Match Report vs Chartered
Trust (Cup Final) 16 August 2011@ St Fagans (Skipper
Cheese, report Goff)
Don’t get me wrong, I am all for equal opportunities
and believe it is important to enable our lesser privileged
members of society to merge into mainstream activities.
But we have to be realistic and draw a line at some point,
for example would it be wise for the World Snooker Governing
Body to allow a totally blind person referee at the crucible?...
or would it be deemed prudent for FIFA to sanction an individual
without any limbs to referee a World Cup Final? Of course
not, not just for the integrity of the sport but more so to
protect the individual.
So why our cup final opponents thought it a good idea to
pass on the responsibility of scoring our book whilst we were
fielding, to an individual who struggles with numbers, reading
and writing is completely beyond me and crosses that line
to the extreme. But, nonetheless, I will do what I can with
what has been provided.
This is probably something that you will not hear me say
too often but ‘No complaints’ yep you read that
correctly! But there can be no complaints with the outcome
of this final. We were beaten by 23 runs by the better team
on the night.
O.K, so the form book suggested that the Casuals would end
up second best so started as underdogs and yeah there were
the usual 2 or 3 decisions not going our way.. but would they
have affected the end result?......probably not, but one thing
is for sure, there were TWO decent team performances out there
and the best team on the night just did enough.
We lost the toss and were asked to have a bowl. Now I can’t
tell you who bowled what overs when and when runs were or
weren’t scored but I have managed to deduce some bowling
figures. I can tell you that they were 0-0 at the start of
the 1st over and finished on 150-3 after 18.
I can also tell you that we were unlucky with poor decisions
on a direct hit run out by Ed, a caught behind off Dan’s
bowling and a stumping off Pablo’s and we managed to
not take 4 or 5 catches but none of them were dollies and
all would have been good catches.
J Roach 1-0-5-0 (unlucky with a caught behind chance 2nd
ball)
S O’Reilly 2-0-15-0 (respectable figures from our hair
bear)
I Warwick 2-0-10-2 (good job by the ever dependable Dion,
2 excellent wickets, 1 caught and bowled (a skier). And then
clean bowling the dangerous Mohring, the slimmer of the two)
T Hirani 1-0-13-0 (unlucky to be bowling one of the ‘slog’
overs)
G Loveridge 2-0-18-1 (unlucky with a diving caught behind
effort and notched a clean bowled in his 2nd)
K Swain 2-0-23-0 (another having to deal with ‘slog’
session)
J Furnham 2-0-15-0 (respectable figures from our experienced
one)
P Stephens 2-0-20-0 (of these 20, 14 were hit by same batsman
after clearly being stumped!)
D Lewis 2-0-9-0 (great spell from the Chairman, should have
been rewarded with a caught behind not given and a caught
behind not taken! Sorry matey).
Ed Stewart 2-0-12-0 (a real skippers performance with the
ball at the death)
11 extras make up the total, 7 wides, 1 no ball, 2 byes and
1 leg bye. Due to this fixture being rearranaged pretty late
in the day due to the 2 previous fixtures being cancelled
for rain there were no impartial umpires available, but I
feel I must add here that the 3 ‘poor’ umpiring
decisions were made by the same individual, whether he was
at square leg or at the bowlers end, who also for some reason
felt the need to tell me he was a ‘qualified’
umpire! However, you can only do your best and play it as
you see it. Whichever way you look at it, Chartered Trust
were good enough regardless.
And so the Casz innings. 130 would have been nicer to chase
but 151 needed. A big ask but not an impossible one. Jam and
our cup pinch hitter Steve O opened up and 13 off the first
over got us flying toward our glorious victory…………………..??
Well, ok we know that wasn’t the case but at that point
we were safely running away with it!
Not for the lack of desire and sheer effort, but we were
unable to score more than 10 from a single over until the
12th and by then the run-rate was going in the wrong direction.
Their bowling was tight and sharp and their fielding intelligent.
All in all it boiled down to one major difference, they hit
13 boundaries to our 5, you don’t have to be too sharp….(well
sharper than their scorer obviously), to work out that that
equates to a minimum of 32 runs difference. We only lost by
23!
So well done to all the batsman with special mention to Ed
and Luvvers who both got back in the hutch retired at 25s
and with Ed ending unbeaten on 29, capped off a good all-round
captains performance. A shout out should also go to Jam for
his massive straight 6! Well done to Dan too for capping his
good bowling performance off with a quick-fire 14 not out
including 1 of our elusive boundaries.
We finished on 127 for 9 and we were pretty consistent at
just over 7 an over throughout against a strong bowling attack.
Less than 1.5 runs per over short of run-rate.
J Furnham bowled 15
Steve O caught 9
Kim caught 14
Luvvers bowled 27
Ed not out 29
Tesh run out 1
Pablo bowled 2
Dan not out 14
Goff run out 1
JR stumped 0
Dion stumped 0
So we fell short on the night but everybody gave their very
best and that is all you can ask.
Thanks to all the fellow Casz squad members who came along
and gave their support also, the best team might have won
on the night but there is no question (in my mind!) as to
who the best club is!
Next year we win………………..onwards
and upwards
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