hitting to lift Livingston to 317 for 9 off the fifty overs, a new highest total for the club.
Feraz and Senthil opened the bowling in Drummond's innings, and once the radar was tuned, the batsmen were troubled by their pace. However, the ball was flying quickly from the bat, and inconsistent bounce was making life difficult for Iain behind the stumps - Drummond's tally was accumulating and wickets had not come. Jim and Mark's change bowling put the breaks on the scoring. The Drummond openers each survived close decisions and were having trouble getting the tight line and length away. Heavy rain came during the first drinks break after 17 overs.
It was a disappointing end after such a fine batting performance. The match was by no means won, but with their target run rate nearing 8 per over and the batsmen at the crease struggling, it was Drummond Trinity who benefitted most from the weather.
| A. Kumar: |
84 |
M. Collings: |
3-1-3-0 |
| I. Murdoch: |
41 |
J. Wislon: |
3-1-5-0 |
| A. Wilcock: |
40 |
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| N. Asghar: |
31 |
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| L. Singh: |
26 |
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| S. Kumar: |
21 |
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Comments
Sounds lie the wicket was a batsmens paradise - was there nothing in it for the bowlers?
Lets start with the fact that the middle of the wicket was where the Bandstand and dance area was for the Taste festival for 4 days last weekend. It was not an easy wicket to bat on when you came in. Hence why we went from 116 for 0 to about 150 for 5?... There was definately movement for the bowlers, and a little 2 paced. It was a phenomonal effort to get 300 on that wicket. yes the boundaries were not Test Match, but you still had to hit the ball there.. We didn't get a chance to try some spinners but i reckon it would have turned square!!
The difference of course is that In Div 3 there is one bad ball an over. We just had the batsmen capable of putting that bad ball to the boundary.....
I was the umprire... kind of hard to forget ....
we started well... really well though... and I oughta say... that IS the standard our team must stick to EVERYTIME...we have the FIREPOWER...
Their bowling wasn't too great apart from a delievery here n there... all are batsmen got out to their own faults...oh i was LBW so I stand out from that distinction :)..
This one's for you Spanking...: No biggie we could have done 400... it was on the cards...
Is 41 too low a score for jug avoidance?
(oh and in my defense i was batting at number 9..... which did seem remarkably high at the time!!)
Mudrock, shame on you. Did you use the Doc hand signal for run one or summit?
But yes, Navids cry of "Oh Sh!t" as we passed mid wicket was a give away.....
In hindsight, perhaps not the best piece of calling I have made!
And you are spot on ... 41 is just pish!!! I needed to score 45 to ensure that I would play next year.....
So if you get out for 49 or 99 then you are accused of deliberately getting out to avoid having to buy a jug,... Therefore you have to buy a jug for 'jug Avoidance' !! Does that make sense!!!
PS... nice french!!
PPS Inflammatory Username!!!
(you, got out on 84 which is too far away from 100 to be fined for jug avoidance!!)
he also doesn't know how to avoid the only fielder in a 40 yard radius, nor how to shut his legs when a Feraz boomer runs along the ground at about 90 miles per hour!!! (Glad I don't have to keep on that wicket every second weekend!!)
a guy who gerts out on 99 will anyway have to get jugs for his fifty aint it ? :S
And Dazz i was hopin that Mudrock would be humble enuf to let others guess ,instead of comin up with a ''i know it all'' 'Anand....' at the start the line
@Common Iain you were not anywhere as bad as their keeper who was pointing fingers at third man even before the ball had crossed the stumps!