“On
Reflection”
Match: 12
/ 278
Lost
by 7 Wkts
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Team |
Total |
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FFTMCC |
91 |
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D. Shorten 29 |
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Isis CC |
92 - 3 |
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T. Smith 1 - 9 |
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Shadows slowly
lengthened as a group of FFTMCC players sat idly about the boundary in the early
evening sun. Draining cans of beer and cider, they watched the opposition
indulge themselves in some sort of a pairs contest to flesh out their day. It
would have been infinitely more interesting for all involved if The MAD had
accepted an offer to join them, but an earlier dicking on the back of a
season of dickings and morale sapping rain put paid to that. As it was, this self-championed
pub team with no pub, simply contented themselves to sit on their arses
making pithy comments and welcome in seven months of inactivity.
A glimpse into The MAD future? Deputy Dob(ner) eventually roused himself from his fold back chair,
thanked his team for another inept showing and began his trek back to the
Land of the White Stiletto. Remaining members stuffed kit into muddled bags,
said their farewells and would soon be gone also. Was that really it? The end of a season that never really got started?
It would appear so. Fuck. Cancelled games on a
Sunday would now be replaced by mundane family activities and mind-numbing
shopping trips with the missus. Seven long, dark and interminably
unstructured months wistfully dreaming about weekends of team camaraderie and
the noise of bat on ball….
Stanton St. John – home to pink scoreboards and
Cairns Fudge CC. Earlier in the day a
successful coin toss allowed Mr Dobner the luxury of choosing his team’s
fate. Bat first on an ugly abandoned airstrip before it really went to shit.
Astute thinking, albeit undermined by an innings of such rubbish that it’s
barely deserving of a paragraph. Messrs Pearson and Turner filled the breach
at the top of the order with Russ (5) taking full advantage by lobbing the
ball straight back to bowler N. Wyatt (6.4-1-15-4). James would then be
joined by Howarth and together they moved the score along to 30 before the
wheels well and truly fell off The MAD bandwagon. Howarth’s (11) wholly
underwhelming season ended with a turd of a shot to mid-off, whilst James’
(14) wholly underwhelming season ended with a turd of a shot to cover. Dobner
(5), Bullock (5) and Emerson (0) all fell to the innocuous spin of K. Whiter
(4-1-12-3), whereas T. P. W. Smith (4) flew in the face of fashion by smearing
at the other end.
D. Shorten (29) enjoying some end of season form. That the whole day
wasn’t a complete waste of everyone’s time and petrol was solely down to the
robust tonking of Dave Shorten. Perhaps mindful of not thinking about what he
was doing, Dave (29) instead chose to dream about climbing French mountains,
appearing on TV reality shows and making the best raspberry jam this side of
Mr. Robinson’s jam factory. Throwing his bat at anything on a length or off a
length, he temporarily lifted the gloom before his inevitable stumping. This
all left the festival addled Hotson (2) and perennial number eleven Bob
Roberts (5) to leave G. Timms (5*) stranded with the score on 91. Garbage.
G. Timms hits out in scoring the joint fourth
highest score of 5. During
a laidback and convivial tea break, the slightly dilapidated clubhouse of
Stanton St. John threw up some familiar faces from the past. In one wonky
exhibit a sepia tinged Lee Davie and Simon Dickins stared out, leaving you ponder
what they would have made of The MAD’s batting on this day. Probably not a lot,
and who the hell was that team they were playing for back in the day? More
to the point, who was the pretty blonde who did the scoring for them? Where
is she now? And has she a daughter and does she score?
