Today's match saw the start of us charging our players 5 lira a game with the aim of building up a kitty to buy some kit. For the record, today I collected 50.75 lira.
After a few games hopefully we will be able to buy some clothing for the team and afterwards we will be looking at bats etc.
Sunday 12 July 2009
The rain in July falls mainly on Bilkent oval (but only when the Red Lions are batting)
In retrospect it was a bad idea to bat first today as the Red Lions went down to a "Turkish Invitation XI" with the invites easily chasing the Red Lion score of 93 off 20 overs.
With dark clouds moving in even before play started, things started badly for the Red Lions when Mick the Roofer was run out attempting to take a sneaky single that was never on. It didn't much better as Troy was out a few balls later even though he looked like he could have compiled a decent innings.
Batting throughout was pretty crappy, but at least some of the blame can be put on the passing shower, that was played through but meant that the ball was skidding through and made life very difficult for the batsman.
The Indian Embassy contingent all managed to look good for a few balls but ultimately they failed to get many runs.
Neil the roofer gave the Red Lion's some hope with a couple of lovely shots but was bowled first ball after the drinks break.
The sun was out by this stage and the wicket was playing a bit truer but things still looked ominous. With nine wickets down Sid the Roofer joined Steve Bryant at the wicket and together they did something that the rest couldn't manage -- stay in the middle.
Together the pair not only stayed out there but both scored some lovely boundaries.
All up though 93 was never going to be an easy target to defend.
The "Invitation XI" came out and started taking easy singles before Jonathon Clarke ripped into the attack, scoring 48 before he was caught behind by Lloyd Freeman. In was an important wicket but the damage had been done and the "Invitation XI" reached the target of 94 runs with eight wickets and an enormous eight-odd overs to spare.
It was a good day though and it was also good to see that the nets have finally been set up. In the next few weeks we hope to get a lot of time in the nets and if anyone is interested in some after work practice than please send us an e-mail at redlioncricket AT gmail.com
With dark clouds moving in even before play started, things started badly for the Red Lions when Mick the Roofer was run out attempting to take a sneaky single that was never on. It didn't much better as Troy was out a few balls later even though he looked like he could have compiled a decent innings.
Batting throughout was pretty crappy, but at least some of the blame can be put on the passing shower, that was played through but meant that the ball was skidding through and made life very difficult for the batsman.
The Indian Embassy contingent all managed to look good for a few balls but ultimately they failed to get many runs.
Neil the roofer gave the Red Lion's some hope with a couple of lovely shots but was bowled first ball after the drinks break.
The sun was out by this stage and the wicket was playing a bit truer but things still looked ominous. With nine wickets down Sid the Roofer joined Steve Bryant at the wicket and together they did something that the rest couldn't manage -- stay in the middle.
Together the pair not only stayed out there but both scored some lovely boundaries.
All up though 93 was never going to be an easy target to defend.
The "Invitation XI" came out and started taking easy singles before Jonathon Clarke ripped into the attack, scoring 48 before he was caught behind by Lloyd Freeman. In was an important wicket but the damage had been done and the "Invitation XI" reached the target of 94 runs with eight wickets and an enormous eight-odd overs to spare.
It was a good day though and it was also good to see that the nets have finally been set up. In the next few weeks we hope to get a lot of time in the nets and if anyone is interested in some after work practice than please send us an e-mail at redlioncricket AT gmail.com
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