Theale and Tilehurst vs Ivybridge 26th July 2006

Report by Fingers

The final game of the tour was at Ivybridge and for the fourth day in a row it was a hot and sticky afternoon. With Spike out of action with a bad back it was the president who led the team and who elected to field on winning the toss.

On an artificial surface Bob and Os opened the bowling one more time and he has had done most times Os took an early wicket when Bulloch was caught at point. However, Bob was struggling to find a line and length as Ivybridge got off to a flying start. When the 100 came up in the 15th over it looked like we would be chasing a massive total.

However, wickets were falling and when three went in consecutive overs to leave the score 149-6 targets were being revised downwards. The wildcard down the order though was Coker who hit a 19 ball 41 and took the score past 200. Whilst the final score of 242 was less than it looked like it might have been at one point it still represented a big target to chase.

Eddie went early but then James and Meado took advantage of some overly attacking fields to get the T&T innings off to a flyer. James' fifty came up off 35 balls and the team 100 came up in the sixteenth over, only one over later than Ivybridge's. The other similarity though was that wickets were falling and it was left to Osman and Rags to again try and forge a partnership that would keep us in contention.

They were able to do so with Rags taking the lead role this time and scoring a fifty off 44 balls. Various bowlers were tried and wickets again started to fall and at 201-8 Ivybridge again were the favourites. However, I was able to get a couple of pull shots away and Matt came in for a cameo innings of 19 off ten balls and all of a sudden only eight runs were needed with three overs left; the only problem was that there was only one wicket left. A pull shot for four halved the target and with only one ball of the over left the field was brought in to try and keep Bob on strike. Warden the bowler over pitched though and disappeared back over his head for four for an excellent T&T victory in a game where we had looked second favourites for long periods. Eddie then managed to rub some salt in to any opposition wounds there might have been after the game by apologising that we hadn't been able to bring a stronger side.

So ended another successful tour and thanks go to Spike for organising it. Osman was unanimously voted as the player of the tour, the champagne moment was agreed to be Eddie's tumbling catch at long on to dismiss the pro at Cornwood and James won the tour fantasy league competition.

SCORECARD
Home Team		Ivybridge						Away Team		Theale and Tilehurst
Date of Match		26th July 2006						Played at		Ivybridge

		Team						pts	Result	Team			pts
Result		Theale and Tilehurst							beat	Ivybridge

1st Innings of		Ivybridge
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	J Wakeham	ct			E Ellis			M Mason		4	1	44
2	J Bulloch	ct			S Wallace			O Mahmood		1	0	4
3	M Summon	ct			E Ellis			M Mason		2	0	18
4	G Stuckey	ct			S Wallace			M Mason		2	0	26
5	A Birch	ct			P Mead			B Cooper		1	2	23
6	J Coker	bowled						B Cooper		0	0	6
7	D Ewers	bowled						B Cooper		1	0	10
8	J Sparkes	ct & b						M Dixon		1	0	19
9	A Coker	ct			J Codd			M Dixon		3	4	41
10	T Lancaster	not out								0	0	10
11	A Warden	ct			H Ali			B Cooper		1	0	18
							Byes	14
							Leg Byes	2
							Wides	7
							No Balls	0
									Extras			23

							Wickets	10	Total			242

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	R Williams		5	0	41	0
2	O Mahmood		7	0	43	1
3	M Mason		9	0	44	3
4	B Cooper		11.5	0	71	4
5	M Dixon		3	0	27	2
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7
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	18	2				18
2	75	3				57
3	98	1				23
4	132	5				34
5	138	4				6
6	144	6				6
7	155	7				11
8	213	8				58
9	214	9				1
10	242	11				28




2nd Innings of		Theale and Tilehurst
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	E Ellis	bowled						J Coker		0	0	0
2	J Codd	ct			-			A Birch		14	0	73
3	P Mead	bowled						J Bulloch		6	0	29
4	O Mahmood	ct			-			J Sparkes		1	0	11
5	I Reeves	bowled						A Warden		0	0	1
6	M Mason	bowled						M Summon		9	0	51
7	H Ali	bowled						J Wakeham		2	0	14
8	S Wallace	ct			-			A Coker		0	0	0
9	B Cooper	not out								5	0	33
10	M Dixon	bowled						J Coker		4	0	19
11	R Williams	not out								0	0	0
							Byes	2
							Leg Byes	2
							Wides	6
							No Balls	3
									Extras			13

							Wickets	9	Total			244

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	T Lancaster		6	1	42	0
2	J Coker		6	0	41	2
3	A Warden		5	0	33	1
4	J Bulloch		3	0	15	1
5	A Birch		3	1	4	1
6	J Sparkes		6	0	29	1
7	A Coker		4	0	36	1
8	M Summon		3	0	16	1
9	J Wakeham		2	0	25	1

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	5	1				5
2	98	3				93
3	107	2				9
4	108	5				1
5	162	4				54
6	179	6				17
7	180	8				1
8	201	7				21
9	235	10				34
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