Kinlet v Bedouins – Wednesday May 27

Bedouins win.

The Bedouins took a trip to the always picturesque ground of Kinlet for a Wednesday night game on May 27.
Set in the rolling hills around Bewdley, Kinlet’s facilities are not the most sophisticated but the welcome is always warm and the views are very pleasant.

The long drive up to the ground posed an unusual challenge of forcing the sheep out of the way by making slow progress and hoping the wooly obstructions realised there would only be one winner in the car v sheep competition, thankfully they had all read the Highway Code.

Beds batted first and lost an early wicket with the departure of J Branch however new signing Ron Miller (identical twin of Enville CC stalwart Rob) and Austin Gregory made steady progress to keep the scoreboard ticking over.
Ron retired at 30 and batters came and went before skipper Jono Hill and stand-in Bedouin Joe Bromfield pushed the total over 130 which gave the bowlers something to defend.

Robbo and Gregory got the innings underway and made early inroads before Paul Moran and M Smith got into the action and continued to whittle away through the middle order.

Despite a mix of youth and experience, Kinlet could not get a partnership going and struggled to keep up with the required rate.

Eventually it fell to Mike George and J Branch to finish them off with a blistering spell which brought the hosts’ innings to an end some 50 runs short of their target.

During a very enjoyable sausage and chips feast washed down with a pint of ale, Beds stato Austin established the average age of our bowling attack was 64, proving old fiddles still have plenty of good tunes in the playbook.