Theale & Tilehurst 2nd XI vs MWE 7th July 2007

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Report by Chef

Well, whilst we have had a love hate relationship with MWE, it is sadly our last league game against them as we move into the TVL.

Having had such a wet fortnight followed by a couple of hot days, it was a good toss to win.  MWE having lost all their tosses this season except for the two against us, put us in to bat.

We got off to a slow start but without losing a wicket.  It was a difficult pitch and the ball wasn't getting up much.  Eddie was the first to go, followed by Rog, Meady then Micky.  All of which put on reasonable partnerships but never went onto a big partnership.  Nehal came in and again looked in good form on a difficult pitch.  Partnerships with Chef and then Ram continued the sturdy progression but Nehal was finally dismissed on 58 off 66 balls.    Without Meady to run him out Ram felt much safer and played with confidence and with wickets in hand Chris came in and hit 12 off 6 to help Ram get us to 186 for 7.  Ram finally finishing on 30 off 34 balls.

After a fantastic tea we went out to bowl.  Ram struck early in his 2nd over but Steve and Heath then put together a good partnership of 73 before Heath dollied up a caught and bowled to Fingers, just after notching up his 50.  By this stage the pitch was a different beast, having dried out and become harder and Steve and Wijerante seemed to be comfortably chasing down the total, well up with the run rate.   However Fingers and Ram were bowling superbly.

Steve was then caught at long on by Chef off Fingers and then the young Wijeratne looked dangerous but then had to go to watch his sisters show.   Fingers and Ram then cut through the rest of their tail but just couldn't dislodge Turner or Sellers, which would not only have won us the game but would have got one of them their 5th wicket.  Clearly jug evasion.

We got the winning draw but this will be one of the fixtures we'll sadly miss next year....mainly coz of their tea :-) (just kidding).

 
BERKSHIRE LEAGUE SCORECARD
Home Team Theale and Tilehurst Away Team Mortimer West End
Date of Match 7th July 2007 Played at Theale
Team pts Result Team pts
Result T&T  draw MWE
1st Innings of T & T Rate Per Over
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score Score W Bwl
1 E Ellis Ct Prinn Turner 1 7 1 2
2 R Puri Ct Thomas Sellars 1 19 2 7
3 P Mead bowled Sellars 1 13 3 7
4 M Mehta LBW Sellars 0 15 4 8
5 N Bhatt Ct Wijeratne Sellars 9 58 5 9
6 Nigel Halliday LBW Prinn 1 10 6 13
7 R Sankaran Not Out 3 30 7 14
8 P Ager Ct Gott Sellars 1 8 17
9 C Collingwood Not Out 2 12 9 18
10 B Cooper DNB 0 10 22
11 T Beck DNB 0 11 26
Byes 7 12 30
Leg Byes 3 13 34
Wides 8 14 37
No Balls 3 15 39
Extras 21 16 40
17 44
Wickets 7 Total 186 18 45
19 50
Bowling O M R W 20 50
1 A Prinn 14 1 45 1 21 57
2 E Turner 8 0 31 1 22 58
3 R Wijeratne 8 0 47 0 23 67
4 C Sellars 15 1 54 5 24 70
5 25 79
6 26 81
7 27 89
8 28 91
29 98
Fall of Wicket 30 105
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of 31 106
1 22 1 22 32 111
2 39 2 17 33 116
3 58 3 19 34 124
4 89 4 31 35 126
5 116 6 27 36 130
6 161 5 45 37 131
7 166 8 5 38 140
8 39 147
9 40 151
10 41 159
42 161
43 166
44 174
45 186
2nd Innings of MWE Rate Per Over
Name How Out Who Bowler 4's 6's Score Score W Bwl
1 H Thomas ct & b B Cooper B Cooper 50 1
2 A Rjen LBW R Sankaran 4 2
3 S Honour Ct Nigel Halliday B Cooper 22 3
4 R Wijeratne Retired 25 4
5 P Bew Bowled B Cooper 0 5
6 M Stroud LBW B Cooper 2 6
7 P Stevens Bowled R Sankaran 6 7
8 J Gott Bowled R Sankaran 16 8
9 A Prinn Bowled R Sankaran 0 9
10 C Sellars Not Out 4 10
11 E Turner Not Out 11 11
Byes 6 12
Leg Byes 1 13
Wides 11 14
No Balls 2 15
Extras 20 16
17
Wickets 9 Total 160 18
19
Bowling O M R W 20
1 C Collingwood 6 3 11 0 21
2 R Sankaran 14 0 57 4 22
3 Nigel Halliday 2 0 12 0 23
4 B Cooper 15 2 45 4 24
5 P Ager 8 0 28 0 25
6 26
7 27
8 28
29
Fall of Wicket 30
Score Outgoing Bat Stand of 31
1 13 2 13 32
2 86 1 73 33
3 109 3 23 34
4 109 5 0 35
5 115 6 6 36
6 132 7 17 37
7 132 9 0 38
8 147 8 15 39
9 40
10 41
42
43
44
45