Theale & Tilehurst Friendly 3rd XI vs Ascot 4th XI

6th June 2009

Report by Robbo. T and T 3rds Roll back the millennia.....

Headlines: El Presidente 84 (runs, not age) Che Guevara’s granddad 650 (age, not wickets).
The game started about half an hour late due to inclement weather and was reduced to 90 overs. Bob promptly lost the toss and we were inserted on what proved to be a far better wicket than anyone expected.

Having started the last few games in a slow fashion El Presidente and TMF ‘bludgeoned’ their way to 80 within the first 20 overs (congrats to TMF who managed to break his ‘6’ virginity – by about a foot!) before TMF fell to a good catch just after reaching fifty.

DocOc joined El Pres and they also put on fifty before Harry fell. Another partnership or two was required before 200 could be reached and fortunately two came along: El Presidente and Mouse putting on 39 and EP (again) and DM adding 47 in quick time, allowing Bob to declare on 231 (a lucky number for the thirds) after 46 overs.
Hearty congrats must go to Eddie for batting through the innings to end on 84 n.o. – i’m sure I won’t be able to replicate that when I ‘get on a bit’ – though I can report that his complexion was a trifle florid after running a couple of quick singles towards the end!

A pleasant tea followed, enlivened by some rather spicy pakora sauce, surprisingly provided by Mouse and this seemed to fire up Bob who took four quick wickets, including the one that took him to 650 for the club – more congrats required.
At 77 for 9 there looked little chance of Royal Ascot getting any batting points, but a stubborn stand of 51 took them to 129 before the final catch was thankfully taken by Noddy (someone will have to explain that nickname to him) in the gully. Mention must also be made of Grinders seven overs which only yielded 11 runs and two wickets.

Hopefully Bob can now go through the season without losing a Saturday game (your author being captain for the previous two weeks debacles) and we can ‘storm’ back into the giddy heights of Div 8!!!

THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD
Home Team		T&T 3						Away Team		Ascot 4
Date of Match		06 June 2009						Played at		Douai Abbey

		Team							Result	Team
Result		T&T 3							beat	Ascot 4

1st Innings of
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	E Ellis	not out								7	1	84
2	M Runkel	ct						Barker		8	1	50
3	H Osborn	bowled						A Wiggett		5	1	29
4	H Ali	bowled						A Wiggett		1		4
5	I Mahmood	bowled						Wyatt		2		12
6	P Robinson	ct						N Wiggett		2	2	27
7	A Rutter	not out										1
8	M Holder	dnb										0
9	I Narwal	dnb										0
10	P Moore	dnb										0
11	R Williams	dnb										0
							Byes	9
							Leg Byes	4
							Wides	10
							No Balls	1
									Extras			24

							Wickets		Total			231

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	Zoysa		11	1	58	0
2	Barker		10	2	46	1
3	A Wiggett		11	3	46	2
4	Trott		4		25	0
5	Dunne		4		18	0
6	Wyatt		4		13	1
7	N Wiggett		2		12	1
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	80	2				80
2	138	3				58
3	144	4				6
4	183	5				39
5	230	6				47
6						0
7						0
8						0
9						0
10						0




2nd Innings of
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	Barker	ct			P Moore			P Robinson				4
2	Wiggett	ct			I Narwal			R Williams				0
3	Bennett	bowled						R Williams				9
4	Daffryn	ct			E Ellis			R Williams				20
5	Dunne	bowled						R Williams				12
6	Gulliford	bowled						P Robinson				1
7	Zoysa	ct			I Narwal			I Narwal				3
8	Wyatt	bowled						P Robinson				13
9	Wiggett	ct			I Mahmood			I Narwal				1
10	Trott	not out										28
11	Charles	ct			M Holder			I Mahmood				17
							Byes	9
							Leg Byes	3
							Wides	9
							No Balls
									Extras			21

							Wickets		Total			129

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	P Robinson		10	2	33	3
2	R Williams		8	1	32	4
3	I Narwal		7	3	11	2
4	M Holder		4	0	29	0
5	I Mahmood		3.2	0	11	1
6	A Rutter		2	1	2	0
7
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	4	1				4
2	4	2				0
3	30	4				26
4	48	5				18
5	49	3				1
6	52	6				3
7	68	8				16
8	71	7				3
9	77	9				6
10	129	11				52