Match Abandoned.
Match played at Woodfarm Pavillion, Glasgow on Saturday 6th May 2023 at 12:00.
Western Union Championship Three, 40 overs-a-side.
Toss won by Glasgow South, who elected to bat.
ER ground is as if imagined by Charles Dickens.
Hidden in a warren of interwar housing you will eventually discover a perfectly nice 1930s club house but one that's off limits before wandering down the hill past a ruined set of cricket nets that resemble the fence Sarah Connor clings to before her Armageddon dream whilst trapped in a mental asylum in Terminator 2. All that functions in this caged off space is a solitary and sanitary portable toilet for one.
On boundary edge are two metal containers. One filled with the tools of the groundsman which briefly were out as the sun shone allowing the team to change. The other filled with ER players and supporters and kit and sadness.
Rain was always going to come but to see our bags left out was a pain.
That ER had secured the quality covers from Polloc (RIP) but refused to use them as the wheels offended the groundsman - favouring a plastic sheet last used at a crime scene was odd.
They won the toss and choose to bat.
Akshat and Eekansh bowled ok. Ian took a great catch off Akshat Eekansh denied a plumb LBW. I picked up some dog poo that Fraser was not keen on at second slip.
It rained.
Covers farce ensued.
We came off.
We came back.
Faatima bowled three perfect balls.
We came off and all stood in driving rain.
Match abandoned.
Tea was offered beneath a lonely and insufficient umbrella.
In short an awful pointless day.
Nice people trying to build a club on a patch of under invested unloved mud in wealthy Giffnock less than a mile from Clydesdale.
But they had a Frogbox.
So there's that…