Recap

BURES CC v West Bergholt CC

The final match of the season was against West Bergholt and, despite being well into September, the weather was kind to us, ending on a warm, sunny day. Toss yet again lost by the Chairman and West Bergholt decided to bat.

They began slowly with Benji (W) and Mr Slow opening up. Benji, despite not being at his best, took an early wicket, and Mr Slow backed him up with some typical accurate, some might say mesmeric, bowling of yore, and he was rewarded with a wicket. For some time, West Bergholt failed to break the shackles, rarely rising above a scoring rate of 4 an over. Adam (K) bowled tidily, as ever, without any luck, and so it was left to Tom (W) to make the next break through with a fine ball ripping through the batsman’s defences.

The Chairman then reverted to two of the Bures stalwarts, Jay (E) and Rupert (T) who bowled very economically, with Rupert picking up 2 wickets. However, the next two batsmen batted sensibly and despite hitting many boundaries, seemed to score 2 off nearly every ball. They manged to push the final total up to 160 off their 30 overs, a score which we could easily overhaul.

Sadly, once again, the Bures batting fell apart and we found we were 13 for 5 after only 8 overs. Fortunately, Rupert and Adam were able to save our blushes, both scoring 41, but we continued to
fall further and further behind the required rate. Needing 40 off the last 3 overs the Chairman was able to hit one lusty 6, but we still fell short by 30 runs.

A disappointing end to a somewhat disappointing (and sad) season.

The mighty Bures will, of course, rise again, and next year it will be a different story.