YC&AC Over The Line in Close Won Contest!

Manish and Shugo opened the bowling and kept the BECC batsmen pinned down. Shugo kept up his line and length and was rewarded with the wicket of Sud, an Embassy star. Anthony threw Rich Freeman the ball and despite some complaining about it being a bit early for spin, he ripped into the Embassy batsmen, removing their number 3 and 4 in consecutive balls! The Embassy were under pressure and Captain Hague wanted to keep the pressure on. He threw the ball to the tall Yorkshire squire, Dave Rear. He bamboozled the batsman with a short one that nearly bounced twice. The number 2 Embassy batsman’s eyes lit up but he mistimed it and hit a slow moving return shot to Dave who snaffled it! It was time for the Captain to have a bowl and he took two wickets in his first over, one removing the middle stump of the number 7 batsman! Captain Bayne and Kenji then steadied the BECC ship but it was leaking badly and listing heavily. Alan Iwata then tricked the Embassy’s number 10 batsman with a straight one which he chipped to slip. Stu and Matt chipped in with some tight bowling and Maneesh cleaned up the tail. Embassy all out for 116 off 25 overs.