Theale & Tilehurst Friendly XI vs Yateley 28th April 2007

Report by Fingers

This was the last warm up game in advance of the league season starting next week and was against fellow premier division side Yateley; albeit a weakened Yateley 1st Xi compared to their usual strength on this occasion.

Yateley won the toss and elected to bat and Viner and Shafi initially seemed to justify this decision by putting 33 on in quick time. However, both went in quick succession, Viner lbw to Doc (apparently the third or fourth time in a row they’ve played against each other and Doc has got him lbw) and Shafi edging Jamil to the ‘keeper.

With the openers gone the run rate slowed and in truth it never really got going again. Having gone all around the park last week I managed to bowl ten economical overs and Andy W and Simon also bowled tight spells. Wickets fell at fairly regular intervals to keep a lid on the scoring rate and Sunil picked up a couple of late wickets in his first spell for the club.

The Yateley innings closed on 172-9 which looked to be short of what was needed in the conditions.

The T&T reply started similarly to the Yateley innings, a reasonable start but then both openers going in quick succession to leave us on 44-2. Sunil batting at three was looking scratchy at the start of his innings until he decided to resort to drastic measures; his first scoring shot for the club being a six in to car park. His next five scoring shots were all boundaries before he settled down and played in what is presumably more his accustomed style. Andy W was also playing well and together they put on an excellent partnership of 121 for the third wicket that took us to the verge of victory; both scoring their first fifties for the club in the process.

With 8 needed for victory and Jamil, down to bat at six, already showered and changed the inevitable happened in that a wicket fell. Crofty strode out to bat whilst pads were desperately sought for Mohammed who had been promoted to number six on the grounds of still being in his whites. Fortunately Crofty and Sunil saw us home to a 7 wicket victory with the best part of 14 overs to spare.

THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD
Home Team		Theale and Tilehurst						Away Team		Yateley
Date of Match		28th April 2007						Played at		Theale

		Team							Result	Team
Result		Theale and Tilehurst							beat	Yateley

1st Innings of		Yateley
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	B Viner	lbw						Neill Halliday				13
2	S Shafi	ct			P Jenkins			M Jamil				20
3	C Tull	ct & b						B Cooper				39
4	James Muir	ct & b						A Wigmore				7
5	John Muir	ct			S Bond			S Kumar				38
6	B Wood	not out										18
7	D Mortimer	ct			S Bond			S Kumar				6
8	S Davies	bowled						S Bond				3
9	P Mackie	run out										5
10	H Wildey	ct			S Kumar			Neill Halliday				7
11	A Davies	not out										1
							Byes	3
							Leg Byes	2
							Wides	8
							No Balls	2
									Extras			15

							Wickets	9	Total			172

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	Neill Halliday		9	0	46	2
2	M Jamil		8	1	42	1
3	B Cooper		10	0	25	1
4	A Wigmore		5	0	17	1
5	S Bond		8	1	25	1
6	S Kumar		5	1	12	2
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8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	33	1				33
2	33	2				0
3	67	4				34
4	109	3				42
5	132	5				23
6	146	7				14
7	149	8				3
8	158	9				9
9	166	10				8
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2nd Innings of		Theale and Tilehurst
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	P Stephens	bowled						P Mackie		4	0	23
2	M Mehta	ct & b						H Wildey		2	0	13
3	S Kumar	not out								8	2	58
4	A Wigmore	lbw						S Shafi		12	0	60
5	A Crofts	not out								1	0	4
6	M Jamil	DNB
7	O Mohammed	DNB
8	S Bond	DNB
9	Neill Halliday	DNB
10	B Cooper	DNB
11	P Jenkins	DNB
							Byes	7
							Leg Byes	6
							Wides	3
							No Balls	0
									Extras			16

							Wickets	3	Total			174

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	P Mackie		8	2	32	1
2	H Wildey		8	2	35	1
3	A Davies		4	0	28	0
4	S Davies		5	1	30	0
5	C Tull		3	0	18	0
6	S Shafi		3.2	0	18	1
7
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	34	2				34
2	44	1				10
3	165	4				121
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