Theale & Tilehurst Friendly XI vs Charlton Down Friendly XI

26th July 2009

Report by Fingers

Our second tour to Dorset started with us like German vegetarians; fearing the wurst in terms of the weather. But back to that later.

There was the inevitable “after you Claude” in the car park at Theale as no-one wanted to take responsibility for leading the convoy. Finally I set off first and most fell in behind; the exception being Wiggy who blasted off in to the distance.

Meady and I decided to take the conventional route coming off at J13 of the M4 and going down the A34. Led by Aygz the others took the lesser known Hungerford route to Weymouth. Later it transpired that they thought they were following Wiggy and had something of a surprise when a large Asian gentleman got out of his car in a car park in Hungerford; the one they had all like sheep followed him in to.

After lunch at the Lugger it was off to the game at Charlton Down. As is tour tradition the opposition skipper asked captain of the day Hamad if we would like to bat first. Hamad declined this offer and insisted on the toss being performed; the opposition skipper (did someone say his name was Chris?) then perhaps being surprised when Hamad elected to bat.

James and Wiggy got the innings off to something of a flying start. The hundred came up in the 13th over with James very much to the fore. He was first to fifty from 37 balls with Wiggy following from 48 balls.

However, when both were dismissed in the 90s accusations of jug evasion inevitably followed.

Aygz had joined Wiggy at the crease and played well to reach 48 before the rain that had been more on than off for the innings finally forced the players from the field for an early tea.

The Charlton Down players gamely retook the field so we could finish our innings and as the final push took place wickets inevitably started to fall. The oddest being James’ run out. Aygz had hit what he thought was a majestic six over long off and was in the middle of the wicket telling James how he’d done it. During all this though the fielder had fielded the ball and returned it to the bowler’s end where they completed the run out of James; the look on his face when he turned round to see the umpire’s finger giving him out being beyond my descriptive powers.

After a quick change of innings we went in to the field. The weather was closing in more and more and after having played for just under 10 overs we finally took the only sensible decision and abandoned the game. This was a real shame as Roe and Smith had shown that Charlton Down had some powerful batting and could have given the chase a real go.

After a few jugs of beer at Charlton Down it was back to the Lugger for dinner. After fines there were two nominations for Dicko of the Day:
Firstly; Aygz for following the wrong car to the wrong place on the journey down.
Secondly; Aygz for his shameless run out of James having thought he’d hit a six.

After a close vote Aygz was declared Dicko of the Day.

Thanks go to Charlton Down for hosting us and doing their very best to get in as much cricket as they did.


Home Team		Charlton Down						Away Team		Theale and Tilehurst
Date of Match		26 July 2009						Played at		Charlton Down

		Team							Result	Team
Result		Match Abandoned

1st Innings of
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	A Wigmore	ct						Coats-Dale		9	1	93
2	J Codd	bowled						Wormgoor		14		91
3	P Ager	not out								12	1	82
4	S Kumar	bowled						Fagence		2		10
5	H Osborn	ct						Afzal				0
6	J White	run out										3
7	P Osbourne	not out										1
8	H Ali	dnb										0
9	R Puri	dnb										0
10	M Dixon	dnb										0
11	B Cooper	dnb										0
							Byes	1
							Leg Byes	2
							Wides	10
							No Balls	6
									Extras			19

							Wickets	5	Total			299

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	Afzal		8	0	61	1
2	Towndrow		4	0	29	0
3	Butterworth		5	0	32	0
4	Fagence		15	0	97	1
5	Wormgoor		5	0	44	1
6	Coats-Dale		3	0	33	1
7
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	168	2				168
2	250	1				82
3	262	4				12
4	263	5				1
5	275	6				12
6						0
7						0
8						0
9						0
10						0




2nd Innings of
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	N Roe	bowled						R Puri				19
2	A Smith	not out										22
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
							Byes	4
							Leg Byes
							Wides
							No Balls
									Extras			4

							Wickets		Total			45

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	B Cooper		5	0	14	0
2	R Puri		4.1	0	27	0
3
4
5
6
7
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	45	1				45
2						0
3						0
4						0
5						0
6						0
7						0
8						0
9						0
10						0