The Sav's go Matching on.

Peter Roebuck

Last Thursday night saw the Sav’s turn up to the FDICC looking to secure a spot in the upcoming finals against the four place team, “Text me Shane”

With Captain Arjuna back in the line up it meant that the Sav’s needed to be on there game. Winning the toss and electing Shane to have a bat (Against the bowling that is), the Sav’s were looking to fire early.

The first pairing got off to a solid start placing 30 odd on the board early. There were some missed opportunities, but the Sav’s were in a good position seeing the strongest pairing finished.

The intensity of the Sav’s was getting to the Shane’s. The little pocket rocket aka “Tempter” overheard them paying the crap out of the Sav’s saying quote “These guys are way too intense and take it to serious!”

Hollywood also heard this gutter trash and mentioned to Bay 19 crowd “Mate are you going to the Finals??”. An air of silent filled the bay as they tried to have a comeback….

Whilst the “Dumb” bay were trying to work out Hollywood’s words of wisdom, the Sav’s were smashing the next pairing. The blind society was batting brilliantly in trying circumstances and showed the crowd how to best lose your wicket. Suddenly there was uproar within the Sav’s as Captain Arjuna, called for the ball. Knowing full well his stats are well below average, he thought he would be selfish and bowl his final over to the Blind. Unfortunately this did not work in his favour and managed to get no wickets. A Sav was quoted in saying “I’d rather get my wickets against top batters, then abusing my power to bowl to someone who can’t play”.

The crowd thought it was Christmas as the lights on the score board were flashing as the Sav’s tore through the final pairing with some great bowling from Hollywood, Tucan, Apoo and Slick.

With a massive total of 54 to chase the chase started off well with the Co-Captains Hollywood and Arjuna placed a solid 30 on the board. The Shane’s knew the game was gone by this stage and out came Tucan and Ocky looking to show the massive crowd how to play the game. To everyone’s surprise there were a small number of wickets in their pairing, they manage to still win the skin but Tucan came off so he looked like a father who just caught his daughter in the act!

Dabber and Reebs united again after a break from each other and batted well. They were nudging the ball all over the net. They were running well between the wickets and looked like they were never going to get out, but yes that is wishful thinking and there were a number of wickets.

The most interesting part of the evening was yet to come. Out came Slick and Apoo looking to get some batting practise in before the finals. They were batting well until the final over. The first ball Slick was facing, he smacked the so called “Pie Chucker” for six. With Apoo taking a nice single giving Slick the strike again. Things started to get interesting now, when what only can be described as the biggest “Brain Fart in all time” occurred. Slick was stumped 4 times in the over. He was fuming and held his rage in very well. Post match Slick said “I’m shattered, but glad I didn’t hit the crap out of the wicket keeper!!! I haven’t done that in years, but I will be back next week looking to open the batting and place a good score on the board!”

The Sav’s are now in 3 place looking to finish 2nd on the ladder with a win next week.

The team look like they may miss a couple of stars in the next couple of weeks and we will see the true character of the team as the chase their 1st premiership in over 10 years.