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“Twelve Overs for Minehead

 

 

Match:  17 / 434

Match Abandoned

 

 

Team

 

Total

Iffley Village CC

53 - 2

M. Rundle  1 - 12

 

FFTMCC

 

 

 

 

With time of a premium to showcase ones skills and book a place on the 2017 Tour, misgivings about the weather were brushed to one side, if not quite off the table. Whilst Captain Turner and Fixture Executive Howarth are believers in the BBC weathermen people, Sunday Skipper Timms is not. “I have no idea how many times I have to tell people not to look at the BBC.” Whichever app or website holds your stock, the publicly funded behemoth’s assertion was for rain to sweep in sometime after 6pm and then drop The Full Monty by 7.

 

 

 

 

Nine to five jobs are alien to The MAD, they are the reserve of the opposition and or Dolly Parton, henceforth the debate over starting T20s earlier. This pointless discussion at the Whitehouse Pub was held by sages Timms, Ainsworth and (once again) Howarth, all seemingly oblivious to the fact the Far from the MCC would end up playing a team consisting of three or four and therefore conceding the toss (the opponent would bat first).

 

Sat in the elements, it would then rain a little, it would then stop, and then some West Indian guy would trot over to the table to adjust his wedding tackle whilst seven sheets to the wind.

 

Clubman Turner possesses a coin of mystical nay legendary prowess. It features a head and a tail, and “tails never fails”. Very true Russ, but only of any consequence if you are the individual calling the tune. Iffley went tails and Iffley chose to bat.

 

Immediately securing their places on the tour bus, Reeves (4-0-11-0) and Rundle (4-0-12-1) were metronomic in their line and length, and the only real point of discussion was the disappearance of Psycho’s bowling ball from under his shirt and whether he’d undergone a gastric belt.

 

Pouncing in the covers, the ageless Nick Hill threw down the stumps to prove he was ready for the off, alas the bombshell being he was bound for Bologna and Italy, not the hills and seas of Minehead. With the weight drained Rundle imposter knocking back Meier for a blob (Brundle, if you believe the scorebook, and maybe we do), Iffley were wobbling on a rather soggy 20-2.

 

 

 

 

With the skies darkening and air becoming moist, Timms and Williams completed an over apiece before moist became wet. This presented an opportune moment to prove ones fitness before the selectors, sprinting for the covers and pushing their not inconsiderable weight. Securing further places on the bus would come Ainsworth, Howarth and Westmoreland, the latter discarding his cotton wool and dutifully avoiding any hamstring tear.

 

Huddled under the pavilion eaves and surveying the prophecies of the BBC, Turner would have half an ear to Soothsayer Timms’ latest climate ramblings. “It’s a fluke, these BBC peeps never get anything right, see… it’s stopping now!” Time enough to go back out, and time enough for Timms (2-0-12-0) to avoid econ and Williams (2-0-16-0) to avoid killing someone with a slippery beamer. But for their sheer willingness to go back out there and throw a few down, their places are secured, as were those for Hotson’s mud diving heroics behind the timber and Turner’s decision to field four yards from the bat whilst sacrificing his fingers.

 

 

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Out on a limb.

 

 

With the newly installed Brasenose power showers offering another good soak, albeit a warm one, hands were shaken and the match called off. A decision in the interest of everyone, bar one. Since turning his back on his native homeland, Kolpak Vermaak’s bank balance has benefitted from the instant rewards of playing for The MAD, but his contract stipulated touring was based on solely on performance. Opportunity is a wonderful thing, Corne.

 

Dolefully he clambered back into his leathers before biking back off to Abingdon. However a nickname is born.

 

 

‘A. Tourist’

 

 

 

 

 

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Statto Scorecards

 

 

 

Far from the MCC versus Iffley Village CC

Played at Brasenose College, 28 July 2017

 

Iffley Village CC won the toss and elected to bat

Match Abandoned

 

Far from the MCC debuts:  none

 

 

17 / 434

 

 

 

 

 

20 over match

 

 

 

Team

Iffley Village CC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#

 

Batsman

How Out

Total

Balls

4s

6s

FOW

1

G. D. Ellis

not out

20

 

2

-

-

2

A. W. Meier

run out (Hill)

11

 

-

-

1-20

3

R. G. D. Berry

b Rundle

0

 

-

-

2-20

4

B. Davis *

not out

17

 

2

-

-

5

A. Winter

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

A. W. Smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

A. J. Troth

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

W. V. P. Taylor

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

F. Scheerer

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

A. Harding

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

T. M. Ellis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

NB1, W2, LB1, B1

5

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

(for 2 wickets, 12 overs)

53

 

 

 

 

 

 

#

 

Bowler

Overs

Maidens

Runs

Wkts

Econ

 

1

Reeves

4

0

11

0

2.75

 

2

Rundle

4

0

12

1

3.00

 

3

Timms

2

0

12

0

6.00

 

4

Williams

2

0

16

0

8.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Team

Far from the MCC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#

 

Batsman

How Out

Total

Balls

4s

6s

FOW

1

R. P. Turner *

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

M. T. Westmoreland

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

N. S. Hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

L. G. Ainsworth

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

C. T .J. Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

C. J. Vermaak

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

I. Howarth

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

M. K. Reeves

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

M. S. Rundle

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

G. J. Timms

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

J. C. W. Hotson †

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL

 

 

 

 

 

 

#

 

Bowler

Overs

Maidens

Runs

Wkts

Econ

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOTM:  M. S. Rundle

Champagne Moment:  N. Hill’s direct run out in the covers

Buffet Award:  C. T. J. Williams’ venison steak with blackberry and sloe gin sauce

MAD Moment:  n/a

 

 

Opposition:  V094 / 02

Ground:  G040 / 60

Captain:  C024 / 14

Match No:  20 / 107