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“A Little White Ball

 

 

Match:  14 / 316

Lost by 7 wkts

 

 

Team

 

Total

FFTMCC

113 - 5

I. Howarth  51*,  R. Turner  25

 

Wootton & Boars Hill CC

116 - 3

J. Hoskins  3 - 27

 

 

 

 

Once upon a time there was a little white ball, little white ball. Very sad because he was a little white ball, little white ball. Getting dispatched to all parts of the ground was a little white ball, little white ball.

 

Try as I might, I can’t draw parallels between Tommy Steele’s bittersweet homage to a brave little white bull, trying to overcome the prejudices of a black bull dominated sport in 1950’s Spain and the FFTMCC visit to long time opponents Wootton and Boars Hill. The white bull did eventually triumph to become one of the best little bull’s in Spain, although without digging deeper this would appear to be akin to being one of the bravest little turkeys in Norfolk in the run up to Christmas.

 

To draw a line under a rather tenuous link, the game was conducted with a white ball and no bulls were harmed in what was a pleasant contest.

 

 

 

Duck watches Emerson and Westmoreland open up for a combined total of 2 runs.

 

 

Stand in T20 skipper D Emerson (2) lost the toss, but was not unhappy in being asked to bat first. Doing as any fine skipper does and placing his trust in himself, he opened the batting with Westmoreland (0). Along with Smith (1) they got off to a dreadful start and at 9 for 3 after 6 overs if it had been a boxing match it may well have been stopped at this point. W&BH mixed up the bowling using nine different bowlers to keep the scorers very busy. R Turner (25 off 41 balls) came in to steady the ship, who along with our schizophrenic number 5, took the score to 34.

 

Here is our number five’s innings in full: Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, Geoff, George, George, Geoff, Geoff, George, Geoff (10).

 

The revelation of the innings was Howarth (51 n.o. off 32 balls) who, after a ropey start really got stuck in to the assorted bowling. Four sixes, including a monster into adjacent gardens equals his own MAD record.  It was a tonic for those watching to finally see a Mad batsman find the middle of the bat and points hopefully to better things to come this season. He was very ably assisted by Hotson (8 n.o off 5 balls) who demonstrated some really nice strokeplay including a cracking 4 off his first ball.

 

 

 

“Nice one, Spam – good slog.”

 

 

113 was considered a decent total which should ensure a pleasant contest in the warm evening sunshine. High points were that we batted through and that Pearson remembered we had a game this evening.

 

Reeves (3-0-19-0) and Roberts (4-0-28-0) opened the bowling. Neither bowled badly, but were really little match for the W&BH openers who were intent on going for everything on or off the stumps. Emerson tried manfully to muster his troops, experimenting with several variations of field placings, but the openers continued to find gaps and the score raced along. Smith (1-0-17-0) and Pearson (1-0-9-0) fared no better than the openers and again the white towel was readied. Only Hoskins (4-0-27-3) really asked any questions of the batsmen. One of those questions was ‘do we have someone at cow corner who can catch?’ The answer was ‘yes’, as Roberts took a good one at chest height which had come to him flat and fast.

 

 

 

Edge of your seat stuff….

 

 

Finally Howarth (1-0-8-0) and Emerson (2-0-15-0) confirmed that 7-8 runs per over was there for the taking as W&BH glided to their total to win by 7 wickets. It was then handshakes all round and a beer or two as the sun went down.

 

 

‘Reevsie’

 

 

 

 

 

*

 

 

Statto Scorecards

 

 

 

Far from the MCC versus Wootton & Boars Hill CC

Played at Wootton & Boars Hill CC, 14 May 2014

 

Wootton & Boars Hill CC won the toss and elected to field

Wootton & Boars Hill CC won by 7 wkts

 

Far from the MCC debuts:  none

 

 

14 / 316

 

 

 

 

 

20 over match

 

 

 

Team

Far from the MCC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#

 

Batsman

How Out

Total

Balls

4s

6s

FOW

1

D. Emerson *

b Newton

2

(5)

-

-

1-2

2

M. T. Westmoreland

b Taylor

0

(2)

-

-

2-2

3

R. P. Turner

lbw b S. Morton

25

(41)

2

-

5-74

4

T. P. W. Smith

c and b Taylor

1

(9)

-

-

3-6

5

G. Carter

lbw b Charman

10

(26)

2

-

4-34

6

I. Howarth

not out

51

(32)

3

4

-

7

J. C. W. Hotson +

not out

8

(5)

1

-

-

8

M. K. Reeves

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

J. D. Hoskins

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

J. W. Pearson

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

C. D. Roberts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

(W11, LB3, B2)

16

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

(for 5 wickets, 20 overs)

113

 

 

 

 

 

 

#

 

Bowler

Overs

Maidens

Runs

Wkts

 

1

A. Newton

3

0

16

1

 

2

Taylor

2

0

2

2

 

3

Parker

3

0

18

0

 

4

King

4

0

30

0

 

5

Collins

1

0

7

0

 

6

Wiskin

2

0

7

0

 

7

Charman

2

1

7

1

 

8

O. Morton

1

0

9

0

 

9

S. Morton

2

0

11

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Team

Wootton & Boars Hill CC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#

 

Batsman

How Out

Total

Balls

4s

6s

FOW

1

M. Taylor

c Roberts b Hoskins

36

 

 

 

 

2

N. Collins

retired

40

 

 

 

 

3

S. Morton

retired

24

 

 

 

 

4

W. Morton +

b Hoskins

6

 

 

 

 

5

M. Charman *

b Hoskins

0

 

 

 

 

6

A. Newton

not out

4

 

 

 

 

7

C. King

not out

0

 

 

 

 

8

M. Wiskin

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

D. Parker

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

O. Morton

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

M. Leech

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

(NB1, W2, LB2, B1)

6

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

(for 3 wickets, 16 overs)

116

 

 

 

 

 

 

#

 

Bowler

Overs

Maidens

Runs

Wkts

 

1

Reeves

3

0

19

0

 

2

Roberts

4

0

28

0

 

3

Smith

1

0

17

0

 

4

Pearson

1

0

9

0

 

5

Howarth

1

0

8

0

 

6

Hoskins

4

0

27

3

 

7

Emerson

2

0

15

0

 

 

 

 

 

MOTM:  I. Howarth

Champagne Moment:  I. Howarth straight six to bring up his fifty (to no applause)

Buffet Award:  T. P. W. Smith’s short crust vegetarian pasties (with salad sides)

 

 

Opposition:  V039 / 13

Ground:  G017 / 09

Captain:  C018 / 05