“Some Things Never Change”
Match: 09 / 169
Lost by 3 wkts
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Team |
Total |
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FFTMCC |
93 |
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S.
Dobner 17, D. Emerson
16 |
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Nomads CC |
94 - 7 |
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A.
Darley 2 - 14, S. Dobner
2 - 17 |
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It is nice to know that some things never change.
Sometimes it is nice to know that things have
changed. And sometimes it is nice to know that things will never change.
There are things that sometimes
will never change, but it would be nice if they did, and there are some things
that change all the time which you would rather never change. Sometimes when
things change, you wish they hadn’t. Sometimes some things will change that
you never even knew happened in the first place. In which case, it doesn’t
really matter that they have changed. There are other things that change and
even though they do change, you still don’t know that they are happening.
These things changing hardly ever matter.
Picturesque
Brasenose is now home to The MAD. A week last Sunday I pondered the view of the Brasenose
pavilion outlined by the setting sun. Having just played on the tarmac like
strip in the centre of the manicured outfield, I thought of how things had changed.
“We have arrived” was one comment from an excited MADster
pre-match, “this is a real field of
dreams” was actually muttered by an opening batsman
while dreaming, presumably of cricket and not cobbing demonstrations, prior
to the commencement of the game. Have things changed I thought? A cry of “Can we just follow someone to the fucking
pub.” From a Nomad frustrated by our directions to the Royal Oak told me
that, no, not much had. The events of the days Match pretty much told me as
well, but the pub war cry was the penultimate confirmation. No. Nothing had
changed. As if I needed any more proof I turned to find all bar
one car had left for the pub – and that was fully loaded for its trip home to
Stevenage. My eyes turned to the bedraggled, over flowing kit bag
left abandoned next to the pavilion steps. I packed it up, tried half a dozen
times to do the zips up around the bulging contents, heaved a sigh, and then
heaved the kit bag into my car boot on top of the other unused kit bag. I suppose one thing had changed. Until now I usually
only get landed with one kit bag – now I have two of them. That would go in
the ‘Sometimes when things change, you wish they hadn’t’ category.
Pie-man A.
Fisher (batting) makes a welcome return to The MAD fold. Pre match drinks returned back to The MAD’s favourite
pre match drinking arena, the Folly Bridge. Things hadn’t changed there much
either, after T. Smith confirmed with some glee that one chap at the bar was
convincing the rest of the clientele that raising and reprimanding children
was in fact no different to looking after his rabid black Alsatian – the same
rules apply and has his kid ever suffered as a result? We couldn’t help but agree
while watching the youngster cock his leg against the Geranium pot whilst
staring at us quizzically, tongue hanging out of one side of his mouth. Inspection of the pitch revealed a surface which we
couldn’t really comprehend. It was flat. It was hard. It didn’t have any
green grass on it. Could it be that we were actually playing on a proper
surface? The toss was won (Daniel not involved) and the Skipper
elected, mainly due to the unseasonable rays beating down, that batting would
be the best option. Batting perhaps would have been the best option but the
Skipper (5) decided to show the best way to fall when slipping on the ice as
the innings started and this really set the scene for his short lived stay at
the crease. Both opening batsmen managed to avoid the opening fines total
though, and the Skipper was not the first to fall.
D. Emerson
aims at a floating head with a moo to the boundary. No, the first wicket to fall was to prove that
something else hadn’t change. Even though he’s only played for the club for a
few matches, A. Darley had been reading. He paid specific attention to the
title of our MAD History and decided to completely ignore it, becoming the 23rd
person to give D. Edwards (10) out lbw ‘At This Level’, which if not
completely in the spirit of the Sunday game, is always good entertainment. I myself on the boundary was quick to grasp the
situation and immediately opened up the book on how far the bat would fly,
and how many things there would be wrong about the lbw decision according to
the victim. For the record, the bat flew 32.5 feet, and there were
four reasons. Too high, too far down the pitch, hitting outside off stump AND
slipping down leg. Quite a delivery. For an added bonus, the helmet was also
despatched. All good though – fortunately the kit was all retrieved in time
by some helpful children.
Exclusive TV
pictures showing young Daisy retrieving Dan’s helmet. M. Westmoreland (5) quickly followed along with JP (2)
and T. Smith (3) who both had trouble adjusting to the auspicious
surroundings for different reasons (and who knows what those reasons were?) A steady flow of wickets though meant The MAD were
eluded a decent total. OK, the pitch was hard but the ball just didn’t seem
to get off the surface and had even greater trouble getting past the square. Tea was taken and the thoughts in the Pavilion were
that 93 just wasn’t going to cut the mustard.
