SCORECARD

Top Gun Batting Performance from Fitmen

Old Mo Fitmen 211-4, beat Mermaids, 144-6, by 67 runs

Fitmen lost the toss and were put into bat. Out first into combat callsigns “100Hundreds”, and “The Colonel”.   Openers saw off the new ball but sadly earlier than planned, safely ejecting to the pavilion for 9 & 4, respectively 

In at three “Maverick” in the best of the best form, and he didn’t disappoint. From ball one, anything off line or length was shot down to the boundary.

Cameos from callsign “Jester” bashing 9 runs off the back foot and a rare appearance from “(not so) Iceman” smashing 19 off 12. 

In at 6 walked Goose, back from the dead but still shellshocked from past trauma inflected by friendly fire grenades from Nutter in a previous battle. 

Maverick and his wingman Goose clicked from ball one, sharing a 100+ partnership off 9 overs. 

Maverick showing no sign of mercy to the Mermaid pilots driving onto the golf course with cultured check drives, and then when needed switching to guns with def shots behind point. 

Goose was a little less textbook, a bit more “less think - do”, taking advantage of the short leg-side boundary and buzzing the tower (pavilion) on more than one occasion. Apologies to Mrs Iceman and the bench. 

With one over left, the call from Ghostrider was that the pattern was full with Mav was on 92 Goose 46. Ball 1&2 boundaries hit with ease from Maverick to bring up his hundred off 46 balls, (16 fours and 2 sixes) strike rate a ballistic 219.56. The third ball was a cheeky bye to get Goose on strike, 4th crashed and burned swinging widely on ball 4, but smashed ball 5 for 6 to bring up his 52 of 26 balls (7 fours 3 sixes).

211 a total to take your breath away.

Fitmen into the field. The skipper felt the need, the need for speed - so opened with the opening pace duo of calls signs “Student” & “Nokia”. Unfortunately, we weren’t expecting left handed bogeys so both wing men took some tap early with the short boundary on the wrong side.

Student bowled better than his figure suggest, beating the bat on numerous occasions - don't lose that bowling feeling. 

We needed a level headed gun to bring back control, so we called on callsign “Mentos” to steady the aircraft carrier. And Mentos delivered, 4 overs 2 maidens 3 for 6, shooting the Mermaid's most dangerous bogeys out of the sky, extinguishing any hope of a tense finish.  

Further spin and loop the loopy stuff was brought on in the form of “Merlin” and “Mav’s Dad” unfortunately not taking any scalps but took this game to bed before it was lost forever. 

Nokia came back into the attack at mach 10 with two great balls of fire and Goose got a cheap one at the death.

The margin of victory 67 runs. 

Fitmen making the most of the bank holiday retired to the Covered Wagon for some tops off bench volleyball.