I was down watching the mighty City's 4th Grade
side on Saturday in their successful run chase and their first win of the season. City's 4th Grade side had a mountain of a run chase of 239. At the Minor league fields scoring is never easy with the ball not running over the long grass. Anthony Fitzgerald was scoring and he is now Captaining the side, It reminded of the 4th Grade Major Semi-Final match against Old Boys last season. Anthony was facing his third delivery when he advanced down the wicket and took a long stride forward in defence. He was so far down the wicket that he could almost shake the umpire’s hand. There was a half hearten appeal from the bowler, with no other fieldsman joining in to the appeal. To everyone's amazement the umpire put his finger up and gave Anthony “ÖUT” LBW.
But I was not surprised by Anthony’s reaction, he left the field without showing any frustration and annoyance towards the umpire or opposing players.
Anthony has always played within the spirit of the game, City juniors playing in 4th Grade this season are lucky to have Anthony as their captain. Anthony also knows the game of cricket, his batting technique is up there with the best batsmen we have in the club.
And talking about poor umpiring……………..well that’s cricket and as in life you get some rough decisions go against you. It’s how you react to them, makes you who you are. On a Saturday afternoon you are forever seeing a player throwing a overthrow, dropping a catch, misfield a ball, bowling a wide or no-ball, or playing a bad shot: we all make mistakes even umpires.
GOOOOOOOOO in the end I believe they all level out CITY
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