Theale & Tilehurst Friendly XI vs ICL Bracknell Friendly XI

22nd August 2010

Report by Fingers.

After the disappointments of Saturday there was a need for a positive feeling to be generated for this game; I thought that the best way to do this was to have a Glee soundtrack for the journey to the game (pun intended). I'm not sure that this was appreciated by all in the car but you don't always get things any way you want it.

This was a change to the advertised programme with our old friends from ICL Bracknell taking the place of Bradfield. Simon Humphries won the toss for ICL Bracknell and after extensive consultation with his team mates decided that they would bat first.

Sharpy bowled a very impressive spell first up but was without luck. Scott did manage to pick up a couple of wickets in his opening spell and Alec and Harry also picked up wickets but ICL were relatively well placed at 101-4 from 25 overs.

Haines and Humphries then had the main partnership of the ICL innings as they put on 83 in brisk time for the 5th wicket. Both played well, defending the good balls and when they looked to attack both hit the ball cleanly. Both survived chances in the deep which if we had taken would have restricted the score but at the end of the innings 220-8 from 44 overs represented a good Sunday score; a challenging total but one that was within reach batting second.

James and Arsalan opened the T&T reply and got us off to a good start but then ICL started squeezing in the field to restrict the scoring rate. Arsalan was the first to go well taken by Dolton at slip; the next ball was perhaps the turning point of the match. To his first ball Sharpy chipped a straightforward catch to mid off but the chance went down. Initially Sharpy wasn't at his most fluent but in partnership with Phil the score really started to move. Meady was the first to his fifty, from just 27 balls, but was then dismissed when we were in touching distance of winning. Sharpy, loving the opportunity to bat higher up the order, followed to fifty after Meady was dismissed and then dominated the scoring to the end of the innings; this was through a combination of good stroke play and even better counting.

In the end we ran out relatively comfortable winners by 6 wickets with five overs to spare; this was despite at one point it looking like we were slipping too far behind the rate and it would be a tough run chase. It just goes to prove the old adage: don't stop believing.

THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD
Home Team		Theale and Tilehurst						Away Team		ICL Backnell
Date of Match		22nd August 2010						Played at		Theale

		Team							Result	Team
Result		Theale and Tilehurst							beat	ICL Bracknell

1st Innings of		ICL Bracknell
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	J Garrett	ct			H Osborn			S Stroud				16
2	T Dolton	ct			S Brown			S Stroud				20
3	Ganesh	bowled						A Parcell				24
4	R Haines	bowled						B Cooper				78
5	T Kimber	ct			S Brown			H Osborn				3
6	S Humphrey	not out										58
7	M Stewart	ct			A Sharp			B Cooper				1
8	B Adams	bowled						S Brown				0
9	R Hurst	run out			(J White / B Cooper)							0
10	A Bishop
11	P Bishop
							Byes	3
							Leg Byes	9
							Wides	6
							No Balls	2
									Extras			20

							Wickets	8	Total			220

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	A Sharp		6	1	17	0
2	S Stroud		9	2	37	2
3	A Parcell		9	2	39	1
4	H Osborn		7	1	36	1
5	S Brown		7	0	55	1
6	B Cooper		6	0	25	2
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Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	37					37
2	50					13
3	68					18
4	101					33
5	184					83
6	198					14
7	202					4
8	220					18
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2nd Innings of		Theale and Tilehurst
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	A Ahmed	ct			T Dolton			S Humphries		8	0	43
2	J White	ct			R Hurst			A Bishop		1	0	17
3	A Sharp	not out								13	1	85
4	P Mead	ct			Ganesh			P Bishop		10	0	58
5	P Osborn	bowled						P Bishop		0	0	3
6	B Stroud	not out								0	0	0
7	H Osborn
8	S Brown
9	B Cooper
10	A Parcell
11	S Stroud
							Byes	4
							Leg Byes	3
							Wides	4
							No Balls	5
									Extras			16

							Wickets	4	Total			222

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	S Humphries		10.2	1	54	1
2	R Haines		1	0	12	0
3	P Bishop		12	1	50	2
4	A Bishop		8	0	61	1
5	B Adams		5	0	54	0
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Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	49	1				49
2	97	2				48
3	179	4				82
4	193	5				14
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