Scorecard

West Herts II v Berkhamsted Cricket Club 1st XI on Sat 27 Jul 2013 at 1pm
Berkhamsted Cricket Club Lost By 5 wickets

Match report Another week, another away trip and another Joycey induced delay. This time we had to stop for petrol. After painfully crawling along the bypass at 40mph so not to lose him we finally got his car and stomach filled up courtesy of James who took sympathy on the job shy with £10 petrol money and Esso's finest Chicken and Bacon sandwich. At least he wasn't wearing the previous night’s clubbing gear. Oh wait. He was.

While all this was going on the rest of the team were once again changed and waiting to start the warm up. The skipper had no hesitation choosing to bat on what looked like a road. Once again Lee opened up in his cautious way, spanking the opening bowlers around. Joycey at the other end meanwhile was making batting look difficult as if he'd been to a Shordich night club all night. Which obviously he had.

A change in bowling brought three quick wickets and suddenly our solid start was once again pegged back. The skipper and Jez did a bit of rebuilding and took the score onto 110/3 before complacency set in and another 3 quick wickets changed our good position to a mediocre one. Once again we were guilty of not converting scores. However the skipper remained calm as the team generally batted down to 10 and with Riaz in good form with the bat there was confidence he could lead the tail to a promising total. And that he did. Ably assisted by first Jamie and then Ethan. Riaz started patiently before battering the ball into submission. Literally as it had fallen apart. The change of ball had no impact and Riaz continued his assault in the final overs to hit a number of sixes one of which hit the clubhouse's Perspex windows (they must of heard he was coming).

203 was the target set. After the collapse in the middle it was good to get full batting points although we would have to bowl well. And we did to begin with. Both Will and Josh bowled with genuine pace at the start and were unlucky not to pick up more wickets from the opposition batsman attempting shots from square leg. Their opener who had looked very uncomfortable early on somehow managed to stay at the crease while we were having success at the other end. They were 5 downs at drinks needing 73 off the last 13 overs. 3 from 3 overs changed the maths to 7 an over. Surely they couldn't do it? Unfortunately that's when the wheels fell off. Us not them. Drop catches, missed run out chances and miss fields all cost us and they cruised to victory with 2 overs to spare. Frustrating but we need to take our chances. Their opener who got 80 not out could have been out 4 times. Funny how the opposition are never as generous to us.

Man of the match goes to Riaz who scored a great knock of 62. He might find himself up the order next week.


Berkhamsted Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
1b  
for 7 wickets
1
202		        
Andrew Joyce ct R Woosley b R Woosley 7 13 1 53.85
Lee Mason ct  Unknown b V Gorasia 38 24 6 158.33 1
Jez O'Neill ct Unknown b A Griffin 48 84 7 57.14 1
James Wyatt ct Unknown b R Woosley 0 5 0
David Smith b V Gorasia 18 56 2 32.14
Jonathan Harvey lbw A Griffin 0 7 0
Jamie Lewis ct Unknown b V Gorasia 19 50 2 38.00
Riaz Richards Not Out  62 66 6 3 93.94
Ethan Mackie Not Out  9 13 69.23 1
William Steed  
Joshua Roberts  

West Herts II Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Paul Ferrett4.002700.006.75
Ryan Woosley6.0135217.505.83
Vinesh Gorasia23.0484328.003.65
Karan Parmar3.001400.004.67
Anthony Griffin17.0441220.502.41

West Herts II Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
7nb 1w 7b 6lb 
for 5 wickets
21
204 (44.4 overs)		     
Kie Farrell Not Out  80 128 8 62.50
Dan Paxton ct J O'Neill b W Steed 6 43 1 13.95
Jimmy Phang b R Richards 14 14 3 100
Steve Pich ct L Mason b R Richards 31 42 5 73.81
Karan Parmar ct E Mackie b J Harvey 4 14 28.57
Anthony Griffin lbw R Richards 0 3 0
Martin Richardson Not Out  48 31 6 2 154.84
Dan Grahame  
Vinesh Gorasia  
Paul Ferrett  
Ryan Woosley  

Berkhamsted Cricket Club 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Joshua Roberts9.023600.004.00
William Steed7.0023123.003.29
Riaz Richards15.4171323.674.53
Ethan Mackie6.002900.004.83
James Wyatt7.0232132.004.57

  • Umpire :
    Richard
  • Scorer :
    Ben and Sarah