Practice Makes Perfect?

...or at least makes you better I guess. On Friday night, a couple of other members from my cricket team met me in Morristown NJ to check out the re-opening of the Indoor Cricket USA facility there. It is really quite impressive - 3 full length indoor cricket pitches with netting allowing indoor practices at a really nice place. We each had a 30 minute bat and a bowl and it was nice to get the have a hit after work.

Saturday brought about our last league match of the year. If we won the game, we would finish top of the table and get to host the final next weekend. We bowled and fielded well, the highlight being a running, over-the-head catch by Ollie to take care of their best batsman. We bowled them out for 210 which was a decent score but I felt confident as our batting is our strong point. Opening the batting with Keith, the ball was coming off the bat quite well and I was able to ride my luck a little as well with a couple of sharp chances being dropped. The end result was that I managed to score my first century, finishing on 101 not out and with the Mad Dogs being quite easy victors, scoring the necessary runs for the loss of 3 wickets in the 23rd over. I guess if I was ever going to do it, I had to do it soon as few players get any better past their 35th birthday (unless you are a Major League Baseballer, of course). Now we have to win next week against Columbia and get revenge on them for an early season, distasteful match against them.