Sunday 11th August 2013 vs Barnes C.C.
 
No Joy for Wash in SW London...
 
Barnes C.C. 245-7
Washington C.C. 132
 

 

Matthew Cragoe reporting

 

Washington felt the cold wind of defeat out on Barnes Common on Sunday.  A reasonable bowling performance had restricted the home side to 245 off 35 overs, but Washington’s batsmen withered in the face of some canny bowling and were bowled out for 132.

 

Skipper Michael Turner was disappointed. ‘We need to sharpen our ground fielding and learn how to build partnerships’, he said later:  ‘we’re just making life very difficult for ourselves at the moment’.

 

Turner won the toss and inserted Barnes, and their batsmen attacked from the off, driving anything pitched up.  The council-owned ground was slightly uneven, which made ground fielding challenging, and the outfield was fast, ensuring batsmen got full value for their shots.

 

Wickets fell at reasonable intervals as Turner rang the changes – Sam Clark (2-32 ) and Peter Kloss shared the new ball and picked up early wickets;  Russell Pendry (1-53 ) came on early and enjoyed success, and Andy Crook (1-25) who troubled all the batsmen with his line and bounce.  But the most successful was Clinton Dugmore (3-56), returning to bowling duties after a season behind the stumps after the collar bone injury sustained in March.

 

However, Wash were unable to dislodge big-hitting no 3 Sanjay whose luck held as he banged nine 4s and five 6s in making 84, guiding the home side to their final total of 245 – 7.

 

The Wash reply began with a clatter of wickets. Ash Cruickshank (4) was caught, Leo Lang (0) fell second ball, Matt Cheviott (9) was lbw, and Kevin Read (0) was bowled, leaving Wash in disarray at 18-4.

 

Tom Allott (16) then joined Same Clark (57) and they settled the innings down, batting with prudent aggression while adding  25 for the fifth wicket.  Allott’s demise, however, brought another mini collapse as Dugmore (5) and Turner (0) came an went in quick succession; and it was left to Clark and Kloss (16) to add the highest partnership of the innings – 61 for the 8th wicket.

 

Clark played a second brilliant innings in many weeks with some crisp hitting – six 4s and 3 6s flowed from his bat.

 

His efforts were, however, in vain.  Kloss fell lbw, and then Clarke himself was caught.  Pendry (2) was bowled and Crook left unbeaten on 8.

 

So west London fringes proved no kinder to the Wash than had the northern parishes;  Wash went down to defeat by 113 runs.

 

 

 

 

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Batting
Player Runs How out
Matthew Cragoe 9 LBW
Ash Cruickshank 4 Caught
Leo Lang 0 Bowled
Kevin Read 0 Bowled
Sam Clark 53 Caught
Tom Allott 16 LBW
Clinton Dugmore 5 Bowled
Mike Turner 0 Bowled
Peter Kloss 16 LBW
Andrew Crook 8* 
Russell Pendry 2 Bowled
Partnerships
Wkt Runs Batsmen
1 6 Matthew Cragoe  &  Ash Cruickshank
2 2 Matthew Cragoe  &  Leo Lang
3 10 Matthew Cragoe  &  Kevin Read
4 0 Kevin Read  &  Sam Clark
5 25 Sam Clark  &  Tom Allott
6 11 Sam Clark  &  Clinton Dugmore
7 0 Sam Clark  &  Mike Turner
8 61 Sam Clark  &  Peter Kloss
9 3 Sam Clark  &  Andrew Crook
10 16 Andrew Crook  &  Russell Pendry



Fielding
Player Cts Wkt Cts Stmps
Sam Clark 1 - -
Ash Cruickshank 1 - -
Clinton Dugmore 1 - -
Mike Turner - 1 -
Bowling
Player Overs Mdns Runs Wkts
Russell Pendry 7.0 0 53 1
Peter Kloss 6.0 0 31 1
Tom Allott 3.0 0 42 0
Sam Clark 7.0 1 32 2
Clinton Dugmore 7.0 0 56 3
Andrew Crook 5.0 0 25 1
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