Victory denied

On one of the worst days of the year so far we comprehensively outplayed the opposition only to have our victory swiped away from us by a sour groundsman/player/arsehole!
We had worked hard in the field to bowl them out for 141, a total which they would probably not have reached had it not been for some dubious umpiring decisions and some of our players getting carried away with an on field argument. Once this had been calmed over a drinks break we got back to the business of seeing them off in a constant drizzle.
Tea came and went with the weather still gloomy and wet but they took to the field awaiting me and Skip to come to the crease. We had in the region of 45 overs to get the 142 target and set about their bowling with promise. Although we survived a couple of chances each our partnership grew and soon Skip was celebrating his half century. Before long we had passed the 100 mark and the target was easily attainable given the time and the number of wickets in hand. That's when it started...
...the opposition had approached this game in the way it should have been. They wanted to play on regardless of the weather and see it through to a result, all bar two of them that is. Their two most senior players, people that you would normally expect to have had the polar opinion, began moaning about the conditions and arguing that the weather was causing them problems in the field. To be fair to the rest of their team they just wanted to get the game finished and get back into the bar, whilst these two were clearly trying to use the weather to call the game off in order to deny us what was a certain victory.
In the end we needed 26 runs to win having faced only 21 overs and still had 10 wickets to get them with. Skip and I had put on a 116 run partnership and I was close to joining him on 50, finishing with 43 not out. One of the opposition fielders had slipped slightly on the wicket whilst trying to retrieve a ball and their groundsman (who was also playing) insisted that the game be called off due to safety and damage to the ground that he had to tend to. Skip's opposite number had been harangued by these two protesters for some 5 or 6 overs and eventually gave in pulling us all off when it had got so close. He cannot be blamed, he had tried everything in his power to get the game completed and he deserves to be applauded for that. If only ever team we played against was made of people that approached the game in the way he did.