“Crèche Facility a Hit as MAD Start on Winning
Note”
Match: 07 / 134
Won by 2 wkts
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Team |
Total |
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Hanney CC |
129 |
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D.
Shorten 3 - 17, I. Howarth
2 - 6 |
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FFTMCC |
133 - 8 |
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I.
Howarth 36, M. Westmoreland 20 |
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The sun shone brightly on the
first day of The MAD’s 2007 season, as players and their families convened at
the Black Horse in East Hanney to ponder the gulf between East and West, and
whether a place called simply Hanney actually existed,
and if not, then why the host team that day was called simply Hanney and not
East or West. The ground itself was a picture, not one of those weird Jackson
Pollock ones with squiggly lines and stuff, but a nice picture that didn’t
make your brain hurt with trees and allotments, and cute little rabbits and
squirrels popping their heads up from the middle of the pitch.
Del Westmoreland. As the game began and The MAD
players settled down to 35 action-packed overs of high
class cricket, the wives and their youngsters took advantage of The
MAD Crèche which had been set up on a blanket near the clubhouse, a safe
place for babies and young children to play while their fathers conducted
more important business out on the field. Young Daniel Westmoreland got busy
counting up all the things that he could find, then putting them into a small
steel box that he had been given by his proud father. “He’s very good with
numbers,” said mother Mel, “though we have noticed that when he tries to
stand up, he does tend to fall over to one side in particular. His favourite
bath toys are his ducks. In fact he has several of them already.”
Steve’s tales of football violence
went down a storm with the kids. Several were on hand to
witness the first words of little Amie Dobner, including doting mother Kim.
Amie, who was collecting up all the toy shopping trolleys and pushing them
around, happened to bump into wee Daniel Westmoreland, then turned on him and
shouted angrily, “Car park! Car park!” Meanwhile, little Eve Shorten,
daughter of Dave, had brought her toy blocks with her and was busy building
an extension onto the side of the clubhouse, while Dan and Clare’s Molly
toddled around with a toy chainsaw, lopping the heads off dandelions. As for
Libby and Florence Hadfield, at one point they went missing, then people
thought they spotted them, but it turned out to be someone who looked just
like them, then they turned up safe and sound. “They like ducks too,” said
their mother Jane. After the game had finished, all the children were sick
everywhere after eating and drinking too much, though there’s nothing to say
that any of them will turn out to be anything like their fathers.
“I said – you run me out again, and
you’re DEAD!!” Winning the toss and agreeing
to field, The MAD year began auspiciously with a wicket first ball for S.
Parkinson (6-0-16-2) to a fine catch by D. Shorten in the slips. Parkinson looked
in good shape and got the rewards, though A. Mann (6-1-28-0) was a little off
the pace at the other end. Despite catching the edge once or twice, his
ponytail seemed to be weighing down the back of head, and he had logistical
trouble threading all his frigging hair through his cap. After going for six
off his first ball, S. Dobner
(3-0-20-1) threatened to chunter, but then pulled it back nicely and took the
key wicket of M. Pearse for 20. Pick of the bowlers, however, was D. Shorten
(7-1-17-3). Hanney had no answer to his fast inswingers, delivered at the
peak of a slow-motion hang with the turf far below. Shorten missed a hat
trick by a whisker, but destroyed the middle order and left it to Skipper I.
Howarth (3-1-6-2) to toy with the tail. Howarth was in good touch and hardly
bowled any deliveries at the batmen’s heads. N. Hebbes (5-0-20-2) looked good
too with his skiddy seamers that left the right-handers, and M. Westmoreland
(3-1-10-0) was unlucky not to strike with his late swing. M. Bullock, after a
punishing off-season fitness regime, took two catches in the field, while G.
Littlechild made it look easy as usual, standing up to the medium pacers and
taking yet another sharp stumping chance. D. Belprey
(39) and K. Dixon (15) stood out for Hanney CC, but in the end they could
manage only 129.
Hanney practice karate during the
off-season. The MAD might have expected
to knock off the runs with ease, but made hard work
of it in the end. G. Littlechild (9) went early, then M. Westmoreland (20)
soon followed, with some choice words of advice to the punky guy who had
dismissed him. There was attitude everywhere after that. R. Hadfield (1) did
well to appreciably improve on his total run tally of 2006, but M. Bullock
(3) would have been disappointed. Captain I. Howarth (36) and former coolie
M. Clarke (19) set about rebuilding towards victory, but when Howarth went
bowled to a jaffa from Harrison, the result was
once again in the balance. With Clarke goaded by his own skipper umpiring at
square leg into dancing down the wicket into a stumping, and N. Hebbes (6)
and S. Dobner (0) also failing, there was nothing for it but for S. Parkinson
(19 n.o.) to flay The MAD to victory, while a
jittery D. Shorten (5 n.o.) watched from the other
end. A. Mann did not bat.
