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Conditions: rain,
overcast, grass uncut. Pacific put into bat. Only Chris Taylor's
bowling penetrated. Pacific's Rob Allum devastated Wardle and Frisby's
bowling.
Taylor strongest Fallopian bat but out lbw. Freddie Barrass made
batting debut, two not out.
Fallopians were unlucky to lose this game, but relied overly on the
bowling and batting of Australian journalist and newcomer Chris
Taylor, who broke the opposition's stumps twice and made the highest
score of 43.
In fact, Taylor looked well set to make a debut 50 and beyond, but
was given out lbw by injured club founder Philip
Barrass, standing
in as umpire.
Taylor, convinced he had merely middled the ball onto his pad,
initially did not walk after Barrass raised his finger, thinking the
signal was in jest.
But Barrass, who said he had heard the clear sound of ball hitting
pad, was for once not joking and Talyor had to
walk.
The side's other Australian, Andy
Wardle, was below his usual
faultless standard, perhaps distracted after being selected as as
captain for the match.
Wardle was out for 14 after uncharacteristically missing the ball when
playing a classic forward defensive.
Wardle's bowling figures were also untypical, conceding 28 off two
overs after Pacific's haymaker Rob Allum dispatched his best efforts
around, and over, the boundary.
The most economic bowling came from Chris
Nagle, conceding only 15
from four overs, but without breaking through the Pacific defence.
Wardle had won the toss and put Pacific into bat, who dug in after
losing an early wicket and piled on the runs at the end of their
innnings to set a target of 142.
The Fallopian innings made a faultering start, quickly losing the
wickets of the side's other debutees, Paul Marinko and Andy Barrow,
out for zero and one respectively.
Taylor restored the momentum, sending a series of high-pitched
balls across the boundary, in a performance only matched by club
veteran Peter Frisby, who made his second highest score ever of 33.
Freddie Barrass, the 11-year old son of the founder, was called on
to play eighth man in the last over and was not out for two on his
batting debut.
Although he said later he could hear his heart beating, he played
through the final deliveries with stylish strokes, despite using an
adult bat and adult pads.
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