“Pub Rules”
Match: 18
/ 458
Lost
by 18 runs
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Team |
Total |
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Headington Quarry
CC |
150 - 6 |
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J. Pearson
1 - 15 |
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FFTMCC |
132 - 6 |
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I. Howarth
30*, J. Pearson 22* |
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“The Quarry” have been around
a good few years, since when they played on a council rec near Headington
Quarry (funnily enough). Many of their players have been around a while too,
and if you ask them politely they’ll say they all got pissed in the Masons
Arms before and after games and can’t remember anything else. They’re nomadic now,
much akin to the Far from the MCC and the similarities don’t end there. They
were a pub team, are still regarded as a pub team and many of their players
are also pissheads too. So how come it took so long to finally agree a
fixture between Oxfordshire’s two premier pub teams? No idea, so maybe let it
marinate into something wonderful? But like other new fixtures this year,
Fixture Secretary Ian Howarth has no recollection and simply says he stole
their contacts off other clubs (probably true), which is a bit like saying he
can’t be arsed to go back and read through his fucking emails (is true).
On another glorious
summer’s evening in what had already been a glorious June, The Quarry (or HQ depending
on your bent), won the toss and had a good bloody thrash. McIntyre (37 ret)
had already given The MAD a pasting for Wolvercote, but here the imposing
South African played out a maiden (Rundle 3-1-15-0) to extend his innings a
little further before another brutal retirement. On walking out to bat, his
partner Tim Bailey (25) was repeatedly informed by ten elevenths of The MAD
field “I know you, you’re that chappy from the
Jude.” Indeed, he is and being the landlord of said drinking establishment
people will have met him, though probably through beer goggles at the time,
but met him nonetheless. Whether Tim knows the history of our club isn’t
known, but we were formed at his pub back in 1998, so playing cricket against
another pub team whose opening batsman is really one of ours is all the
weirder. He’s pretty good too, hitting some shite from Howarth (2-0-19-0) in
a most pleasing style. Nice bloke as well, one for tapping up there then…. The HQ innings slipped
nicely into top gear with hitting down the order by Todd (24) and Nightingale
(30 ret), the latter’s innings constituting only 12 balls, mostly shite
thrown at him by Chairman Bullock (2-0-31-0). Other non-contributors to a
more than handy total of 150 were forty odd blokes (slight exaggeration) all
called Matthews (A, K, S & C), who if they were Cornish would probably be
inbred, but we don’t think they were or at least they didn’t have that
backward accent, so we think them exempt. The interval consisted
of drinking cans of beer and admiring the weather, then chests puffed out
claiming one pub team better than the other.
Epic opening stanza to be preformed by Williams
and Turner. The MAD reply began in
earnest with Timms wasting a Fantasy Joker on the combined incompetence of
Turner (1), Williams (0) and Hotson (0). It was William’s first MAD duck and
one to cherish sporting as he did his new MAD shirt (“Renon”). Howarth was
then joined at the crease by Hoskins (12), whose enterprising cameo also
consisted of a dot ball hit all the way to a metre of the boundary, with the
two clowns meeting in the middle to discuss the excellence of the shot and
returning whence they’d come. Mr Bullock arrived soon
after by stipulating he was retiring from the game for good should he get a
duck. He didn’t get a duck and in fact hit three sublime boundaries in his cavalier
19, thus ensuring he remains on the skipper’s email availability list. This list
doesn’t ensure his availability but is vastly different from being on the not-available-fucked-off-retired
list. So good news there then. With Howarth (30 ret)
successfully protecting his average, Emerson didn’t (11), before Pearson
(22*) and Webster (15*) did. Alas, the available balls to twat had dwindled
to nought and thus the game was over.
