Chisholm 2 - Tuggeranong vs. Queanbeyan Mystery Cache

I've placed this cache here in order to tell a story. A story of one of the most memorable cricket games I played here. The game was as memorable for my own performance as for the acrimony between the teams for incidents real or imagined.

It was day two of a two-day match, played over two weekends. Queanbeyan had first innings points and we required an outright victory to take any points out of the encounter. These games rarely ended in a result and rarely had official umpires. This game bucked the trend on both points.

Despite failing on the previous weekend we started day 2 well, getting a few wickets quite cheaply. I remember opening the bowling and getting the Queanbeyan captain early with an attempted bouncer which he nicked attempting a hook. To his credit he walked with the umpire commenting that he wouldn't have given it out. With Queanbeyan well into their middle order and only needing to bat out the day or set us an ungettable total to keep their first innings points, one of their players decided that he needed a bit more time to compose himself.... every ball. That wasn't the end of the time-wasting tactics. Any time any of the fielders said anything in the field he would walk away from his guard. Even a fast bowler with a 25 metre run-up at the top of his approach. Someone might yell out an encouragement to the bowler and he would step away. Requiring the bowler to stop and go back to the top of his run up. When he was at the north end of the ground facing the carpark and there was any movement from spectators at that end of the ground he would walk away from his guard. "Fair enough" I hear you say, but keep in mind these were his own team mates.

Here is where the acrimony creeps in and by creeps I mean comes rushing in like the blast wave of a thermonuclear warhead. Our team captain, not known for restraint, got stuck right in. Continually. The umpires were having real problems keeping the game under control. Add in the typical controversy about decisions that either side didn't agree with and you have a VERY heated situation. The fact that we couldn't get the bugger out made the situation even worse. The situation eventually got so bad that his own batting partner and his captain told him to cut it out, but he wouldn't listen to anyone.

Eventually, on the stroke of tea Queanbeyan were all out and we had a single session to score the 100-odd runs required for an outright. Now, normally I open the bowling and bat 8, 9 or 10. I'd typically get out scoring very little or waste no time hitting a few sixes and fours scoring a few runs quickly and then getting out just as quickly. So I wasn't surprised when the captain called on me to pad up and open the batting. We needed runs and fast. If I failed he knew I wouldn't waste any time, I'd either get them or get out. Amazingly I managed to bat myself in for a few overs and when the captain called out "Any time now!" I knew it was time to go. Now when you get to the ground you'll notice a rather tall fence on the western boundary. After I hit the first six over this fence my whole team started to camp down there to retrieve the balls as quickly as possible. One towering six went over the fence, and landed in the FRONT yard of the house on the other side. The home owner commented to the guys retrieving the ball that he was used to the odd ball clattering into his roof tiles, but this was the first time he'd had one land in his front yard.

Queanbeyan were getting a bit worried now since I was scoring in sixes and fours and this typically doesn't make an opening bowler bowl better. When I eventually got out for 39, my partner down the other end had been scoring at just as fast a rate and I think the partnership was about 80. With that sort of start our eventual victory was assured and despite the slanging from our captain and the bad sportsmanship from their player I really enjoyed the victory.

In the wash-up following the game our captain was suspended for 2 weeks, not sure what happened to their bloke. It was probably my best season in grade cricket with 12 sixes for the season, most of which were thanks to the diminutive Chisholm 2 oval. My favourite.

Now for the comprehension test. You remember these from school don't you?
The cache is located at S 35° 24.ABC E 149° 07.DEF where...

• A = The numerically smallest number in the batting order that I would usually bat.
  
• B = The second digit of the bowling run up I mentioned.
  
• C = The difference between number of weeks the captain was suspended for and the first digit of the bowling run up I mentioned.
• D = The sum of the day of the match that the action took place on and the number of weekends the match was played over.
  
• E = The first digit of my score when I got out.
  
• F = 0 if their captain got out playing a hook shot and 9 if he got out playing a pull shot.