Although not at all discussed or aligned before the beginning of the match, Captain 4L magnanimously permitted the 12th man who was scrambling out to the middle with some form of pads and bat the chance to enjoy some time in the sunny centre despite the Munich players being already half way off the ground. Although under reasonable control 4/124 after 27 overs, Munich let slip a little as Craig Barrett turned up to watch – whether the aeroplanes or indeed the cricket match remains noch zu klären – and the run-rate really ‘took off’ (geddit?) at quite an Attaching rate (hello?).įrom memory, the score was around 225 or so when the tenth wicket fell. Batsmen Shashi (no, löl, not that one) and Sundeep (no, not that one either) continued at the crease for something resembling a 80 or 90 run partnership, surviving a handful of dropped catches and a spectacularly funny bat fracture that saw what must have been a top quality blade helicoptering all the way back to the bowler.Īccompanying a disastrous display of wide bowling on both sides of the wicket (though not wide enough to be exonerated as ‘dead balls’), Wembridge finally broke the partnership with Singh taking his second catch, this time at secondish slip. He trapped Zeeshan (no, not that one) LBW for a duck with what could be described as ‘a lofty delivery that stayed straight’ while Vignesh Viswanath could barely contain his laughter behind the bail-less stumps. The first bowling change brought almost immediate success some overs later with Vishv Bhatia in his first over.

Shiv took his second after a swipe in the seventh over saw Sanjeev slice one to the shaky-of-late hands at gully belonging to Andrew Wembridge. Shivam Saini and Amol Modak made a thundering start opening the bowling the former snagging the first of his several scalps in the very first over after a miscued fourth ball slog was swallowed nicely by Simrat Singh at mid-off.

Gallery 01 : Captain of the day David Llewellyn proudly showcasing his keg in addition to two bats recently donated to the club – thanks to donors Ben Fulton and Mark Lovell. Having lost the toss and being sent in to field, MCC soon realised that the five stumps and zero bails standing proudly in the centre were not in fact awaiting finalisation with any remaining pieces but in fact all that was available for the day in any case, some considered this arrangement a step-up from those plastic kids stumps we encounter away from time to time on our adventures away. On this occasion, it was covered with a comparatively well-tensioned piece of coconut matting with a system of sewn-in straps. The environmentally-and-very-friendly Sai Palla elected to reduce his carbon footprint and arrive a short time later by bicycle.Ī relatively new club, BC Attaching had all the hallmarks of typical German cricket, boasting a shiny new 10 metre half-pitch of the finest plywood from Hagebaumarkt. With reasonably well-organised car-pooling, most arrived punctually with their negative COVID-19 tests at the nearby baseball fields before realising they belonged to the Freising Grizzlies (not pictured). Munich Cricket Club sent a cheerful assortment for a 40-over friendly against BC Attaching in sunny Freising – little did they know that it would be just an Andrew-Symonds-lofted-on-drive away from one of the runways at Franz Josef Strauss Flughafen München. Saini 6-47) defeated Munich CC 168 all out (C.

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