“Calypso Festival”
Match: 20
/ 516
Lost
by 50 runs
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Team |
Total |
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Freeland CC |
174 - 5 |
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J. Harris
2 - 59 |
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FFTMCC |
124 |
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J. Harris
26 |
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Freeland is a village in
West Oxford that broke away from Eynsham following a vicious separatist battle
in the swinging eighties. Scores of locals were slain in a brutal bloodbath,
with the dead cremated at the only pub in the village namely the Oxford
Yeoman, its name derived from the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars and
champion pissheads of the day. It is a scenic and
dreamy little area where a gothic church and an expansive garden centre fight
for your attention, and also where PM David Cameron
opened up the newly built village hall whilst promising freedom from Brussels.
This impressive and sympathetic structure flanks the village sports field
whilst doubling as a perfect pavilion for the cricket. The only bug in the
spittle being its status as closed due to the pandemic, save for a crapper round the side.
The MAD of course have
travelled here before in 2017, being apologetically shit
with the bat save for that guy who tortured his nanny to death whilst gouging
out her eyeballs. Here in 2020, they would be even shitter, save for another
guy who disappeared for an even longer period of time
than the aforementioned British Peer. Winning the toss and
having first crack, Freeland left their main artillery down the order
allowing Messrs Reeves (7-4-13-1) and Rundle (7-2-13-0) to go unplundered as the home team nudged their way to not a
lot off plenty of overs. With Brown (27) and the obdurate Bardmas
(24) eventually falling these ominous guns were silent no more.
Darley and Harris in action. Mr Harris (7-0-59-2)
whiled away whilst only concerned only about his wicket column, as Howe (52*)
launched one galactically that made a most pleasing succession of noises as
it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere, zinging off a house roof to guttering to
shed to wheelbarrow and then to god knows where. Timms (3-0-22-1) was
rewarded for finally bowling one straight, Darley (7-1-32-0) returned to
mixed fortune and Howarth (4-0-23-1) did himself no harm by spearing only one
beamer at a batsman’s head. 174-5 and the combined MAD thinking was “we’ll
take that.” The Tintin tin did its
rounds during the tea interval as flapjacks were doled out to the starving as
Jake ate some leaves. With Carter and Williams stumbling back into view from
their non-playing pub crawl that took in the Oxford Yeoman and a garage
off-licence, there was barely time to moan about fresh lockdowns and a spike
in coronavirus cases.
Howarth tumbles over as Jake tries to catch him. Suitably refreshed and
invigorated, The MAD set about their run chase like a bunch of pricks.
Pearson (3) was the first to go, though he did three times better than
Hadfield and Howarth (who scored 1 apiece), the latter caught by some
wonderful glovesmanship by Rendell stood up to the timber. Hotson (9) looked okay
before chipping one to mid off before Turner (14) fell
to the glaringly obvious 11-card village trick. This consists of the bowler
(M Buckingham) bowling a bunch of wank, wides and no
balls before delivering his final ball unerringly on the base of off stump.
The outcome is howls of laughter and derision around the ground as said
batsman finally extricates himself from the crease after an extended show of
petulance and peek.
Mr Brown (giggling) consoles Mr Turner. At 57-5, The MAD could
easily have capitulated to something utterly forgettable due to so many other
capitulations in recent times, but were marshalled
to something vaguely acceptable by Harris’ impressive 26 and contributions of
11 and 13 from Timms and Reeves. Darley threatened (8) but rarely delivers,
leaving Bullock (2) exposed above his natural position of #13 and Rundle
popping his knee with a majestic if painful 5 not out. Margin of defeat a
half a century or a twentieth of a millennium depending on your calculation. Make no mistake, this
was another great game of cricket to warm the soul, with excellent spirit and
banter throughout. The teams would then decamp back to the Yeoman to ogle the
bar ladies through the now obligatory Perspex glass, with The MAD celebrating
John Harris’ hogging of the game.
