Theale and Tilehurst vs Whitchurch Wayfarers 24th July 2006

Report by Fingers

Following a lazy morning it was up to Whitchurch for the only other ever present tour fixture. Phil J joined the tour and the presentation of tour caps was made in the Whitchurch Inn at lunch.

Following another successful toss I was most of the way back to the pavilion before I finally decided that we should probably bowl first again. Os was straight in to action having Witcher caught in the gully off his second ball before bowling Claridge. Not to be outdone Bob had Gray taken superbly by Meady in the gully before he had Hamad palpably lbw.

At 45-5 it looked like the game might finish at a pace but Whitchurch had a strong lower middle order and Daymond, Alford and Freedam were all able to steady the ship and make a contribution; Alford was going nicely until Restall came out at number ten and hit his first ball straight to mid-on and called for an impossible single that allowed Spike to complete the run out.

At tea the president offered his analysis of the game; if we'd been chasing 130 we'd have got them, if we'd been chasing 170 we wouldn't but chasing 150 as we were left the game in the balance.

He may have been revising his analysis when James went to the first ball of the innings and he may have been thinking that fifty would have been a challenging target when we had subsided to 23-4. However, two decent partnerships followed first between Meady and Os and then Os and Rags but at 132-6 the game was still open with us very much relying on Osman being undefeated at the end.

At six over mid-off from Osman that hit a telegraph pole and met the bowler at the top off his run eased some of the pressure but the wickets of Phil and Matt still kept the game open.

In the end Osman did see the game through to a T&T victory with consecutive boundaries off Restall but until the end it remained a game that could have gone either way.

After a few beers at the ground and an excellent dinner at the Whitchurch Inn it was back to Ivybridge.

SCORECARD
Home Team		Whitchurch Wayfarers						Away Team		Theale and Tilehurst
Date of Match		24th July 2006						Played at		Whitchurch House

		Team						pts	Result	Team			pts
Result		Theale and Tilehurst							beat	Whitchurch Wayfarers

1st Innings of		Whitchurch Wayfarers
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	M Claridge	bowled						O Mahmood				1
2	M Witcher	ct			P Mead			O Mahmood				0
3	I Gray	ct			P Mead			R Williams				23
4	H Ali	lbw						R Williams				8
5	A Churchill	lbw						M Mason				1
6	J Newton	ct			O Mahmood			M Mason				12
7	S Daymond	st			P Jenkins			M Mason				20
8	A Alford	run out										15
9	R Freedam	bowled						O Mahmood				31
10	D Restall	not out										14
11	J Meadows	ct			M Dixon			B Cooper				0
							Byes	10
							Leg Byes	8
							Wides	8
							No Balls	1
									Extras			27

							Wickets	10	Total			152

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	R Williams		9	0	45	2
2	O Mahmood		9	3	36	3
3	M Mason		7	0	22	3
4	M Dixon		5	0	26	0
5	B Cooper		6.5	1	17	1
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7
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1						0
2						0
3						0
4						0
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6
7
8
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10




2nd Innings of		Theale and Tilehurst
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	J Codd	bowled						A Alford		0	0	1
2	I Reeves	ct			S Daymond			D Restall		1	0	4
3	P Mead	ct			M Witcher			A Churchill		5	0	28
4	S Wallace	ct & b						D Restall		1	0	4
5	J Morris	bowled						J Newton		0	0	0
6	O Mahmood	not out								9	1	60
7	M Mason	st			M Witcher			I Gray		3	1	21
8	P Jenkins	ct			-			J Meadows		0	0	0
9	M Dixon	ct			-			I Gray		0	0	0
10	B Cooper	not out								0	0	0
11	R Williams	DNB
							Byes	18
							Leg Byes	7
							Wides	9
							No Balls	4
									Extras			38

							Wickets	8	Total			156

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	A Alford		3	2	4	1
2	D Restall		5.2	1	25	2
3	J Newton		5	0	18	1
4	H Ali		3	1	12	0
5	S Daymond		6	1	26	0
6	A Churchill		6	0	18	1
7	J Meadows		4	1	19	1
8	I Gray		4	0	14	2

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	0	1				0
2	6	2				6
3	10	4				4
4	23	5				13
5	68	3				45
6	132	7				64
7	145	8				13
8	146	9				1
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