Theale and Tilehurst vs Holbeton 23rd July 2006

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Report by Fingers

After the trip down to Devon in the morning and having checked in at the new tour venue of the Sportsman's Inn in Ivybridge it was on to the traditional tour opener against Holbeton at Flete Park.

With a tour party perhaps short of a front line batsman or two James decided to field first on winning the toss. Bob and Os initially kept it tight and the first breakthrough came when Os found the outside edge of Ackland's bat and Ian took a superb diving one handed catch across in front of first slip. Bob soon followed with the wicket of Moody and when the score reached 75-3 at the end of the 25th over things seemed to be under control.

However, when I took the wicket of Legrice things changed rapidly. Edwards came to the crease and with no gloves adopted a very unorthodox and squat stance; I thought throw it up in the air and he'll either miss it or hit it up in the air for a catch and that'll be another one thanks very much. After the first ball to Edwards was despatched miles over mid wicket I thought anyone can get lucky once, just bowl the same ball again and this time he'll miss it; I did and Edwards again put it miles over mid wicket. When he took twenty runs of Rags' next over there was some need to adjust the "he's just got lucky" theory. Fortunately it wasn't to last too long and Rags finally bowled Edwards for a 13 ball 42.

However, the innings had changed the match situation and instead of chasing 140-150 we were all of a sudden chasing 178 to win.

James dominated the early scoring in the T&T reply but when he went for 24 the score was 32-3 and we were in trouble. Spike and Hamad steadied the ship but when they and Rags went in quick succession the game was effectively over. Matt struck some late blows to take the score past 100 but it was left to Ackland to pick up the last two wickets and complete his five wicket haul.

Following the game we retreated to the rejuvenated Mildmay for a couple of beers and the big moment of the tour for Osman; was the bar of soap that he has left on top of the fuse box in room four for the last few years still there? Unfortunately there was no chance to check as the occupants had the bad manners to be in the room whilst we were there.

SCORECARD  
Home Team Holbeton Away Team Theale and Tilehurst  
Date of Match 23rd July 2006 Played at Flete Park  
                                 
  Team pts Result Team pts
Result Holbeton    beat Theale and Tilehurst    
                               
1st Innings of Holbeton                  
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score      
1 P Ackland ct I Reeves O Mahmood 1 0 19      
2 P English run out     5 0 52      
3 R Moody bowled   R Williams 0 0 0      
4 R Pelham ct & b   M Mason 0 0 4      
5 I Legrice ct J Morris B Cooper 1 0 8      
6 M Edwards bowled   M Mason 2 4 42      
7 S Treeby not out     5 0 38      
8 C King run out     0 0 1      
9 J Atwill ct B Cooper M Dixon 0 0 1      
10 C Ackland not out     0 0 0      
11 B Newton DNB                
            Byes 9              
            Leg Byes 3              
            Wides 0              
            No Balls 0              
                Extras     12      
                             
            Wickets 8 Total     177      
                             
Bowling O M R W                  
1 O Mahmood 9 0 22 1                  
2 R Williams 8 0 29 1                  
3 M Mason 9 2 44 2                  
4 B Cooper 9 0 58 1                  
5 M Dixon 3 1 14 1                  
6                            
7                            
8                            
                             
Fall of Wicket                            
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of                
1 40 1 40                
2 40 3 0                
3 60 4 20                
4 75 5 15                
5 151 6 76                
6 166 2 15                
7 174 8 8                
8 177 9 3                
9                      
10                      
                             
                             
                             
                             
2nd Innings of Theale and Tilehurst                  
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score      
1 E Ellis bowled   J Atwill 1 0 5      
2 J Codd bowled   J Atwill 4 0 24      
3 I Reeves bowled   B Newton 0 0 3      
4 J Morris st R Moody P Ackland 3 0 24      
5 H Ali bowled   S Treeby 2 0 22      
6 M Mason bowled   P Ackland 1 0 5      
7 S Wallace ct - P Ackland 0 0 0      
8 O Mahmood ct - C King 1 0 4      
9 B Cooper ct - P Ackland 0 0 0      
10 M Dixon not out     3 0 14      
11 R Williams ct R Moody P Ackland 0 0 0      
            Byes 4              
            Leg Byes 0              
            Wides 1              
            No Balls 1              
                Extras     6      
                             
            Wickets 10 Total     107      
                             
Bowling O M R W                  
1 B Newton 8 1 20 1                  
2 J Atwill 7 1 17 2                  
3 P Ackland 7 0 24 5                  
4 S Treeby 5 0 28 1                  
5 C King 1 0 14 1                  
6                            
7                            
8                            
                             
Fall of Wicket                            
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of                
1 11 1 11                
2 24 3 13                
3 32 2 8                
4 72 4 40                
5 88 6 16                
6 88 5 0                
7 92 7 4                
8 93 8 1                
9 106 9 13                
10 107 11 1