The Winner Takes It All...

Two more T20 games have come and gone since my last blog post. In the first we were outplayed and roundly cuffed by a superior Somerset outfit. Although the imperious Tresco fell in the thirties Somerset always looked in control, and even when some fine ‘at the death’ bowling pulled it back to a gettable target you had the feeling that Somerset were just too classy to be caught by the Surrey batsmen. And sure enough, they weren’t...

In the game against Glammy we did to the Welsh side what Somerset had done to us the day before, and soared like an ‘Eagle’. It was almost unbelievable to think that Surrey could put in such Jekyll and Hyde performances back-to-back, but in hindsight we’ve been doing this all season. ‘Should I laugh or cry?’ I think Surrey would win first prize for most consistently inconsistent side in the country! One minute they’re hot, the next so cold the skin would be taken from your backside if you sat down for any length of time. It certainly makes for an exciting team, but you can’t help but wonder if they have any self-belief. All the other components are there. I wish someone would take the team to one side and say “look, if you do what you did to Glamorgan every day you’d be world beaters”...

I’m assuming that this talk actually happens in the pre-match huddle each game, and somehow it just hasn’t truly sunk in. Maybe they’re in a ‘Dream world’.

Whilst this seems like ‘Disillusion’, the truth is this lot are talented. Most of them are young. They are missing Ramps’ experience, but they have the mighty de Bruyn to step in to the breach (and what a ‘Super Touper’ he’s been!) and help them through. But the top order has been in all kinds of pickles this year. Poor Davies: it really hasn’t happened for him at all in 2011, out yesterday for a duck. And, ‘Mama Mia!’ the skipper, fractionally dropped down the order again, only managed to score a solitary run! Has someone hexed poor Rory with alphatitis? Time to send out an ‘SOS?’

This said the performance as a team yesterday was splendiferous. And during Abba night as well! Amidst all the 70s bling, loud music and bail-stealing interlopers, ‘The Visitors’ announced their ‘Arrival’ and had Glamorgan ‘Under Attack’, and ‘When all is said and done’ the Welsh side met their ‘Waterloo’. It was soon ‘So long’ Glamorgan!

Now, if only we can get Ramps back ‘As good as new!’

Do I think this team can still qualify for the fourth spot? 'I do, I do, I do, I do, I do...'