Pull Up A Pew

The annual churches together game. A festival of fun, frolics and fund raising in the best possible spirit. Will you have a better time in Fleckney? Not even if you are living on a prayer.

Team Sheath batted first with the novel idea of putting the Sunday 10 and 11 to open the proceedings. File that one away 'Bad Ideas For A Sunday Sermon'.

The Hundred format allowed 10 players to bowl 10 balls and each batter to face no more than 25 balls. No one on team Sheath managed to hit that limit although they did finish on 89 with everyone having a go. Brother Walshy went for 22 in his 10 deliveries, if congregations gave as generously every leaky Church roof in the country would be fixed before evensong.

I could go through the minute details of the reply which team Walsh won off the penultimate ball but three things should be remembered in the order of service.

1) Father Phillip probably hit the shot of the evening with a sweet drive for four.

2) The fat keeper snared one at first slip

3) Anna dismissed Ollie Timms with the event of the night/season/millenium that brought the house down.

After careful meditation and prayer we realise we could skate over the details but Anna got rid of Gobshite. Again Anna had Gobshite caught behind. Gobshite fell to his knees in either supplication or disbelief. Of course regular teammates allowed him to return to the pavillion in the quiet respectful silence of Christian brotherhood....or gave him some right earache. You can decide.

Anyway fun was had , money was raised and a good night was had by all. Well, unless you are Ollie but that is probably understood.

Amen