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September 04, 2009
Diary of a TFC Century League Challenge 13
Week 18 Day 3
This week is turning out to be very depressing indeed. So much so that by 2pm I was so fed up flicking from scorecard to scorecard seeing my players doing nothing that I took the kids bowling. That turned out to be a real buzz. The kids are naturally much better than dad - well they have been to bowling parties recently - and no-one managed to get too far ahead of the others. The youngest scored the only strike of the game and stayed just in front after that. Dad meanwhile started to get the hang of it and managed a spare in each of the last two bowls with 9 and 7 being the additional scores. This took me into the lead by six with just the youngest to go. He took out six with his first bowl and then missed with the second - a tie. Definitely going to go there again though.
Back to the cricket, Thursday was the third sub 100 day in a row. It's not even as though I could blame the weather that much. OK, my captain was stuck under the permanent cloud at Riverside, but all the rest were involved somewhere to a greater or lesser degree. About the best thing I can say is that none of the challengers had a significantly better day. I seriously considered a transfer for Ervine this morning, but the player looking most attractive was Yardy and the weather didn't look that good in the north. Anyway, here's the latest top 3; there's a 400+ point gap to 4th now.
This week is turning out to be very depressing indeed. So much so that by 2pm I was so fed up flicking from scorecard to scorecard seeing my players doing nothing that I took the kids bowling. That turned out to be a real buzz. The kids are naturally much better than dad - well they have been to bowling parties recently - and no-one managed to get too far ahead of the others. The youngest scored the only strike of the game and stayed just in front after that. Dad meanwhile started to get the hang of it and managed a spare in each of the last two bowls with 9 and 7 being the additional scores. This took me into the lead by six with just the youngest to go. He took out six with his first bowl and then missed with the second - a tie. Definitely going to go there again though.
Back to the cricket, Thursday was the third sub 100 day in a row. It's not even as though I could blame the weather that much. OK, my captain was stuck under the permanent cloud at Riverside, but all the rest were involved somewhere to a greater or lesser degree. About the best thing I can say is that none of the challengers had a significantly better day. I seriously considered a transfer for Ervine this morning, but the player looking most attractive was Yardy and the weather didn't look that good in the north. Anyway, here's the latest top 3; there's a 400+ point gap to 4th now.
| Team | Start | Thu | Total |
| Bramernic Spitfires | 16 | 95 | 18483 |
| Outside Edge | 1 | 115 | 17993 |
| GOLD 1 | 3 | 175 | 17942 |
Today has the first one-day international as a distraction and a chance to progress towards my aim of a top 100 finish overall. Trott and Denly have gone, of course, and fingers crossed the rest perform for me. Till tomorrow ...
