Result: Stoughton & Thurnby CC - 1st XI Won by 1 wickets
Date: Sat 17th Jul 2010 @ 13:00
Ground: Kibworth CC
Type: League : Leicestershire County Cricket League - Everards Leicestershire Premier Cricket League
Toss: Stoughton & Thurnby CC - 1st XI won the toss and decided to bowl
R | B | 4s | 6s | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Matt Craven | ct Andrew Fullerton-Smith | b Alex Wyatt | 1 | 28 | 0 | 0 |
Tom Burton | ct Mike Scully | b Tom Wells | 13 | 30 | 1 | 0 |
Greg Smith | ct zain mir | b Stephen Franklin | 27 | 41 | 3 | 0 |
Andrew Smith * | st Andrew Fullerton-Smith | b James Sykes | 16 | 46 | 1 | 0 |
Aadil Ali | Not Out | 21 | 52 | 1 | 0 | |
Darren Shaw | b Stephen Franklin | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
richard jackson | LBW | b Stephen Franklin | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Aamir Mahmood | LBW | b Stephen Franklin | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Tom Driver | ct Gags Singh | b Tom Wells | 9 | 23 | 1 | 0 |
Russell Spiers | ct Andrew Fullerton-Smith | b Tom Wells | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
steve matthew + | ct Tom Wells | b Alex Wyatt | 40 | 35 | 7 | 0 |
Extras | ( 5b 5lb 9w 3nb ) | 22 | ||||
Total | ( all out , 47.3 overs) | 152 |
18-1 Tom Burton (Matt Craven*); 20-2 Matt Craven (Greg
Smith*);
64-3 Andrew Smith (Greg Smith*); 64-4 Greg Smith (Aadil
Ali*);
66-5 Darren Shaw (Aadil Ali*); 68-6 richard jackson (Aadil
Ali*);
70-7 Aamir Mahmood (Aadil Ali*); 86-8 Tom Driver (Aadil
Ali*);
86-9 Russell Spiers (Aadil Ali*); 152-10 steve matthew (Aadil
Ali*);
O | M | R | W | Nb | Wd | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Wells | 13 | 1 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Alex Wyatt | 10.3 | 1 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
James Sykes | 10 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Stephen Franklin | 14 | 3 | 41 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
R | B | 4s | 6s | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Phil Norwell | b Tom Driver | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
Andrew Fullerton-Smith * + | ct richard jackson | b Russell Spiers | 22 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Chad Yates | ct Greg Smith | b Aamir Mahmood | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mike Scully | ct Darren Shaw | b richard jackson | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Neel Thakrar | ct steve matthew | b Tom Driver | 23 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Tom Wells | LBW | b Tom Driver | 34 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Gags Singh | ct Greg Smith | b Tom Driver | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
zain mir | Not Out | 29 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
James Sykes | b Tom Driver | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
Alex Wyatt | LBW | b Tom Driver | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stephen Franklin | Not Out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Extras | ( 1b 4lb 10w 3nb ) | 18 | ||||
Total | (9 wickets, 47.4 overs) | 153 |
21-1 Phil Norwell; 28-2 Chad Yates; 38-3 Mike Scully;
42-4 Andrew Fullerton-Smith;
89-5 Neel Thakrar; 89-6 Gags Singh; 107-7 Tom Wells;
148-8 James Sykes;
148-9 Alex Wyatt; -10 ;
O | M | R | W | Nb | Wd | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aamir Mahmood | 13 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Tom Driver | 14 | 0 | 46 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
richard jackson | 8 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Russell Spiers | 10.4 | 2 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Darren Shaw | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Team changes from the previous weeks defeat to Kegworth would see
Dips on stag do duty, Cobb unavailable due to ankle injury, broughts
unavailable, Clarkey getting some batting in the 2’s and the
seasonal debut from the catalyst and a returning chuckle 1.
It’s now cheaper to get a speeding fine trying to get to the game
on time as opposed to actually paying the new increased late fine. I
exaggerate but it’s now £4!. Chuckle decided that as he was
verging on late, if he just made it into the dressing room as 12, he
would not be fined. So he was in the changing room with a carrier bag
and no kit but made a case for abiding by the rules. He would pay
£4 as the selector wasn’t having it.
The catalyst was looking forward to sweets, but forgot that broughts
wasn’t playing and so a quick trip to the spar would be in order
and a selection of haribo bags returned.
With rain about and some warm up Frisbee action, Stoughton won the toss
and asked the Kcc boys to bat first. Always difficult if rain around
and how to pace the first 25 overs and with a short shower before the
game started, we were left with a 48 over a side match.
