3rd League game v PCC

An ultimately disappointing result after an excellent display in the field was followed by another poor batting display.

Winning the toss the skipper put PCC into bat with the aim to put them under pressure from the start and that's excatly how it worked. A fantastic bowling display rolled PCC over for 78. Excellent bowling all round with the exception of the captain. Scott with 5 wickets and Brigham3 and Alastair 2 did the damage, backed up by Ben who was incredibly unlucky to remain wicketless despite a superb spell. 4 catches (and a drop) for Martin and 2 for Mik together were part of a great all round fielding display left Vinohrady favourites to win.

However, PCC had other ideas and left us reeling at 17 for 4, including a highly controversial dismissal. Vinohrady continued to battle though with Jeremy playing a superb innings to bat into the penultimate over, unfortunately only Martin, with 16, gave any support and during a 6th wicket partnership of 35 Vinohrady once again became favourites before a tumble of wickets at the end left the winos 5 runs short. Special mention should go to PCC's Raj for a superb bowling spell to finish off our chances.

Well played everyone and lets hope we can improve our batting and give Bohemians a real surprise.

What are the guidelines concerning "grubbers" at Vypich?. Is a dead ball called only if the ball keeps so low as to bounce more than once on the way to the batsman, or is it just "abnormally" low bounce? And who calls it ? Umpire, sq-leg umpire, or fielding captain? As long as guidelines are clear maybe there'd be less controversy. We all want a fair contest after all.

It should only be for balls which keep abnormally low and are thereby impossible to play. Umpire should call it but in terms of sportmanship the fielding captain/side should also call it to take the pressure of the umpire. Certainly I would always call it if I felt it was so but even then there's a big grey area and it always cause problems. By the way, how many runs did you get Jeremy?

not quite enough, 28 the book said