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Great Gaddesden v Berkhamsted Cricket Club 3rd XI on Sat 17 Jul 2010 at 13:00
Berkhamsted Cricket Club Lost by 2 wickets and 8 overs

Match report Berkhamsted III’s vs Great Gaddesden 17th July 2010

A pleasant ground adjacent to a pub. Half the team on holiday or in the II’s, we were mainly missing batting. Charlie won the toss and batted. Andre and MC Mikey opened, 6 overs for 6 runs frustrated Mikey and subsequent to a ball that reared on him he was caught. Club President Julian hit a four before knocking one back to the bowler. After nine overs Andre went for a duck leaving us 10 for 3. Puds and Tim Westley doubled the score before Tim was bowled in the 17th. Ian Merrett entered the frame and made it look a lot easier. Puds was given caught allegedly off his pad by el Presidente leaving our hopes dashed at 25 for 5 off 18 overs. Charlie was next to play round a straight one. 35 for 6 off 24. Micky out of touch having not batted since his last retirement didn’t trouble the scorer. After 27 overs we were a pitiful 36 for 7. Very, very poor from the batsmen. How many opening bowlers turn in 3 for 3 off 12 overs? Lucky for us he pulled his hamstring.

What then followed was the bowlers playing the get out of jail card big time. Ian kept the score board moving while never looking in any real trouble. Big Will smacked 5 fours in his pacey 22, disappointingly Goughie went for a six on the longest boundary and was caught on the rope at deep ham-strung mid-wicket but his 14 just pipped Jon’s 13 leaving Ian stranded on 36 in the 51st over with 123 on the board. The oppo were a little shell shocked they had let us off the hook – we know the feeling having had a couple of number 10s hit 28 and 62 against us when we thought it was nearly wrapped up. Runs scored by our batsmen 20, runs scored by our bowlers 88.

A good tea with plenty of cakes for Mikey. Some inspirational trite team talkage, the gist being they could still blow it. Ian Merrett and the legend that is the Ezard opened. With 7 off the first it looked like the writing could be on the wall but in the fourth Goughie grabbed an expansive cover drive giving Jon the first scalp. 10 for 1. In the next over Tim W dropped a sharp cut at point but thankfully in the same over the opener had an inside edge to keeper Micky. 11 for 2. In the eleventh over Ian had the number four LBW walking across his stumps. 21 for 3 – things were looking more interesting.

They started consolidating prompting a double bowling change to Goughie and Mikey. A fairly simple catch to Charlie at shortish mid wicket was taken at the second or third attempt. 57 for 4. Micky took a good stumping. 69 for 5. There followed a bit of a partnership with the number 3 and 7. Mikey had some seriously good LBW’s shouts turned down – 3 in one over! Our panel umpire wearing the gloves and having found someone more vertically challenged than himself endeavoured to explain the relevant rules to their porgish (person of restrictive growth) umpire. Mikey finally caught the guy at gully edging a big smear off Goughie. 103 for 6. They started getting nervous although their number 3 reached his 50. Charlie bought Will on for Mikey, it was an expensive over with a loosener carted for 4 and then a 4 through Andre at first slip. How we were missing the master Buckley.

In Goughie’s next over the number 8 pulled out of a drive to dolly one up to Ian Merrett at mid on. 115 for 7. It was getting tense. Then Will clean bowled their number 3 for 60. 117 for 8. Tension was getting cutable. Sadly we then had a no ball beamer go for 4 and the over ended with the scores tied. Goughie bowled a maiden beating the bat a couple of times, Ezzy bowled a maiden with a ball popping up tantalising close to Mikey. Could it happen, could we tie? Goughie bowled another maiden. Would the lid blow off? The batsmen didn’t look like they were going to risk a scoring shot but the pressure deflated with 4 byes for the game.

A second consecutive loss was not a good feeling. The team did exceptionally well to make the now third placed oppo sweat into their 41 over with 8 wickets down having been 36 for 7. No doubt we would have been euphoric had we pulled this victory from the jaws, nay gullet if not stomach of defeat. A lot of what might have beens; a couple of converted half chances, another 20 runs would have made it very interesting especially if we had used up the overs. It drops us down to 8th in the league 33 points behind the leader Boxmoor who we drew with and 28 points behind second place Bovingdon we also drew with. Next week at home against 14th placed Little B Sahibs. We have 7 games left all against teams currently below us in the league, their average position being 14/20.

Berkhamsted Cricket Club 3rd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
123		        
Andre Machon b Cheeseman 0
Michael Antonelli ct Teesdale b Crawley 3 1
Julian Dent ct and b Crawley 4
Ian Putman ct Dimmock b Cheeseman 4
Tim Westley b Cheeseman 6
Ian Merrett Not Out  36 1
Charlie Hussey b Hearn 6 1
Mike Walker b Hearn 0 1 1
Will Clayton b Hearn 22
Martin Gough ct Cheeseman b Moore 14 1
Jon Ezard st Dimmock b Gill 13

Great Gaddesden Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Cheeseman Jnr12.39331.000.24
Crawley12.3238219.003.04
Henry7.022400.003.43
Hearn10.032839.332.80
Moore7.0117117.002.43
Gill2.00212.001.00

Great Gaddesden Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 8 wickets
0
127 (0.0 overs)		     
J Cheeseman Snr ct M Walker b I Merrett 4
L Ambrose ct M Gough b J Ezard 6
A Henry b W Clayton 60
W Hughes lbw I Merrett 0
A Teesdale ct C Hussey b M Gough 6
P Dimmock st M Walker b M Gough 13
J Crawley ct M Antonelli b M Gough 16
D Hearn ct I Merrett b M Gough 3
J Moore Not Out  0
J Cheeseman Jnr Not Out  4
R Gill  Spent afternoon building bonfire

Berkhamsted Cricket Club 3rd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Ian Merrett9.0224212.002.67
Jon Ezard9.1222122.002.40
Martin Gough12.022546.252.08
Michael Antonelli8.012700.003.38
Will Clayton2.0016116.008.00