All in all, then, a child-friendly start to the season. ‘Blocker’
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Statto Scorecards
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Far from the MCC versus Hanney CC Played at Hanney, 22 April 2007 Far from the MCC won the toss and
elected to field Far from the MCC won by 2 wkts Far from the MCC debuts: none |
07 / 134 35 over match |
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Team |
Hanney CC |
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# |
Batsman |
How Out |
Total |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
FOW |
|
1 |
G. Pierce + |
b Shorten |
20 |
|
3 |
- |
3-66 |
|
2 |
J. Hilliam |
c Shorten b Parkinson |
0 |
|
- |
- |
1-0 |
|
3 |
D. Belprez |
c Hadfield b Dobner |
39 |
|
5 |
1 |
2-62 |
|
4 |
D. Hilliam |
st Littlechild b Hebbes |
4 |
|
1 |
- |
4-72 |
|
5 |
M. Pierce |
c Bullock b Hebbes |
10 |
|
1 |
- |
5-92 |
|
6 |
K. Dixon * |
c Parkinson b Howarth |
15 |
|
1 |
- |
8-116 |
|
7 |
D. Johns |
b Shorten |
1 |
|
- |
- |
6-94 |
|
8 |
S. Harrison |
b Shorten |
0 |
|
- |
- |
7-94 |
|
9 |
A. Necchigiri |
c Bullock b Howarth |
15 |
|
2 |
- |
9-116 |
|
10 |
R. Cooper |
lbw b Parkinson |
1 |
|
- |
- |
10-129 |
|
11 |
Smith |
not out |
8 |
|
2 |
- |
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|
Extras |
(NB1, W4, LB2, B9) |
16 |
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TOTAL |
(all out, 33 overs) |
129 |
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|
# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
|
|
1 |
Parkinson |
6 |
0 |
16 |
2 |
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2 |
Mann |
6 |
1 |
28 |
0 |
|
|
3 |
Dobner |
3 |
0 |
20 |
1 |
|
|
4 |
Shorten |
7 |
1 |
17 |
3 |
|
|
5 |
Hebbes |
5 |
0 |
20 |
2 |
|
|
6 |
Howarth |
3 |
1 |
6 |
2 |
|
|
7 |
Westmoreland |
3 |
1 |
10 |
0 |
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|
Team |
Far from
the MCC |
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# |
Batsman |
How Out |
Total |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
FOW |
|
1 |
G. S. Littlechild + |
b J. Hilliam |
9 |
(7) |
1 |
- |
1-11 |
|
2 |
M. T. Westmoreland |
c Sub b D. Hilliam |
20 |
(22) |
4 |
- |
2-41 |
|
3 |
I. Howarth * |
b Harrison |
36 |
(39) |
4 |
1 |
5-80 |
|
4 |
R. J. B. Hadfield |
b J. Hilliam |
1 |
(7) |
- |
- |
3-51 |
|
5 |
M. Bullock |
c G. Pierce b J. Hilliam |
3 |
(12) |
- |
- |
4-59 |
|
6 |
M. D. Clarke |
st G. Pierce b Cooper |
19 |
(30) |
3 |
- |
6-106 |
|
7 |
N. J. Hebbes |
c Harrison b Johns |
6 |
(19) |
1 |
- |
7-108 |
|
8 |
S. L. P. Dobner |
c G. Pierce b Cooper |
0 |
(9) |
- |
- |
8-111 |
|
9 |
S. B. Parkinson |
not out |
19 |
(14) |
3 |
- |
- |
|
10 |
D. Shorten |
not out |
5 |
(9) |
1 |
- |
- |
|
11 |
A. G. Mann |
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|
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|
|
|
|
Extras |
(W7, LB5, B3) |
15 |
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TOTAL |
(for 8 wickets, 28 overs) |
133 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
|
|
1 |
D. Hilliam |
7 |
0 |
35 |
1 |
|
|
2 |
J. Hilliam |
7 |
2 |
19 |
3 |
|
|
3 |
Harrison |
4 |
1 |
20 |
1 |
|
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4 |
M. Pierce |
4 |
0 |
22 |
0 |
|
|
5 |
Cooper |
3 |
0 |
14 |
2 |
|
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6 |
Johns |
3 |
0 |
15 |
1 |
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MOTM: S. B. Parkinson Champagne Moment: S. B. Parkinson’s
wicket with the first ball of the season Buffet
Award: S. L. P. Dobner’s caramel
tarts (Essex recipe) |
Opposition:
V041 / 03 Ground: G030 / 02 Captain: C007 / 20 |