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« Thread Started on Aug 29, 2008, 12:16pm » | |
CH 1st XI vs NCI
A pleasant day for cricket loomed as Cherry Hinton rolled up to the famous Parkers Piece ground. A strange place to play cricket but nice to have an audience that almost made you feel like a real sportsman!
Losing the toss as usual (how does he do it) we were put into bat, which given the choice we would of probably done. Our team looking bolstered by free 2nd XI players our chances looked promising, although the personell involved seemed to be changing minute by minute at one point and was unclear exactly what the line up was going to be.
Unfortunately this chaos seemed to be reflected in the batting. Rapley (2), Livermore (1) going rapidly against tight bowling, a brief break while Shell (14) and Jajoo (4) played in, but failed to capitalise. James (8) shuffled in front of stumps when looking promising, Deepak (2) with his traditional run out and Oridsh J. (1) just being rubbish. Unexpectedly that brought your reporter, Ordish R. (34) into play with over 20 overs to play and with only about 40 runs on the board. Having watched my batting partner James given out LBW, bringing Williams (15) to the wicket the first thought was for playing for a not out as with the very taily tail I didn't think it would be long innings. However with a certain amount of good fortune and even a couple of good shots Ordish R. and Williams (playing some carefully place shots) saw the Cherries into the 37 over.
Williams fell on his sword trying to push the score along that brought old cherry veteran Khan (11 no) into play, minus batting gloves, who hit a couple of quick boundaries. Spurred into action for the penultimate over against weak bowling I tried to go on the attack only to find a top edge to deep square leg. Patel (4) played nicely to play out our 40 overs.
CH 109 all out of 40 overs (13 extras)
As is normal with CH defending a small total we bowled really well. A few chances went away from us which might hace helped but with such a small total it was always going to be tough. A particularly bad "bump ball" call from an obvious catch didnt help... A dropped catch from the wicket keeper (me) and 2 from our captain. Although to be fair one of those was actually a stunning stop of a ball with 4 runs written all over it, and all these off the luckless Deepak Barot. But we took NCI into the 32nd over which was no mean feat.
Ordish (7-0-17-0) Bowled tight for no success
Livermore (5-1-13-0) Excellent but unfortunate spell
Shell (7-0-37-2) marvelous controlled spin only marred by a duffer once per over
Barot (9-4-23-1) Very accurate but unlucky
Jajoo (4-01-15-1) Right on the money and getting good movement in air
NCI 110 for 4 of 32.2 (12 extras)
Should be noted that 12 extras is excellent and kept us in the game for longer than our usual 30-40 would of.
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