Stoughton after a difficult start had pulled some good form together
and with kcc looking to bounce back, it was set to be a decent game.
The Stoughton opening attack was felt to be one of the strongest, with
County Duo Wells and Wyatt on a hard and quickish track. Indeed it
would take the badger 125 balls to eventually get off the mark. (it was
actually about 30but it felt like 3 figures!) To be fair to badge, it
was doing all sorts and Burty also found it tough going. Some superb
seam bowling with movement both ways kept the runs down. Having got off
the mark, the badger was struck down and sawn off for an aledged nick
behind. The red mark on his thigh pad was testimony to the fact that
actually on this occasion, justice hadn’t been done and the
unlucky badger after a wait of 12 minutes, had to walk back to the
dressing room and drop some f bombs. Chuckle despite trying to get
himself below 4 in the batting order, was made to bat at 3 by selector.
With county coach Tim Boon watching from the balcony, chuckle would
hope to impress after his 80 odd against Pakistan earlier in the week
having run out chuckle 2 by a street.
He indeed looked like he was in the zone and partnered stringy well as
they began to build a partnership against the still impressive opening
attack. Stringy however was picked up by scully off wells and the
selector with his autograph bat and on the back of his Sunday 50, was
in at 4. Selector would enjoy batting with chuckle as it gave him the
opportunity to keep an eye on him and stop him doing anything silly,
like charging down the wicket first ball after lunch and getting
stumped, which would be a ridiculous and irresponsible way to perish
having created a decent platform. So after drinks were taken, the
selector shimmied down the track to the first ball and was stumped/run
out. For once chuckle would have something on the selector. On the
balcony FK would be miffed as by becoming a stumping victim, FK’s
aim of finishing as the keeper with most victims in the prem would take
a beating as overseas keeper fullerton-smith would take 3 during the
game, with just 1 for FK. Having impressed with his composure the
previous week, Aadil was again given the opportunity to show just why
he has nailed 1000 runs already, just half way through the season.
Having been 80 off for 2, we were now 3 down at the halfway stage. And
the bowling change would see pace off with spinner Sykes and the medium
pace of franklin. Chuckle perhaps relaxed at the change in bowling and
muffed a catch to the eccentric Zain Mir off franklin. 80 odd for 4 and
wobble avoidance was needed to set a decent total. Like a set of wobbly
jellies, balancing 1 legged on a wobbly thing, stacked on a couple of
additional wobbly bits, we wobbled. POTS would be bowled by franklin,
jacko missed a straight one LBW to franklin AND Aamir would be given
out lbw to one he thought as he had a red mark at the top of his thigh,
would probably have not been out, but sometimes it doesn’t go
your way, so he took it on the chin and with a knowing smile, trotted
back to the pavilion. For legal reasons that’s what happened
ok!!. Actually he thought himself jolly unlucky and that the umpire
perhaps made an error of judgement in this instance.
So with Aadil grinding out runs at the other end, the catalyst would
look to add momentum and not get bogged down as openers wyatt and wells
would return to try and wrap up the tail. At 90 odd for 7 a fair bet
would be that 150 was some way off, but a wager was soon to take place.
The catalyst cut one to former kcc man and now super mario impersonator
gaggs and at 90ish for 8, the ledge would look to add some experience
in the middle with Ad’s. Wells provided some hostile bowling with
the ledge fending one off the chest only to be taken by the keeper and
it looked like game over under 100 all out. FK waddled to the crease
and with the selector assured of an easy £30 from chuckle who bet
him a £1 at 30-1 that we would get 150+, the selector snapped his
hand off as perhaps Aadil would survive, but could he farm the strike
for 10 overs and keep the podgy gloveman out the way.
With FK’s bat having been used all week by Burty, some of the
blonde bombshell’s batting talent had rubbed off onto the willow
and FK stroked a majstic off drive from wells and another off the legs.
Being a nice chap he refused to go with his colleagues suggestion and
bounce the chubster but after an FK cut for 4, he had had enough, as
had Wyatt from the other end who didn’t wait long before clonking
the helmetless swede of the porky number 11. The glancing blow seemed
to make FK more determined and after straightening his cap, crunched
the next ball through the covers for 4. FK would receive a few more
short ones, but by then was able to swivel his ample weight out of
harms way.
At the other end, Aadil was heeding FK advice to use up all the overs
and not give them anything and to just focu on putting away the bad
ball and see what we could scramble in the remaining overs. The balcony
was getting more animated, especially Chuckle who was extremely vocal
in his support of the flourishing partnership. 2 things were unusual
about this, 1) chuckle normally doesn’t care if he isn’t
batting and 2) chuckle normally doesn’t care if he isn’t
batting.
