Result: Kibworth CC - 3rd XI Winning Draw

Date: Sat 2nd May 2009 @ 13:30

Ground: Kibworth CC

Type:  League : Northamptonshire Cricket League - Division Six

Scoring:  Standard

Toss:  Rothwell Town CC, Northants - 2nd XI won the toss and decided to bowl

 

3rd XI

			R	B	4s	6s
David Greenhalgh	ct	b Kye Parker	14	0	1	0
Rikesh Patel	ct	b Steven Marlow	10	0	1	0
Tim Ellwood +	ct	b Kye Parker	82	0	13	1
Pramod Dewan	Not Out		105	0	15	0
Dan Pedley *	Not Out		45	0	5	1
Charles Hurley	Did Not Bat
Scott Goodman	Did Not Bat
Jay Boucher	Did Not Bat
Adil Ali	Did Not Bat
Scott Clayton	Did Not Bat
Jacob Gibson	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 7b  5lb  18w  3nb  )		33
Total	(3 wickets, 45 overs)		289

 

Fall Of Wickets

20-1 David Greenhalgh (Rikesh Patel*); 30-2 Rikesh Patel (Tim Ellwood*);
180-3 Tim Ellwood (Pramod Dewan*); -4 ;
-5 ; -6 ;
-7 ; -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Steven Marlow	11	1	59	1	0	0
Kye Parker	13	0	70	2	0	0
Richard Fox	14	0	97	0	0	0
George Parker	7	0	44	0	0	0

 

Rothwell Town CC - 2nd XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Julian Marlow	st Tim Ellwood	b Jay Boucher	68	0	0	0
Philip Cross	ct Adil Ali	b Jay Boucher	57	0	0	0
Ross Parker	Not Out		25	0	0	0
Lee Richardson	Not Out		0	0	0	0
Joe Perkins	Did Not Bat
George Parker	Did Not Bat
Steven Marlow *	Did Not Bat
Jack Parker +	Did Not Bat
Declan Peniasko	Did Not Bat
Kye Parker	Did Not Bat
Richard Fox	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 4b  3lb  32w  )		39
Total	(2 wickets, 45 overs)		189

 

Fall Of Wickets

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

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Jacob Gibson	6	0	30	0	0	0
Scott Clayton	6	3	20	0	0	0
Charles Hurley	10	1	53	0	0	0
Adil Ali	9	1	33	0	0	0
Dan Pedley	6	5	6	0	0	0
Rikesh Patel	4	0	24	0	0	0
Jay Boucher	4	1	12	2	0	0

 

Match report

KCC welcomed Rothwell town II CC to Fleckney rd for the first game of the 2009 Northants Division 6 season.

The third team had great success in 2008 and the skipper Dan Pedley had picked a side that looked stacked full of talent for the march to a 5th straight year of promotion. Last year's heroes Pedley, Greenhalgh, Gibson J, Ellwood T, Goodman and Clayton made up the back bone of the side and new young talent had been drafted in with Hurley, Ali, Boucher, Patel and Dewan complementing a fine all round unit. Bailey had made the trip up to the seconds and was frankly out of his depth but the team was happy to be without the hair related banter of Gibson G and Beevers B.
The pre game chat was one full of emotion as Pedley spelt out his expectations for the year and Greenhalgh did his best to interrupt where ever possible eventually being put in his place by a raised eyebrow and stern word from the skipper. Pedley made it clear that the young lads were there on talent and the now seasoned veterans would have to work hard and step up to the mantle for 2009.

Pedley then did his best to ruin everything by losing the toss on a pitch that looked incredible to bat on. He then opted to open with the unorthodox pairing of Greenhalgh and Patel. One a fine young talent with a great career ahead of him and the other Rickesh Patel! But neither of the openers prospered against a weak bowling attack with Greenhalgh going for 14 runs as Clayton clapped a great shot that was caught easily at midwicket and Rickesh departing soon after for 10 sportingly walking from a nick behind. This brought last year's struggling number 8 Tim Elwood to the crease and the new man from the seconds Ali Dewan. The two batsmen complemented each other well with some tactical running between the wicket and great shot selection. Between them they put on over 130 runs for the second wicket with Ellwood eventually going on 82, more runs than he has ever scored if you add up all of his runs ever including runs he has made up in his head whilst dreaming about scoring runs! Ellwood's departure brought last season's destroyer the Hoover Pedley and he soon showed his class smashing a quick fire 45 as Ali made short work of his century with a beautifully struck hit over mid on! KCC finished on a massive 289 for 3!

After a frankly gorgeous tea with no pasta goodness in sight KCC took to the field to have a good go at the Rothwell batting line up. Gibson and Clayton took the new ball but despite probing lines lacked penetration on a pitch that offered nothing but beautiful batting. Pedley then opted for youth with Adil Ali and Charles Hurley having a go. Again both bowled beautifully for no reward. The closest chances both fell to Boucher at point who dropped two very difficult catches and would later regret them as it cost him his dignity and indirectly got sick on his shoes! But cometh the hour and cometh then man. As the ball was thrown to Boucher to offer up some “alternative” bowling many of the players looked aghast at one another! The team had not been this shocked since hearing that Skindog was selected in the third team despite a clear lack of ability. As Boucher spun his web and served up a mixed buffet of pie so the batsmen took the bait with one giving a sharp chance to Adil at square leg and one dancing down the track only to have his bails removed by Ellwood who could not be kept out of the game. As the visitors pottered along to 188 for 2 KCC knew they had done their best but 10 wickets was a pipe dream on that road.
There then followed some general drinking carnage that finally ended for me with Boucher being sick three times on the long journey back home and me holding his hair back. He had taken two wickets, he had won dick of the day for three drop catches and wearing whites in the nets but most importantly he had been initiated into the KCC way by trying to go drink for drink with Tom Driver! It is going to be a big learning curve for KCC this year and lets all hope our liver's can take it.

Next week we welcome back Tom Bale who will add considerably more to the team than skinner who has been dropped.

One love it's bloody good to be back
Fajjarr

THANKS TO DAVE FOR THE REPORT, GRATUITOUSLY CUT AND PASTED FROM FACEBOOK!

Dave Greenhalgh - 07/05/2009