Theale & Tilehurst Friendly XI vs Hungerford Friendly XI

6th June 2010

Report by Fingers.

With a team a little light on batting on winning the toss I didn’t have too much hesitation in choosing to bowl first. Although as Hungerford wanted to bat first the toss had been an academic exercise.

Mike and James opened the bowling and soon had the early Hungerford batsmen in trouble. Mike was swinging the ball prodigiously and cleaned up Gailbraith and Willoughby; in between James had bowled Ponsford.

This brought Thorp and Wallis to the crease and they had the partnership that defined the game. Both played well and hit the ball hard and after a relatively slow start the scoring rate lifted dramatically. The turning point came when Wallis was well taken by James standing up to the stumps from the bowling of Alec. The only thing was that Wallis was the only person that knew he had edged it, there was no appeal and as he started walking off James seemed to think he must have over balanced and stumped his as well. It was a fine piece of sportsmanship from the Hungerford captain.

The next wicket to fall featured something equally fine as Mike took an outstanding diving catch at point to dismiss Thorp. With the two main contributors gone the rest of the innings was something of a procession.

You know that bowlers often get told when they bowl well but take no wickets “you’ll bowl worse than that and take four”. Well, today was the day that Bobby bowled worse and took four. And yes that is sour grapes on my behalf for how it’s been going for me this season.

187 all out represented a decent effort by us in the field but we would need to bat well to get close. At 62-1 we looked like we were doing okay but the introduction of the young Miller in to the attack changed everything and quickly. His main asset was his dip which meant that several T&T players seemed to find it very difficult to judge the length of his bowling.

A succession of players returned not quite sure either what they or the bowler (or both) had done that led to them being out.

The innings fell away quickly for us to finish 94 all out. Not a great effort with the bat.

THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD
Home Team		Hungerford						Away Team		Theale and Tilehurst
Date of Match		6th June 2010						Played at		Hungerford

		Team							Result	Team
Result		Hungerford							beat	Theale and Tilehurst

1st Innings of		Hungerford
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	M Gailbraith	bowled						M Holder				0
2	B Willoughby	bowled						M Holder				4
3	L Ponsford	bowled						J Bozarth				4
4	C Thorp	ct			M Holder			B Rees				84
5	M Wallis	ct			J White			A Parcell				51
6	A Smith	ct			H Osborn			A Parcell				18
7	T Highnett	st			J White			B Rees				0
8	L Franklin	bowled						B Rees				0
9	S Miller	ct			P Osborn			A Parcell				0
10	S Wood	not out										1
11	R Oswald	bowled						B Rees				0
							Byes	4
							Leg Byes	5
							Wides	15
							No Balls	1
									Extras			25

							Wickets	10	Total			187

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	J Bozarth		5	1	23	1
2	M Holder		5	0	30	2
3	B Cooper		5	0	16	0
4	H Osborn		5	0	33	0
5	B Rees		5	0	47	4
6	A Parcell		4	0	23	3
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




2nd Innings of		Theale and Tilehurst
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	M Runkel	ct						L Franklin		3	0	17
2	C Cooke	ct						S Miller		3	0	21
3	H Osborn	bowled						T Highnett		2	0	14
4	P Osborn	bowled						S Miller		0	0	1
5	C Manning	bowled						S Miller		0	0	0
6	J White	lbw						S Miller		0	0	0
7	J Bozarth	ct						S Miller		0	0	0
8	M Holder	ct						S Miller		1	0	6
9	B Cooper	not out								0	0	4
10	B Rees	bowled						M Wallis		2	0	8
11	A Parcell	run out								0	0	1
							Byes	4
							Leg Byes	3
							Wides	13
							No Balls	2
									Extras			22

							Wickets	10	Total			94

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	L Franklin		5	0	20	1
2	L Ponsford		6	1	21	0
3	S Miller		8	0	21	6
4	T Hignett		5	1	16	2
5	M Wallis		3	0	11	1
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