Report by Tom Serby:
The vagaries and idiosyncrasies of Remnants availability saw last week's team that were thrashed by Cambridge Assessment morph into a veritable mid-week cricketing behemoth.
This random act of fate was exacerbated by the random acts of fate that saw perfectly good forcing strokes by Sharks batters (batting first) ricochet the ball off bats onto their stumps and only their skipper who retired on 30* could not be considered unfortunate not to have cashed in on another true Fitz batting surface. Bowling-wise, Remnants' steadiest and most economic bowler, Max Ayliffe, was the least penetrative (0/11 off 3 overs). Prabhdeep Singh (3/15 off 3 overs) was both tight and penetrative and Faruk Kara (2/27 off 3 overs) and Vishal Vasanthakumar (2/22 off 3 overs) being the other wicket-takers.
On the batting front, Tom Serby faced the ignominy of being the only batter neither not out or retired and it was only slight consolation to have hit the first ball of the innings to the midwicket boundary. J-P Joubert (30* retired off 21 balls) was his usual domineering self, playing the ball along the ground to the onside boundary with a flick of the wrists. Seb Hammersley (30* retired off 24 balls) took a more aggressive approach retired first, before Neeban Balayasoderan (33* off 14 balls), with a strike rate comfortably in excess of 200, set down a marker in his first Remnants outing. A resounding win with over 4 eight-ball overs to spare.
