Breadies Bounced at Bannockburn
Strathmore & Perthshire Premier League
Saturday 2 June
Place of history and legend, Bannockburn was the iconic location for the Breadies most recent encounter in the 2007 Premier League campaign. Undaunted by the sorry fate of intruders to this place in the past, the Breadies were confident that they could get the better of the locals.
At the half way point so it seemed, as St Modans were toiling with just 77 on the board for the loss of 2 wickets. It was at this juncture that the St Modans skipper made a crucial tactical decision to deploy his brigade of mercenaries. Cricketers from the Sub Continent and the Antipodes came to the fore and literally blasted the Breadies from the field. |
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The Breadalbane bowlers took heavy casualties and only skipper Mark Bowler shone out as rallying point taking 3 for 42 and thus preventing a total rout. In the second half of the St Modans innings the home team almost quadrupled its earlier score finishing on a mighty 298 for 6.
Breadalbane retired for tea to lick wounds and regroup. Bloodied but not beaten, the Highland Perthshire men came out fighting, as you would expect.
The Breadie batters had a mountain to climb. The openers started steadily but both had departed with 68 on the board. Then, in just 15 overs, Eyes (51) and Mortimer piled on 92 runs until the battling Kiwi was caught going for yet another maximum. Mortimer continued the onslaught but he too was caught on the boundary for 85. Breadalbane required a further 100 hundred runs with 6 wickets and 11 overs remaining. Game on!
The St Modans men started to look for an escape route. It came in the shape of spin bowler B. Singh who quickly disposed of Bax Sr (10) and Douthwaite (2).
It was the Breadies who where now up against it. A defiant flurry of runs came for the 8th wicket as Bridgeman and M. Bax put on 37, but it was too little, too late for Breadalbane who, after a gallant chase, accepted defeat and surrendered the field, falling 45 runs short of their huge target.
The locals had won another fine victory. The painful warning passed down through the annals of time was reinforced once more - that invaders and intruders alike should approach this place warily and with caution, lest they too suffer a fearful fate at the Bannock Burn.
by Tailender
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