Aadil was demonstrating great patience and technique to keep out Wells
and Wyatt and as the overs ran down , the duo opened up in the final
over. A dodgy hoik from FK got us over 150 and with Chuckle bellowing
support from the balcony, you could have been mistaken that a
cockspuresque victory had occurred. What actually happened is that by
reaching 150, chuckle had won £30 from selector, who indeed post
game honoured the bet and then paid the chairman for his 100 club with
it.
With 3 balls left, FK holed out with Aadil unbeaten on a mature 21 and
FK out for 40 and we had reached 152 somehow.
All we needed was a slice of fortune and some good bowling and who
knows what could happen. With the catalyst taking the new ball with the
colonel it would prove to be the start of an impressive spell of
bowling from the wood chiseler and umpire botherer. Driver bowled a
heavy ball and FK and Chuckle would move back noticeably as the lively
pace and back of a length bowling would account for opener norwell.
Both bowled very good areas and overseas Fullerton smith was fortunate
enough not to get a nick on a number that passed the bat. The selector
tried for spin to make the breakthrough and it would be jacko picking
up the wicket of scully and spiro getting overseas man with the catch
of the season (so far) held by jacko at square leg. A hard hit clip of
the legs looked a certain boundary but somehow jacko defied gravity and
held on to a stunning 1 handed catch to his right in mid air. Its those
sort of moments that turn games and this did. Yates back at Stoughton
having done nothing at langtons was packed off by the colonel with
chuckle taking a decent slip catch.With a bit of self belief back in
the ranks selector saw the opportunity to bring back the catalysts and
aamir. With his back up, drives banged the ball around in awkward areas
and muscled it through wuth a lifeter catching the glove and FK taking
one down legside. Wells looked classy with the bat and a large six was
followed by some good strokeplay and it was an inswinger which trapped
him infront LBW. The colonel was keeping things tight at the other end
and helping build pressure as another wicket for driver as a nasty
bouncer had Gaggs in trouble and the top edge taken by chuckle running
back at 1st slip.
Tango spinner Sykes is also no mug with the bat as he proved in the
first kleague encounter and he was being coached by Zain Mir. Anyone
watching Zain bat, would probably suggest that dishing out batting
advice wouldn’t be his strong point, but he proved to be an
awkward customer and despite playing and missing a fair bit, he was
well up for it. The catalyst knocked the Kirby like sykes off stump out
the ground followed shortly after by getting a second LBW as gangly
paceman and FK head bruiser Wyatt couldn’t get his legs out the
way and it was 9 down and 4 needed in the last over.
An excellent spell of bowling from driver yielded 6 wickets for 46 in
his 14 overs and if you could have anyone bowling with the pressure on
in the last over it would be the ledge. The first 3 balls either went
straight into FK’s gloves or found a fielder and it looked with
the field spread that a boundary was out of reach of young mir. The
pressure didn’t seem to bother him and like his kcc playing
relation Imran, he didn’t seem to be fussed with goings on. The
4th ball was a good ball that with a swing of the bat, managed to club
in the gap between bowler and mid on at pace out of the middle of the
bat and over the ropes. A very good game to watch for spectators and a
well fought victory in the end for Stoughton who continued to go for
the win to their credit and credit to Zain for his Zany batting style
and gutsy finish.
The batting will still keep the selector awake at night as will some of
the decisions that have gone against us so far. I know it tends to even
itself out in a season, but so far it’s just not been going our
way on decisions. The penultimate over from the colonel saw a pretty
adjacent LBW turned down and was probably the best shout of the day as
franklin played from the crease and it hit him on the kneeroll infront
of middle and leg which would have been the difference between 7points
and 23 points. Varied results elsewhere mean its all up for grabs still
and the title could go 1 of 5 ways.
Still spilt milk and all that. A back to back weekend to come with cup
semi final away at broomleys on Sunday and a bounce back trip away to
sileby on Saturday.
If you can get down to Ivanhoe on Friday to cheer on the under
17’s in their cup game it would be goot to have some away fans
and look forward to the winning under 15’s side beating
Wellingborough at home this Sunday 11am start in their aim of national
glory.
FK in now condones or endorses betting and gambling on the results of
sporting fixtures and no member of the team has at any stage taken
money to influence the outcome of a game or element thereof. Although I
was given a leather jacket for some info on Abbo’s track for this
Saturday?