Its been 8 years since Hounslow Leisure witnessed something quite special, so worth mentioning every once in a while. Ealing CT came to Sunbury on 21/6/2006, a very hot sunny evening, to play 2020. 120 balls later, ECT had racked up an incredible and daunting 198. HL felt doomed, so what the hell, Wendel was asked to open. In a blink of an eye, 12.2 overs later, amazingly we had won. Wendel knocking up 140 not out, off just 38 balls (27 ball ton), including 14 6's and 9 4's, one over going for 34 (do the maths..the ball that didn't go for 6, fell just a yard short). He faced just 1 dot ball, his first.
We don't like to go on about Wendy too much, we try not to, its not good for him, but that was an innings to behold. Just for a couple of moments, on that first day of summer, the longest day of 2006, we could actually see the sun shinning out of his backside...
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