Date:  Sun 25th Jul 2010

Start Time: 14:30

Type:  Friendly

Sunday 1st XI

			R	B	4s	6s
Ken Pounds	ct	b Tom Whitehouse	10	0	2	0
John Pounds	ct	b Tom Almond	72	0	11	0
Ramandeep Ghuman	Retired Out		59	0	4	0
Badri Vijaynagar	ct	b Tom Almond	3	0	0	0
Malcolm King	Retired Out		55	0	5	1
David King	ct	b Ross Gillanders	13	0	2	0
S Yusuf	Not Out		9	0	1	0
Peter Moran	Not Out		10	0	1	0
Jamie Thompson	Did Not Bat
Tim Neal * +	Did Not Bat
Imran Patel	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 1b  4lb  8w  2nb  )		15
Total	(4 wickets, 40 overs)		247

 

Fall Of Wickets

23-1 Ken Pounds; 108-2 John Pounds; 131-3 Badri Vijaynagar; -4 ;
-5 ; -6 ; -7 ; -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Tom Whitehouse	8	0	43	1	0	0
Nick Smith	4	0	26	0	0	0
Roger Simms	5	0	31	0	0	0
Tom Almond	7	2	35	2	0	0
Sean Coe	4	0	28	0	0	0
craig smith	5	0	32	0	0	0
Ross Gillanders	7	0	45	1	0	0

 

Lubenham CC - Lubenham Lightning

			R	B	4s	6s
Tom Almond		b S Yusuf	20	0	0	0
Nick Smith *	ct Jamie Thompson	b David King	4	0	0	0
Tom Whitehouse	ct Jamie Thompson	b David King	0	0	0	0
Ross Gillanders		b S Yusuf	33	0	0	0
Roger Simms		b Ramandeep Ghuman	0	0	0	0
Rob Smith +	ct David King	b Badri Vijaynagar	5	0	0	0
Graham Smith		b Jamie Thompson	47	0	0	0
Sean Coe	ct Tim Neal	b Peter Moran	6	0	0	0
Martin Lewis	ct David King	b Ken Pounds	6	0	0	0
craig smith		b Ken Pounds	9	0	0	0
P Holland	Not Out		11	0	0	0
Extras	( 3b  1lb  6w  5nb  )		15
Total	( all out , 29.3 overs)		157

 

Fall Of Wickets

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

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
S Yusuf	5	1	16	2	0	0
David King	1	0	4	2	0	0
Imran Patel	4	0	29	0	0	0
Ramandeep Ghuman	7	0	41	1	0	0
Badri Vijaynagar	3	2	7	1	0	0
Peter Moran	3	0	14	1	0	0
Ken Pounds	3	0	17	2	0	0
Jamie Thompson	2.3	0	12	1	0	0

