F*ck them, they are assholes.
Thanks dude, it helped
Gold medal mother f*ckers:
OK it's not actually gold, but it does say '1st' if you squint hard enough:
I know none of you care, but I never win at sport so I'm going to tell the story anyway:
Games are 8 per side, 7 over innings, everyone bowls except the keeper.
Batsmen have to retire after they score 20. On our team we have 4 f*cking gun batsmen that generally tonk 6 after 4 after 6 and retire after an over or 2.
You play 3 pool games, and generally have to win all 3 to qualify for the quarter finals.
First game the other team made about 84. No idea how they made that, as they didn't seem to be batting that well. We think there might have been some 'creative' scoring going on there (batting team scores for themselves). 2 of our gun batsmen hadn't arrived yet, but the other 2 opened and knocked off about 50 runs in 2.5 overs before retiring. The next guys manage to waste the remaining 4.5 overs and not mange to win, we lost by 1 run. I didn't even get to bat .
We thought that was it and expected to be going home by lunch time, but we had a bye next and watched the team that beat us play, and they got their arse kicked. This put us back in the hunt because if everyone in the pool won 2, it goes on for/against and since we only lost by 1 we would go through. We just had to win the next two games.
Second game I sat out, but we won easily.
Third game we batted first, all 4 of the top batsmen got out for sfa, and so did the rest. I batted last, and when I came in we were only on 30. The other guy got run a couple of balls later, so then I had to bat on my own from there (unlike normal cricket, last batter keeps going till he gets out). I managed to add about 12 runs, giving us about 45 to defend. Again, we thought we'd be going home for lunch. Then I opened the bowling and took a wicket for about 3 runs, and we kept going from there and actually managed to win by a couple of runs! Winrar, thanks to my awesome 12.
Of the 8 finalists we were seeded 8th (as all the others won 3 games) so we got to play 1st seed in the quarter final. Kicked their arse.
Semi final I sat out again, we won, but just barely.
Final we were playing a bunch of Injuns that batted like sachin tendulkar. We were on the ropes until one of our batsmen came in and hit 6,6,4,6 from 4 balls then retired, and from there it was easy.
Yay, first time Powerlink has ever won cricket @ corporate games. And apparently it means a subsidised trip to 'Melbs' in November for the Australian corporate games. F*ck yeah.