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Tales from Down Under, December 10
Chorley-based cricket star Luis Reece is currently playing for Sunshine Coast Scorchers in Australia and is sending back weekly reports of his adventures...
Poor performances and poor personal batting form led to my team the Scorchers making several changing in their search for their lost form.
Unfortunately I was one of the four men that had been told to have a run in the seconds to search for some form.
Although I was disappointed in my batting form, I thought that my bowling performances were enough after being second highest wicket-taker in our team.
However, I was also sort of relieved as I could go back to the basics and start enjoying the game, which for a few weeks now I haven't been able to do.
We were to play against a side called Norths at home. It was the same team that we played earlier in the season in a one day game when Australian allrounder Andy Bichel played.
We lost the toss on what seemed another good track and their batters seemed determined to make use of it.
We managed to get an early breakthrough and it wasn't long till I got my chance to bowl.
It was one of my best bowling days since I got here although it wasn't my day for wickets as I only picked the one up, but finished with figures 1-30 off 15.
In what seemed a long day due to some slow batting they decided to take the light offered by the umpires and finished the day on 270-7 after 103 overs.
The following week had seen a lot of rainfall so we expected a softer greener pitch, however we were wrong.
A true belter had been prepared and as a result they decided to bat on. They got to 303-7 before we got our first breakthrough of the morning.
I was brought on to bowl and got two wickets in two balls – meaning I was on a hat-trick next innings.
We started off the chase of 303 pretty well, losing our first wicket on 41, which brought me into bat.
My poor form showed as I scratched around to survive and was in need of my luck to change.
It seemed as though it had when the wicketkeeper dropped a little edge and the fluency came to my batting as I accelerated to 23.
Unfortunately I was then on the wrong end of an unlucky lbw decision and our batting crumbled like it has so many times in the first team. It meant we subsided from 103-2 to 130-7 at tea.
We were determined to hang in there avoid defeat, and we nearly did until a dubious lbw decision led to two more wickets to fall and that was the end of the innings.
Form continues to run away from us, and it is definitely desperate times as we now need to win every game to get into the finals.
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Saturday 11 February 2012
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