Theale & Tilehurst Friendly XI vs Martinstown Friendly XI

27th July 2009

Report by Speedo

After a typical tour morning of breakfast stories, milling around and a pub lunch we arrived at the Martinstown ground in surprisingly sunny conditions. Rags was captain so led by Fingers. Meady and Agers most of the team were moaning about there likely lowly batting position and giving the skip a hard time. Martinstown chose to bat and got off to quick start on the artificial wicket. After a lackluster start to our fielding performance with most of the sledging aimed at our own players it took fine bowling from Dicko and Harry to both slow the rate and get us in the mood for cricket. Dicko created a series of caught and bowled chances which we missed but Harry started to make in roads with two wickets at the other end. Fingers took over with wickets falling regularly. The highlight was James' one handed catch of a skier that he'd mis-judged in the strong wind. The innings closed with the final wicket caught off the final ball on 183.

After tea we all padded up in hope of a high batting position but Hamad and James were sent out first. James got off to a typical flier whilst Hamad bedded down for a long innings. After we'd raced to 60, and James had gone caught, Fingers and Hamad consolidated against the strongest of the Martinstown bowling. Fingers, Sunny and Harry were all dismissed in reasonably quick time. Sunny ran past a slow leg break and forgot to play a shot and Harry was run out after picking out their best fielder for a second chance after earlier narrowly escaping. It was left to Skip and Hamad to bring us home which they did with three overs to spare.

Well played to Harry, Dicko and Hamad in particular. Harry and Dicko's spells with the ball got us into the game and Hamad showed what a well constructed innings he's capable of playing.

THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD
Home Team		Martinstown XI						Away Team		T & T XI
Date of Match		27 July 2009						Played at		Lower Ashton Farm

		Team							Result	Team
Result		T & T XI							beat	Martinstown XI

1st Innings of	Martinstown
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	Grossmith	bowled						H Osborn				17
2	Kershaw	lbw						B Cooper				52
3	Adams	bowled						M Mason				23
4	James	bowled						H Osborn				0
5	House	ct			P Mead			B Cooper				12
6	Wylie	bowled						B Cooper				2
7	Nichols	ct			P Ager			M Mason				7
8	Evans	bowled						H Osborn				6
9	Rimmer	ct			J Codd			B Cooper				0
10	Folland	not out										24
11	Skidmore	ct			P Ager			H Osborn				7
							Byes	4
							Leg Byes	9
							Wides	15
							No Balls	5
									Extras			33

							Wickets	10	Total			183

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	R Williams		8	0	59	0
2	S Kumar		4	0	11	0
3	M Dixon		9	1	35	0
4	H Osborn		6	0	28	4
5	B Cooper		7	0	17	4
6	M Mason		5	1	20	2
7
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	67	1				67
2	75	2				8
3	92	3				17
4	104	4				12
5	116	5				12
6	126	6				10
7	133	7				7
8	137	8				4
9	166	9				29
10	183	10				17




2nd Innings of	T&T
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	H Ali	not out								7	1	65
2	J Codd	ct						Wylie		7	1	41
3	B Cooper	ct						Rimmer		0	0	14
4	S Kumar	st						James		3	0	15
5	Harry Osborn	run out								0	0	1
6	M Mason	dnb								4	0	28
7	P Ager	dnb
8	P Mead	dnb
9	J White	dnb
10	M Dixon	dnb
11	R Williams	dnb
							Byes	5
							Leg Byes	7
							Wides	11
							No Balls	1
									Extras			24

							Wickets		Total			188

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	Folland		4	0	31	0
2	Skidmore		3	0	17	0
3	Wylie		6	0	18	1
4	Rimmer		9	0	22	1
5	James		6	0	41	1
6	Adams		5	0	28	0
7	Nichols		2	0	17	0
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	60	1				60
2	84	2				24
3	104	3				20
4	107	4				3
5						0
6						0
7						0
8						0
9						0
10						0