Result: Kegworth Town CC - 1st XI Won by 74 runs

Date: Sat 10th Jul 2010 @ 13:00

Ground: Kegworth Town CC

Type:  League : Leicestershire County Cricket League - Everards Leicestershire Premier Cricket League

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

 

Kegworth Town CC - 1st XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Robert Moorhouse	ct steve matthew	b Tom Burton	50	0	0	0
Doug Savige	ct Matt Craven	b Aamir Mahmood	6	0	0	0
Craig Ashcroft	st steve matthew	b Russell Spiers	54	0	0	0
Dominic Reed	ct steve matthew	b Tom Burton	15	0	0	0
Tom Bevan	ro		7	0	0	0
Mark Ashcroft *	ct Matt Craven	b Aamir Mahmood	2	0	0	0
Jonathan Wall	ct steve matthew	b Darren Shaw	6	0	0	0
Simon Bird	ct Andrew Smith	b Russell Spiers	16	0	0	0
Jordan Holmes	Not Out		35	0	0	0
Johnny Gurney	Not Out		4	0	0	0
Adam Meads +	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 5b  3lb  5w  2nb  )		15
Total	(8 wickets, 50 overs)		210

 

Fall Of Wickets

32-1 Doug Savige; 72-2 Robert Moorhouse; 96-3 Dominic Reed; 105-4 Tom Bevan;
109-5 Mark Ashcroft; 120-6 Jonathan Wall; 147-7 Simon Bird; 206-8 Craig Ashcroft;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Aamir Mahmood	12	1	37	2	0	0
Daniel Broughton	5	0	16	0	0	0
Ross Clarke	6	1	23	0	0	0
Tom Burton	6	0	45	2	0	0
Russell Spiers	14	3	45	2	0	0
Darren Shaw	7	1	36	1	0	0

 

1st XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Matt Craven	ct Adam Meads	b Simon Bird	6	13	1	0
Tom Burton	st Adam Meads	b Mark Ashcroft	54	82	7	0
Aadil Ali		b Dominic Reed	17	32	1	1
Darren Shaw	ct Adam Meads	b Dominic Reed	4	3	1	0
Dipesh Patel		b Tom Bevan	11	21	2	0
Aamir Mahmood	ct Jonathan Wall	b Tom Bevan	0	10	0	0
Andrew Smith *	ct Robert Moorhouse	b Tom Bevan	0	2	0	0
Ross Clarke	ct Tom Bevan	b Tom Bevan	8	16	2	0
Daniel Broughton	Not Out		11	30	2	0
Russell Spiers		b Jordan Holmes	10	31	1	0
steve matthew +	ct Adam Meads	b Dominic Reed	0	8	0	0
Extras	( 1b  3lb  6w  5nb  )		15
Total	( all out , 45.3 overs)		136

 

Fall Of Wickets

9-1 Matt Craven (Tom Burton*); 49-2 Aadil Ali (Tom Burton*);
53-3 Darren Shaw (Tom Burton*); 98-4 Dipesh Patel (Tom Burton*);
102-5 Aamir Mahmood (Tom Burton*); 102-6 Andrew Smith (Tom Burton*);
112-7 Tom Burton (Ross Clarke*); 112-8 Ross Clarke (Daniel Broughton*);
130-9 Russell Spiers (Daniel Broughton*); 136-10 steve matthew (Daniel Broughton*);

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Simon Bird	6	0	18	1	0	0
Jordan Holmes	7	1	26	1	0	0
Dominic Reed	7.3	0	24	3	0	0
Johnny Gurney	4	0	17	0	0	0
Mark Ashcroft	11	3	14	1	0	0
Tom Bevan	10	1	24	4	0	0

 

Match report

Sometimes it just doesn’t happen. The options are hours of navel gazing and the blue fluff that lies within, sometimes the “hairdryer” treatment is used, others opt for a bit of team bonding and a few beers or hours of practice.
In the wash up, Lutterworth last week bowled better lines with greater discipline and had 1 batsman who ground out a gritty ton for others to chip in around.
Whilst this weeks, much like last weeks report will be devoid of any humour, it was good to hear news from terminal 5 EMA (Kegworth), of club results at home and away, in particular the return of resident Golf pro Tom “the catalyst” Driver to cricketing form. Unlike his wayward hacks from the tee, the burly lefthander grabbed an impressive 7 wicket haul, to ensure early beers, or perhaps time for a cheeky 9 holes.

Wilko, on the verge of a call up for the Bangladesh 1 dayer due to metatarsal issues, had to make do with further promotion to the 2nd team. Kibworths own cable fiddler had impressed his fellow selectors and continued his move through the ranks. As the Fleckney Raod Cricket correspondent types, he must surely include a magnificent 100 on the subbuteo sized pitch that is Billesdon in the cup duel yesterday.

Anyway back to business. This weekends selectorial challenges would ensue and the downward shuffle and frantic stealng and replacing of players as the chuckle brothers would be requested to rest following a busy week of Foxes based action in various guises. That meant the retention of Spiro, who is a proper all rounder, and greg is a one trick pony with a pretty ordinary trick anyway, and Dips who is only able to ride a pony and not a large horse.

The Scarecrow would be resting his knee and hip, allowing FK to complete a full half season under the selector (insert own gag here………) The ledge woud be celebrating his Birthday, a fact that the badger Duet of FK and The Badger were not aware of. (Bad Badgers!) Back to Badger school for you two!!!

