Match Report

Result: Drawn

Date: Sat 12th May 2007 @ 14:00

Type:  Everards Leicestershire League Divison 1

Toss:  Kegworth Town CC - 1st XI won the toss and decided to bat 

Kegworth Town CC - 1st XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Moorhouse		b Lee Bredariol	21	23	4	0
r morgan	LBW	b Lee Bredariol	1	23	0	0
Storr	st Stephen Thompson	b Ram Ghuman	52	82	9	0
hodge	ct steve matthew	b Ram Ghuman	20	70	2	0
d savidge	ct steve matthew	b Ram Ghuman	7	26	0	0
Carl Sutton		b Dan Broughton	4	20	0	0
holmes	Not Out		38	24	2	3
d torr +	ct Dave Pounds	b Ram Ghuman	1	4	0	0
Ian Dade	ct Stephen Thompson	b Dan Broughton	3	5	0	0
wade *	Not Out		11	11	1	0
C Johnson	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 4b  2lb  13w  6nb  )		25
Total	(8 wickets, 45 overs)		183

 

Fall Of Wickets

21-1 r morgan ( Moorhouse*); 36-2  Moorhouse ( Storr*);
109-3  hodge ( Storr*); 116-4  Storr (d savidge*);
127-5 d savidge (Carl Sutton*); 131-6 Carl Sutton ( holmes*);
133-7 d torr ( holmes*); 139-8 Ian Dade ( holmes*); ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Dan Broughton	11	2	31	2	2	3
Lee Bredariol	16	1	49	2	3	3
Tom Driver	6	1	22	0	0	6
Tom Bailey	3	0	21	0	0	0
Ram Ghuman	9	1	54	4	1	0

 

Kibworth 2nd XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Robert Duck		b  holmes	38	81	4	0
steve matthew	ct	b  holmes	4	8	1	0
Greg Gibson	LBW	b  wade	1	18	0	0
Ram Ghuman	ct	b  holmes	3	5	0	0
John Pounds	ct	b d savidge	7	45	1	0
Stephen Thompson +	LBW	b d savidge	13	16	3	0
Tom Driver		b d savidge	8	28	0	0
Dave Pounds *	Not Out		46	52	7	0
Lee Bredariol		b Ian Dade	9	9	1	0
Dan Broughton	ct	b d savidge	6	16	1	0
Tom Bailey	Not Out		0	1	0	0
Extras	( 5b  2lb  7w  1nb  )		15
Total	(9 wickets, 45 overs)		150

 

Fall Of Wickets

18-1 steve matthew (Robert Duck*); 32-2 Greg Gibson (Robert Duck*);
45-3 Ram Ghuman (Robert Duck*); 65-4 Robert Duck (John Pounds*);
70-5 John Pounds (Stephen Thompson*); 79-6 Stephen Thompson (Tom Driver*);
110-7 Tom Driver (Dave Pounds*); 127-8 Lee Bredariol (Dave Pounds*);
150-9 Dan Broughton (Dave Pounds*); 

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
holmes	13	4	25	3	1	4
wade	8	2	33	1	0	3
Ian Dade	14	2	51	1	0	0
d savidge	10	3	34	4	0	0

Match Report

A second missed opportunity in 3 weeks for the 2’s

Kegworth won the toss and elected to bat. Things looked ominous for the home side as Moorhouse stroked the first ball of the game with some style to long on for 3.  Unlike his opening partner, Morgan  struggled and was finally put out of  his misery by Breder’s when  he  was out LBW in the  6th over for 1. Moorhouse followed 2 over's later after misjudging a ball to leave, again from Breder's, which came back off the pitch and knocked his off peg out of the ground.

There followed a stand of  73 between Storr and Hodge, during which the Kibby seamers of  Brought’s, Breder’s and Driver all bowled well. All beating the bat on many occasions and causing the Kegworth batters plenty of problems.

Captain Pounds thought the introduction of spin would help break this partnership, so he turned to Tom Bailey. This I am afriad was not to be Tom’s day. He struggled with his line and length and after only 3 over’s for 21 runs was replaced in the attack by young Ram.

