report by RL

A meet at RCC for lunch before the big Jesters game is now a firm resurrected tradition. RL, Dave and Matty were all waiting in anticipation for Ives and the star player he promised to bring with him. It turned out it was a star in some form being Barnsley legend Gaz Nuttall.

 Lunch at the Yeadon Stoops was a strange affair the barman looked like a Polish Stavros and the nationalities of the staff must have covered all of Eastern Europe. However, the food and drink was good so they must be doing something right.

 Arthington is quite a hard ground to find and after passing the gated entrance spotted by Gaz, Ives decided to do a three point turn in the middle of a fast country lane just after a sharp bend in the road. Gaz wasn’t happy. 

Beautiful scenery and not the facilities is the benefit of playing at Arthington. Matty true to recent form didn’t last long then Ives absolutely stuffed Ben Senior. Ives called yes for a single only to wait until Ben was halfway down the wicket before he called no. Ben was gutted but he did have a four pack of fosters in his cricket bag to ease the pain. Gaz also made the comment to Belly that number three was a bit high in the order for Ives, his actual sentence was “how can you put a batsman like Ives in at number three when he does his best batting in his dreams”.  It wasn’t a great batting performance, the highlight being RL’s massive six; second ball of facing, even the wicket keeper commented that it was the biggest he had seen for some time. Belly did roll back the years making a few but a good point was made by Ives when he said “he’s batting well but blowing through his arse”.

Tea was a rustic affair but did a job.

 Dave failed for once to make early penetration and RL was still suffering from Steven’s leaving do the night before. Wickets were taken but a change in the bowling was required. Much to the surprise of the Jesters, the usual premier spinner Scottie was overlooked instead of Waitey. This led to a labour party style revolt with Belly taking the role of Gordon Brown. Gaz bowled tight at the other end but more changes were needed resulting in Ives and Scottie being introduced into the attack. Ives struck with his first ball bowling the wandering Chris Binks. Gaz wasn’t happy and informed Ives that he had bowled three maidens at him without success and Ives being a spawny t**t gets him out straight away. Scottie then took a wicket with his first ball to add more annoyance to the situation.  One of the funniest things you could ever see on a cricket field happened next. Belly chased the ball to the boundary, went to pick the ball up and as he stood up his trousers fell down to his knees. Everybody was in stitches, even the batsman who was on strike and was still laughing when he was out the very next ball. With not many runs to play with Ives turned into Mr Angry, stepped up his pace but also bowled plenty of no balls including taking a wicket off of one.  Scottie didn’t offer much support and Gaz was told by Belly that nobody has a second spell for the Jesters after begging to come back on. Mr Angry couldn’t win us the game and a one wicket defeat followed. However it was a really enjoyable game and one to look forward to next year.

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