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
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 |
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 ;
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 |
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 |
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 ;
O | M | R | W | Nb | Wd | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MICHAEL THOMPSON | 9 | 0 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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.