Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
I believe in Joe Hendry
- Oct 4, 2003
- 12,210
Couple of mixed performances for my boy in the indoor league.
One of the games they were missing two regulars who just didn’t turn up. Thankfully the older brother of another team mate was there so ended up playing but he had no gear with him. Fielding in a six a side game with only 5 players makes things very tricky.
The other team ended up with a huge 104/3 off 12 overs but the boy was happy with a run out to get out a bloke who’d scored a half century against the club in a slam game over the summer for just 4.
Unfortunately things didn’t go well with the bat as he was bowled 3rd ball playing one onto his pads. A bit of a rally saw a 40 run partnership for the second wicket but we were soon down to 49/4. As we only had 5 players the other team agreed one of our players could bat twice so in came my boy again, they got the score up to a respectable 68 all out and he got 9 off 5 balls before being run out with the game well gone.
Another game and they’d drawn the late Tuesday night slot so starting at nearly 9pm wasn’t the best for a development team mainly made up of school aged teens. This was against another team from the town we are all based in so there is some friendly rivalry. We won the toss and elected to field but lost our captain to a finger injury after just 4 balls. This meant the other team could run up quite the score and even the courageous return of our captain after 5 or 6 overs couldn’t stop the onslaught as they finished on 112/2 with both openers retiring (league rules are players retire at 25 but can come back in if the other players are out). Thankfully my boy got another run out to keep his spirits up.
It was clearly a night for batting as although we started slowly both our openers ended up retiring too, the first time the boy has had to retire in the indoor league. Unfortunately the other batsman couldn’t score as well and my boy soon found himself back in with his opening partner again. The game was lost by this point we needed 50 off the last 2 overs but they managed to get 25 runs off those overs to lose by just 25 runs. The boy got 28 before he was run out which is his highest score.
In another bit of good news for him he might be loaned to the team he scored 28 against next season to play for their thirds if he isn’t playing for our second XI. I was scoring the game with their first XI captain and he was very impressed and one of the other players wicket kept against my son earlier in the summer season when he got his highest score so far of 46, so they know when he’s on his game what he has to offer.
One of the games they were missing two regulars who just didn’t turn up. Thankfully the older brother of another team mate was there so ended up playing but he had no gear with him. Fielding in a six a side game with only 5 players makes things very tricky.
The other team ended up with a huge 104/3 off 12 overs but the boy was happy with a run out to get out a bloke who’d scored a half century against the club in a slam game over the summer for just 4.
Unfortunately things didn’t go well with the bat as he was bowled 3rd ball playing one onto his pads. A bit of a rally saw a 40 run partnership for the second wicket but we were soon down to 49/4. As we only had 5 players the other team agreed one of our players could bat twice so in came my boy again, they got the score up to a respectable 68 all out and he got 9 off 5 balls before being run out with the game well gone.
Another game and they’d drawn the late Tuesday night slot so starting at nearly 9pm wasn’t the best for a development team mainly made up of school aged teens. This was against another team from the town we are all based in so there is some friendly rivalry. We won the toss and elected to field but lost our captain to a finger injury after just 4 balls. This meant the other team could run up quite the score and even the courageous return of our captain after 5 or 6 overs couldn’t stop the onslaught as they finished on 112/2 with both openers retiring (league rules are players retire at 25 but can come back in if the other players are out). Thankfully my boy got another run out to keep his spirits up.
It was clearly a night for batting as although we started slowly both our openers ended up retiring too, the first time the boy has had to retire in the indoor league. Unfortunately the other batsman couldn’t score as well and my boy soon found himself back in with his opening partner again. The game was lost by this point we needed 50 off the last 2 overs but they managed to get 25 runs off those overs to lose by just 25 runs. The boy got 28 before he was run out which is his highest score.
In another bit of good news for him he might be loaned to the team he scored 28 against next season to play for their thirds if he isn’t playing for our second XI. I was scoring the game with their first XI captain and he was very impressed and one of the other players wicket kept against my son earlier in the summer season when he got his highest score so far of 46, so they know when he’s on his game what he has to offer.