Spirits were raised though, by said tea, with T. Smith savouring his first
Brasenose egg sandwich like it was a vintage champagne – and he scored the
sandwich 4.1 out of 5 – a most respected sandwich indeed. Upon resumption of the Match four quick wickets made
The MAD suddenly realise that maybe all was not lost. The first wicket taken
by an amazing forward diving catch by the man with no nickname. JP showed
some serious promise of replacing that other Australian guy (7-0-20-2) and
actually managed to bag a catch early in the game (things do change), and
more than backed up by A. Darley (7-1-14-2) and S. Dobner (7-1-17-2) had the
Nomads reeling on 29-4. In actual fact, we should have fined those three for
having remarkably similar bowling figures. Anyway. The bowlers found that there were just not enough runs
to play with, or not enough dropped catches to play with, and with N. Preddy
(19) scoring at a strike rate of 343 things seemed too far out of reach. Even
with N. Preddy despatched by a screaming catch by some guy with a really good
pair of glasses, the Nomads had J. Whittaker (23 n.o.)
and A. Thompson (17n.o.) to close the game down, winning with three overs and
three wickets to spare.
The MAD
crèche – fine if you like blondes…. A cracking start to the season at Brasenose then, and a
resounding speech from the Skipper post match. We was robbed (not literally). By the way, the kit is up for sale on eBay. ‘Hoskers’
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Statto Scorecards
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Far from the MCC versus Nomads CC Played at Brasenose College, 10 May
2009 Far from the MCC won the toss and
elected to bat Nomads CC won by 4 wkts Far from the MCC debuts: none |
09 / 169 35 over match |
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Team |
Far from the MCC |
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# |
Batsman |
How Out |
Total |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
FOW |
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1 |
D. M. Edwards |
lbw b Hussain |
10 |
(14) |
2 |
- |
1-25 |
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2 |
M. T. Westmoreland * |
b P. Preddy |
5 |
(28) |
- |
- |
2-25 |
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3 |
S. L. P. Dobner |
b Leighfield |
17 |
(45) |
- |
- |
6-64 |
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4 |
J. P. Collins |
st Whitaker b Leighfield |
2 |
(12) |
- |
- |
3-29 |
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5 |
T. P. W. Smith |
b P. Preddy |
3 |
(4) |
- |
- |
4-33 |
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6 |
J. D. Hoskins |
b Thompson |
9 |
(23) |
- |
- |
5-58 |
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7 |
D. Emerson |
b Thompson |
16 |
(21) |
1 |
- |
9-91 |
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8 |
A. Darley |
b N. Preddy |
7 |
(14) |
1 |
- |
7-75 |
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9 |
A. J. Fisher |
c Whitaker b Thompson |
6 |
(10) |
1 |
- |
8-88 |
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10 |
A. M. Mander |
not out |
3 |
(5) |
- |
- |
- |
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11 |
M. Bullock + |
c Cox b Purslow |
1 |
(7) |
- |
- |
10-93 |
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Extras |
(W10, LB4) |
14 |
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TOTAL |
(all out, 30.3 overs) |
93 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
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1 |
Hussain |
5 |
1 |
17 |
1 |
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2 |
P. Preddy |
7 |
1 |
14 |
2 |
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3 |
S. Leighfield |
7 |
0 |
26 |
2 |
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4 |
A. Thomson |
6 |
0 |
18 |
3 |
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5 |
Preddy |
4 |
1 |
12 |
1 |
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6 |
Baldwin |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
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7 |
Purslow |
0.3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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Team |
Nomads CC |
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# |
Batsman |
How Out |
Total |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
FOW |
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1 |
D. Cox |
c Hoskins b Darley |
3 |
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- |
- |
1-7 |
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2 |
M. Purslow |
b Collins |
7 |
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- |
- |
2-18 |
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3 |
J. Thomson |
b Dobner |
3 |
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- |
- |
4-29 |
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4 |
D. Leighfield |
c and b Collins |
0 |
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- |
- |
3-20 |
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5 |
N. Preddy |
c Emerson b Dobner |
19 |
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1 |
1 |
5-44 |
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6 |
M. Baldwin |
b Darley |
2 |
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- |
- |
6-52 |
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7 |
J. Whitaker *+ |
not out |
23 |
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2 |
- |
- |
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8 |
A. Thomson |
not out |
17 |
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1 |
- |
- |
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9 |
M. Hussain |
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10 |
P. Preddy |
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11 |
S. Leighfield |
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Extras |
(W13, LB3, B4) |
20 |
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TOTAL |
(for 6 wickets, 32.2 overs) |
94 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
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1 |
Collins |
7 |
0 |
20 |
2 |
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2 |
Darley |
7 |
1 |
14 |
2 |
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3 |
Dobner |
7 |
1 |
17 |
2 |
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4 |
Emerson |
5 |
0 |
21 |
0 |
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5 |
Hoskins |
6.2 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
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MOTM: S. L. P. Dobner Champagne Moment: D. Emerson’s sprawling
catch Buffet
Award: D. Emerson’s NZ lamb roast (with
mint sauce and sautéed mash) |
Opposition:
V022 / 07 Ground: G040 / 01 Captain: C011 / 05 |