Theale & Tilehurst Friendly XI vs Holyport Friendly XI

17th April 2011

Report by Fingers.

Our first Sunday game of the season and our traditional start against Holyport. It was also as seems to be traditional a home win; as I’d driven three junctions on the M4 to get to the game that was bad news.

I’m not sure who won the toss but Alan led us in to the field as he started his first game captaining a T&T side. Doc opened the bowling and having stoically ignored every pre season practise session inevitably dropped straight on to a metronomic line and length. Aman also started well and economically.

On a pitch that generally stayed low the first wicket was an lbw for Doc that hit Price just above the boot lace. Taylor followed not long after as Aman took a good catch at a deepish cover.

However, from the off Morgan was timing the ball beautifully belying the time of year and the conditions. Despite others struggling and wickets falling relatively frequently Morgan was able to keep the score moving and take advantage of any loose bowling.

Morgan was dropped on 40 and that proved crucial to the outcome of the game as Holyport made it to just over 200 when 160 would probably have been a par score.

James went early in the T&T reply but Hammad and Meady seemed to be building a good platform for the T&T reply. However, when Meady went caught behind to make the score 51-2 a slowing of the scoring rate and a steady fall of wickets left us a long way behind.

At 95-7 we were out of the game but there was still time for some typical late order hitting from Doc and making it past 150 at least gave the scoreboard a look of respectability.

THEALE AND TILEHURST CC SCORECARD
Home Team		Holyport						Away Team		Theale and Tilehurst
Date of Match		17th April 2011						Played at		Holyport

		Team							Result	Team
Result		Holyport							beat	Theale and Tilehurst

1st Innings of		Holyport
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	J Price	lbw						Neill Halliday				6
2	M Taylor	ct			A Harees			B Cooper				23
3	C Morgan	not out										105
4	J Harris	bowled						B Cooper				9
5	P Davies	bowled						B Cooper				8
6	K Baillie	lbw						M Mehta				0
7	C Cox	bowled						M Mehta				9
8	A Pyle	bowled						A Harees				12
9	D Varney	ct			R Merriman			Neill Halliday				9
10	H Kassamali	bowled						Neill Halliday				1
11	A Other	not out										0
							Byes	5
							Leg Byes	10
							Wides	4
							No Balls	1
									Extras			20

							Wickets	9	Total			202

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	Neill Halliday		10	4	24	3
2	A Harees		10	0	47	1
3	B Cooper		10	2	32	3
4	R Merriman		5	0	33	0
5	M Mehta		10	0	52	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




2nd Innings of		Theale and Tilehurst
	Name	How Out			Who			Bowler		4's	6's	Score
1	J White	ct & b						K Baillie		0	0	3
2	H Ali	run out								4	0	34
3	P Mead	ct			J Harris			P Davies		3	0	17
4	S Nori	lbw						P Davies		0	0	3
5	A Why	bowled						C Morgan		2	0	17
6	R Merriman	bowled						C Morgan		1	0	6
7	M Mehta	ct			K Baillie			C Cox		0	0	6
8	B Cooper	bowled						K Baillie		3	0	24
9	Neill Halliday	ct			D Varney			K Baillie		5	0	27
10	T Beck	lbw						K Baillie		0	0	0
11	A Harees	not out								1	0	4
							Byes	0
							Leg Byes	0
							Wides	5
							No Balls	8
									Extras			13

							Wickets	10	Total			154

Bowling			O	M	R	W
1	D Varney		6	2	10	0
2	K Baillie		8.4	2	27	4
3	P Davies		8	1	28	2
4	H Kassamali		7	1	23	0
5	C Cox		6	0	41	1
6	C Morgan		5	2	8	2
7	A Pyle		1	0	15	0
8

Fall of Wicket
	Score	Outgoing Bat				Stand of
1	9	2				9
2	51	3				42
3	55	4				4
4	75	1				20
5	78	5				3
6	85	6				7
7	95	7				10
8	128	9				33
9	128	10				0
10	153	8				25