We Play a Cricket Match

Key Words and Phrases:
- cricket-match, skipper, runs, dismissed, overs, lunch, innings, batsman, bowler, hat-trick, clean-bowled, score, wickets, won.
- to win the toss, the opening pair, a slow googly bowler, rival team, out for a dunk, a break for tea, greatly excited.

We have a cricket-match with the New High School last Sunday. We won the toss. Our skipper wanted to bat. He sent out opening pair to play. They made 35 runs in 40 minutes. Then a slow googly bowler dismissed four of our players in three overs. The lunch time score was 64 for 4. Our first innings total was 99.

The rival team began well. They made 61 for no loss. Then their nest batsman was clean-bowled. The next player was out for dunk. The third gave to our bowler the hat-trick. Soon it was 87 for 5. There was a break for tea. Then the game was fast. The score went to 93 for 7.

Now there were only ten minutes to go. We were greatly excited. Then a player fell to a fine catch. The last two wickets fell quickly. The innings closed down at 95. We won the match by 4 runs.