Kai Tak Vs Police, PTS.

Police  184  T.Patidar 8-3-30, N.Hawke 5-2-23, B.Ward 8-2-38, B.McCorrik 7-2-57

Kai Tak   104  S.Campbell 25, D.Ellis16

Yeah not much to crow about today. What was a great fielding and bowling performance was undermined by a pretty piss poor batting effort. 185 was always going to be a tough target, especially with Hong Kong bowlers Khalid Khan and Nasir Hameed.

The bowlers did what was asked and was good to see Nicky Boje Hawke bowling a nice line and length. For all those concerned, Nick is a South African this week...well he was when he got out the car. Anyway, Bob Ward and Tiku also bowled very well and the wickets kept tumbling at a good rate. Mat Poole took a blinder as boundary runner and soon we had a sniff of an early  bat. Their tail did waggle a bit but we held them down to 184. Ben McCorrik a good friend of James Piachard was a great find, bowling some left arm orthodox and also the ball of the season. An arm ball that took middle peg!!! So the chat was up, lots of sledging amongst ourselves and some CRM methods by Mohsin and Nick were dutifully ignored. "Stick your mental model where it doesnt fit" i think was mentioned....

So on to the batting.......aaaggghhh i hate this bit.....

We got off to a bad start with our man of the moment Tiks going LBW to Khalid in the first couple of overs. Was not going to be Tiks day but hey lots of batting to go.

 Dave Ellis looking strong in his opening role and our go to man Mal Brown at the crease. Well Mal who is now looking over his shoulder, with his latest drought, didnt like it when i asked his son how was his batting coming along!!! So it went out out out out very quickly and when i was starting to find my straps i wrapped one up in lovely wrapping paper, tied a beautiful bow and wrote an inspiring card....and gifted my wicket to first slip......not a word of thanks either!!!

Al Noble did his best to hang around but it was all in vain, a very ordinary and worrying batting performance again by the TAK!!

Mug of the Day, the skipper, for bagging everyone one else's soft dismissals and then......well we all know how that turned out!!!

Can only say that we really need to hit those nets a bit more guys, find our mojo again and get back on the winning track!!!!

A positive for the day, Maria and Mohsin are once again expecting a baby, fantastic news guys!!!!

Go the TAK!!!

Steve