match report 

Result: Gumley CC - Gumley Sunday Side Won by 3 wickets

Date: Sun 10th Aug 2008 @ 2:00

Ground: Kibworth CC

Type:  Friendly

Scoring:  Standard

Toss:  Gumley CC - Gumley Sunday Side won the toss and decided to bowl

Kibworth Sunday 1st XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Ken Pounds		b Richard Davies	4	5	1	0
adam samuel	ct Geoff Hallam	b Ben Hunt	22	0	3	0
Sam Pole	ct Matthew Short	b Richard Davies	0	0	0	0
Bob Beevers +		b Dennis Pickering	74	0	10	0
paul illingworth	ro		0	0	0	0
Gary Dunmore	ct		16
Eliott Lodge	ro		1	0	0	0
William Jennings *	Not Out		9	0	0	0
Henry Simpson	ct Joseph Hallam	b Dennis Pickering	9	0	0	0
Jamie Thompson		b Dennis Pickering	2	0	0	0
Arthur Morritt	ct Joseph Hallam	b Dennis Pickering	3	0	0	0
Extras	( 5b  1lb  5w  )		11
Total	( all out )		151

 

Fall Of Wickets

-1 ; -2 ; -3 ; -4 ;
-5 ; -6 ; -7 ; -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Richard Davies	8	2	22	2	0	0
Richard Krause	8	2	23	0	0	0
Ben Hunt	5	0	36	1	0	0
Mark Freer	5	0	22	1	0	0
Alan Pickering	6	0	21	0	0	0
Dennis Pickering	5.2	0	18	4	0	0

 

Gumley CC - Gumley Sunday Side

			R	B	4s	6s
Dennis Pickering		b Jamie Thompson	37	0	7	0
Glynn Marshall	ct	b Jamie Thompson	0	0	0	0
Geoff Hallam		b Jamie Thompson	2	0	0	0
Joseph Hallam		b Jamie Thompson	0	0	0	0
Matthew Short +	LBW	b Gary Dunmore	7	0	1	0
Richard Krause	ct	b Henry Simpson	11	0	2	0
Mark Freer	ct	b Arthur Morritt	13	0	1	0
Ben Hunt	Not Out		37	0	5	0
Joly Pickering *	Not Out		27	0	3	0
Alan Pickering	Did Not Bat
Richard Davies	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 15b  2lb  2w  )		19
Total	(7 wickets)		154

 

Fall Of Wickets

4-1 Glynn Marshall (Dennis Pickering-4*); 26-2 Geoff Hallam (Dennis Pickering-24*);
26-3 Joseph Hallam (Dennis Pickering-24*); 41-4 Dennis Pickering (Matthew Short-1*);
60-5 Matthew Short (Richard Krause-9*); 74-6 Richard Krause (Mark Freer-7*);
100-7 Mark Freer (Ben Hunt-18*); -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Eliott Lodge	5	0	32	0	0	0
Jamie Thompson	8	2	14	4	0	0
Arthur Morritt	8	2	24	1	0	0
Gary Dunmore	4.5	1	14	1	0	0
Henry Simpson	4	0	23	1	0	0
William Jennings	4	0	30	0	0	0

The Bard reports

The weather forecast for this weekend had been pretty grim. Kibworth cricketers by nature are a pretty hardy bunch but the stand in skipper had apparently been making enquiries whether the deck of Noah's was available as a standby.
 The toss was a formality. This is not to say that the skippers didn't go through the routine, it is just that the Bard claims only to have won two spins in his Kibworth career and his lack of luck didn't disappoint here. The home side were, somewhat uncomfortably, inserted.

 Ken Pounds had rushed straight from work, forgotten both his strap and white socks and didn't last long. Sam Pole offered catching practice to the slip cordon and suddenly the home side were in the smelly stuff at 12 for 2. At this stage, and much to the dismay of stock markets everywhere, it became time for Sideshow to enter the fray. He bounced up to Adam Samuel, touched gloves and said (and I quote),” Let's go full pasty, big man!” Quite what the eccentrically haired Third Teamer meant by this will probably baffle professors in academic institutions across the land. Umpiring at square leg I took it to mean he would give it a go.

 Thankfully from the team point of view Bob was good to his word. His 74 came at a rollicking rate and by the time he was finally cleaned up Kibworth looked like they would have something vaguely respectable to defend. This was just as well as other contributions were reduced to the roles of cameos. Adam never really got going although he hung around, Illo was run out in a manner that was probably more suited to league cricket than a Sunday knock about, Gary Dunmore shovelled a rank pie into the heavens and departed to kick every blade of grass on his way back to the hutch before Elliott managed to find some kind of extreme reverse gear to turn a comfortable two to a 'not in the frame' run out.
 The final total of 151 all out was probably about 30 short of par but Henry Simpson showed signs of promise as he and the skipper put on 20 for the 8 wicket although messers Thompson Junior and Morritt didn't last long enough to get the skipper the run he required to reach the dizzy heights of double figures.

  After tea Jamie Thompson snarled in from the Pavilion end of the bottom square shooting out four visiting batsman in a cracking five over spell, his second wicket being an absolute snorter that moved a mile back in to surprise a Gumley batter who was confidently shouldering arms. If Ronald MacDonald had have been looking on he would have been smiling that his prodigy was fairing so well.

In time with seven Gumley batters back in the hutch and about 50 wanted it was theoretically looking good for the home side but their skipper had held himself back and he immediately looked to be the sort of classy, technically correct player that the home skipper wasn't. His batting partner was rather more robust in outlook but the boys in green couldn't separate them, balls dropped in between fielders or just out of reach and the game slipped away. This is not to say though that there was no fight, in fact there was plenty, especially from Illo who was still seething at this own dismissal and launched into a low level but persistent sledging campaign. To some it was a shock to see him going at it, personally speaking I wouldn't be more surprised if her majesty jumped off her horse at the trooping of the colour and dropkicked a corgi's sorry backside down the mall ala Johnny Wilkinson.

  A three wicket defeat was disappointing but not as perplexing as the phrase '”Full Pasty' which you would probably need the code breakers at to decipher. It was also not as bemusing as reports that were drifting in that the stand in skipper may not, as previously thought, have the biggest heeeead in the world. Forget Sandiacre versus Pedro's boys next weekend, two heads that size is a real heavyweight collision.