Theale & Tilehurst 1st Friendly XI vs Yateley 1st Friendly XI

1st May 2010

Report by Fingers.

This was our final warm up game before the league season starts next week.With the game being against a team in our division it would be a good barometer for how ready we are. Wiggy won the toss and elected to bat. James went early when he mistimed one to mid off and then Crofty managed to look in good touch in scoring a lucky 18; lucky in that he was twice caught off no balls. When Crofty went the main partnership of the innings was played out by Wiggy and Jamil. They put on 143 for the third wicket as the Yateley change seam bowlers struggled to find their line and length. Wiggy went on to score a fine hundred and Jamil a good fifty and it was the delayed introduction of the Yateley spinners that changed the game; Piennar dismissing both of the set batsmen. With only a few overs left it was an awkward situation for the new batters, they had to get on with it without really having time to play themselves in. As such wickets fell regularly and the innings petered out to 235-9; fewer than we should have got from the position we were in.

After tea we took to the field in what turned out to be rain that for a long time never really started but was always in the air. Jon struck twice in quick succession, Harris going to an excellent slip catch taken by James. Chris then joined in on the act with the wickets of
Shafi and the aggressive Jemelda. The Yateley innings was one that kept both teams interested throughout. The scoring was generally up with the rate but enough wickets were falling to keep us in the hunt as well. The turning point of the second innings was the return of Jon to the attack. From his first ball a chance went down at mid-off and from his second a catch went down behind the stumps. That would have made it 8 down with quite a way to go but unfortunately it let Yateley get a lot closer before the final pair were at the wicket together.

With the rain getting heavier and the light going Yateley scored the winning runs from the penultimate ball of the match. Whilst it was disappointing to lose this game it was certainly good preparation for the league and shows us that we have good players in form.

THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD
Home Team		Theale and Tilehurst						Away Team		Yateley
Date of Match		1st May 2010						Played at		Theale

		Team							Result	Team
Result		Yateley							beat	Theale and Tilehurst

1st Innings of		Theale and Tilehurst
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	A Wigmore	bowled						G Piennar		9	5	107
2	J Codd	ct			Peace			H Bartlett		2	0	9
3	A Crofts	bowled						A Muir		2	0	18
4	M Jamil	lbw						G Piennar		6	2	52
5	S Kumar	ct			J Muir			S Lipo		1	0	6
6	C Cook	bowled						F Me		0	0	0
7	S Bond	ct						H Bartlett		1	0	7
8	J Mare	bowled						H Bartlett		0	0	1
9	M Holder	bowled						F Me		0	0	1
10	B Cooper	not out								0	0	3
11	P Jenkins	not out								0	0	1
							Byes	1
							Leg Byes	6
							Wides	12
							No Balls	11
									Extras			30

							Wickets	9	Total			235

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	S Lipo		9	1	53	1
2	H Bartlett		11	0	35	3
3	A Muir		7	0	28	1
4	A Peace		5	0	30	0
5	C Harris		5	0	45	0
6	G Piennar		6	0	35	2
7	F Me		2	0	3	2
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	13	2				13
2	56	3				43
3	199	4				143
4	216	1				17
5	220	5				4
6	229	6				9
7	230	8				1
8	231	7				1
9	232	9				1
10




2nd Innings of		Yateley
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	S Shafi	ct & b						C Cook				33
2	S Gore	ct			M Holder			J Mare				9
3	C Harris	ct			J Codd			J Mare				0
4	F Me	bowled						C Cook				28
5	J Howells	run out			M Jamil/P Jenkins							58
6	J Muir	ct			J Codd			B Cooper				17
7	A Peace	lbw						B Cooper				18
8	S Lipo	ct & b						C Cook				20
9	A Muir	not out										17
10	G Piennar	ct			P Jenkins			J Mare				11
11	H Bartlett	not out										1
							Byes
							Leg Byes
							Wides
							No Balls
									Extras			0

							Wickets		Total			212

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	C Cook		14	0	60	3
2	J Mare		13	1	76	3
3	M Jamil		4	0	34	0
4	S Bond		8.5	1	36	0
5	B Cooper		5	0	27	2
6
7
8

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