Friday, May 8, 2009

St. Faiths vs. St. Johns

My very first cricket match ever was a thriller to participate in. I really felt more English than ever while playing. It's too bad that we have to move back to America in 2 1/2 months.

Anyway, we lost the coin toss at the beginning, but we still got to bowl, which was what we wanted; we would know what score to beat when we moved on to batting. Toby, our captain, bowled brilliantly, collecting 6 wickets in the 8 overs (1 over=6 bowls) that he bowled. Our other bowlers added another three wickets to our resume, and Sam caught one of their shots as well. After we had gotten their last batter out, we had only conceded 77 runs. Therefore, we needed only around 3 to 4 runs per over in order to win, considering that the maximum was 25 overs.

We batted so-so; we need to play more reasonable shots rather than just trying to club the ball every time. However, our opening batsman, John, stayed in for the duration of our innings, scoring about half of our total runs. It was our No. 8 batsman who sealed the win with the winning 4 runs, though.

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