Result: Kibworth CC - 1st XI Won by 5 wickets

Date: Sun 4th Jul 2010 @ 14:00

Ground: Barrow Town Cricket Club

Type:  Cup : Everards Leicestershire Challenge Cup (Quarter Fi)

Toss:  Barrow Town CC - 1st XI won the toss and decided to bat

 

Barrow Town CC - 1st XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Rishi Patel	ct Darren Shaw	b Russell Spiers	35	51	6	0
Ramesh Kara		b Daniel Broughton	9	25	1	0
Mo Bobat *	LBW	b Russell Spiers	6	10	1	0
Joel Pope +	ct Matt Craven	b Ross Clarke	7	6	0	1
Rahul Avatar	ct Matt Craven	b Ross Clarke	0	6	0	0
Tim Wise	ct Daniel Broughton	b Tom Bailey	33	42	6	0
Paul Clarke	ct Daniel Broughton	b Russell Spiers	0	2	0	0
Imran Khan Lodhi		b Darren Shaw	15	38	2	0
Bhargav Modha	ct Daniel Broughton	b Darren Shaw	29	26	3	1
Fergus Baker	LBW	b Darren Shaw	2	5	0	0
Stansha Galloway	Not Out		0	2	0	0
Extras	( 12b  3lb  6w  1nb  )		22
Total	( all out , 34.1 overs)		158

 

Fall Of Wickets

28-1 Ramesh Kara; 46-2 Mo Bobat; 54-3 Joel Pope; 58-4 Rahul Avatar;
88-5 Rishi Patel; 88-6 Paul Clarke; 114-7 Tim Wise; 139-8 Imran Khan Lodhi;
144-9 Fergus Baker; 158-10 Bhargav Modha;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Daniel Broughton	6	0	32	1	0	3
Aamir Mahmood	6	0	23	0	1	1
Russell Spiers	8	0	20	3	0	0
Ross Clarke	5	0	36	2	0	2
Darren Shaw	6.1	0	19	3	0	0
Tom Bailey	3	0	13	1	0	0

 

1st XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Matt Craven +	Not Out		84	115	10	2
Andrew Smith *		b Stansha Galloway	2	10	0	0
Aamir Mahmood	ct Ramesh Kara	b Bhargav Modha	27	39	6	0
Luke Spence	ct Fergus Baker	b Bhargav Modha	10	17	2	0
Darren Shaw	ct Bhargav Modha	b Bhargav Modha	14	32	1	0
Fabian Taylor	ct Mo Bobat	b Imran Khan Lodhi	12	19	1	1
Daniel Broughton	Not Out		1	1	0	0
Russell Spiers	Did Not Bat
Ross Clarke	Did Not Bat
Tom Bailey	Did Not Bat
josh peel	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 6b  1lb  2w  )		9
Total	(5 wickets, 38.2 overs)		159

 

Fall Of Wickets

2-1 Andrew Smith (Matt Craven*); 52-2 Aamir Mahmood (Matt Craven*);
71-3 Luke Spence (Matt Craven*); 109-4 Darren Shaw (Matt Craven*);
148-5 Fabian Taylor (Matt Craven*); -6 ;
-7 ; -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Tim Wise	6.2	3	21	0	0	0
Stansha Galloway	8	1	34	1	0	0
Fergus Baker	8	3	23	0	0	0
Bhargav Modha	8	0	29	3	0	2
Paul Clarke	5	0	20	0	0	0
Imran Khan Lodhi	3	0	25	1	0	0

Match report

After victories away to Kibworth 2nds and at home to Ilston Abbey, the 1st team were left with a tough draw away to Barrow in the Quarter Finals. Even tougher when we rocked up and discovered Barrow were at full strength. Kiby’s strength in depth would be tested with just 6 of Saturday’s 1st team available. Chuckle 1 was playing for Leicester. Fair enough. Chuckle 2 was at his new pad in Aylestone waiting for sky to be installed. FK was sticking to his one game a weekend schedule so would surely be seen parading the boundary at KCC with a pint in one hand sporting his most recent ‘try-hard’ clothing purchases. With the blustery wind almost ruining a nice day he might not actually have looked too out of place wearing one of his silly scarves like he was a couple of weeks ago on one of the hottest days of the year to date. Morgs has arrived back from Uni with some type of Thommo sympathy pain knee injury and looks like he will be missing for a few weeks. And finally Burty was proudly wearing the colours of his mates Belly and Trotty for Warks 17’s. Just to show that it’s all about the team and not individual performances when asked later in the day how he got on his response was “50 odd and 2for.” No reference made to whether he won or lost. An irrelevance in the cut throat modern game. Either that or he didn’t actually know. Which is potentially a good bet.

So anyway on to the game. Everyone arrived on time after suitably early nights and the pre-match warm up involved a plethora of different sized objects to throw/kick around. There was a football, a rugby ball and a mini Vortex. There were 6 cricket balls as well but they were the last things anyone was interested in as the three objects flew left, right and centre. Your back would be turned and you’d hearing a whistling noise and hit the deck as you feared the vortex would be about to smack you on the back of the head. The Badger was the most concerned for obvious reasons. Unfortunately for The Kibworth Legend the football didn’t come with a similar warning. Otherwise he might have avoided Lukey smacking the ball against the back of his head from point blank range! In typical Spiro fashion he took this out on the other 9 of us who were psssing our sides laughing. Reminding us all that it was a long season etc. Sorry 8 not 9. Aamir was otherwise engaged having a closer look at the vortex trying to work out exactly what it was, shaking it next to his ear like it was an unwrapped Xmas present. The olduns beat the Younguns at Vortex American Football. Bails scored the winning touch down although it has to be said the younguns choked on several decent scoring opportunities.

