Saturday 28th June 2008 vs Southill Park C.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Lovely Day Out! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington C.C. | 304 for 6 (50 overs) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Southill Park C.C. | 199 all out (44.5 overs) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shawn Hill Reporting
The occasional cloud and a blustery breeze saw the The ground, as usual, was in immaculate condition and the decision to bat or bowl is always an agonising one given the rumours the skipper had heard about the legendary lunches. Be that as it may, after winning the toss, the skipper decided that the boys could do with batting first and setting a target. Part of the reason for this was that the team assembled was one of the strongest batting lineups seen in the George Hope (51) and Tony Harris opened the batting at a fair rate of knots scoring at over 5 runs an over before George played just one too many through the air to the mid-wicket fence and holed out for a well played 50. The opening partnership yielded 78 in 12 overs. The mighty Paul Irons then joined Harris and together they rattled along before in a few overs both Irons (24) and Harris (33) had lost their wickets. Aff Naseem and Chris Davis then set about rebuilding an innings that had lost some momentum after flurry of wickets. Slowly but surely they built their partnership which took them to the second drinks break. With 15 overs to go the time had come for the Tony Burt and Sandeep Kuckreja tore into the bowling, mixing some big hitting and some more orthodox cricket strokes as and when needed. Some glorious shots regularly found gaps and the boundary as they rattled along at close on 10 an over and they took the score from under 200 to close on 300. Both Burt (59*) and Kuckreja (60) scored well deserved and well played 50’s. Kuckreja departed with 2 overs remaining in the innings which was finished off by Shawn Hill (8*) and Burt. The final score was It was time for lunch and it did not disappoint, many of the guys needing to depart from the Peter Kloss (0-43) opened the bowling with Hill and the opening overs were pretty tight with not many runs being conceded. Hill bowled 4 overs, 1 for 7 before spraining his ankle and hobbling off to spend the rest of the day in and around the slip cordon. Having lost an early wicket Southill batted well and were in the process pulling back a sluggish start before Sandeep bamboozled the Southill no.3 and clean bowled him. That was the start of a fantastic spell of bowling and some good catching from the A word of warning though, after some cracking individual performances and a good team effort, Southill Park Cricket Club have jugs of beer that are to be respected. They were gratefully enjoyed by the team in the sun after the game. Well done to the Man of the match: Shared by Aff Naseem and Chris Davis for their important partnership in the context of the match that allowed the Packing the kit: No contenders this time
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