With his introduction Ram slowed the run rate down and started the wickets tumbling. Firstly He removed Hodge who was caught by Steve Matthew at long off. A good running catch. Then the same pair combined 3 over’s later to remove the new batter Savidge. A couple of more over passed and Ram had Storr stumped by Tommo for 52. The introduction of the Young Leg-spinner had reduced the away side from 109 for 2, too 127 for 5.

Whilst the Young Spin King was whirling away, Breder’s was coming to the end of an 11 over spell in which he had no luck at all. He was beating the bat 2 or 3 times an over without any just reward.

Breder’s was replaced by Brought's and as you can imagine the fireworks began. Kegworth’s oversea’s player, Aussie Holmes, had come to the wicket. Borrowed bat in hand …. but with no helmet. you can imagine this was like a red rag to a bull, and as Brought's  got loose he chose to test out the ability of our foreign visitor’s short ball shots.

With the over's running out, Kegworth and particularly Holmes started to look for the boundary. He plundered Ram for a couple of 4’s and 2 huge 6’s. In the middle of this onslaught Ram did pick up his 4th wicket. Torr caught by Captain Pounds…. and in his own words “my first meaningful contribution of the season”.

Brought's picked up the wicket of Sutton, clean bowled ( and breaking the top off a stump ), and picked up the final wicket of the innings with …. Yes a bouncer, when Dade gloved a looping catch down the leg side to Tommo.

Kegworth finished on 183 for 8, a total which the home side would have happily given them at the start of the game.

 

With 2 of last season’s top 3 still missing, ( in Josh and Rishi ) , it was again Steve Matthew and Rob duck who had the job of setting the foudations of the home sides reply. The innings started in similar fashion to all this season. Steve started well smashing Aussie Holmes through the covers for 4. But I am afraid that was the only highlight to his short innings, as he was out caught trying to hook off the same bowler a couple of over’s later. 2nd team debutant Greg Gibson came in at 3, and after listening to a lot of verbal diarrhoea from not only our  Aussie visitor ( that was to be expected ) but also from most of the Kegworth side , he only managed a single in his 18 ball stay at the crease. A few harsh lessons learned for the young prospect. Ram cam in at 4 and played a shot a ball, most of which he either missed of found the fielder. He only lasted  5 balls for his 3…. Can you see the pattern emerging!?!?1

Whilst all this was going on Rob was slowly building an innings and now with the score at 45 for 3, one of last seasons successes with the bat John Pounds joined Rob. It has to be said, John struggled. The quick bowling of Holmes and the accurate nagging length of Wade had John in a lot of bother.

This appeared to put a lot of pressure on Rob who was starting to look a little frustrated himself, playing a lot of shots but not scoring many runs. His vigil at the crease was ended when he was bowled by Holmes for 38. Tommo joined JP, but the latter was soon gone gloving Savage, who had replaced the impressive Holmes, behind for 7 from 45 balls. After looking as fluent with the bat as he had done up to this point of the season, Tommo followed JP into the hutch when he was out for 13, LBW also to Savage.

This left the home side reeling on 79 for 6, still 104 runs behind. There were plenty of over’s left but not much batting to come in the fading light.

Captain Pounds & Tom “ Betty” Driver began the repair job, putting on 41 before Tom was bowled  for 8 by Savage. Breder’s joined Dave for a brief  17 run partnership, of which he scored 8 before being bowled by Dade. Brought’s was next, and after the “chin music” and verbal’s he had dished out earlier, it was not surprising when he had his fair share from our visitors. He hung around with Poundsy , who was  in the middle of having his best knock of the season to date, to bring us to the brink of the draw.

But in typical Kibworth style we do not like to do anything the easy way. With 2 balls to go Brought's was caught at slip, again of the bowling of Savage. This meant that Tom Bailey had to repeat his feat of a fortnight previous and bat out the last ball for the draw. He dully obliged and once again the 2’s clung on to draw.

Kibworth  ended on 150 for 9.Again 2 words, that I have heard said  many a time by ex-club captain and now coach Russell Cobb spring to mind. Application and partnerships.