“A Nod to the Past, A Nod to the Future”
Match: 19
/ 476
Lost
by 83 runs
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Team |
Total |
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Cublington CC |
207 - 3 |
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G. J. Timms
1 - 24, A. Darley 1 - 27 |
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FFTMCC |
124 |
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C. D. