Match report

Result: Kibworth CC - 3rd XI Won by 5 wickets

Date: Sat 14th Jun 2008 @ 13:30

Type:  League : Northamptonshire Cricket League - Division Seven

Scoring:  Standard

 

Wellingborough OGs CC - 2nd XI

			R	B	4s	6s
LUKE BAISH	ct John Pounds	b micheal roberts	0	1	0	0
MATTHEW BAILEY		b micheal roberts	5	16	0	0
Paul Cater	ct David Greenhalgh	b Greg Gibson	45	78	7	0
Neil Smith		b Jacob Gibson	8	26	0	0
GARETH SMITH		b Jacob Gibson	70	69	12	0
MICHAEL THOMPSON	ct steve matthew	b Jacob Gibson	47	37	8	0
CALVIN GREEN *	Not Out		20	15	4	0
ANTHONY WALLINGER +		b Jacob Gibson	7	9	1	0
THOMAS PURSGLOVE		b Jacob Gibson	0	1	0	0
PAUL MARTIN	Not Out		1	2	0	0
Unsure	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 3b  3lb  10w  7nb  )		23
Total	(8 wickets, 45 overs)		226

 

Fall Of Wickets

0-1 LUKE BAISH (MATTHEW BAILEY*); 14-2 MATTHEW BAILEY (Paul Cater*);
46-3 Neil Smith (Paul Cater*); 104-4 Paul Cater (GARETH SMITH*);
195-5 MICHAEL THOMPSON (GARETH SMITH*); 199-6 GARETH SMITH (CALVIN GREEN*);
219-7 ANTHONY WALLINGER (CALVIN GREEN*); 219-8 THOMAS PURSGLOVE (CALVIN GREEN*);
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
micheal roberts	7	0	28	2	0	0
Greg Gibson	9	2	32	1	0	0
Jacob Gibson	11	1	43	5	0	0
Kevin Riley	7	1	24	0	0	0
Ben Underwood	5	0	39	0	0	0
Dan Pedley	2	0	17	0	0	0
Scott Clayton	4	0	41	0	0	0

 

3rd XI

			R	B	4s	6s
David Greenhalgh			12	13	2	0
Greg Gibson	ct		16	25	2	0
John Pounds			54	55	9	0
steve matthew +	ct	b MICHAEL THOMPSON	86	58	12	4
Dan Pedley *	ct MICHAEL THOMPSON	b MICHAEL THOMPSON	5	6	1	0
Kevin Riley	Not Out		17	17	2	0
Rikesh Patel	Not Out		18	26	3	0
micheal roberts	Did Not Bat
Ben Underwood	Did Not Bat
Scott Clayton	Did Not Bat
Jacob Gibson	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 4b  7lb  9w  )		20
Total	(5 wickets, 33.5 overs)		228

 

Fall Of Wickets

26-1 David Greenhalgh (Greg Gibson*); 33-2 Greg Gibson (John Pounds*);
163-3 John Pounds (steve matthew*); 164-4 steve matthew (Dan Pedley*);
195-5 Dan Pedley (Kevin Riley*); -6 ;
-7 ; -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
MICHAEL THOMPSON	9	0	56	2	0	0

Match Report

Another win for the Third string which also doubled as an exercise in digging yourself a sizeable hole and then blitzing your way out of it with the sort of pyrotechnics you get either on Guy Fawkes night or after each king size portion of Vindaloo on a Friday evening beerfest.

 The Third team opening bowling attack is something slightly unusual. From one end you get Mike Roberts bowling with all the venom the Burberry brand can muster and, at the other end, you get Greg Gibson putting the capital D in Dibbly Dobbly. Now of course this all standard stuff so from time to time you have to find an original angle, this Greg did by wearing a white sweat band around his forehead that bought three thoughts to mind.

1) A mixture of Shaggy from Scooby Doo meets Bjorn Borg at Wimbledon circa 1980

2) The man who didn't quite get accepted at the final 118 118 screen test

3) The American werewolf of er Kibworth

Certainly it might keep the flowing Gibson locks out of his eyes whilst trundling but probably deserves some kind of parental certificate in a family environment.

 Now my parents told me as a kid that if you can't find anything nice to say, don't say anything and it is generally a rule I stick to. Well, that is unless you happen to support the Lib-Dems in which case you deserve everything you get, but I digress. Safe to say though that some of the work the team put in in the field was not exactly a triumph and the final OG total of 226 was probably about 60 more than should have been allowed, the umpires arms were spread wide that often you would have been forgiven for thinking there was a Dambusters convention in town.

 To gloss over the OG innings though would be to miss two things worthy of note. Firstly a gutsy 70 odd by visting batter Smith which gave the away side something to bowl at and a very respectable five for by Jacob Gibson. Whilst dismissing half a side singlehandedly is noteworthy enough let me take you back to the final victim of his afternoon. It was noted that quite a few of the side had not called the required 'Jug Ball' so when one Kibby fielder called it, another doubled it, not to be left out another tripled it and just to be flash a further call made it four jugs for one piece of bowling. Jacob duly obliged making it four jugs for the ball and another for making it a five wicket haul, Just for the record there is a capital C in cirrossis.

 After 11 overs of the reply Kibby had slipped to 35 for 2. Dave Greenhalgh had played all around a straight one and Greg had shovelled one up in the air before tipping his head back in disgust at which point his lid was the only thing stopping some kind of slow-mo timotei moment. The home side were crying out for a hero and as the old cricketing cliche goes, one brings two.

 The rescue act was robust and violently entertaining. John Pounds started circumspectly before Steve Matthew, who had earlier claimed to have only top edged one six all season, went bananas and started smiting the bowling with the power of a warhead and the subtlety of an East German shot putter. One drive sent an injured OG player off the field with its sheer force whilst the next soared from the square, briefly into the stratosphere and then over the rope for six.

 The next 11 overs passed in a blur of racing run rate, flashing blade and, like a room full of eunachs, missing balls. What at one point had looked to be a tough ask turned into a walk in the park as the back up bowling was put to the sword. John made it past 50 and Steve finally failed to connect with his own score on 86. Despite his protestations it would appear a second slice of chocolate cake did the trick in the manner that Popeye would do after three cans of Spinach, without the tatoo's and Village People outfit obviously.

 There was still time for a five ball cameo duck for the skipper before Kev Riley and Rickesh Patel ran the field ragged to seal a very comfortable five wicket win with over ten overs to spare.

 All in all another good win and a good afternoon's entertainment.