Fat Tony is on a roll

Phew, that should have been a lot easier. But at least we made it.
Three wins on the trot, are we on a roll?

The day started inconspicuous. Everybody was there except Bocko, so everything was completely normal. Then nobody knew where we were supposed to go. Again, everything was completely normal. We followed Bocko to Nieuwegein - he had the TomTom - and missed the exit. Still, no surprise there.
Then the fun started. We arrived late, of course. Tomba let Bocko do the toss. A coin never touched the chilly Nieuwegein air. Bocko just said: we want to field, what do you want to do? And the deal was done.
So we fielded first. Bocko and the Judge gave away 40-plus off four overs. But once the breakthrough came, Bocko found his line. He snagged Joshi for a duck - a guy that had scored two centuries and a 60 in the previous three games.
Wickets kept a-tumblin’, Werner held on to three catches (the little b****** can actually keep) and we had them all out for 153. And still, we had the feeling that it should have been less. A few high mishits dropped just safe, stuff like that.
Anyway, after having succesfully chased 234 and 247 in last week’s games, this should have been a lot easier.
Especially after Nelly and the Judge smacked us to 72 for none. Halfway there, all ten wickets in hand, Nelly on 51 already. A strange shot by the Judge, walking Hayden-style towards the mediumpacer, and a silly swat by Nelly (who’d already been dropped three times) set off our usual collapse. Which continued and continued. If Nelly hadn’t had eagle eyes as umpire, it could have been a sad story. But he spotted that an lbw-shout against Lantra would have missed the stumps in exactly the same spot as a midstump-yorker by Bocko (which wasn’t given either). So in the end, we scraped home thanks to Iqqies resilience and some Lantra hits.
Nice guys, by the way, those Nieuwegein boys. And we met the Roomburg hockey team who beat Nieuwegein as well. They had, however, not missed the exit. But then, they didn’t have Bocko. The man of the day.
Some loose thoughts:
- The second team also won. And we were back in time to see them do it.
- Even the third team won. Could this day get any better?
- It’s always nice having a girl’s hockey game to watch. Rolly could hardly contain himself.
- We now have a team member who’s bag is officially bigger than himself. Welcome, Werner.
- Just imagine our attack when Nico and Grims are both there as well. A bit frightening, really.
- Quick Nijmegen this Sunday. They haven’t won yet. Anybody remember last year? As in: who did we lose to twice? Yep: Quick Nijmegen. O, ánd the team that was rockbottom and hadn’t won yet (then it was HBS). This is something we probably want to redeem ourselves for, wouldn’t you say?