Emerson twists his foot backwards to smack a ball
somewhere. In summary, an excellent
game played in excellent spirit where the pub team with no ground and several
pissheads beat the pub team with no ground and several pissheads. Hopefully,
a fruitful relationship between these merry bands of pub regulars will endure
for seasons to come. Hot off the press: HQCC
may well have acquired their own ground and maybe moving to Wootton (past
Woodstock). This particular ground just so happens to be the original ground
where Wootton & Bladon were evicted back in 2005. How coincidental on a
very coincidental day. ‘Retiree’
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Statto Scorecards
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Far from the MCC versus Headington
Quarry CC Played at Brasenose College, 26 June
2018 Headington Quarry
CC won the toss and elected to bat Headington Quarry CC won by 18 runs Far from the MCC debuts: none |
18 / 458 20 over match |
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Team |
Headington Quarry
CC |
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# |
Batsman |
How Out |
Total |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
FOW |
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1 |
T. McIntyre † |
retired |
37 |
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7 |
- |
- |
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2 |
T. Bailey |
c Pearson b Webster |
25 |
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5 |
- |
1-62 |
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3 |
A. Matthews |
run out (Webster) |
14 |
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2 |
- |
3-92 |
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4 |
K. Matthews |
b Emerson |
6 |
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1 |
- |
2-77 |
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5 |
M. Todd |
run out (Timms) |
24 |
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2 |
1 |
4-138 |
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6 |
A. Nightingale |
retired |
30 |
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5 |
1 |
- |
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7 |
J. Newman |
st Hotson b Timms |
0 |
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- |
- |
5-145 |
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8 |
J. Betts |
not out |
3 |
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- |
- |
- |
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9 |
S. Matthews |
c Turner b Pearson |
3 |
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- |
- |
6-150 |
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10 |
S. Warner |
not out |
0 |
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- |
- |
- |
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11 |
C. Matthews |
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Extras |
W5, LB1, B2 |
8 |
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TOTAL |
(for 6 wickets, 20 overs) |
150 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
Econ |
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1 |
Rundle |
3 |
1 |
15 |
0 |
5.00 |
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2 |
Pearson |
3 |
0 |
15 |
1 |
5.00 |
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3 |
Howarth |
2 |
0 |
19 |
0 |
9.50 |
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4 |
Webster |
3 |
0 |
24 |
1 |
8.00 |
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5 |
Emerson |
3 |
0 |
24 |
1 |
8.00 |
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6 |
Timms |
4 |
0 |
22 |
1 |
5.50 |
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7 |
Bullock |
2 |
0 |
33 |
0 |
16.50 |
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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 |
R. P. Turner |
b Nightingale |
1 |
(10) |
- |
- |
2-2 |
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2 |
C. T. J. Williams |
b Warner |
0 |
(2) |
- |
- |
1-1 |
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3 |
J. C. W. Hotson † |
b Warner |
0 |
(2) |
- |
- |
3-2 |
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4 |
J. D. Hoskins |
b Todd |
12 |
(16) |
1 |
- |
4-42 |
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5 |
I. Howarth |
retired |
30 |
(30) |
4 |
- |
- |
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6 |
M. Bullock |
lbw b S. Matthews |
19 |
(21) |
3 |
- |
5-72 |
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7 |
D. Emerson |
run out (Todd/McKintyre) |
11 |
(9) |
1 |
- |
6-96 |
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8 |
J. W. Pearson * |
not out |
22 |
(21) |
2 |
- |
- |
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9 |
J. vdG. Webster |
not out |
15 |
(12) |
1 |
- |
- |
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10 |
G. J. Timms |
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11 |
M. S. Rundle |
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Extras |
NB3, W9, LB1, B9 |
22 |
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TOTAL |
(for 6 wickets, 20 overs) |
132 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
Econ |
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1 |
Warner |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0.50 |
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2 |
Nightingale |
2 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
3.00 |
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3 |
C. Matthews |
4 |
0 |
34 |
0 |
8.50 |
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4 |
Todd |
2 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
4.00 |
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5 |
Newman |
2 |
0 |
16 |
0 |
8.00 |
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6 |
S. Matthews |
2 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
4.00 |
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7 |
Betts |
2 |
0 |
15 |
0 |
7.50 |
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8 |
K. Matthews |
2 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
8.50 |
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9 |
A. Matthews |
2 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
8.50 |
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Note: I. Howarth retired at
90-5 (14.0 overs) |
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MOTM: I. Howarth Champagne Moment: G. J. Timms’ direct run
out from fine leg Buffet
Award: M. Bullock’s real ale pie
(home cooked extra veg) MAD
Moment: I. Howarth & J. D. Hoskins dot ball hit to the boundary |
Opposition:
V101 / 01 Ground: G040 / 066 Captain: C021 / 10 Match No: 20 / 116 |