As
an opener Lloyd is calm, collective and has authority on the pitch. Her judgment of which balls to hit and which to leave is outstanding, leading to many a century and more. Lloyd plays the
bad ball better than most and is known for having smashed a window at her home ground only to smash the same window the following
year.
Carpenter
is a stylish, left hand batsman; he has maturity and flair with the bat, and is one of the better players of spin. His staying
power is a force to be reckoned with and often finds himself batting with the lower order. He once found himself batting with
new order in a really odd dream he had.
Laird
technique’s and more specifically his footwork is something to be praised. His skill to put power behind the bat and
drive the ball for boundaries makes him an excellent number three. Being Scottish, and not used to the warm English weather
he can sometimes misjudge the number of jumpers he needs to wear.
Batting at four is the quiet and meticulous Clucas. She is resourceful
with the bat and finds a gap in the field more often than not. She is able to improvise with a slower ball and attack the
faster ball. She once leapt quite spectacularly over the stumps when she got over excited whilst taking a run.
As aggressive
a batsman as she is a bowler Stannard bowling at speeds of 90 mph plus. She is a formidable opponent to face.
With the bat she has been known to hit consecutive boundaries. She has succumbed to more LBW’s than other players but
doesn’t mind as she can add the letters E and O to make ELBOW.
Young
is an all-rounder who mixes natural stroke play with the bat with some neat spin bowling. She is also an athletic and highly
skilled fielder. Young is vice captain and often confers with the captain over important decisions. She is the choreographer
of the team’s victory dance, which involves cockney dancing and singing ‘when you’re smiling’.
Higgins
is the captain and wicket keeper, she’s quite handy with the bat if a swift few runs need to be made but she is often
flighty and favours one particular shot. As wicketkeeper her voice can be heard all over the ground egging her team mates
on and as captain makes good choices. She does however suffer from itchy knees which can prevent her from playing the ball
immediately.
Into the specialist bowlers and at eight Smith as a right arm medium bowler
means she finds a good rhythm on most pitches. She also has a sound defensive batting technique has made her valuable as a
night watchman in test matches. She did however run from her crease in horror as she caught sight of an opposing fielder’s
bare foot after he called for new socks.
Morris’s
bowling is accurate and shows good variation often surprising the facing batsman. She is a tidy medium slow pace bowler and
has been known to be a retriever of lost causes with the ball. She can be quite an aggressive opponent and once was fined
her match fee for calling the batsman names that cannot be reprinted here.
As a Right Arm Fast Medium bowler Edwards usually takes the new ball.
He adapts to different pitches quickly to extract exactly what he needs from them and usually be relied upon to take difficult
wickets. He is not often relied upon to bat as the last time he did he managed to accidentally knock the opposition’s
wicketkeeper on the head.
Hudson is essentially the teams secret weapon, having once bowled
a ball 99mph. She is deadly with the ball and picks her victims off with an acid stare and a glint in her eye. She is trained
to sense a weak opponent, she also runs cricket classes for the over seventies on a Tuesday evening.
