We played the competition leaders and won the toss and batted. I was slated to open the batting but alas after finally convincing my parents they should watch their son play cricket at least one day in his life, they decided to go get some lunch up the shops before play started at 1pm. But life isn't always kind and they proceded to miss the start of play and finally rocked up at 1:15pm. Now that isn't all bad if I wasn't supposed to be opening the batting... and all my gear just happened to be stowed in the back of their car. Now the car was still in the carpark but you see the keys were with the parents... and they didn't exactly tell me A. where they were going and B. whta direction they went!
Needless to say this 24 year old cricketer copped it royally from his teammates who while sharing some understanding didn't let me forget about it all day...
eventually they returned and I batted at 5... and got 5... bad shot 2 balls before drinks - goose.... we rallied around a great innings of 55* from our 15 year old keeper to reach 8/156 off our 40 overs. About 30-50 runs short of a winning total on a very good wicket for batting.
We only had 4 bowlers to bowl out the 40 overs (10 over max) but one bowler is U19 and limited to an 8 over spell - thus effectively meaning we needed to find 2 overs from a non-bowler.
We started brilliantly, had the batting heavy opposition 4/30 off 14 overs. Eventually turning the screws and snuffing out some late resisitance to bowl them out for 95. I returned 7 overs, 3 maidens, 2 wickets for 14 runs.
Against the competition leaders who had lost only once all year (and comprehensively beaten us last time around - they beat us up for only 44!! chasing 150) to beat them this way was huge, we are now just out of the Top 4 by a point but our quotient is 2nd best in the competition meaning we are still a genuine shot at 2nd or 3rd if results go our way.
The moral of this story is don't drive with your parents or at the very least take your gear out of the car the moment you get to the ground!!!