Just got home and saw the scorecard, nice match Hoggy.
WA v Asterix XI (175517)
Date: 30/10/2005 Ground: Western Oval
Pitch: Hard and Fast Weather: [overcast and cold]
WA won the toss and elected to bat.
WA 290/7 (50)
Haughton 73 (79), Flowers 57 (84), Street 58 (70)
Gillespie 5-54, Male 2-77
Asterix XI 291/3 (48.5)
Gillete 107 (125), Gillespie 72 (94), Malik 69* (63), Berry 32* (16)
Towsend 1-46, Sykes 1-51, Gillan 1-66
Asterix XI won by 7 wickets.
Very close match in the end, Berry's cameo clinched it. Very happy with that batting effort considering Cuss got out first ball (
). Your top order did very well, luckily Gillespie picked up wickets before any of them could go on to three figures.
Some of my experiments worked out pretty well. Opened the batting with Gillete, and he scored a ton, so chances are he'll replace Bridge as opener permanently, given Bridge's recent form. Stuck Malik at four (although he's only mediocre so usually would bat 8 or 9), and he did very well in his first ever innings. Pushed Gillespie to three and he did pretty well too. Opened the bowling with my youth pull Pollock, did pretty well in the context of the match with 0/40 off his ten. Put Gillespie as fifth bowler, and he put in a good performance as usual, though obviously he'll be back to opening the bowling in the league match. Pollock will probably open the bowling next match instead of Badley, giving me a new-ball pair of Pollock and Gillespie...hmm.
Thanks for the match, makes it two very narrow wins for me now. Very nice attendance for a friendly as well, 6,465! Finances haven't come through yet, but if I'm not mistaken that should give us over 23k each.