Theale & Tilehurst 2nd XI vs Mortimer West End 2 4th June 2005

Report by Chef

So Micky went out to toss, why? I don't know, he should save himself some time and just offer it to the other team anyway they elected to bowl first. Early indications was that there was a little bounce in this wicket but we got off to a decent start except Micky going in the 4th over with a soft dismissal to silly mid on.

Phil and Eddie took up the reigns but Phil was Bowled with the score at 68. Chilli and Mr Ellis then came together and started to increase the run rate at the 28th over. They managed to get to the Presidents legendary target of 100 off 30 with wickets in hand. Things were moving on nicely but it was here where it all started to go wrong. At a time when we should have accelerated the next 7 overs went for just 18 runs and 3 wickets, with Eddie finishing on 68. It was then left to Osman (13 runs in 14 balls), Rags(31 in 24) and Chef (9 in 4) to raise the pace and get us to a respectable total. We managed to scrape to 180 ably assisted by 21 extras which was felt to be about 20 runs short.

However there was life in the pitch and it was a total we should be able to defend. The two openers scored quickly with some edges going for 4 and some cross batted shots but Chef managed to get the breakthru with Cumner caught behind of a spitting ball. Chef got another to rear up at the other opener who tried to pull it and lofted it to Meady who promptly dropped it. Fortunately it wasn't costly as Osman stole the wicket off Chef with the exact same delivery and shot, but wisely putting Chilly underneath as opposed to Meady.

Rags came on to bowl and if the saying "the bad ball gets a wicket", Rags should have bagged all the remaining wickets. Apparently his bad balls aren't bad enough as he didn't manage to pick up any wickets. However when Chilli came on at the other end he proved that the bad ball does indeed take wickets as Stevens went to pull a wide short delivery and just spooned it up to Ian who gladly snaffled it.

Hudson and Gott then put on a good partnership which Chef managed to separate getting Gott caught behind with another lifting ball. It was the following over when Chef also removed Hudson who edged it straight into the hands of the President off another lifting ball. The President took the regulation slip catch and it brought to the crease the big frame of Hondre.

Chilli was then able to take another wicket of Thomas with an LBW with the batsman playing across the line. The score was 145 for 6 but unfortunately Dawes and Hondre put us to the sword and led MWE home with 3 overs to spare.

It was a painful feeling to lose a game that we could have won and not a feeling I wish to repeat in the near future. Next week is Ruislip Victoria who were promoted with us last year. They have had a mixed start to the season. We have to improve our batting and bowling if we are to dominate this division which we are more than capable of doing.

BERKSHIRE LEAGUE SCORECARD
Home Team		Theale and Tilehurst 2						Away Team		Mortimer West End 2
Date of Match		4th June 2005						Played at		Theale

		Team						pts	Result	Team				pts
Result		Theale and Tilehurst							lost	Mortimer West End 2

1st Innings of		T & T												Rate Per Over
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score		Score	W	Bwl
1	E Ellis	ct			Honour			Turner		-	-	68	1	3	0
2	M Mehta	ct			Stevens			Hodson		-	-	8	2	5	0
3	P Mead	Bowled						Turner		-	-	14	3	13	0
4	C Coldman	ct			Storkey			Hodson		-	-	10	4	13	1
5	R Puri	ct			Cumner			Hodson		-	-	4	5	14	1
6	O Mahmood	RUN OUT								-	-	13	6	19	1
7	M Mason	ct			Stevens			Prinn		-	-	31	7	19	1
8	Nigel Halliday	ct			Storkey			Hodson		-	-	9	8	19	1
9	T Beck	LBW						Prinn		-	-	1	9	25	1
10	I Reeves	Bowled						Prinn		-	-	0	10	26	1
11	A Ahmed	NOT OUT								-	-	1	11	27	1
							Byes	1					12	29	1
							Leg Byes	4					13	33	1
							Wides	15					14	36	1
							No Balls	1					15	40	1
									Extras			21	16	44	1
													17	45	1
							Wickets	9	Total			180	18	46	1
													19	49	1
Bowling			O	M	R	W							20	53	1
1	Prinn		15	1	55	3							21	57	1
2	Hodson		15	3	57	4							22	60	1
3	Thomas		4	0	10	0							23	63	1
4	Turner		8	1	37	2							24	66	1
5	Dawes		3	0	16	0							25	70	2
6													26	72	2
7													27	75	2
8													28	84	2
													29	94	2
Fall of Wicket													30	100	2
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of							31	107	2
1	13	2				13							32	109	2
2	68	3				55							33	110	2
3	117	1				49							34	117	2
4	117	4				0							35	117	3
5	123	5				6							36	117	4
6	156	6				33							37	122	4
7	171	8				15							38	125	5
8	178	7				7							39	132	5
9	179	10				1							40	140	5
10	180	9				1							41	148	5
													42	154	5
													43	162	6
													44	178	7
													45	181	10


2nd Innings of		Mortimer West End 2												Rate Per Over
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score		Score	W	Bwl
1	N Storkey	ct			C Coldman			O Mahmood				28	1
2	C Cumner	ct			T Beck			Nigel Halliday				15	2
3	P Stevens	ct			I Reeves			C Coldman				6	3
4	B Hudson	ct			E Ellis			Nigel Halliday				40	4
5	J Gott	ct			T Beck			Nigel Halliday				24	5
6	S Honore	NOT OUT										29	6
7	H Thomas	LBW						C Coldman				0	7
8	M Dawes	NOT OUT										21	8
9	N Kingston											0	9
10	E Turner											0	10
11	A Prinn											0	11
							Byes	5					12
							Leg Byes	4					13
							Wides	11					14
							No Balls	0					15
									Extras			20	16
													17
							Wickets	6	Total			183	18
													19
Bowling			O	M	R	W							20
1	Nigel Halliday		12.5	3	49	3							21
2	O Mahmood		12	1	46	1							22
3	M Mason		3	0	19	0							23
4	C Coldman		11	1	48	2							24
5	R Puri		3	0	12	0							25
6													26
7													27
8													28
													29
Fall of Wicket													30
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of							31
1	40	2				40							32
2	50	1				10							33
3	77	3				27							34
4	130	5				53							35
5	134	4				4							36
6	145	7				11							37
7													38
8													39
9													40
10													41
													42
													43
													44
													45
													46
													47