On what was a pleasant evening there were a few notable absentees, noticeably our Scottish captain of vice Lucy. We did, however, manage to put together a fearsome team including debutant Ben.
After an early mishap of Rich and Rachel not managing to get on the tube, we regrouped at Baker Street before setting off towards the pitch. In the meantime the nimble footed Jags had cycled to the pitch and was getting paranoid as to whether there was actually a game scheduled due to nobody else appearing!
At last we all arrived to Tom’s relief and there we saw Huggy Bear bopping across the pitch to scare off the footballers encroaching onto his ‘territory’ (the pitch).
As the opposition rolled up there was a growing confidence within team Metrica’s ranks. To open the batting James ‘the dangerman’ Taylor stepped up to the plate and with what can only be described as unbridled aggression within his eyes, he duly dispatched the ball and we were off. After a successful first innings of 3 runs we moved out into the field. Tom ‘the natural’ Jagger our star pitcher took to the pitchers circle and tossed some nice ones down, unfortunately Huggy Bear appeared to have forgotten his glasses and there were some dodgy calls.
In what was a low scoring game, there were two notable events. The first involved Ed ‘its gonna come down with snow on it’ Kitchingman. After hitting what can only be described as a rocket Ed tore away and off around the diamond, unfortunately his turning circle appeared to be rather large and bases were not stepped upon, in the ensuing drama Ed was tagged out by their ruthless pitcher despite having reached 3rd base ‘safely’. Despite this setback we headed into the bottom of the 6th innings only 2 runs behind needing to keep the opposition from scoring to give ourselves a chance in the last innings. To everyone’s disbelief, a female member of the opposition team (who had been feigning injury for the whole match, requiring someone else to run for her) was spotted doing handstands and cartwheels whilst waiting to bat. This increased the Metrica ferocity in the field and we held them to only 1 run.
In the last innings chasing a deficit of 3 runs, Gareth who had already hit some excellent shots stepped up to the plate and blasted one into the outfield. Unfortunately his pace deceived him and he overshot the third base and in another cruel move the opposition tagged him out, heads dropped and it was apparent that it was not going to be Metrica’s day.
Although a 10-7 defeat was the end result a good time was had by all and we shall be back stronger so Gerunimo “The G-Force” our next opponents had better beware!
After an early mishap of Rich and Rachel not managing to get on the tube, we regrouped at Baker Street before setting off towards the pitch. In the meantime the nimble footed Jags had cycled to the pitch and was getting paranoid as to whether there was actually a game scheduled due to nobody else appearing!
At last we all arrived to Tom’s relief and there we saw Huggy Bear bopping across the pitch to scare off the footballers encroaching onto his ‘territory’ (the pitch).
As the opposition rolled up there was a growing confidence within team Metrica’s ranks. To open the batting James ‘the dangerman’ Taylor stepped up to the plate and with what can only be described as unbridled aggression within his eyes, he duly dispatched the ball and we were off. After a successful first innings of 3 runs we moved out into the field. Tom ‘the natural’ Jagger our star pitcher took to the pitchers circle and tossed some nice ones down, unfortunately Huggy Bear appeared to have forgotten his glasses and there were some dodgy calls.
In what was a low scoring game, there were two notable events. The first involved Ed ‘its gonna come down with snow on it’ Kitchingman. After hitting what can only be described as a rocket Ed tore away and off around the diamond, unfortunately his turning circle appeared to be rather large and bases were not stepped upon, in the ensuing drama Ed was tagged out by their ruthless pitcher despite having reached 3rd base ‘safely’. Despite this setback we headed into the bottom of the 6th innings only 2 runs behind needing to keep the opposition from scoring to give ourselves a chance in the last innings. To everyone’s disbelief, a female member of the opposition team (who had been feigning injury for the whole match, requiring someone else to run for her) was spotted doing handstands and cartwheels whilst waiting to bat. This increased the Metrica ferocity in the field and we held them to only 1 run.
In the last innings chasing a deficit of 3 runs, Gareth who had already hit some excellent shots stepped up to the plate and blasted one into the outfield. Unfortunately his pace deceived him and he overshot the third base and in another cruel move the opposition tagged him out, heads dropped and it was apparent that it was not going to be Metrica’s day.
Although a 10-7 defeat was the end result a good time was had by all and we shall be back stronger so Gerunimo “The G-Force” our next opponents had better beware!