Clouds above the ground because JMO loves some
good clouds and these were jolly good clouds. Our thanks to Simon
Brown in helping to organise the occasion at such short notice and to deliver
on his WhatsApp promise to deliver things on such short notice. We will most
definitely return. ‘Carry Bean’
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Statto Scorecards
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Far from the MCC versus Freeland CC Played at Freeland, 2 August 2020 Freeland CC won the toss and elected
to bat Freeland CC won by 50 runs Far from the MCC debuts: n/a |
20 / 516 35 over match |
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Team |
Freeland CC |
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# |
Batsman |
How Out |
Total |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
FOW |
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1 |
S. Brown |
b Harris |
27 |
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3 |
- |
2-58 |
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2 |
W. Grundy |
b Reeves |
1 |
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- |
- |
1-12 |
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3 |
L. Bardmas |
b Timms |
24 |
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4 |
- |
3-84 |
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4 |
R. Howe |
not out |
52 |
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6 |
1 |
- |
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5 |
J. Buckingham |
c Hadfield b Harris |
10 |
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1 |
1 |
4-89 |
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6 |
M. Buckingham |
c Pearson b Howarth |
37 |
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4 |
1 |
5-154 |
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7 |
B. Rendell * † |
not out |
7 |
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- |
- |
- |
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8 |
A. Marks |
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9 |
C. Todd |
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10 |
M. Williams |
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11 |
J. Lonsdale |
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Extras |
NB1, W1, LB1, B13 |
16 |
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TOTAL |
(for 5 wickets, 35 overs) |
174 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
Econ |
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1 |
Reeves |
7 |
4 |
13 |
1 |
1.86 |
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2 |
Darley |
7 |
1 |
32 |
0 |
4.57 |
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3 |
Rundle |
7 |
2 |
13 |
0 |
1.86 |
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4 |
Harris |
7 |
0 |
59 |
2 |
8.43 |
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5 |
Timms |
3 |
0 |
22 |
1 |
7.33 |
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6 |
Howarth |
4 |
0 |
23 |
1 |
5.75 |
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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 M. Buckingham b Brown |
3 |
(14) |
- |
- |
2-4 |
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2 |
R. J. T. Hadfield |
b Brown |
1 |
(12) |
- |
- |
1-3 |
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3 |
R. P. Turner |
b M. Buckingham |
14 |
(30) |
1 |
- |
5-57 |
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4 |
I. Howarth |
c Rendell b Lonsdale |
1 |
(5) |
- |
- |
3-6 |
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5 |
J. C. W. Hotson |
c M. Buckingham b Lonsdale |
9 |
(22) |
- |
- |
4-31 |
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6 |
J. Harris |
b M. Buckingham |
26 |
(31) |
4 |
- |
6-73 |
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7 |
G. J. Timms * |
b Todd |
11 |
(25) |
- |
- |
7-97 |
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8 |
M. K. Reeves |
c Brown b Todd |
13 |
(23) |
2 |
- |
8-106 |
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9 |
A. Darley |
b Todd |
8 |
(8) |
1 |
- |
9-118 |
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10 |
M. S. Rundle |
not out |
5 |
(8) |
1 |
- |
- |
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11 |
M. Bullock † |
c M. Buckingham b Todd |
2 |
(9) |
- |
- |
10-124 |
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Extras |
NB4, W16, LB2, B9 |
31 |
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TOTAL |
(all out, 30.3 overs) |
124 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
Econ |
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1 |
Brown |
3 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0.33 |
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2 |
J. Buckingham |
3 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
1.67 |
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3 |
Lonsdale |
7 |
0 |
29 |
2 |
4.14 |
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4 |
Marks |
4 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
4.25 |
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5 |
M. Buckingham |
7 |
1 |
31 |
2 |
4.43 |
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6 |
Todd |
5.3 |
0 |
26 |
4 |
4.73 |
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7 |
Boardman |
1 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
5.00 |
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MOTM: J. Harris Champagne Moment: J. Harris wicket bowled
Buffet
Award: J. Harris’ Calypso chilli
(extra broth and cilantro) MAD
Moment: R. P. Turner’s massive cob at
the 11-card bowling trick |
Opposition:
V092 / 02 Ground: G083 / 02 Captain: C022 / 92 Match No: 35 / 184 |