Date:  Sun 1st Aug 2010

Start Time: 14:00

Type:  Friendly

Toss:  Bitteswell CC - Friendly XI won the toss and decided to bat

 

Bitteswell CC - Friendly XI

			R	B	4s	6s
l miller	ct Harry Miller	b Harry Miller	5	0	0	0
D Miller		b Harry Miller	0	0	0	0
J Harbord	ro		38	0	0	0
S Mayfield		b S Yusuf	26	0	0	0
I Bateman *	Not Out		107	0	0	0
B Spurrier +	Not Out		58	0	0	0
H Charlton	Did Not Bat
Mingay	Did Not Bat
Unsure	Did Not Bat
Unsure	Did Not Bat
A Mattinson	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 5b  10lb  6w  1nb  )		22
Total	(4 wickets)		260

 

Fall Of Wickets

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

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Ben Burridge		0	0	0	0	0
Harry Miller	5	1	17	2	0	0
S Yusuf		0	0	1	0	0
Jatin Lodhia		0	0	0	0	0
James Cooper		0	0	0	0	0
Badri Vijaynagar		0	0	0	0	0
William Jennings		0	0	0	0	0

 

Sunday 1st XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Ken Pounds		b H Charlton	4	0	0	0
Sam Pole	ct	b H Charlton	8	0	0	0
Badri Vijaynagar	ct	b l miller	10	0	0	0
S Yusuf	ct	b l miller	0	0	0	0
Imran Patel	ct	b S Mayfield	16	0	0	0
Harry Miller	st B Spurrier		14	0	0	0
John Bleby +	ct	b A Mattinson	19	0	0	0
William Jennings *	Not Out		14	0	0	0
Ben Burridge	Not Out		5	0	0	0
James Cooper	Did Not Bat
Jatin Lodhia	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 12b  1lb  18w  1nb  )		32
Total	(7 wickets, 40 overs)		122

 

Fall Of Wickets

5-1 Ken Pounds (Sam Pole*); 24-2 Badri Vijaynagar (Sam Pole*);
26-3 Sam Pole (S Yusuf*); 28-4 S Yusuf (Imran Patel*);
41-5 Harry Miller (Imran Patel*); 56-6 Imran Patel (John Bleby*);
112-7 John Bleby (William Jennings*); -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
l miller	7	1	32	2	0	0
H Charlton	9	1	26	2	0	0
Unsure	5	1	19	1	0	0
S Mayfield	7	4	9	1	0	0
Mingay	5	0	10	0	0	0
A Mattinson	5	0	11	1	0	0
Unsure	2	1	5	0	0	0

 

Match report

Sitting comfortably? You would have had to have been at Bitteswell yesterday afternoon.

Kibworth escaped with a draw, when after a style effort at the top of the order, they had slumped to 56 for 6 with 25 overs to bat chasing an impossible 261 to win. The rearguard fought out by John Bleby and the skipper was breathtaking in its belligerence, awe inspiring in its application and mind boggling in its boredom. By the time the partnership had been broken after doubling the score only three overs remained and KCC were all but home.

Bitteswell had picked a strong team. Initially they were 8 for 2, Harry Miller claimed two victims ironically both called Miller to prove once and for all that things obviously work differently in the country. Siraj and Jatin both bowled nicely and things looked good, even at 120 odd for 4 the visitors were in the game but a strong hitting partnership took the game away from the Legends. The home skipper hitting a century and his opposite number out of the park on a few occasions to the short leg side boundary. Aided and abetted by some ordinary back up bowling the home side had amassed a pretty impregnable score.

The Kibby reply started badly and then tailed off. Ken, still sporting the scars of last week's battle, played on. Badri didn't pick up a full bunger, Sam had no luck, Siraj lasted only 4 balls, Imran swiped one too many, Windy had a balance disaster and was stumped by a mile. All in all it was like walking into a lap dancing bar and finding out the Sumo Wives were top of the bill.

To be fair to Bitteswell they then employed a few overs of flighted stuff before deciding the bar was indeed open and brought back the quick stuff. One bowler in particular who looked like he had strayed from a local basketball court had a field of four slips, a gully and a leg side catcher close in, on a Sunday. When no success was had, and when they realised shots on the leg side were at a premium there was literally a 9 -1 field in operation for a time. Still the rearguard went on.

Frustration was beginning to set into the Bitteswell attack. The run chase, if it ever existed, had long time since been called off and despite them throwing everything they had into the fray they couldn't shift the seventh wicket partnership. The Bard ducked into a short pitched delivery and wore in on the rib cage, plenty of padding there though. In frustration the tall bowler (modeled on step ladders presumably) even tried a full fledged bouncer at the skippers head. I don't mean to be rude but when you can't hit a target that size you know it isn't your day.

In the final analysis John Bleby (19) and The Bard (14*) had faced over 80 each for their troubles, worn some into the bargain, but showed commendable concentration to save the day even if (and without wishing to be unkind) it showed up some issues with their conditioning. Perhaps Cricket hadn't been the winner but the sheer guts shown made sure that Bitteswell weren't either.