11/08/2010

More match reports (august/ sep)

v Pairs
Pitch booked, no oppo, 12 players, 30 overs of light. Could only mean the inaugural Leisure Pairs. 5 overs each, -8 for a wicket....Chris and Paul 71, Wendel and Don 58, Steve and Mike 19, Knobby and Alex 18, Pete and Jason 3, Rick and Jim 1. Knobby and Jim both out 4 times, 2 catches for Don, 3 stumpings for Mike. Quite good fun actually. Then England beating Bulgaria in the bar afterwards.

v Garrison
Last evening game of the season. Skip rips out the top order with 4/12, Garrison limping to 106 off their 20. Wasn't looking great at 40/4, but enter Wendel, with a sensible 50 to guide the Leisure home with 3 overs to spare.

V Garrison.
Rained off.

v Thames Trains
Match report to follow, but we won

v GSK Beechams at Northfields
Rain meant a delayed start and a reduced game. Their openers were flying for 5 overs and were 56 off 5. The next 12 they scored 66/8, with catches, run outs and tight bowling pleasing Leisure. Our innings was like their last 12, against some good bowling, and fadingish light all out, dissappointingly, in 15 overs for 88. Knobby, Wendel and extras scoring most of them. 2 wickets, a catch, and a run out assist, plus a duck for birthday boy...

V Parkmen at Trailfinders.
We won. Ask Rick about it, I wasnt there, he'll tell you all about it. Something to do with team hugs, Wendel scoring 80, Chris bowling well, their aussie having a bad evening...An easy win by all accounts, however, marred by young Ian having his front tooth knocked out going for a catch. (try not to get your hands between your face and the ball in the field..)

V Westminster at Wandsworth Common
Usually when you score 184 in 20 overs, youd expect to win. However, somehow we didnt. Won the toss, a good start from Wasim and Knobby and then a quick 67 from Wendel and a 43 from Paul, saw us to 184/4, with only 4,6s and ones being scored on a fast and short outfield. Westminster, were 100 from 8 overs, and started to look like cruising, then a few tight overs tipped the scales back to us. When they attempted the first two of the match, the chap was run out. 40 from the last 4, then 11 from the last over; a 6, a dot, then a 4, then a single it was all over with 2 balls remaining. Westminster were well chuffed, Leisure less so. In hindsight, we should have, and could have, scored 200, but maybe we took pity on the bowlers when their heads went down with all the 4's and 6's we were scoring. Rick went for 20 off 5 balls and then a Wendel overthrow meant he went for 24 off six...