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

Date: Sun 25th Apr 2010 @ 14:15

Type:  Friendly

Scoring:  Standard

Toss:  Sunday 1st XI won the toss and decided to bowl

 

Makers Edge Taverners CC - Sunday

			R	B	4s	6s
richard looms		b Ben Lodge	46	0	6	0
mick wright jnr	ct Jatin Lodhia	b Ben Lodge	21	0	2	0
Rob Aucott +		b Vikesh Ghelani	22	0	3	0
Derek milsom	ro Aadil Ali		24	0	3	0
Adam Dyke		b Chris Carson	14	0	1	1
Peter Kirby	Not Out		15	0	1	0
Steven Coddington	LBW	b Jatin Lodhia	3	0	0	0
Michael Wright *	Not Out		0	0	0	0
Carl Knott	Did Not Bat
L Wigston	Did Not Bat
Ben Milsom	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 5b  5lb  19w  1nb  )		30
Total	(6 wickets, 40 overs)		177

 

Fall Of Wickets

77-1 richard looms (mick wright jnr*); 115-2 mick wright jnr (Rob Aucott*);
120-3 Rob Aucott (Oliver milson*); 139-4 Adam Dyke (Oliver milson*);
168-5 Oliver milson (Peter Kirby*); 176-6 Steven Coddington (Peter Kirby*);
-7 ; -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Vikesh Ghelani	8	1	41	1	0	0
Steve Ellwood	5	1	15	0	0	0
Jatin Lodhia	8	1	24	1	0	0
Chris Carson	7	0	25	1	0	0
Oliver Lodge	4	0	17	0	0	0
Ben Lodge	6	0	15	2	0	0
Aadil Ali	2	0	27	0	0	0

 

Sunday 1st XI

			R	B	4s	6s
paul illingworth	ct richard looms	b L Wigston	16	0	2	0
Jaideep Singh	ct Rob Aucott	b Steven Coddington	6	0	1	0
Oliver Lodge	ct Rob Aucott	b Steven Coddington	0	0	0	0
Aadil Ali		b Adam Dyke	92	0	14	1
Jatin Lodhia		b L Wigston	0	0	0	0
Steve Ellwood	Not Out		37	0	6	0
William Jennings *	Not Out		4	0	0	0
John Bleby +	Did Not Bat
Vikesh Ghelani	Did Not Bat
Chris Carson	Did Not Bat
Ben Lodge	Did Not Bat
Extras	( 8b  2lb  11w  6nb  )		27
Total	(5 wickets, 32.2 overs)		178

 

Fall Of Wickets

13-1 Jaideep Singh (paul illingworth*); 14-2 Oliver Lodge (paul illingworth*);
82-3 paul illingworth (Aadil Ali*); 82-4 Jatin Lodhia (Aadil Ali*);
157-5 Aadil Ali (Steve Ellwood*); -6 ;
-7 ; -8 ;
-9 ; -10 ;

Bowling

	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd
Steven Coddington	6	0	21	2	0	0
Adam Dyke	8	1	35	1	0	0
L Wigston	7	0	40	2	0	0
Carl Knott	7	0	32	0	0	0
Rob Aucott	4	0	23	0	0	0
Ben Milsom	1.2	0	3	0	0	0
Michael Wright	1	0	2	0	0	0

 

Chairman stakes claim for all rounder status

Yesterday, for probably the first time since Captain Caveman was in short trousers, the Sunday XI scored a win in April. The only concerns now are that the team has peaked too soon, left their best on the field with five months of cake eating still to go.

 The fielding part, which restricted the visitors to 177, was a fine display of concentration, application and a cat like display behind the poles from John Bleby. The pick of the bowling was probably Ben Lodge, his left arm tweakers, some of which gripped quite considerably, got two wickets and only a mean bit of captaincy prevented more success. Olly Lodge and Chris Carson probed nicely, Vikesh Ghelani settled into a promising debut as did Jatin Lodhia whose leggies were on the money for the entire eight overs. Overall, an attack which was more Tellytubbies than Test Match special had done sterling work. Only some pretty indifferent catching (you know who you are) allowed the Taverners the score they finally achieved.

 On such a fine batting wicket at the bottom square the target was eminently chaseable but the batting options were somewhat dependant on two players Jai Singh and Aadil Ali to dig in and make the score for the rest of the boys to work around. Victory or heinous defeat seemed equally possible and at 14 for 2 with Jai and Olly Lodge back in the hutch the champagne was less on ice and more going back to the shop.

 That Kibworth did eventually triumph can be directly attributed to the 92 runs scored by Aadil that came undoubtedly out of the top draw. His talent has rarely been in question but his innings yesterday showed a huge amount of maturity. The sheer frustration at not seeing the job through was evident but he shouldn't be too downcast, it's a team game and without him the team wouldn't have been close.

 Of course no man is an island, not even Abbo on a lilo, and without the able support of Paul Illingworth and Steve Ellwood (37*) even Aadil's knock would have been in vain. When boy wonder did eventually fall some 21 were still needed so out strode the skipper with feigned confidence and sewage cologne to finish the job. With the brisk Taverners opening bowler in full cry the advice from the Chairman was not to worry, “we'll get them in edges”. Progress was slow, a few deliveries were worn but the victory was secured when The Bard swotted one through the Covers for a single which was ambled at a very leisurely pace. For the second time in as many weeks the skipper and chairman had come off at the end unbeaten.

 In terms of great victories it probably ranks slightly behind Wellington at Waterloo but for a few hardy souls on the bottom square it couldn't have been sweeter if Fearne Cotton had been smothered in honey.