Birty cup semi-final rehearsal

A depleted Heaton side with only 8 players present at the start of the game begged to bat on a hard St Georges track unaffected by the overnight rain as the 2s support staff ensured the game went ahead by sheeting up the square............it is possible !
Ruthless Runi with henchmen Bullock & JP in tow showed no sympathy and elected to bat on a hot summers day.

Stand in opener Abbass didn’t see the script as he fell lbw for 2 bringing Hodgy to the middle. They both raced to 50 despatching the Heaton attack to all parts before Hodgy left a ball which drifted in on the breeze for 87 bowled. Glenn continued to reach his ton before retiring allowing Big Ben to the wicket with Kingy. They battered the bowling before Kingy went bowled for 44 whilst Ben hit some towering blows to clear the ropes on his way to an unbeaten maiden senior ton finishing not out 102 to the close the innings on 366. The 2 Heaton latecomers must have wondered why they bothered.

In reply Heaton were never in the hunt as wickets fell regularly with golden arm Dixon,with his army of followers, took 5 wickets whilst the only notable knock was from Jonny Cross(36) before he was bowled by a Jay Dunning slowball ; Hodgy bamboozled the last 2 batsmen with a mixture of slow full tosses ,outswinging seaming deliveries before the wrongun accounted for the final batsman bowled middle peg.

7 point win to got clear at the top as Greenmount lose again