Lee Davie (bottom second from left), Simon
Dickens (top third from left). On
resumption, Emerson (4-2-16-0) and Shorten (4-1-14-0) bowled with vim and
vigour, however the pugnacious W. Green (53) held firm, this despite balls
bouncing over his stumps, wide of his stumps and through his stumps. After failures
from O. Walter (6) and P. Jacobs (9), his cavalier and game-tilting knock
whacked the stuffing out of any thoughts of a dramatic comeback, leaving The
MAD once again were to wonder what might have been. Timms (7-0-20-0)
continued to flourish in the absence of Hoskins’ pie, Roberts (4-0-25-1)
displayed a newly found confidence and Smith (2.1-0-9-0) was the Spitfire
that would bring down Green’s Hurricane (lbw – plumb). All, all to no avail. There
have been highs, there have been lows and in fact there have been subterranean
lows, but as always we take amusing memories with us. We look forward in
earnest to a far drier 2013. ‘Spam’
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*
Statto
Scorecards
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Far from the MCC versus Isis CC Played at Stanton St. John, 9
September 2012 Far from the MCC won the toss and elected
to bat Isis CC won by 7 wickets Far from the MCC debuts:
none |
12 / 278 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 |
J. W. Pearson |
c O. Walter b Gregory |
14 |
(29) |
- |
- |
3-35 |
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2 |
R. P. Turner |
c and b Wyatt |
5 |
(8) |
- |
- |
1-12 |
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3 |
I. Howarth |
c O. Walter b Wyatt |
11 |
(23) |
1 |
- |
2-30 |
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4 |
S. L. P. Dobner * |
b Whiter |
5 |
(11) |
1 |
- |
4-37 |
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5 |
M. Bullock |
b Whiter |
5 |
(8) |
- |
- |
6-41 |
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6 |
D. Emerson |
b Whiter |
0 |
(3) |
- |
- |
5-37 |
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7 |
T. P. W. Smith |
b Gregory |
4 |
(18) |
- |
- |
7-51 |
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8 |
D. Shorten |
st Jacobs b Ponsford |
29 |
(38) |
3 |
1 |
8-81 |
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9 |
J. C. W. Hotson + |
b Wyatt |
2 |
(13) |
- |
- |
9-81 |
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10 |
G. J. Timms |
not out |
5 |
(9) |
1 |
- |
- |
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11 |
C. D. Roberts |
c J. Walter b Wyatt |
5 |
(6) |
- |
- |
10-91 |
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Extras |
(NB1, W4, B1) |
6 |
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TOTAL |
(all out, 27.4 overs) |
91 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
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1 |
Mohammed |
5 |
1 |
21 |
0 |
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2 |
Wyatt |
6.4 |
1 |
15 |
4 |
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3 |
Whiter |
4 |
1 |
12 |
3 |
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4 |
Gregory |
4 |
0 |
10 |
2 |
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5 |
Ponsford |
5 |
3 |
14 |
1 |
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6 |
J. Walter |
3 |
0 |
18 |
0 |
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Team |
Isis CC |
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# |
Batsman |
How Out |
Total |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
FOW |
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1 |
O. Walter * |
c Howarth b Roberts |
6 |
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- |
- |
1-36 |
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2 |
W. Green |
lbw b Smith |
53 |
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5 |
2 |
2-79 |
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3 |
P. Jacobs + |
c Bullock b Timms |
9 |
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- |
- |
3-85 |
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4 |
R. Kella |
not out |
8 |
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1 |
- |
- |
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5 |
J. Walter |
not out |
1 |
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- |
- |
- |
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6 |
K. H. Whiter |
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7 |
R. Blatchford |
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8 |
A. Mohammed |
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9 |
P. Gregory |
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10 |
N. H. R. Wyatt |
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11 |
K. Ponsford |
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Extras |
(W7, B8) |
15 |
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TOTAL |
(for 3 wickets, 21.1 overs) |
92 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
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1 |
Emerson |
4 |
2 |
16 |
0 |
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2 |
Shorten |
4 |
1 |
14 |
0 |
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3 |
Timms |
7 |
0 |
20 |
1 |
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4 |
Roberts |
4 |
0 |
25 |
1 |
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5 |
Smith |
2.1 |
0 |
9 |
1 |
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MOTM: G. J. Timms Champagne Moment: M. Bullock’s reflex
slip-catch Buffet
Award: C. D. Roberts’ apple tart (with
lashings of Cornish clotted cream) |
Opposition:
V009 / 10 Ground: G009 / 03 Captain: C008 / 13 |