BACK
With another very young T&T side I was uncertain what to do at the
toss; on a warm afternoon and with a used pitch conditions said bat
first but did we have enough batting to justify that decision?
Fortunately I lost the toss and even better was any concerns I had
about the strength of our batting order turned out to be misplaced.
We
were put in to bat and got off to an absolute flier. James took
four boundaries off the first over and Charlie took his lead by taking
two off the second. The fifty partnership came up in no time but
alas the partnership fell just short of the next landmark. With
James on 49 and the total on 99 James cut a ball straight to a grateful
point who took the catch.
Charlie was then involved in another
fifty partnership, this time with Wiggy, during which he went to his
first fifty in senior cricket. It was a fine innings and will
hopefully be the first of many times he passes fifty.
Both Wiggy
and Charlie went with the score on 154 but fortunately a series of
decent contributions from the middle order ensured we posted a
competitive total. Andy played well for his 17 but it was Harry
that led the way with a hard hit 40no that saw us up to 264-7.
In
truth the Crown Wood innings never really got going. Sarna and
Cartledge went early on in consecutive overs and Wiggy and Bob both
picked up their second wickets before retiring from the attack.
It was then left to Michael to run through a shortened Crown Wood batting line-up with three very good clean bowled dismissals.
The
innings was left with Blaney and Knox at the crease. Blaney is
obviously a good striker of a cricket ball and fearing his innings was
going to be cut short by the last man getting out decided he was going
to hog the strike. This led to some very easy runs being turned
down at the start of overs but then some practically suicidal running
off the last ball; quite why Knox was willing to co-operate in this
remains lost on me. However, after a short while the innings
ended very predictably in one way (run out) but totally unpredictably
in another (Blaney being run out when he initially refused to go for a
single off the last ball of an over to keep him on strike).
So
ended a good performance by T&T; perhaps I need to put out of my
mind the age of the team when going out to do the toss in future weeks
and just think about the potential of the side that we have.
| THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD | ||||||||||||||||
| Home Team | Theale and Tilehurst | Away Team | Crown Wood | |||||||||||||
| Date of Match | 21 June 2009 | Played at | Theale | |||||||||||||
| Team | Result | Team | ||||||||||||||
| Result | Theale and Tilehurst | beat | Crown Wood | |||||||||||||
| 1st Innings of | Theale and Tilehurst | |||||||||||||||
| Name | How Out | Who | Bowler | 4's | 6's | Score | ||||||||||
| 1 | J Codd | ct | D Cartledge | M Blaney | 11 | 0 | 49 | |||||||||
| 2 | C Cooke | ct & b | C Townsley | 10 | 0 | 53 | ||||||||||
| 3 | A Wigmore | lbw | A Clements | 5 | 0 | 26 | ||||||||||
| 4 | A Darling | bowled | A Knox | 3 | 0 | 17 | ||||||||||
| 5 | H Ali | ct | Sub | A Clements | 1 | 0 | 13 | |||||||||
| 6 | H Osborn | not out | 4 | 1 | 40 | |||||||||||
| 7 | M Holder | ct | A Knox | V Sarna | 1 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
| 8 | J White | ct | - | S Trikha | 2 | 0 | 11 | |||||||||
| 9 | B Cooper | not out | 1 | 0 | 8 | |||||||||||
| 10 | A Parcell | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | R Williams | |||||||||||||||
| Byes | 33 | |||||||||||||||
| Leg Byes | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Wides | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| No Balls | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Extras | 43 | |||||||||||||||
| Wickets | 7 | Total | 264 | |||||||||||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ||||||||||||
| 1 | C Townsley | 8 | 1 | 45 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2 | S Rowley | 5 | 0 | 35 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 3 | M Blaney | 6 | 1 | 25 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 4 | V Sarna | 5 | 0 | 47 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 5 | A Clements | 8 | 1 | 33 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 6 | A Knox | 5 | 1 | 20 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 7 | D Cartledge | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 8 | S Trikha | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Fall of Wicket | ||||||||||||||||
| Score | Outgoing Bat | Stand of | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 99 | 1 | 99 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 154 | 3 | 55 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 154 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 183 | 5 | 29 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 206 | 4 | 23 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 213 | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 244 | 8 | 31 | |||||||||||||
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| 2nd Innings of | Crown Wood | |||||||||||||||
| Name | How Out | Who | Bowler | 4's | 6's | Score | ||||||||||
| 1 | V Sarna | bowled | R Williams | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | S Trikha | bowled | R Williams | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | D Cartkedge | ct | A Wigmore | A Wigmore | 1 | |||||||||||
| 4 | R Nagarkatti | bowled | M Holder | 31 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | C Townsley | bowled | A Wigmore | 17 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | M Blaney | run out | 38 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | S Rowley | bowled | M Holder | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | A Clements | bowled | M Holder | 19 | ||||||||||||
| 9 | A Knox | not out | 5 | |||||||||||||
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| Byes | 7 | |||||||||||||||
| Leg Byes | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Wides | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| No Balls | 0 | |||||||||||||||
| Extras | 17 | |||||||||||||||
| Wickets | 10 | Total | 138 | |||||||||||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ||||||||||||
| 1 | R Williams | 6 | 0 | 34 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2 | A Wigmore | 5 | 0 | 29 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 3 | M Holder | 5 | 0 | 34 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 4 | A Parcell | 4 | 0 | 30 | 0 | |||||||||||
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| Fall of Wicket | ||||||||||||||||
| Score | Outgoing Bat | Stand of | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 22 | 2 | 21 | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 59 | 5 | 37 | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 77 | 4 | 18 | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 77 | 6 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 109 | 8 | 32 | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 138 | 6 | 29 | |||||||||||||
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