On a very dark and gloomy Thursday, 10 Sloths made it to the Bath Uni ground (Lower Bristol Road). We would have been a full team but John Lodge pulled out early, an increasing problem with some of our elder players.

Captained by the every cheerful, increasingly useless, Fresh, we lost the toss thereby ensuring we’d be chasing in near darkness.

The Bell brought 10 good players and a Frenchman, who they hilariously forgot to explain any rules or explanation.

Playing no LBWs (unless plumb, yeah right mine was middle stump, back foot!) and four overs per bowler, Captain Fresh boldly ignored this and let everyone who wanted a go have one.

At times there were moments of “fine” fielding, these fines will be awarded in penalty points on the Fuckworth Lewis scale. Why we have such useless fielders always amazes! I guess that comes with not having enough players to really “select” from and we have to with the “tools” at hand. At least the fielding wasn’t as bad as the previous Bathford game, where our players leaked more runs through simple incompetence and lack of coordinated mobility.  Well done to Jimmi and Cam for their efforts and actually moving about the pitch. Other notables in the field were Ian Swan (“How do I get off the bottom of the Fuckworth scale?”) with a catch at fine leg and a couple of wickets bowling. Laurie with a tight four overs.

It was hard without a scoreboard but by then end the Bell had racked up 132 (albeit in secret) and the Sloths had to chase in the gloomy evening light, with an increasing light drizzle..
Notable were Jimmi C, Cam Bond and young Lewis (a great four) with the bat, the rest of the Sloths were more than useless but to fair faced some good tight bowling.

The Bell, Frenchman included, were the better team and had we had Lodge and Fresh had won the toss, things could have been different. Not wanting to point fingers or anything but Lewis Senior (batting 7) managed zero runs and bowled two overs for 16 runs, one wicket. Lewis Junior (batting 9) scores 5 off the bat and bowls four overs for 22, one wicket. Add to that that Fresh nearly ran out Cam by chatting. The question has to be asked, who in the Lewis family SHOULD be captain. Maybe we could retain Johnny as club secretary?