Askham I vs Stockton

Stockton & Hopgrove 96-3 beat Aksham Bryan I 93 all out by 7 wickets. View Photos

Report (in the form of haiku)

Dry, dusty (really!)
Hot, humid, muggy as hell
Skipper loses toss

Stockon and Hopgrove
Deliberate thoughtfully
Askham Bryan bat

Douglas and Robert
Fight off the early pacemen
Runs accumulate

Doug bowled, Grewer too
Woody, Rob shortly after
Sixty on the board

Sharpe counter-attacks
Scores sixteen while Albert blocks
Scoreboard ticks over

Pete goes, then Naveen,
Sideshow – fine form – blasts away
Albert goes for four

The Obold’s first ball
A marvellous cover drive
First runs for the club

Phil caught, Afshin bowled
Praveen gets caught, leaves Sideshow
twenty-one not out

Tasty tea – Pork pie
Victoria sponge, strawberries,
Tiffin a higlight

Pete Wood bowling first
Pace, zip, straight as an arrow,
Awkward for batsmen

Naveen bowling next
very very very quick
you get the picture

Three wickets then fall
perfect yorker from Naveen
unlikely victory?

Batsmen recover
The Grewer bowls no Grewsra
Afshin wicketless

Stockton hit winner
Celebrations, ovation
to the pub we go.

5 Responses to “Askham I vs Stockton”

  1. steve Says:

    they should all be like that!!! lol

  2. The Copeland Says:

    The Hall excels self
    The Sideshow with bat, likewise
    The Copeland absent.

  3. Rob Dale Says:

    An innovation too far?

  4. The Albert Hall Says:

    I’d have thought the most “bookish” (Dale, 2010) member of the team would’ve enjoyed a bit of poetry!

    Looks like the haiku has divided opinion – other regular followers have also given mixed reviews.

    You watch, in 12 months time Agnew will be doing his blog in haiku. Then you’ll all be with me…

  5. The Slezak Says:

    Next week can we have
    Iambic Pentameter?
    Like cricket: English

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