THE GURS ARE STAYING UP! THE GURS ARE STAYING UP! SO NOW YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEVE US, SO NOW YOU'VE GOT TO BELIEEEEVE UUUS, THE GURS ARE STAYING UP!
The neighbours' pleas to turn the music down went unheeded long into the Swansea night last Friday, after The Cymru Gurgitaters secured their Div IV future, at the second attempt at this level. Having won just five games during their last stay, few at The Gurs would have dared to believe that this time around safety would be achieved with four matches to go, and crucially before the potentially crunch tie against fifth-placed Victoria drivers this Friday. King Whamo won the toss and elected to bat, posting a challenging, but not scary total of 263/8 on a H+F under cloudy conditions. Resp/Med Edworthy was the unlikely hero with the ball, taking 4/44 from his allotted ten, while his senior colleagues, Sups Bewers and Bridges M in particular, struggled. For the visitors, George Grewcock, (brother of part-time England Lock and full-time thug Danny), led the charge, with a stubborn 89* from 103 balls, supported by half-centuries from Sephake and Oakley.
The Kings must have lunched well having belied their lowly sixth-place league position, to hit the highest total of any visitor to Cymru Gurgitaters CG this season. But Sup/Resp Staveley and Prof/Resp Skipper Patel were about to inflict an acute bout of indigestion, as they plundered the attack to establish an opening stand of 104 inside the fifteen over restrictions. Staveley, the stand-out Gurs' performer this season, again caught the eye hitting six fours and a six in his cyclone sixty, before firing one in the air to offer up a catch to Grewcock off the bowling of Kings' Captain Ingham. Progress after Staveley's departure was undoubtedly more sedate, but nonetheless relentless, as Patel put his sluggish start to the season behind him, to pass the fifty mark for the third time in the last three matches. However it was Qual/Med Greening, (until recently The Gurs' habitual under-achiever), who shone brightest, consistently scoring at greater than a run-a-ball to finish not-out, within a solitary run of a third century of the campaign. Although Greening can at least take some solace from the fact that his rich vein of form sees him climb to second in the IV.11 batting averages. Patel on the other hand did manage to post three figures. Despite slowing up alarmingly towards the finishing line, a flick to Fine-Leg off the last ball of the penultimate over was sufficient to see him home on 101* from 117 deliveries. He too enters the league's top ten bats, in ninth position with a season's average to-date of 70.8 - Not bad for a man who mustered just seven runs from his first three knocks!
Okay ratings too for a TIE: Resp/Comp/Abs - Comp/Resp/Feeb. Had a routine friendly win yesterday, but only one pop in today's training, with Bennett making Med Conc to compliment his Prof bat.
I've also amassed 37 ITS again, so when you read this Adam, please could you grab me an YP? Think this will prob be the last for this season. Please could I have a 17yo with 4 Stam, 7 Bat, 2 Conc, 11 Bowl, 8 Cons and 3 Field?
Tar Ad, and Hey to all of you, Trev
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