Match Report

Havimg been asked to skipper the Sunday side due to Will being asked to be Godfather for some unfortunate soul from Norwich, and Illo being laid low by a bad back, there was a spring in my step as i acquainted myself with some new and very welcome old friends before our inauguaral game against Lubehnham CC.....in my extensive brief from Will he advised me that he thought they were a "typical Sunday side", which is not easy to categorise because KCC most definately are not "typical".....usually not of anything of the quality cricket variety anyway!
Having won the toss i toyed with the idea of fielding for 3 hours in the sweltering heat and batsmens paradise that abbo had prepared...(not seriously obviously but it was worth saying i did to wind ken pounds up!), but eventually sobered up and elected to bat.
At this juncture i should point out that the team had a distinct family feel to it, with the slimmer Pounds (J), joining his vocal father (K) for a seasonal debut......also very welcome was the return of Malc and Dave King, all of which indicated a stronger, if more incestuous look to our line up.......its also worth mentioning that the pre requisite of selection being helped if you could find a family member to play had scuppered the Chairman's chances as apparantly Taylor was busy..and the brothers Grim have been as rarely seen at KCC this season as Lord Lucan riding across the outfield on Shergar.
On to the game and the family affair stared with the Pounds' opening up and after a few air shots JP was soon demonstrating that batting is like riding a bike...you never forget but you may well need stabilisers to regain your confidence.
As the boundaries started to flow Father Ken got into his stride with successive boundaries before his inexperience bought his downfall going for a third and he was caught behind.....you have to hope that as he matures he will learn the art of patience. However as you will see later this wasnt the end of KPs contribution to the innings or indeed the match so read on!
That bought young Ghumers to the crease, having been demoted down the order by the new skipper for his appalling showing in the last 2 sunday games where he had scored successive unbeaten hundreds....that just isnt cricket and once again we would hope that he would learn quickly to engineer an early dismissal in an embarrassing style in order that he fits in with his new sunday team mates!....however in spite of his demotion Ram played very well again and was very restrained whilst JP reaped carnage at the other end....the skipper soon found himself in the strange situation of looking at the scoreboard and working out how he could contain the score to maintain the spirit of cricket rather than work out where the next run is coming from which is usual.......luckily the drinks break came and was expertly delivered by young Harry Pounds (12th Man).....who having enquired whether he should take his dad a lager decided to take out the regulation orange and blackcurrent.....this gave the skip a chance to move away from the scorebox where he had been since 10am in the morning and get message out to JOP that i would look to retire him on 75.....there was a look of what i took to be relief on his face until i was advised that he was suffering from blurred vision when he ran (which to be fair wasnt very often!)...he asked whether this was normal and the only answer that i can print is that Mrs Pounds counselled that he may be slightly larger than the last time he played (or did any exercise!).......soon after drinks JP managed to get himself out for a well earned 72 and staggered back to the pavillion to again be greeted by HP with the phrase "now shall i get you a lager?"
JPs demise bought Badri to the crease but nothing noteworthy happened and he got out!
