Bryce - the wizard of oz

The game was a final.

The game going, going, g……

Victoria had fallen apart with the bat, David Hussey aside.

Dirty Dirk, Clinton and Harwood had done everything in their power, but the rain, and the circumstances were saying the game was over.

The score had got to 5/109 chasing 131.

I aint no mathematician, but I’d say that’s about 21 runs short.

Cameron had lost a bunch of overs from his quicks thanks to Duckylewis.

Bryce was the only front liner left, and he hadn’t bowled an over yet.

Victorian leg spinners have a good record under pressure in finals, well one of them does.

Bryce looked chubby, but that was cause he was wearing 4 tops, Tassie had turned very chilly.

Straight away he took a wicket, it wasn’t a spectacular ball, it probably bounced a bit more than Diven thought and he skewed it to point.

6/109.

Still a long way from a victory, but there was something happening.

Then two balls later he slides a ball past Xavier Doherty, who had a brain snap that would make OJ Simpson cringe.

7/109.

From there on in Bryce looked like he was bowling cluster bombs, one of which hit Geeves so straight in front Gilly and Jesus would have walked. Geeves didn’t, and was given not out.

Luckily for the Vics Dirty Dirk finally finished off Geeves and Bryce was left with Brendan Drew.

8/127.

Brendan is a big hitting tail ender, but against Bryce he looked like a drunken kitten.

Byrce didn’t have it all his own way with Drewy, the first edge he got was too sharp for Crosthwaite.

Luckily enough next ball he got a more manageable edge straight into the centre of his gloves, Bryce is nothing if not considerate of others.

9/128.

Bryce only had two balls left against Hilfenhaus, the first was a probing nut right at him.

Hilfy played it quite well.

The next ball, McGain threw it wide, remember even Muhammad Ali makes mistakes, and Hilfy looked quite good whilst leaving the ball.

And that was it.

McGain had done everything he could do.

5 overs.

2 maidens.

3 wickets (have not included Geeves due to bad LB call)

11 runs.

The next ball was edged by Turtle Birt, the dud Victorian who became the handy Tasmanian, and all of Bryce’s magical tricks were forgotten as the Tasmanians danced around the ground.

The wizard was left to stroke his beard.

BTW how cool would Bryce look with a long white beard.