Reality dawns on all dreams. Mine involved sliding in saving a boundary and flicking the ball up to my assisting fielder who tosses it in over the bails. Reality involved pouncing on an already stationary ball and slinging it past my comrade and onto the boundary rope despite the valiant efforts of Diamond Dan.

Not only wasn’t this the moment of the match (more later) it wasn’t even the most embarrassing thing I have done THIS SEASON! Tragically unseen by any Greysman, whilst umpiring on tour , I high fived the bowler who was actually reaching to retrieve his hat from my head. PSM? In Fairness, Farcical.

Greys front row  (me , Hat, Ad) bowled for 0 by the same bloke. Ashton Spooner enjoyed a pantastic fartnership bizarrely ending with Spen hitting his own wicket and Dom calling it squits in the same way! .Fenton hit a lovely cut for four. Newland Herbertige carried us on to somewhere near a total (191? Scorecard unclear Statto) with beaucoup sashay de skipper and entertaining Willow Wielding.

After no tea being provided the Greys could make no inroads into a solid LA opening pair. Jake found the edge four times, none going to hand , Terry and Dan toiled to no avail while Rob and QB got the only wickets to fall. The latter being the clear moment of the match when QB took a diving horizontal full stretch one handed caught and bowled.All time great , much better than what won it, a True Travesty.

Anyway they knocked the runs off without too much bother (10 overs and 8 wickets to spare) with Hatrick coming on to receive the coup de grace disguised as me according to their scorebook (possibly they assumed all the shit fielding was down to me and mixed us up). Given that they also made generous bowling changes , we had a nice day out and a lot of laughing WITH me but it was a Major Mismatch.

Our war cry strikes fear into many hearts but let it be known , if you Do Fuck With The Mighty Greys, as long as you keep the bar the bar open that’s probably fine too. Can’t win ‘em all , we are having a banging season with some new young blood so onwards and upwards you Gallant Greys.

Statto’s report
That must mean it’s nearly all over for another year ☹
In the season’s stats Dom’s dangled carrot in the batting seems to have been ruthlessly whipped away from Biff as the former plundered the Sunday pie-chuckers to stretch away at the top of the batting. On that theme I think it must be the first time in Greys history that the top 3 batters were all out for a duck – clean bowled by the same bowler.
In the bowling the skipper’s charity to Diamond is over as he brought himself back into the attack to take one of the only 2 wickets taken to go 3 clear with one to play.
Catching is the one to watch with “old brown trousers” one clear with Biff still sniffing around.
In the lifetimes…nowt going on
Next week we stay in Brighton to play the season’s closer against B&H Crescent…