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Olney Town Cricket Club Olney Town CC 2nd XI v Winslow Town 2nd XI on Sat 05 Jun 2010 at 1:30pm
Olney Town Cricket Club Won by 9 Wickets

Match report What a different day this might have been if Guts had actually won the toss and batted first (as seemed appropriate for the weather conditions). Turned out the pitch had a bit of life in it from the start as Olly removed the first of the two real players amongst the Winslow side in the first over. Early wickets continued to fall with Olly returning 7-1-23-3 and having the one dropped chance of the game (yes I dropped it, yes I should have caught it and yes it still hurts, and no I don’t expect any sympathy). I have to admit to being a bit fearful at having dropped their ‘Tamim’, who scored 22 of their 58 runs, but at least it meant that wicket fell to Ray as part of his first Five-for in 16 years of trying. To put that in perspective – Sideshow Bob at the other end was still in nappies when Ray first started trying. Apart from the drop, we again held our catches well – with Guts taking a ‘Flintoff-esque’ catch at slip (the comparison starting with size and having caught it, I’m not sure how much further it can be drawn – probably stops somewhere before 90 mph Aussie-bashing) and Dave Hurley (I’m not sure if that is his surname, but it seems to be on all his clothes) taking a good catch at Ray’s favoured ‘just give yourself 10-yards’ mid-mid-off. I’m delighted to say I did hold the catch for Ray’s fifth wicket (9-0-26-5) but to be fair, my great aunt Peggy could have held that one. Also really we have to fine Ray for jug avoidance – not for his fiver-fer that was duly celebrated at about 4 pm, but for the hat-trick he missed by not bowling at the stumps. There’s room for improvement Ray... And speaking of fines, I was severely reprimanded for appealing for LBW from cover, but undeterred I felt compelled to appeal again – and much to the surprise of the bowler (B. Brown 2.4-0-6-2) who did not appeal, and the strangely quiet Jewson behind the stumps who only joined the appeal after it was lead from cover, the umpire gave it out – stating that it was ‘plumb’. You see – appealing from cover is totally justified. I’m running a class on appealing at nets on Tuesday for these up and coming stars – I just can’t understand why it hasn’t been done before.
Anyway, Winslow Town 2nd XI all out for 58 before 3 pm. It was a bit selfish on the part of Filip, Knowles and Brown really – denying a number of us a turn of the arm (my game comprised one dropped catch, one held catch, 11.3 overs of umpiring and a load of abuse. 5 f.q. thanks very much; no fear – Chapster and Gary Brown had even less to do...). Comedy fielding moment of the day went to Ben Cadigan, who must have been to the Gary Brown School of Fielding, and did his best to throw the ball over the boundary. Perhaps Gary should run a class on how to perfect that art at nets?
So with tea not ready yet (understandably) we asked Winslow to field for 10 overs and Hurley and Hurley strode boldly to the crease – with the rest of the team wondering if this was the day we would actually see the opposition off, or wondering whether they should pad up. Dave Hurley set out his stall in resolute straight bat fashion and with singular determination not to run himself out, the call ‘wait’ being preferred to ‘yes, oh no’, thankfully. Unfortunately Jon had brought his Wurzle Gummidge head (hair-and-all) and left his batting head at home again and spooned up a chance Great Aunt Peggy would have caught, slogging across the line. Fortunately Ben Cadigan (20 no) had a similar resolute determination to Hurley senior (35 no) and they saw us home off 11 overs for a 9 wicket victory and the chance to have a shower before tucking into tea (I did get my 5 quids worth of tea, thanks Louise). All that was left to do was to sit back and enjoy the bar in the sun and ponder on what it is to be 19 points clear at the top of the Division 5... Keep it up chaps. And let’s hope it’s not another 16 years of pain for Ray, eh? Because then he’d be 76 – think how long that would take him to shuffle into the crease?

Winslow Town 2nd XI Batting
58 for 10
Player name Runs
M Bishop Caught  and Bowled Filip 7
T Stopp Bowled  Knowles 0
S Craker Bowled  Filip 0
H Bishop Bowled  Knowles 0
G Eccles Caught  D Hurley b Filip 22
E Bett Caught  S Griffin b Knowles 4
B Cook Bowled  Filip 0
A Welland Caught  S Griffin b B Brown 5
A Phillips Lbw  B Brown 1
M Derry Caught  James b Filip 0
M Stopp Not Out  6

Olney Town Cricket Club Olney Town CC 2nd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Oli Knowles7.012337.673.29
Ray Filip9.002655.202.89
Ben Brown2.40623.002.25

Olney Town Cricket Club Olney Town CC 2nd XI Batting
55 for 7
Player Name RunsCatchesStumpingsRun outs
Dave Hurley Not Out  35 1
Jon Hurley Caught  Eccles b Cook 0
Ben Cadigan Not Out  20
Tony Chaproniere  
Jack Jewson  
Stuart Griffin   2
Gary Brown  
Ben Brown  
Oli Knowles  
Iain James   1
Ray Filip   1

Winslow Town 2nd XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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