cricket with balls

Well with two test series starting in the morning, or soon enough where ever you are.

I thought this might be my last chance to talk about the worlds greatest ever blogging indoor cricket partnership.

You see, Sime and myself played together in only our second ever competitive cricket match today.

Our first was 4 or so years ago in a real game, where I top scored and Sime held up a collapse as well as he could.

Tonight’s game was only indoor cricket, but still.

We may have been the first players in history to train for 3 hours for a one hour indoor cricket game, but we knew this could be our only chance to play together, so we had to make it good.

In the field we started well, Sime got a wicket in his first over. It beat him with pace, he had played 6 shots by the time the ball got there and still managed to hit it straight up in the air.

My first over was a bit scratchy, but I got a wicket to finish it off.

Sime’s next over didn’t go quite to plan. The batsmen got after him a bit, and finally when he bowled a ball capable of beating the charging batsmen, but the wicketkeeper (um, me) didn’t stay down and the fumble was enough time for the batsmen to get back in.

My next over went a little better, perhaps it was the hat trick I took that did it.

They other mob made119.

The opening partnership was 29.

The captain decided myself and Sime should have a go next.

I seemed to be seeing them alright, and Sime was rotating the strike well.

Early on Sime decided to see how my hamstrings were by hitting the ball to the close in fielders and calling me through.

After I hit a couple of big strokes. Sime got in the act with some of the sexiest cover drives this side of Greg Chappell.

A spinner was brought on, and both of us enjoyed him, Sime with controlled drives, me with lusty swipes.

One of my best shots, a smoking on drive didn’t make it to the back net, cause it smashed straight into Sime’s shoulder.

Sorry Sime.

Finally our partnership was over. 4 overs goes so fast. I knew we had batted well.

But it wasn’t until we were told we made 60 and broke the partnership record for our team we realised how well we had played.

Unfortunately the next partnership only needed 30 to win, but they scored 14.

Sime and I have decided to hang up our boots with an unbeaten partnership. Sime said we batted like Dizzy Gillespie and Damien Martyn in India.

I thought it was more like Dizzy and McGrath at the Gabba.

Perhaps out in cyberspace there are two kids who will one day will grow up and make a bigger partnership for the sunshine heights indoor cricket team than we did, but I doubt it.

In honour of our partnership here is a picture of Salma Hayek in from dusk till dawn.