OLCC v. Jordans Taverners
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Posted 08/06/06: 9 OLs gathered at the Seer Green ground nursing an 3 game unbeaten recored. They were augmented by Celeriac Neil Smith and Ben Carter who was not a relative but an Australian friend of Shingo who had played for us before at Holyport and seemed happy enough to repeat the experience.
We played 40 overs a side and batted first. Acland-Hood began proceedings by swatting a full toss to the square leg boundary. Runs came quickly, but only from Ackers. When Mickey and Shingo had both departed (after about 20 minutes), no-one else had troubled the scorers. Things were looking a bit rocky when John himself was adjudged LBW by Dilly. It looked a good shout from the score-box, but John reckoned it hit him outside off-stump. He'd made 31. Ben Carter steadied things with a vigilant 31, and later RNP and Bibby put on 50 together to get us up to a respectable score. A few late cultured blows from Neil Smith took us to what looked like a par total of 178.
Neil Smith opened the bowling, cruising down the hill towards the hestitant Jordanian batters. Their number 1 looked jittery but managed to get away from the strike on the 5th ball. Number 2 was immediately bowled by a fullish yorker. Phil and Neil bowled well and the Taverners were up against it until their Aussie Eddo came in and started to get his team into the game. When he was joined by the ever present Sonnex they gradually accelareted and looked like taking the game away from us. Ben Carter was brought into the attack with the game tilting Jordans' way. Eddo tickled one to Ben's mate Shingo who took a good keepers catch - his first for the club, but not the type of catch that Denny is interested in at the moment, and anyway he was having a pleasant chat with Mr. Steeen at the time. We were now back in the game. And when, soon after, Sonnex gave it away - bowled Carter,B - it looked like we might sneak the win.
Captain Murphy was their last hope, and he had to waste a lot of balls protecting others from the strike. He refused a certain single to long-leg that Mick marshalled over the boundary "to keep them in the game" he said, forgetting it was an overs match. In the end they ran out of wickets. Their eleventh man had had to leave early, ironically, to get to the kitchen of the White Hart in time to cook us our supper. So when 10th man Yolland Jnr. was bowled by Phil, the game was over, and the OLs had won by about 30 runs
Scores courtesy of David Bibby's memory...
Overs game, 40 overs a side
OLCC Innings:
Hoody 31
Shingo 0
Mickey 0
Ben Carter (Shingo's mate) 31
GWVC 8
Rich 37
Bibster 24
Neil Smith (Hoody's mate) 10*
Guv 2*
Dilly DNB
Fluffy DNB
Lots of wides and byes,
Total 178
Jordans innings:
All out for 150-odd
Smith 2 for about 16
Fluff 1 for not very many
Dilly, went for a few(7 overs for not too many - Ed.), did he get a wicket? can't remember.(No - Ed.)
Bibster 1 for 29
Guv 0 for 19
Rich 1 for 26
Carter (B) 4 for 9
Catches: Mickey, Shingo (keeping wicket), RNP (C&B)