"Brighouse Billy" sees off Mr Taj and his neighbours - 19th July

25 July 2008

Saturday 19th July. Slaithwaite 272-4 vs Primrose Hill (& Wakefield City) 46 The new recruits from Wakefield look a handy bunch, and might cause a few teams problems. However, they didn’t make a blind bit of difference to this result. Hill stuck us in on an unsurprisingly difficult looking deck and then proceeded to bowl like flids, everywhere but the right areas. To be honest I was expecting a lot worse but, apart from the troublesome spot in front of the “pavilion”, the ground wasn’t in bad nick and, although the wicket wasn’t special, the moss and weeds previously incumbent were no longer apparent. Their tails were up when Geoff was well caught at backward point for just 4 but it didn’t last long as Oliver’s 124no was backed up by Agent Keeling 36 and Bez 24 then, when the home side had finished falling out with each other, Mitch came in for a game of one-sided fetch and Pip Hill were most definitely “IT”. The senior citizens in the adjacent nursing home must have thought it was 1940 again but it wasn’t The Luftwaffe, it was Brighouse Billy launching leather missiles at the poor old dears. His strike-thieving 54 included 7 big sixes before curiously holeing out to the shortest boundary. Hill’s reply never got going as Mitch trapped Hanif plumb in front and Ahmad smacked one straight to AK off Geoff. Only 2 of Pip Hill’s batsmen got more than 1 and only Nazir (15) achieved double figures as Mitch 7-23 and Geoff 3-15 finished the one-sided affair in 20.3 overs. Against Slawit this season, Primrose Hill have managed to amass an impressive 92 runs for 20 wickets in 100 available overs. Yet more evidence to support the case for 3 competitive divisions.