Theale & Tilehurst Friendly XI vs Feniton Friendly XI

28th July 2010

Report by Fingers

After checking out of the Smithaleigh it was time to move to our second home for the week at the Turks Head in Honiton. After a good lunch we headed to Bondy's old club at Feniton for the afternoon's game.

To mark the special occasion of Bondy returning to Feniton the press were in attendance to record the event. It was obviously a quiet news week in Feniton as it warranted two pictures in Axminster Today.

I can't remember who won the toss but Feniton batted first and threatened to go off like a train; Bob's first over going for as many as the 'tap' winner had conceded the previous day. However, we were soon amongst the wickets as Osman took a good caught and bowled to dismiss Easterbrook and Bob had Devine Snr stumped by James.

The arrival of Selley at the crease steadied the innings and in partnerships with Devine Jnr and Avery took the Feniton innings towards a competitive total. There was a late change of wicket keeper when Bondy took over the gloves and James came on to bowl; both were satisfied when Bondy took a stumping off Raj and more remarkably when James dismissed top-scorer Selley.

The Feniton innings closed on 203-7 from 40 overs which looked to have set the game up nicely.

It should be remarked that this is the first time I have ever played in a three pavilion game. The changing rooms were right next to the playing area; the showers and toilets in a separate building at the top of the slope and for tea we all trooped off to a different building at the bottom of the slope. It's good to have some variety.

The T&T innings started badly; that is to say very badly as Ed, Raj and Meady were all bowled playing on by the time the score had reached 7. A quick fire thirty from Bondy added a veneer of respectability to the score but at 81-7 there only appeared to be one winner.

To their credit Feniton didn't go for the kill at this point and opted to give several of their players a bowl. With Osman still at the crease, albeit having started slowly, and with Charlie and James down the order we did have some batting left. Os and Charlie added 42 for the 8th wicket but there was still a long way to go when Charlie was caught on the square leg boundary.

What initially looked like it might have been a partnership between Os and James to make the game look closer than it had been carried on and finally there was some talk that we might even win the game. By this time Osman was at his best, running hard and putting the bad balls away for four; James was keeping his end going and giving Osman as much of the strike as possible.

Finally and quite remarkably we made it over the winning line with Osman and James having set a new 8th wicket partnership record for the club of 81. In the process Osman had scored his first hundred for the club; it was a superb innings and looking back was the cricketing highlight of the tour. Bob was very relieved at quite literally being able to stay in the shed. Ed and Bob were the 'winners' of the Duckling Award and the Tap respectively.

After the match we shared a couple of beers with the Feniton players. Thanks again to them for being such good hosts and making such a good game of it. Hopefully we will see them again next year.

Following the beers at the ground we headed into Honiton for a curry. We were privileged to be able to sample a new premium lager that is now available in Indian restaurants; the waiter gave the new premium lager the big build up and was probably a little disappointed with the reaction when he announced it as being Kingfisher. We also set a new club record in the curry house; not by drinking it dry but by eating it out of chicken. Mind you they only had four portions left and probably had something of a shock when we'd walked in to an empty restaurant and asked for a table for eighteen.

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THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD
Home Team		Feniton Friendly XI						Away Team		T&T Friendly XI
Date of Match		28 July 2010						Played at		Feniton

		Team							Result	Team
Result		T&T Friendly XI							beat	Feniton Friendly XI

1st Innings of		Feniton Friendly XI
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	Devine	bowled						R Why				23
2	Easterbrook	ct & b						O Mahmood				13
3	Devine	st			J White			R Williams				9
4	Selley	ct			O Mahmood			J White				69
5	Avery	ct			J White			S Bond				25
6	Farley	st			S Bond			R Puri				14
7	Bright	retired out										25
8	Kingdom	not out										7
9	Simic	not out										4
10	Rose	dnb
11	Pyle	dnb
							Byes	6
							Leg Byes	3
							Wides	3
							No Balls	2
									Extras			14

							Wickets	7	Total			203

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	O Mahmood		8	1	32	1
2	R Williams		8	1	42	1
3	R Why		8	0	34	1
4	S Bond		8	1	41	1
5	R Puri		6	0	26	1
6	J White		2	0	19	1
7
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	21					21
2	32					11
3	70					38
4	125					55
5	150					25
6	184					34
7	197					13
8						6
9						0
10						0




2nd Innings of		T&T Friendly XI
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	E Choules	bowled						Pyle				0
2	R Puri	bowled						Pyle				1
3	O Mahmood	not out										111
4	P Mead	bowled						Farley				4
5	R Why	ct						Avery				5
6	S Bond	ct						Selley				30
7	J Morris	bowled						Rose				0
8	M Runkel	bowled						Kingdom				2
9	C Cook	ct						Devine				16
10	J White	not out										15
11	R Williams	dnb										0
							Byes	4
							Leg Byes	2
							Wides	9
							No Balls	5
									Extras			20

							Wickets	8	Total			204

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	Pyle		4	2	12	2
2	Farley		7	0	35	1
3	Avery		4	2	15	1
4	Selley		5	1	23	1
5	Rose		4	0	15	1
6	Kindgom		3	0	26	1
7	Simic		5	0	30	0
8	Devine		4	0	21	1
9	Devine		3.2	0	20	0

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	0					0
2	1					1
3	7					6
4	18					11
5	63					45
6	66					3
7	81					15
8	123					42
9						81
10						0