Barrow won the toss and batted first on a worn deck. I am sure the whole team were behind this decision and didn’t question the captain for the next hour. Broughts chose to bowl up the hill into the wind and so started proceedings. Aamir reluctantly ran down the hill with a tail wind at the other end. Rishi and Ramesh came out with a positive intent but some good bowling by Broughts and Aamir led to an ugly heave by Ramesh in the 7th over and he lost his off stump. Mo Bobat came to the crease and seemed uncharacteristically feisty. He played one nice shot of Aamir but was LB to the Kibworth Legend in the next over. Good change skip. Facing the Legend is tricky enough as it is but when you are batting with Craven’s hand and forearm in your mouth its even more difficult. Rosco replaced Aamir down the hill and immediately nicked off danger man Pope. Good change skip. Although if Broughts ever needs more proof of why he shouldn’t get drunk the night before a game then Popey was walking proof. Well maybe not walking proof, more like sleeping proof. As that’s what he did for the rest of their innings. Rosco then struck again next over and Barrow were suddenly 4 down. Rosco was displaying some great shapes in his early overs. Some truly magnificent shapes. There was something in it for everyone. Peely was thinking back to a recent scenario on stage and hoping for a repeat! The younger lads, the ‘middles’ and even the olduns like The Kibworth Legend, Bails, Aamir and The Selector. Aamir doesn’t miss a trick and had dressed to impress. Imaginations were running wild. Rishi was continuing to play his shots and as a result the scoreboard was ticking over fairly nicely. He however played one shot too many and Dazzler pouched him at midwicket off The Legend (3 for 20). The next man in played a woeful shot second ball and was caught mid off and at the half way stage Kiby enjoyed a drink with the score at 99 for 6.

Barrow’s Aussie captain was Batting! He was also at the crease still and still a danger man. He tried to counter attack but Bails snared him in his first over caught at deep square leg by Broughts. Broughts still managed an F Bomb as the ball was coming out of the cloud hidden sun. Good change skip. Dazzler was now operating up the hill and was tricky to play on a Bunsen. As Craven could testify as a couple whistled past his head. Although I guess that doesn’t really say a lot. Kiby old boy Imran was keeping us entertained in his own maverick fashion. Cap in place of helmet, dropping his gloves at the non strikers end, some kamikaze (non) running between the wickets, an edge for 4 that he claimed he intended. If he wasn’t such a nice lad he’d be the sort to really get under your skin but it’s difficult not to find him funny. He looked well set and then missed a full toss off Dazzler. Fergus came to the crease with the intention of alienating himself to the Umpires and then wondered why he was adjudged LB soon after. Dazzler (3 for 19) finished off the innings when Bargav (I think) took a break from running down the middle of the wicket and holed out to Broughts at long on. 159 all out in the 35th over.

In reply The Selector promoted himself in the order and was bowled in the third over. Bad change skip. Stay down at number 8 where you belong. Aamir joined Craven and they steadily built a platform against the testing attack of Stan and The Aussie Tim Wise. The Aussie was displaying better shapes than Rosco. (Sorry mate, but he was). Everything was in good order, tight and well proportioned. It was sickening to watch. Literally sickening. The Badger, who was getting a record amount of abuse even for him, saw off the openers and looked to bat through. The Badger craves this sort of abuse and it just makes him more determined. In fact you could say he wears it like of a badger of honour! See what I’ve done there? I am happy with that. Hold on I can go one better; The Badger Cravens this sort of abuse. Right I can’t top that, maybe I should stop now?!

Aamir was more positive and looked to put away anything too full. He fell to a long hop for 27 when the ball should have joined Spiro’s long hop from earlier in the day 2 fields away. Lukey was sent up the order to slog to the short boundary but nurdled his way to low teens before getting caught at backward point. POTS joined The Badger and The Badger couldn’t be happier than when POTS is stood by his side. Admittedly it’s normally as they pace the boundary edge whilst Craves sl*gs off whichever Umpire has just sorn him off. But still, he’s like a pig in sh1t when he’s with his old mucker from Hinckley and Shilton. For what its worth I think that all Umpires do a terrific job and I cannot remember one ever making a mistake. Without them there wouldn’t be a game and anyone who has the nerve to suggest they make mistakes and ruin games should be hung, drawn and quartered. Craves and POTS ticked the scoreboard over and Kiby needed 6’s off the last 10 with 7 wkts in hand. POTS fell in Bargav’s last over when the baller took a smart return catch and Fabian joined Craves. For the second time in a month Fabian made a potentially tricky scenario look very simple as him and Craves scored at 6’s and above. Fabian his a sumptuous straight 6 that almost had us home but then fell next ball caught at midwicket. Broughts joined Craves but only needed to face one ball before Craves despatched a couple to the ropes to see Kiby home with 10 balls to spare. Badger finished 84 not out and is now 204 not out against Barrow this season. No wonder they hate him so much. A great win. A great way to bounce back from the shambles that was Saturday’s 1st team performance. And a great testament to Kiby’s strength in depth. I think I even saw The Selector smiling. Although that may have been at some of the scenery rather than as a result of the cricket. Ivanhoe, Lutterworth and Broomleys or Loughborough 2nds await Kiby in the semis.