On what looked like a perfect deck to land an Airbus or Boeing 737, oppo skipper and FK’s favourite player Ashcroft won the toss and fancied a bat. It looked to be a solid decision as ball came on nicely and opener Moorhouse clipped through midwicket and was also fortunate to find the outide edge several times through the 3rd man regions as we pushed for wickets.

Both Broughts and the Colonel bowled well and tightly. Opener savige went for a flourishing drive to catch the outside edge and a flaying badger at 2nd slip held on to a stunning grab where 3rd slip would have been, low to his right one handed. A real beauty from the former Hinckley botherer. Brother of captain Ashcroft was in at 3 and would bat through the rest of the innings for 54. despite getting some good humoured banter from the kcc boy’s, it would prove to be a key knock as others folded in the middle order around him (or he ran them out!)

Moorhouse continued to play his shots and with “RICK Flare” Burton into the attack to rest the colonel he would bowl good lines with an occasional short one well put away. On the verge of being taken out the attack, stringfellow bowled a nice away swinger which morrhouse drove at hard, taking the outside edge, snaffled stunningly by FK an inch above the deck with one hand. (No artistic license has been used in the re-telling of this incident –honest) The scale bothering 3rd choicer clung gratefully on to see moorhouse depart for 50.

The wicket earnt jimmy saville another few overs, partnered at the other end by Rosco. What Ross brings to the team in terms of dedication to fitness and energy and a heavy ball, was not matched this week by him bringing a)his fit bird b)his fit birds older sister c) Fit mother of aforementioned sisters. Dissapointment all round, although Rosco bustled in and beat the bat, it would be George Micheal Burton who would again require the services of an alert FK, to take a snick infront of the badger at 2nd slip to really open up the middle order by removing allruonder Reed. No both FK and broughts can be deemed as fairly hairy individuals, but Reed however was in the Champions league of chest hair. Either he had come straight from a star wars themed fancy dress party and left his Chewbacca suit on under his kit, or the only parts of his body that he shaved were his face and palms of his hands. FK who mis normally closer to the opposing batsmen for logistical reasons only, is usually quick to spot these things. However it would be the keen eye of the selector from midwicket who would walk past fk at the end of the over to point out the interesting chest foliage. This again is not an exaggeration for comedic value, but seriously I think Abbo would need a couple of goes over it with the outfield mower.

Ashcroft continued to accumulate dots and hang on in and with Chewey departing, overseas allrounder Tom Bevan (is he any relation to Micheal Bevan?) came in. Initially he looked positive, cracking a nice 4 from a lose Burton delivery and then pushed what looked like a comfortable single out to Dips at point boundary, dithered on the call to bevan and when he eventually made the call, dips was releasing the ball for FK to take it left handed on the bouce and remove the bails to run him out. Bevans face said it all. He looked like Abbo when the IPA has run out.

So with a mid innings wobble it was shaping up to be a 48 pointer with other key clashes going on at Loughborough. A rested Colonel had another blast from the church end and it would be captain Ashcroft who would edge the chicken devourer to the awaiting claws of a diving badger, taking yet another fabulous catch to take the combined tally of the badger duo to 4 and a run out assist.

A double change would bring the ledge on, hoping to unwrap some birthday wickets. Kibworth annual leading wicketaker would be joined by POTS. The ledge almost held on to a great gully pouch from Daz and wouldn’t be kept out for long as he kept the brakes well and truly on.

At this stage 166 was the target to keep to and try and wrestle this batting point from the Kegworth Boy’s. This part of the script had reached the mifdfdle order, but a rally late on would re-write it. Daz got a wicket from a decent catch from FK at the second grab and pedro instigated the one hand one bounce local law to remove Simon Bird. It was a very well taken catch and the bouncing noise was actually one of the selectors lean boney body parts striking the deck first not the ball, a cleanly taken well judged catch.

Big Aussie opening Bowler Jordan Holmes bats one way. And to be fair it pretty much always works and with Ashcroft still pushing it around and giving him the strike, he clobbered some good late boundaries. Ashcroft would attempt to dance down to the ledge who saw him coming and pinged it down the leg past him for FK to stump him and with a couple more blows, they had posted 211. Which on a flat deck with limited pace and a short brown rapid outfield, looked like a steady total to knock off.

I wont dwell on the batting because 10 of us together only made 13 more than Burty who top scored with 54. Broughts unbeaten on 11 was stranded with 5 overs to go when a mistimed pull from FK was caught. Some not great shot selection and some tight bowling from Ashcroft and bevan whose 21 overs yielded just 38 runs and 5 wickets was perhaps the key difference in enticing the shots that were our downfall. A debut for Aadil who looked totally at ease for a well made 17 before he perhaps tried to hit one to hard and was bowled, but looked like he had played in the team for years. More great things to come from him I am sure this season.

The positive is that this was the turn around and we now have all the remaining teams to play again and kegworth also have to play a re-surgent Harborough and the ever dangerous Loughborough. Sides will play a part that may have struggled early on, with Ivanhoe having the services of ward and Thakkor for most of the season now and we still have to do battle with Syston at home. (a flat completely dead non turner please abbo!!!)

Holidays and injuries will test the other clubs in our leagues who perhaps don’t have the depth to chose from as we have and while we don’t want to be relying on favours from other teams, all we can do is win as many as we can in the run in and see where we go. With 1 cup and league to play for, everyone is up for it and will be keen to get a result against visiting Stoughton who held us to a draw in the 2nd game of the season.