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Published: March 22nd 2007
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HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY TO RHONA TODAY. VERY BEST WISHES FROM ALL THE BOYS BUT ESPECIALLY FROM YOUR HUBBY . HE CAN'T WAIT TILL HE SEES YOU ON SUNDAY SO HE CAN CELEBRATE YOUR 50TH BIRTHDAY !!
Thursday is match day and all our boys were well up for a great day out.Babes went running at 7 am and most others went for breakfast to line their stomachs for another day of drinking diet coke's at the match! We were picked up at 8.15am by Sackville Grey our now resident taxi driver,this is honestly his real name!
We headed for the shops as we had decided to dress up as it was our last day at the cricket.We all bought bright ties,partyhats,whistles and hooters.We totally looked the part and the locals certainly loved our get up as we headed to the ground!
We arrived at the ground around 9am and after another round of strict security we entered the arena and stood on the banking where we have been at the other two matches.The start was delayed due to a massive downpour just after 9am.As we were on the uncovered bank we had nowhere
to hide so we all got soaked.Fortunately like most rain in The Caribbean the shower only lasted 10 minutes before the sun came out yet again and it ended up extremely hot and humid.
We made more noise that ever but unfortunartely The Scotland Cricket team could not get out of 1st gear.Their performance with the bat and the ball was a disgarce and everyone all around was gutted that they could not even beat Holland and finish in third place.
As you all know the match finished earlier than usual and we were back at the hotel by 3.30pm which is quite ironic as we were back later than that for the Australia and South Africa games and that included a rain delay.The boys all headed to the pool once we arrived back and then just lounged about till the sun went down.
We decided to eat out last night for a wee change.We ended up at a beach bar and eat burger and chips or chicken and chips.Although it was different from our usual fare at the hotel it was nowhere near the same quality.The boys moved onto our favourite bar called
Ziggy's where we had our last proper night out.The band played a long version of the 1980 classic Down Under and the place rocked.This song has been most definately been the highlight of the holiday in terms of going out to Ziggy's.Even the younger boys enjoyed it too.This was also GP's and Jacko's last night as they leave on friday one day earlier than the rest of the other guys.
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The Netherlands won the battle for third place in Group A with an emphatic eight-wicket success over Scotland.
Essex's Ryan ten Doeschate hammered an unbeaten 70, sharing an unbroken 103 with Bas Zuiderent, as the Dutch raced to their 137 target with 26 overs left.
Put into bat, Scotland lost Navdeep Poonia to the second ball of the match and were 15-4 inside seven overs, Billy Stelling with 3-12 from eight overs.
Neil McCallum and Colin Smith shared 38 but fell in two overs to Mark Jonkman.
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After two heavy defeats this is a great result for Holland!
DM
Because of Scotland's rapid demise, the Dutch openers had 12 overs before the lunch
break, usually intended for between innings.
It appeared as though they intended to score 137 in that period, with four fours in the opening three overs.
Darron Reekers skewed to mid-off and John Blain claimed a second wicket when Eric Szwarczynski's hook looped up off the splice to the keeper.
But Ten Doeschate soon ensured a change of ball when he lofted Glenn Rogers onto the roof, signalling the fifty partnership with Zuiderent and only 50 more to win.
County stalwart Dougie Brown was brought on with only 45 runs to play with and produced an excellent first over, with one squaring up Ten Doeschate, but umpire Asoka de Silva rejected the appeal and his only signal was for four leg-byes.
De Leede struck in his opening over with an impressive juggling catch
In the next over Majid Haq also had a strong case for lbw, against Zuiderent, but umpire Tony Hill refused, much to the dismay of the spinner.
Ten Doeschate recorded his fourth one-day fifty from 61 balls, hammering three successive boundaries and appropriately finished the match by slamming a full toss to the boundary.
It was the first
Dutch victory against Scotland following two narrow defeats within the last year.
Dutch wicket-keeper Jeroen Smits could hardly have wished for a better start to his reign as captain.
Smits took charge after regular skipper Luuk van Troost left himself out.
He won the toss and saw his opening pair Stelling and Reekers cause all manner of problems with some dramatic late swing.
After Poonia fished in the first over, Haq was reprieved on five when Daan van Bunge, perhaps still reeling from Herschelle Gibbs and the six sixes in an over, spilled a routine slip chance.
Ten Doeschate ensured a swift ending to the match in St Kitts
But Haq added only a single before he was bowled through the gate by Reekers.
Stelling was on a hat-trick when he ousted Gavin Hamilton and Brown with successive swinging deliveries.
It could have been 19-5 if a third slip had been in place, but Ryan Watson at least got the runs column moving as well, stepping down the pitch to swipe a boundary and cutting the next one to the boundary.
Van Bunge bungled another slip chance to give McCallum
a life on three, and bowler Stelling's misfortune was compounded next ball when he was driven for four.
The first bowling change came after 13 overs and veteran spinner Tim de Leede struck with his fourth delivery, Scotland's premier batsman Watson firing a return chance that the 39-year-old grabbed low at the second attempt.
Spinner Mohammad Kashif got in on the act in his second over, Craig Wright so far out of his ground he was nearer the bowler than the batting crease when Smits stumped him.
Rogers swiped successive boundaries off Kashif and afforded the same treatment to Ten Doeschate when the Essex man was introduced into the attack to bowl the 27th over.
There was time for van Bunge to blunder again, this time at short-leg, but the beleaguered leg-spinner had the last laugh when number 11 Paul Hoffman skewed him to mid-off
Text taken from www.bbc.co.uk
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Mrs Babes
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Cheeky Ge..............
Don't be so cheeky to your elders. Did your parents teach you nothing about manners? Don't believe everything Babes tells you, I am only 23 really. Look forward to the home coming. See you all soon. Lots of Luv XXXXXX