22nd July V Four Oak Saints
This was to be our game, with FOS only entering the league this season we had the opportunity to win and get some confidence from this game. Bowling first we kept the bowling fairly tight but again leaking too many extras, but managing to take some wickets and restrict the scoring when the bowling was accurate. We achieved something we haven’t done all season and restricted the opposition to under 100 runs. We looked with optimism to our batting and believed we could win the game. We got off to a good steady start taking the runs when possible putting the bad balls away increasing the pressure on the fielders and bowlers. After M.Cole had to retire and a couple of wickets had gone the scoring dried up and the FOS were beginning to get back on top even with them also leaking runs through extras. With the equation of 18 to win of 7 overs the game appeared to be ours, however, some very good bowling from their opener and ably supported at the other end, bowled two maidens in a row something rare in a 2020 game, this heaped the pressure back on the lower order batters, with wickets falling and FOS trying their best to restrict scoring whilst not taking the penultimate wicket bowled superbly and left us requiring 10 of the final over they took the 6th wicket on the penultimate ball allowing M.Cole to return to the crease requiring 9 of the last ball to win, which wasn’t achieved. Credit must go to FOS who fielded and bowled tremendously to grab victory from what surely looked like a loss. Ashfield girls must now learn from this with the most important lesson to play attacking cricket in 2020 games we cannot afford to block, we need to play some shots and look to work the ball for singles, we need to start adapting our batting for different formats of the game. Also ensuring we bowl straight and field sharply to ensure we don’t gift the opposition extra runs and make our life harder when chasing.
M.Cole 33*
This was to be our game, with FOS only entering the league this season we had the opportunity to win and get some confidence from this game. Bowling first we kept the bowling fairly tight but again leaking too many extras, but managing to take some wickets and restrict the scoring when the bowling was accurate. We achieved something we haven’t done all season and restricted the opposition to under 100 runs. We looked with optimism to our batting and believed we could win the game. We got off to a good steady start taking the runs when possible putting the bad balls away increasing the pressure on the fielders and bowlers. After M.Cole had to retire and a couple of wickets had gone the scoring dried up and the FOS were beginning to get back on top even with them also leaking runs through extras. With the equation of 18 to win of 7 overs the game appeared to be ours, however, some very good bowling from their opener and ably supported at the other end, bowled two maidens in a row something rare in a 2020 game, this heaped the pressure back on the lower order batters, with wickets falling and FOS trying their best to restrict scoring whilst not taking the penultimate wicket bowled superbly and left us requiring 10 of the final over they took the 6th wicket on the penultimate ball allowing M.Cole to return to the crease requiring 9 of the last ball to win, which wasn’t achieved. Credit must go to FOS who fielded and bowled tremendously to grab victory from what surely looked like a loss. Ashfield girls must now learn from this with the most important lesson to play attacking cricket in 2020 games we cannot afford to block, we need to play some shots and look to work the ball for singles, we need to start adapting our batting for different formats of the game. Also ensuring we bowl straight and field sharply to ensure we don’t gift the opposition extra runs and make our life harder when chasing.
M.Cole 33*
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