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Berkhamsted Cricket Club 3rd XI v Dunstable IV on Sat 07 Aug 2010 at 13:00
Match was Abandoned due to rain, recorded as draw

Match report Berkhamsted III’s vs Dunstable IV’s 7th August 2010

A wet day. The opposition turned up rather close to the start time, Charlie lost the toss and they put us in. Aaron was due to open but arrived too close to the start to be mentally and physically ready. Max and Mark opened in the rain. Max chipped one up in 5th leaving us 10 for 1. Dave Crispin joined Mark and they put on 30 before Mark was bowled for 18. The weather had cleared a bit but Puds was busy on the main ground discussing using another wicket vs abandoning. Ed went in rather than Puds being timed out. On a well-made 39 including a car hitting six Dave was fingered somewhat quickly by the oppo’s injured usual captain who was umpiring. They had put on a 44 partnership taking us to 84 for 3 in the 20th over. Puds was now ready and joined Ed against some bowling we fancied he would take a liking to. Alas a direct hit and their Clint Eastwood draw cheroot and poncho less umpire gave him run out on 11. Some controversy as he looked like he had made his ground from the boundary. 112 for 4 in the 28th over. Toddy finally went in and watched Ed smack some glorious boundaries getting to his 50. The great Todmeister was caught on 9 leaving us 161 for 5 in the 38th over.

We all then enjoyed El Presidente and Ed smack the ball to all parts and leaving a considerable dilemma. We had 199 off 44 overs but Ed was in his 80’s. When to declare, a bit harsh to deny Ed a maiden club ton but we had our maximum batting points and didn’t think we needed many more runs but overs could prove critical as we had to bowl out the oppo to win. The signal was given - a maximum of 4 more overs. Sadly Ed kept getting singles and Julian while scoring quickly could not give him the strike despite various combinations and efforts of running each other out. A single was easily run despite the call “No, no, sorry, no!” Our skip challenging Julian to come back for an impossible third. Anyway after 48 overs the skip declared leaving Ed stranded on an excellent 91, Julian on a rapid fire 36 and our total 227 for 5.

An excellent tea was supplemented by eating the 2nds tea as well. Max opened the bowling and their stand in skipper ominously flicked the first ball off his legs for 3. Ian Merrett had the next over and their left handed number 1 flicked another one that rocketed through Julian’s hands at a squarish mid-wicket on the way to boundary. In the 3rd over Max bounced the number 2 who nearly played on and nearly walked over his stumps. Next ball his centre stump was sent cartwheeling – a wondrous sight. The number 1 gave Ian some stick with one uppish but two lovely drives. We were concerned we could be ruing the half chance. It had started raining. The number 1 clipped another one leg side, slipped on his turn while taking what was considered an easy 2 to Charlie’s arm. They had not banked on the energy conserved the previous over when Goughie had run from mid-wicket well past the long-off boundary to retrieve a ball for the skipper. Panther like the ball was collected and Charlie’s enlightening return was met with squeals of “take ‘em off”. The impossible became the improbable Charlie’s arm instigated a run out ably competed by keeper Mark. The danger man was run out. Next ball their number 4 was yorked for a golden quacker. The departed skipper started a pitch side rant, the gist being that we shouldn’t be playing in the rain which when run through a google translator came back as “now I’m out we’re going to lose and if I can’t bat I want to go home.”

The number five came out and also said we shouldn’t be playing in the rain. To be fair we would prefer not to but we had started our innings in the rain and it was no worse. At the start of Ian’s over he refused to play. Their umpire suggested he could retire but the game was going to continue. He then smacked a ball through extra cover, appeared to deliberately slide on his turn only for the ball to go for 4. Unfortunately the rain increased dramatically and most conceded it was not cricket weather and apart from knackering the wicket was probably not safe to continue. After fifteen minutes of a solid downpour beautiful rainbows appeared but the pitch had taken too much water to dry without a lot of sun and wind. The oppo reappeared from the dressing room to all stand around saying the pitch would never dry out, Puds who questioned whether we should have even started was convinced to stop. Despite us all sensing a victory, discussing whether we should have declared earlier or what would have happened had we won the toss, the match was abandoned as a draw.

We took 13 points rather than the 10 had we not played but feel we missed out on 17 more. Even one of their team had told us the game was lost now they were 28 for 3 as they had a lot of youth down the order. With all the points in we are 5th but a narrow spread of only 4 points behind West Herts who are 2nd. Great Gaddesden now have a clear 37 point lead and look like surging towards winning the league. Next week Pirton who are 6th and 12 points behind us. It was great to see Ed have the knock we had been waiting for, 91 on today’s wicket was worth a ton. Max shows some real promise as a strike bowler. Thanks to Micky for umpiring and apologies to Puds for trouncing his wicket.

Berkhamsted Cricket Club 3rd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
 
for 5 wickets
0
227		        
Max Jones ct Alden L 2
Mark Burgess b Tommey L 18
David Chrispin lbw Chant R 39
Edward Goodwyn Not Out  91
Ian Putman Run out  11
Aaron Todd ct Alden L 9
Julian Dent Not Out  36
Charlie Hussey   1
Ian Merrett  
Martin Gough  
Jon Ezard  

Dunstable IV Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Alden L16.0176238.004.75
Tommey L12.0057157.004.75
Chant R7.0026126.003.71
Copcutt T8.004300.005.37
Baker G5.001100.002.20

Dunstable IV Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
 
for 3 wickets
0
28 (0.0 overs)		     
Copcutt T run out go Charlie Hussey! 24
Baker N b Jones M 0
Tommey L Not Out  4
Copcutt D b Jones M 0
Cooper J Not Out  0
Bowles R  
Chant R  
Barker N  
Baker G  
Alden L  
Vaukins J  

Berkhamsted Cricket Club 3rd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Max Jones3.01924.503.00
Ian Merrett2.101900.008.77

  • Umpire :
    Micky Walker
  • Scorer :