Theale & Tilehurst 1st XI vs Mortimer West End 6th August 2005

Report by Fingers

There was a strange feeling of disorientation at the start of this game; Cat had lost the toss and we were batting first for the first time this season. Several of us didn't really seem to know what to do.

Chilly and Cat opened the batting and got the innings off to a steady start against good opening bowling by Kenny Allsobrook and Jason Searancke. The first wicket fell in the twelfth over when Chilly was bowled and the second wicket soon followed when Jamil got a leading edge to mid on. With the rain there had been Thursday night and Friday morning there was some assistance for the bowlers that they were exploiting well.

The T&T innings was not able to get away until the last eleven overs of the innings. At 34 overs the score was 99-4 but in the last 11 overs there were 105 runs scored. This was mainly due to Cat who had compiled a patient 78 and DFS who scored his second half century of the season against MWE with a well struck 70no including 9 fours and 1 six.

At tea we would have settled for 204 but with hindsight the last ten overs had also shown that the pitch had eased a little and we would have benefited from having a few more.

MWE have a very strong top four and our challenge was to get through that with enough runs still needed to put pressure on the bottom half of the order. This didn't happen. Jason Searancke and Dave Hamer put on 40 for the first wicket before Hamer launched a shell at mid off which was well taken by Cat.

The main partnership of the innings was between Searancke and Simon Noble who took the score through to 122 before Chilly made the breakthrough. T&T were never really able to put pressure on the MWE innings by restricting the scoring rate and when Bray joined the innings he continued the innings at a fluent pace with Searancke anchoring the innings.

In the end MWE eased home by 7 wickets with 3 overs to spare. This means that MWE close the gap on us in second place and it looks likely to be a battle between the two of us for that position for the remainder of the season.

BERKSHIRE LEAGUE SCORECARD
Home Team		Theale and Tilehurst						Away Team		Mortimer West End
Date of Match		6th August						Played at		Theale

		Team						pts	Result	Team				pts
Result		Mortimer West End							beat	Theale and Tilehurst

1st Innings of		Theale and Tilehurst												Rate Per Over
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score		Score	W	Bwl
1	C Coldman	bowled						J Searancke				15	1
2	P Stephens	ct			J Bray			K Allsobrook				78	2
3	M Jamil	ct			J Bray			J Searancke				0	3
4	D Robertson	lbw						E Turner				6	4
5	J Codd	bowled						J Searancke				6	5
6	T Sethi	not out										70	6
7	A Johnson	bowled						K Allsobrook				10	7
8	Neill Halliday	bowled						K Allsobrook				0	8
9	B Cooper	DNB											9
10	C Lemm	DNB											10
11	P Jenkins	DNB											11
							Byes	12					12
							Leg Byes	1					13
							Wides	4					14
							No Balls	2					15
									Extras			19	16
													17
							Wickets	7	Total			204	18
													19
Bowling			O	M	R	W							20
1	K Allsobrook		15	2	74	3							21
2	J Searancke		15	7	22	3							22
3	E Turner		8	0	36	1							23
4	S Noble		4	0	34	0							24
5	D Hamer		3	0	24	0							25
6													26
7													27
8													28
													29
Fall of Wicket													30
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of							31
1	27	1				27							32
2	31	3				4							33
3	61	4				30							34
4	69	5				8							35
5	164	2				95							36
6	204	7				40							37
7	204	8				0							38
8													39
9													40
10													41
													42
													43
													44
													45
2nd Innings of		Mortimer West End												Rate Per Over
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score		Score	W	Bwl
1	J Searancke	not out										71	1
2	D Hamer	ct			P Stephens			A Johnson				26	2
3	S Noble	bowled						C Coldman				60	3
4	J Bray	ct			C Lemm			A Johnson				36	4
5	T McKenzie-Prinn	not out										3	5
6													6
7													7
8													8
9													9
10													10
11													11
							Byes	3					12
							Leg Byes	1					13
							Wides	5					14
							No Balls	0					15
									Extras			9	16
													17
							Wickets	3	Total			205	18
													19
Bowling			O	M	R	W							20
1	C Lemm		5	1	22	0							21
2	Neill Halliday		10	2	40	0							22
3	A Johnson		10	0	53	2							23
4	B Cooper		7	0	35	0							24
5	C Coldman		6	0	21	1							25
6	M Jamil		4	0	32	0							26
7													27
8													28
													29
Fall of Wicket													30
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of							31
1						0							32
2						0							33
3						0							34
4													35
5													36
6													37
7													38
8													39
9													40
10													41
													42
													43
													44
													45