Theale and Tilehurst vs Old Basing 5th September 2004

Report by Fingers

There were many similarities in this game to the game played at BCS the day before. Both teams were keen to bat first on winning the toss and again most of the T&T top order got in but didn’t go on to play a big innings.

Rog and Ed got the innings off to a quick start but the rate could not be maintained through a combination of good bowling and good fielding from an Old Basing side that included several very promising colts. Chilly briefly threatened to make a sustained acceleration before being caught on the boundary and wickets fell away to leave T&T all out for 181. Following their success with the bat for the final wicket against Old Basing last year this time the partnership between Fingers and Bob only lasted one ball, some members of the team struggling to suppress their relief at seeing Bob getting another nought as the race for the duck cup heats up at the end of the season.

A score of 181 looked about 30-40 short of par at tea. When Old Basing were 99-2 off 13 overs and with Pope and Willcock scoring freely it looked about 130-140 short of what was needed. However, Pope was finally dismissed and when Stephen took an excellent catch at point to get rid of Brown T&T were back in with a chance.

Osman had been strangely absent with the ball at the start of the innings but we soon discovered where he had been. Having not only taken inspiration from Chef he’d obviously nipped off to see if he could borrow his deer stalker, rifle and recipe for rabbit stew. The leg injury that had prevented him opening the bowling (pure genius to even use the same injury excuse) had seemingly cleared up now that the very young Old Basing lower order were at the crease.

Os’ loosener yorked Gunn middle stump, Bailey soon followed also clean bowled and then there was a desperate run out. Os then had the excellent young Willcock caught behind (Dennis’ 50th dismissal for the club) and 141-3 had become 163-8. T&T were now favourites with the excitement building. With batsman at the crease who looked like they would struggle to score the runs needed Rog decided to crank up the tension a bit more by slipping a five wides down the leg side before bowling Smith.

It was left to Osman to apply the finishing touches to his stew with the final wicket in the next over to secure an unlikely victory by eight runs.

This result confirms the topsy turvy season the Sunday side has had. There are games we have lost against teams we should have done a lot better against and here was a team we have beaten that had a lot more talent than some of those we have lost to. If the game was to be replayed in 2-3 years though it would be interesting to see what the result would be.

BERKSHIRE LEAGUE SCORECARD
Home Team		Theale and Tilehurst						Away Team		Old Basing
Date of Match		05 September 2004						Played at		Theale

		Team						pts	Result	Team				pts
Result		Theale and Tilehurst							beat	Old Basing

1st Innings of		Theale and Tilehurst												Rate Per Over
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score		Score	W	Bwl
1	R Puri	bowled						D Turner		2	0	19	1
2	E Choules	ct			P Turner			D Brown		4	0	23	2
3	D Robertson	ct			M Love			D Smith		4	0	20	3
4	C Coldman	ct			K Gunn			P Barker		6	0	41	4
5	M Mehta	ct			-			P Barker		0	1	22	5
6	J Morris	lbw						D Brown		0	0	7	6
7	S Wallace	lbw						P Barker		0	0	0	7
8	O Mahmood	run out								0	0	2	8
9	M Mason	ct			-			P Barker		2	0	10	9
10	B Cooper	not out								0	0	0	10
11	R Williams	ct			A Pope			D Brown		0	0	0	11
							Byes	9					12
							Leg Byes	4					13
							Wides	19					14
							No Balls	5					15
									Extras			37	16
													17
							Wickets	10	Total			181	18
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Bowling			O	M	R	W							20
1	D Brown		13.3	3	46	3							21
2	J Bailey		6	0	27	0							22
3	D Turner		5	1	19	1							23
4	D Smith		7	0	28	1							24
5	D Belcher		4	1	9	0							25
6	P Barker		6	0	39	4							26
7													27
8													28
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Fall of Wicket													30
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of							31
1	44	2				44							32
2	74	1				30							33
3	87	3				13							34
4	138	4				51							35
5	156	5				18							36
6	156	7				0							37
7	169	8				13							38
8	181	9				12							39
9	181	6				0							40
10	181	11				0							41
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2nd Innings of		Old Basing												Rate Per Over
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score		Score	W	Bwl
1	A Pope	stumped			D Robertson			B Cooper		10	1	51	1
2	M Love	bowled						R Williams		3	0	14	2
3	P Turner	ct			B Cooper			R Williams		2	0	12	3
4	N Willcock	ct			D Robertson			O Mahmood		9	1	67	4
5	D Brown	ct			S Wallace			B Cooper		0	0	7	5
6	K Gunn	bowled						O Mahmood		0	0	1	6
7	J Bailey	bowled						O Mahmood		0	0	0	7
8	D Turner	run out								0	0	0	8
9	D Smith	bowled						R Puri		0	0	1	9
10	D Belcher	bowled						O Mahmood		0	0	2	10
11	P Barker	not out								0	0	1	11
							Byes	2					12
							Leg Byes	2					13
							Wides	13					14
							No Balls	0					15
									Extras			17	16
													17
							Wickets	10	Total			173	18
													19
Bowling			O	M	R	W							20
1	R Williams		6	0	40	2							21
2	M Mason		5	0	33	0							22
3	C Coldman		6	0	27	0							23
4	B Cooper		7	0	52	2							24
5	O Mahmood		3.4	1	10	4							25
6	R Puri		2	0	8	1							26
7													27
8													28
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Fall of Wicket													30
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of							31
1	37	2				37							32
2	56	3				19							33
3	111	1				55							34
4	141	5				30							35
5	144	6				3							36
6	162	7				18							37
7	163	8				1							38
8	163	4				0							39
9	172	9				9							40
10	174	10				2							41
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