Match Report vs Sudbrook
05 July 2009 @ Sudbrook (Skipper and Report Dan)
With the majority of the Cazh waiting at B&Q, Captain
Dan and Rainman Pikey turn up eventually after trying to get
a scoresheet to Tesh (and his printer) as Smitts went home
for the weekend with the scorebook in his boot… The
weather at this point was lovely….
On arrival at the ground, the sun was still out, the flag
was up, and the toss was tossed. Captain Dan lost the toss
and the Cazh were asked to field first – everyone’s
a winner! Dan, late onto the field took the first over with
Andy F taking the second. Shag struggled with line and length
(after hastily deciding to bowl into the wind…), and
3 balls into Porno’s first over the heaven’s opened
and everyone made a dash for the pavilion. The sky’s
looked set for rain, but we decided to give it a chance and
head towards the bar and watch the Wimbledon men’s final
on the tv….Captain Dan deciding a pint of cider would
help his line and length (if play was to resume). Thirty minutes
later the rain had stopped and 20 minutes after that, play
resumed. And, if you'd been so engrossed in the tennis and
not noticed the rain... you wouldn’t have known that
it had been.
The game reduced to 30overs. Porno finished his over. Shag
decided to come off his short run up, and last ball of the
over, the opener (M Shaw) decided to go for one, connecting
well, but travelling fast towards Shag…who took a very
good head high catch to his left for the first wicket (12-1
off 3overs). He and Porno continued to peg back the batsmen,
and in the 6th over Shag got the second breakthrough bowling
his man (Karamouz), the ball cutting sharply from off to leg.
29-2-7overs. Almost identically, two overs later, Shag did
it again(Philips). 36-3-9overs. Next over, Andy F got his
deserved wicket, the batsman (G.Shaw) trying to go after one,
but only spooned it to Mahesh at mid-wicket. 38-4-10overs.
Due to the reduced overs for the game, bowlers were limited
to 6 a piece. An excellent opening spell. The downside, Sudbrook’s
‘batsmen’ were now in…
Shandy and DB took over, with Shandy struggling to find his
line straight away, Dave meanwhile found his line straight
away and his first two overs were excellent. Shandy, encouraged
the big hitter (Spencer) to go aerial to cow corner, where
Shag was racing round, got underneath it, caught it but found
it dislodged on his impact with the ground – bugger.
Next ball another difficult chance was put down (literally
just off the ground) by Mahesh at short mid-wicket. Spencer
at this time was on 45. Dave’s line and length began
to wobble a bit in his third over and was on the receiving
end a big 6. Shandy however, finally produced a straight one
and claimed a lbw(Hussey) for his efforts. 78-5-17overs. Shandy
bowled one more before he was replaced by Mahesh. DB continued
and though bowling some excellent deliveries, found that whenever
he drifted, he got punished. The effort in the field was excellent,
runs curtailed whenever and wherever possible, but the combination
of a left handed batsman who's ‘eye’ was 'in',
a short(er) legside boundary and the bowlers waivering line
(leg) and length (full) Spencer took full advantage of anything
in his 'zone'. The runs piled on...including 2 massive 6's
over the not so short boundary...
Ed took over from Dave (in more ways that one….)and
Mahesh meanwhile put some good balls down the track, and in
the 25th over got his first Casuals wicket, caught by Ed at
cover. 135-6-25. The big hitter was still around and was racing
towards his century. In the penultimate over Spencer reached
it with a single, next ball Mahesh got his second wicket,
caught by Ed once again (who in the process lost a contact
lens...). The next ball the big hitter mistimed a pull and
was out caught by BA at squareleg for 100. The hattrick ball
on was left alone by the bat. 183-8-29overs. Ed bowled the
last over (with one contact lens) and got his reward –
getting a one handed, one eyed, caught and bowled 3rd last
delivery. The last man in managed to add a few and remain
not out. Final score 198-9. At close the rain came again,
but the Cazh were already off in search of tea.
A big total, but a very fast outfield, the Cazh had done
well. A few difficult chances were missed, Shag, Mahesh, Ed
and Porno also putting down Spencer (all 4 would have been
excellent wickets had they stuck – though in fairness
Andy’s was an attempted ‘6’ stopper and
somehow managed to get a hand on it, whilst Mahesh and Ed's
were lucky (or unlucky) to even get their hands to it). A
few shots found the gaps, one falling close to Tesh and another
next to Pikey – a determined performance by all in the
field despite the total. Ed in particular stopped everything
that came his way (and 3 catches)..
D.Lewis 6(o)- 0(m)- 24(r)- 3(w)
A.Furnham 6- 0- 25- 1
S.Hand 4- 0- 27- 1
D.Thomas 6- 0- 41- 0
M.Kannan 5- 0- 41- 3
E.Stewart 3- 0- 36- 1
And so off to tea and tennis, meanwhile the rain stopped again
and the covered wicket began to dry out once more. The tea
was excellent – many, many many cakes (including doughnuts)
and a few sandwiches – marvellous!
Chasing a big total, we needed a steady start once again.
Tesh and BA opened the batting and looked comfortable, both
unfortunate to find the fielders when trying to ‘open
up’. Tesh mainly dealt in boundaries, and would have
had a few more had it not been for excellent fielding by the
oppo, Paul went for the more sedate approach and tying one
end down. However, after a couple of maidens paul decided
to go for one, but only resulted in chipping one up to mid
off (4 ), which was a shame because he was looking good. 32-1-10overs.
The sky by now had darkened – and the big black rain
cloud completely covered the sky to all horizons…In
strode Ash and with a swish and slash, he added 8 to the total
before the rain came, it wasn’t so much ‘bucketing
down’ more ‘skipping’, ‘vatting’
or ‘ ‘siloing’ it down such was the velocity
of the rain….the pitch completely waterlogged within
minutes….there was to be no reprieve…and the match
was abandoned – with an honourable draw!! Tesh finishing
on 23 not out. 40-1-11overs. Sudbrook after the same amount
of overs were on 41 for 4…so it was a moral victory!!
An enjoyable game even though it was rain affected, everyone
played in a good spirit and hopefully everyone enjoyed the
afternoon out…and if anything is to be learnt from the
game...always have a pint before playing....
Tesh – 23no
Paul – 4 ct
Ash – 8no
[Milestones]
The following Milestones were reached in this game. Congratulations
to:
Dan Lewis - 300 wickets
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