Theale and Tilehurst vs Cornwood 25th July 2006

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Report by Fingers

After nine holes of golf in the morning which the president won by a comfortable seven shots it was to Oak Park for the game against Cornwood. There had been discussion the night before at Whitchurch about whether or not Cornwood's pro had been called up to a Pakistan A tour of Australia or not and we had contented ourselves that it seemed like he had. However, when we arrived there was someone who looked distinctly pro like as he walked round the ground (and I don't mean Rags). It seemed that Cornwood had felt the need to bring in an alternative pro for this game and perhaps a few league matches as well.

Cornwood won the toss and elected to bat so it was up to Bob and Os to start up again. They again both struck early with Staddon edging Osman to Phil behind the stumps and Logan clean bowled by Bob.

The main batsman for Cornwood proved to be their captain Morgan who played very nicely for his 61 but his dismissal brought to the crease Farooq, the pro. Speaking to the Cornwood scorer before the game it seemed he was a bit hit and miss with the bat and fortunately this day was a miss. However, this was only due to a superb tumbling catch at long on by the president as he continued his tour tradition of taking superb catches to dismiss the pro at Cornwood. He soon followed this up with an even better catch one handed above his head but unfortunately stepped over the rope in the process.

In a straight forty over game the innings closed at 184-8 which represented another good effort in the field by us.

Having been dismissed first ball the day before James went to the other end of the scale here by hitting his first ball for six over wide long off. Unfortunately that proved to be it for James as it was left to the president to hold the top order together with a hard worked 38. The destroyer in chief proved to be Thomas who on a slow low pitch bowled slowly and lowly and proved to be very difficult to get away.

Hamad again played well but again it was down to Osman if we were going to get up to the total. However, having made it up to 39 he fell to Farooq, bowling some off spin rather than his more usual pace bowling, and not long after the game was wrapped up for a Cornwood win by 16 runs. Not even a re-enactment of the great pastie speech had been enough to get us the win.

SCORECARD  
Home Team Cornwood Away Team Theale and Tilehurst  
Date of Match 25th July 2006 Played at Oak Park  
                                 
  Team pts Result Team pts
Result Cornwood   beat Theale and Tilehurst    
                               
1st Innings of Cornwood                  
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score      
1 R Conn ct & b   B Cooper 4 0 37      
2 E Staddon ct P Jenkins O Mahmood 2 0 10      
3 G Logan bowled   R Williams 1 0 5      
4 J Morgan ct P Jenkins O Mahmood 8 0 61      
5 D Staddon st P Jenkins J Morris 3 0 17      
6 D Luckett ct S Wallace R Williams 1 0 8      
7 A Farooq ct E Ellis O Mahmood 0 0 1      
8 C Parker bowled   R Williams 0 0 0      
9 C Harris not out     3 1 28      
10 R Dart not out     0 0 1      
11 P Thomas DNB                
            Byes 4              
            Leg Byes 2              
            Wides 10              
            No Balls 0              
                Extras     16      
                             
            Wickets 8 Total     184      
                             
Bowling O M R W                  
1 O Mahmood 9 1 44 3                  
2 R Williams 13 0 58 3                  
3 M Mason 9 2 33 0                  
4 B Cooper 7 0 34 1                  
5 J Morris 2 0 9 1                  
6                            
7                            
8                            
                             
Fall of Wicket                            
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of                
1 14 2 14                
2 36 3 22                
3 83 1 47                
4 131 5 48                
5 154 4 23                
6 154 6 0                
7 154 8 0                
8 162 7 8                
9                      
10                      
                             
                             
                             
                             
2nd Innings of Theale and Tilehurst                  
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score      
1 E Ellis bowled   P Thomas 7 0 38      
2 J Codd bowled   C Parker 0 1 6      
3 I Reeves ct & b   C Parker 0 0 0      
4 J Morris ct R Dart D Staddon 2 0 14      
5 M Mason bowled   P Thomas 0 0 0      
6 H Ali run out     4 0 25      
7 S Wallace st R Conn P Thomas 0 0 0      
8 O Mahmood ct D Luckett A Farooq 5 0 39      
9 B Cooper lbw   R Dart 2 0 11      
10 P Jenkins bowled   A Farooq 0 0 0      
11 R Williams not out     0 0 1      
            Byes 3              
            Leg Byes 1              
            Wides 26              
            No Balls 4              
                Extras     34      
                             
            Wickets 10 Total     168      
                             
Bowling O M R W                  
1 C Parker 6 2 18 2                  
2 C Harris 7 0 30 0                  
3 D Staddon 4 0 24 1                  
4 R Dart 6 1 25 1                  
5 P Thomas 7 1 28 3                  
6 E Staddon 4 0 18 0                  
7 A Farooq 5 1 20 2                  
8                            
                             
Fall of Wicket                            
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of                
1 14 2 14                
2 18 3 4                
3 62 4 44                
4 62 5 0                
5 95 1 33                
6 98 7 3                
7 143 6 45                
8 162 8 19                
9 162 10 0                
10 168 9 6