Theale & Tilehurst 1st XI vs Crown Wood 19th May 2007

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Report by Fingers

After a run of close games I suppose we were going to end up on the wrong side of the result in one of them.

Rain during the week and on Friday evening had left the pitch in bowler friendly conditions and Cat again lost the toss. Inevitably we were put in to bat and soon Cat was ruing his luck for a second time as an inside edge went in to his pads and then back in to his stumps in the first over.

Micky and Cullum looked like they might do a rebuilding job when Micky went caught at cover. This started a trend of short partnerships that looked like they might salvage this innings only for a wicket to fall, invariably to an attacking shot which wasn’t really needed at the time.

The Crown Wood bowlers did well to keep the pressure on and gave very few bad balls to hit and it was left to the T&T tail to try and salvage the innings. Something that they couldn’t do and the innings closed on 111 in the 32nd over.

In fact the only thing the T&T tail had achieved was getting out in time to make Crown Wood have to bat before tea. Doc and Cullum opened the bowling and immediately had the Crown Wood openers in trouble. Hammond was the first to go palpably lbw to Doc and then Andy Wigmore (hereafter to be known as Syrup) took a sensational catch at short cover to get rid of Rubbani. There was also time for Doc to pick up the wicket of Graham before tea to leave the game evenly balanced at the break.

It wasn’t long after tea that Cullum clean bowled Handley and Doc had Godbole caught in the gully to leave Crown Wood at 33-5 and T&T now perhaps favourites. A partnership between Sergeant and Kalvetis got the Crown Wood innings back on a steadier footing but when they got in a horrible mess and Kalvetis was run out to leave the score 76-7 T&T remained favourites.

If you’re going to win defending 111 you have to take every chance that comes your way and unfortunately at this stage of the innings a couple of chances went down. However, at 101-9 and 11 still needed we were still right in the game; after our first couple of games we probably didn’t really feel that the games was that close at this point. The Crown Wood last pair though batted calmly and Taylor, looking a more than useful no.11, finally struck the winning runs to give Crown Wood the narrowest of victories.

THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD  
Home Team Theale and Tilehurst Away Team Crown Wood  
Date of Match 19th May 2007 Played at Theale  
                                 
  Team   Result Team    
Result Crown Wood   beat Theale and Tilehurst    
                               
1st Innings of Theale and Tilehurst                  
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score      
1 P Stephens bowled   J Sever 0 0 0      
2 M Mehta ct G Sargeant J Sever 1 0 4      
3 C Smith ct M Hammond R Godbole 3 0 17      
4 A Wigmore ct J Sever R Crook 1 0 11      
5 A Crofts ct B Handley J Sever 0 0 0      
6 M Jamil ct B Handley J Jeyerajah 9 0 43      
7 M Mason ct G Sargeant R Crook 3 0 15      
8 H Ali lbw   J Jeyerajah 0 0 0      
9 Neill Halliday not out     3 0 13      
10 B Cooper bowled   J Jeyerajah 0 0 1      
11 P Jenkins bowled   J Sever 0 0 1      
            Byes 4              
            Leg Byes 0              
            Wides 2              
            No Balls 0              
                Extras     6      
                             
            Wickets 10 Total     111      
                             
Bowling O M R W                  
1 J Sever 8.1 2 25 4                  
2 R Godbole 7 2 25 1                  
3 R Crook 9 1 34 2                  
4 J Jeyarajah 10 6 23 3                  
5                            
6                            
7                            
8                            
                             
Fall of Wicket                            
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of                
1 0 1 0                
2 20 2 20                
3 26 3 6                
4 29 5 3                
5 59 4 30                
6 87 7 28                
7 87 8 0                
8 104 6 17                
9 110 10 6                
10 111 11 1                
                             
                             
                             
                             
2nd Innings of Crown Wood                  
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score      
1 M Hammond lbw   Neill Halliday     1      
2 R Rubbani ct A Wigmore C Smith     4      
3 B Handley bowled   C Smith     11      
4 P Graham ct A Wigmore Neill Halliday     1      
5 R Godbole ct B Cooper Neill Halliday     7      
6 D Kalvetis run out         27      
7 J Jeyarajah ct P Stephens M Jamil     8      
8 G Sargeant not out         36      
9 R Crook bowled   M Jamil     2      
10 J Sever bowled   M Jamil     0      
11 A Taylor not out         7      
            Byes 0              
            Leg Byes 3              
            Wides 3              
            No Balls 2              
                Extras     8      
                             
            Wickets 9 Total     112      
                             
Bowling O M R W                  
1 Neill Halliday 13 5 29 3                  
2 C Smith 11 4 20 2                  
3 M Jamil 6.3 0 27 3                  
4 B Cooper 5 0 33 0                  
5                            
6                            
7                            
8                            
                             
Fall of Wicket                            
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of                
1 7 1 7                
2 13 2 6                
3 14 4 1                
4 22 3 8                
5 33 5 11                
6 49 7 16                
7 76 6 27                
8 89 9 13                
9 101 10 12                
10