Then enter the gladiator that is Malc King...striding purposefully (if wheezily) to the crease.......he soon got "back on the bike", but as with JP he too needed stabilisers as his calf soon gave up due to the sheer pressure placed upon it by Malc clearly having a diet whereby he feasted in the manner of his surname......at this point the umpire called for a runner....and given the skippers adherance to all things compliance and the need for any runner having to have already batted i realised that of the 3 batters who had got so far 2 were umpiring, leaving me with no option other than to call for ken Pounds to re pad up as a runner for Malc.....before i go on i better point out that i retired young Ghumers on 55 having played beautifully but he needed to understand that in poker terms a pair of kings is worth more than another Ghuman hundred...so out came David King....there was a brief moment of sublime batting by father and son before Dave got out and ken decided that there was only room for him at the top of the bill and he would once again assume centre stage....calling for a slow single Pounds ran up the artificial wicket and assaulted the opposition Mid on and collapsed in a heap still short of Malc's ground... he was duly given out by umpire JP but to their credit the oppo skipper managed to stop laughing long enough to recall him to the wicket...great sportsmanship but moreover comedy gold!
Malc proceeded to move to 50 before i retired him also in order to prevent Ken doing any more damage....Malc got a tremendous ovation when he came back to the pavilion and it was great to have him back amongst his many friends at KCC.....one word of caution though...if you though KP was finished there...think on....wait til we start bowling for another instalment!
The KCC innings finally ended with us on 246-7 and the Lubenham boys left the field looking like we did a few weeks back at Mowsley!!
The skipper led his troops on to field after tea ready to watch the ball sail to all parts of the ground as is the norm.....oopening up with dave King from the House of Pain End imagine the surprise when twice in his over Jamie T clung on to 2 stunners at point...the second one "breaking my collar bone", before he got his hand up to take the ball from its ample cushion that is Jamies chest.....the skip then axed Dave from the attack for being too good and he finished his spell with figures of one over,2 for 2....that will teach him1!!
We proceeded to take wickets pretty regularly and i removed bowlers from the attack as they did so to maintain a transparency around the standards of mediocrity that are required on a sunday....however, you couldnt keep ken down for long and having declined to bowl earlier on the grounds of "if you bring me on too early its not fair on the opposition and the game will be over", i saw through his motive of protecting his bowling figures and brought him on at the Pylon End.....during his second over the batsmen straight drove him, and ken refused to do the normal thing and field with his hands and decided to flick the ball with his foot....unfortunately it sped into his eyelid and cut him!!...cue Badri (who is a surgeon apparantly), advising that he needed butterfly stitches....but only after a long delay whilst Mr King Senior (who had gone off for a pee!), searched the whole dressing room for th illuminous orange medical bag which "was nowhere to be seen" (idiot!)....anyway Badri applied said stitches and declared ken fit to continue....only for the stitches to fall off as soon as ken moved....armed with his cut as a badge of honour ken proceeded to rip through what was left of the visitors batting before jamie took the final wicket having previously had a lengthy chat advising the visitors umpire that he didnt know the no ball rule!
lubenham all out for about 140...i say "about" because there lads had got carried away with having an electronic scorboard at their disposal but its safe to say that they didnt get close
So a comfortable victory for the new skipper, who now departs to his greek hideaway to recharge the batteries...a good afternoon with many highlights and whilst we may have displayed more cricketing ability than has been the norm...the antics of one K Pounds leave no one who was there in any doubt that this was Sunday cricket at its finest.

Havimg been asked to skipper the Sunday side due to Will being asked to be Godfather for some unfortunate soul from Norwich, and Illo being laid low by a bad back, there was a spring in my step as i acquainted myself with some new and very welcome old friends before our inauguaral game against Lubehnham CC.....in my extensive brief from Will he advised me that he thought they were a "typical Sunday side", which is not easy to categorise because KCC most definately are not "typical".....usually not of anything of the quality cricket variety anyway!
Having won the toss i toyed with the idea of fielding for 3 hours in the sweltering heat and batsmens paradise that abbo had prepared...(not seriously obviously but it was worth saying i did to wind ken pounds up!), but eventually sobered up and elected to bat.
At this juncture i should point out that the team had a distinct family feel to it, with the slimmer Pounds (J), joining his vocal father (K) for a seasonal debut......also very welcome was the return of Malc and Dave King, all of which indicated a stronger, if more incestuous look to our line up.......its also worth mentioning that the pre requisite of selection being helped if you could find a family member to play had scuppered the Chairman's chances as apparantly Taylor was busy..and the brothers Grim have been as rarely seen at KCC this season as Lord Lucan riding across the outfield on Shergar.
On to the game and the family affair stared with the Pounds' opening up and after a few air shots JP was soon demonstrating that batting is like riding a bike...you never forget but you may well need stabilisers to regain your confidence.
As the boundaries started to flow Father Ken got into his stride with successive boundaries before his inexperience bought his downfall going for a third and he was caught behind.....you have to hope that as he matures he will learn the art of patience. However as you will see later this wasnt the end of KPs contribution to the innings or indeed the match so read on!
That bought young Ghumers to the crease, having been demoted down the order by the new skipper for his appalling showing in the last 2 sunday games where he had scored successive unbeaten hundreds....that just isnt cricket and once again we would hope that he would learn quickly to engineer an early dismissal in an embarrassing style in order that he fits in with his new sunday team mates!....however in spite of his demotion Ram played very well again and was very restrained whilst JP reaped carnage at the other end....the skipper soon found himself in the strange situation of looking at the scoreboard and working out how he could contain the score to maintain the spirit of cricket rather than work out where the next run is coming from which is usual.......luckily the drinks break came and was expertly delivered by young Harry Pounds (12th Man).....who having enquired whether he should take his dad a lager decided to take out the regulation orange and blackcurrent.....this gave the skip a chance to move away from the scorebox where he had been since 10am in the morning and get message out to JOP that i would look to retire him on 75.....there was a look of what i took to be relief on his face until i was advised that he was suffering from blurred vision when he ran (which to be fair wasnt very often!)...he asked whether this was normal and the only answer that i can print is that Mrs Pounds counselled that he may be slightly larger than the last time he played (or did any exercise!).......soon after drinks JP managed to get himself out for a well earned 72 and staggered back to the pavillion to again be greeted by HP with the phrase "now shall i get you a lager?"
JPs demise bought Badri to the crease but nothing noteworthy happened and he got out!
Then enter the gladiator that is Malc King...striding purposefully (if wheezily) to the crease.......he soon got "back on the bike", but as with JP he too needed stabilisers as his calf soon gave up due to the sheer pressure placed upon it by Malc clearly having a diet whereby he feasted in the manner of his surname......at this point the umpire called for a runner....and given the skippers adherance to all things compliance and the need for any runner having to have already batted i realised that of the 3 batters who had got so far 2 were umpiring, leaving me with no option other than to call for ken Pounds to re pad up as a runner for Malc.....before i go on i better point out that i retired young Ghumers on 55 having played beautifully but he needed to understand that in poker terms a pair of kings is worth more than another Ghuman hundred...so out came David King....there was a brief moment of sublime batting by father and son before Dave got out and ken decided that there was only room for him at the top of the bill and he would once again assume centre stage....calling for a slow single Pounds ran up the artificial wicket and assaulted the opposition Mid on and collapsed in a heap still short of Malc's ground... he was duly given out by umpire JP but to their credit the oppo skipper managed to stop laughing long enough to recall him to the wicket...great sportsmanship but moreover comedy gold!
Malc proceeded to move to 50 before i retired him also in order to prevent Ken doing any more damage....Malc got a tremendous ovation when he came back to the pavilion and it was great to have him back amongst his many friends at KCC.....one word of caution though...if you though KP was finished there...think on....wait til we start bowling for another instalment!
The KCC innings finally ended with us on 246-7 and the Lubenham boys left the field looking like we did a few weeks back at Mowsley!!
The skipper led his troops on to field after tea ready to watch the ball sail to all parts of the ground as is the norm.....oopening up with dave King from the House of Pain End imagine the surprise when twice in his over Jamie T clung on to 2 stunners at point...the second one "breaking my collar bone", before he got his hand up to take the ball from its ample cushion that is Jamies chest.....the skip then axed Dave from the attack for being too good and he finished his spell with figures of one over,2 for 2....that will teach him1!!
We proceeded to take wickets pretty regularly and i removed bowlers from the attack as they did so to maintain a transparency around the standards of mediocrity that are required on a sunday....however, you couldnt keep ken down for long and having declined to bowl earlier on the grounds of "if you bring me on too early its not fair on the opposition and the game will be over", i saw through his motive of protecting his bowling figures and brought him on at the Pylon End.....during his second over the batsmen straight drove him, and ken refused to do the normal thing and field with his hands and decided to flick the ball with his foot....unfortunately it sped into his eyelid and cut him!!...cue Badri (who is a surgeon apparantly), advising that he needed butterfly stitches....but only after a long delay whilst Mr King Senior (who had gone off for a pee!), searched the whole dressing room for th illuminous orange medical bag which "was nowhere to be seen" (idiot!)....anyway Badri applied said stitches and declared ken fit to continue....only for the stitches to fall off as soon as ken moved....armed with his cut as a badge of honour ken proceeded to rip through what was left of the visitors batting before jamie took the final wicket having previously had a lengthy chat advising the visitors umpire that he didnt know the no ball rule!
lubenham all out for about 140...i say "about" because there lads had got carried away with having an electronic scorboard at their disposal but its safe to say that they didnt get close
So a comfortable victory for the new skipper, who now departs to his greek hideaway to recharge the batteries...a good afternoon with many highlights and whilst we may have displayed more cricketing ability than has been the norm...the antics of one K Pounds leave no one who was there in any doubt that this was Sunday cricket at its finest.