Twenty - Weston Creek Cricket Club

Twenty Seasons Onthe ultimate result for the year proved (we was robbed!).The Dickson track looked, as usual, to be slow and low and,knowing that, we elected to bat after winning the toss.With a few good partnerships we were progressing well andlooking forward to a good tally.Amongst those to bat was a young chap up from the juniorswho, as often happened at this time of the year, was a totalunknown to me. Those "in the know" said he was prettyhandy with the ball and would be worth a few overs. Hecould also bat a bit they said.Our bowling looked fairly formidable with Tim, Paddy, PinoD'addo and Co., and the batting had been doing enough to getus home. So I didn't think the new lad would be prominent inthe stats.As the batting order had been selected, he didn't figure in thetop 7 on this day anyway.Back to the game, and just after tea we wanted to push on toget a crack at Norths for a few overs that night. With this inmind, the instruction was sent and a few wickets tumbled inthe run chase.I elevated several hitters in the order at which point the youngchap, by now padded up for an hour, was looking a bit out ofsorts with my captaincy.Eventually the call came and he marched to the crease withabout 5 overs and 2 wickets to go.I must admit after a few strokes he did look as though he hada bit of potential. Seemed to have a bit of time and a goodeye. At the close, he remained not out on 22.79