The Popped Collars tonight dished up the first loss of the season for arch rivals 4-Skins. Arch rivals... perhaps. Or perhaps one could call us their 'bogey team'. The last time they lost a game was the grand final last season.
As the Popped Collars were out chasing down the 120 required for victory, Jake was on the sidelines asking the hard-hitting questions. Never has he been one to shy away from controversy, and tonight was no exception as he posed: "Has Brad done anything useful recently?"
Questioning the form of the captain... dangerous territory. What do the stats tell us?
In the last 3 games, our fearless leader has the following figures:
Batting: 5, 12, 11
Bowling: 3/2, 0/28, 3/16
Contribution: +3, -16, -5
I will leave it to you, good reader, to judge for yourself. Personally, I think 3/2 are "useful" bowling figures from tonight's game.
Last week, Brad also bowled an extra over, which brought 0/5, and allowed him to join the "5 dot balls" club - an elite list of people who have bowled a single over containing 5 dot-balls. Due to the 'third dot ball' rule of indoor cricket, the most it is possible to bowl in an 8-ball-over is 6. No one has yet achieved this maximum in Popped Collars history.
The 5-dot-balls have been bowled by Gareth (twice), Andy, Rian, Julian, Brad, and Xavier (who did it in his second over of tonight). No opposition bowler has done it against us yet.
Monday, 10 May 2010
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"an elite list" of 6 people ... in an 8 per side game. Sure.
ReplyDeleteArgument 1: At my first glance it appeared elite. I missed Julian's name, wasn't considering Brad and then later noticed that I did it just that night. So at first I read it as only 3 :)
ReplyDeleteArgument 2: Consider all the opponents we have played against who have not done it!
Argument 3: Consider that it's only 7 out of 1184 overs :)