Result: Huncote CC - Friendly XI Won by 86 runs
Date: Sun 16th May 2010 @ 14:00
Ground: Kibworth CC
Type: Friendly
Toss: Huncote CC - Friendly XI won the toss and decided to bat
| R | B | 4s | 6s | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Crossley | ct William Jennings | b Harry Miller | 65 | 87 | 8 | 0 |
| Pete Lill | b Jaideep Singh | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Don Nice | ct Tim Neal | b Tim Neal | 37 | 64 | 4 | 0 |
| Brian Driver | Not Out | 66 | 48 | 10 | 0 | |
| George Crossley + | b Harry Miller | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Alex Stringer | Not Out | 32 | 3 | 30 | 0 | |
| James Swann * | Did Not Bat | |||||
| Carl Sommer | Did Not Bat | |||||
| Sam Horstcraft | Did Not Bat | |||||
| Dan Ellingworth | Did Not Bat | |||||
| Kev Dyke | Did Not Bat | |||||
| Extras | ( ) | 15 | ||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 40 overs) | 218 | ||||
4-1 ; 102-2 ; 124-3 ; 124-4 ;
-5 ; -6 ; -7 ; -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;
| O | M | R | W | Nb | Wd | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Lodge | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jaideep Singh | 7 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Jatin Lodhia | 5 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Peter Moran | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tim Neal | 5 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Harry Miller | 5 | 0 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Badri Vijaynagar | 5 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Carson | 5 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| R | B | 4s | 6s | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Graham Thompson | b Carl Sommer | 7 | 18 | 1 | 0 | |
| Badri Vijaynagar | b Carl Sommer | 11 | 24 | 2 | 0 | |
| Harry Miller | ct | b Ian Crossley | 25 | 25 | 3 | 0 |
| Aadil Ali + | b Kev Dyke | 43 | 27 | 7 | 0 | |
| Chris Carson | b Kev Dyke | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Jaideep Singh | b James Swann | 21 | 18 | 4 | 0 | |
| William Jennings * | ct | b Dan Ellingworth | 17 | 51 | 3 | 0 |
| Tim Neal | ct | b Ian Crossley | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Jatin Lodhia | LBW | b Pete Lill | 2 | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Peter Moran | st | b Pete Lill | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Oliver Lodge | Not Out | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extras | (2b, 1lb, 2w ) | 5 | ||||
| Total | ( all out ) | 132 | ||||
14-1 ; 25-2 ; 80-3 ; 80-4 ;
88-5 ; 106-6 ;117 -7 ;129 -8 ;
129-9 ; 132-10 ;
| O | M | R | W | Nb | Wd | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Sommer | 8 | 2 | 37 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Kev Dyke | 8 | 1 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| James Swann | 7 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ian Crossley | 4 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Sam Horstcraft | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dan Ellingworth | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Pete Lill | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
All good things come to an end. The piece of chewing gum you have had on the end of the bed for six months, the toothpaste tube you have been squeezing in miserly fashion for weeks on end, even the cover of your latest Pie Chuckers Monthly Magazine can wear out sooner or later. In a similar vein the Sunday XI's unbeaten start to the season came to a convincingly end yesterday. When you lose by 86 runs there can be few excuses. Its not like you can say it was a bad umpiring decision, a lucky edge or a crucial misfield, you have to hold your hands up and admit you have received a good old fashioned public school style thrashing. However that wouldn't be telling the entire story. Chasing 218 Kibby had got away to a shaky start, rallied to a decent platform, wobbled again and then, in a resolute rearguard playing for a draw, wobbled again and fell apart in a big fat hurry. Like their skipper there had been an awful lot of wobbling.
The opening pair had been dismissed with only 26 on the board. Tommo, fulfilling the Sunday requirement for a portly opener with limited movement and debutant 'Bad Boy' were back in the hutch before the score had gone past 30. Harry 'Windy' Miller swiped a breezy 25 and Aadil began his usual pyrotechnics as the score flew past 50. Respectability seemed possible, victory a distant but not impossible dream. Windy and Chris Carson departed in short order, Jai Singh joined Aadil and the score began ticking again. With his personal score in the 40's though Aadil went for one too many and was pouched. 18 overs gone, 22 to go and the skipper was walking out to the middle with the team heading down . Anyone who has had the dubious pleasure of watching The Bard bat for any length of time knows what to expect. Expansive stroke play, extravagant footwork, flashing blade work, forget it! It's like a wide brick wall but with zero ambition and even less technique. This time though he excelled himself in an innings that redefined turgid. Be in no doubt, this made Geoffrey Boycott seem positively Caribbean. Jai batted nicely but when he departed, quickly followed in bizarre circumstances by Tim Neal, Jatin arrived and the real blocking began. The Bard with his forward defensive to everything that was even vaguely in his half and Jatin with a leave alone that was more extravagant than Lilly Savage at the cosmetics counter at Harrods. The balls were counted down and the spectators started falling asleep. The overs ticked down to less than 12, less than 10, with less than 8 to go it seemed like the cricketers that stroke play forgot might just about get away with it then tragedy struck. The skipper who had accumulated 17 at the rate of about 1 an over got a loopy edge to one just outside off and the house of cards finally fell in. Huncote didn't need the remaining six and a bit overs to finish off the game, they barely needed six balls as Jatin and Peter Moran fell in quick succession.
Perhaps the Huncote score was par for the course on the wicket, perhaps the Kibworth bowling albeit with keen fielding didn't have the required penetration even though eight of the team had a go. A sliding catch by the skipper and some monstrously good , after shave sniffing, follow throughs by Peter Moran when bowling were slim pickings from 40 overs in the field. This though is the Kibworth Sunday XI. Success and failure, as Rudyard Kipling once said, are two imposters to treat just the same. The banter was good, the team spirit excellent and we all convene next weekend at Laughton and Mowsley to try again.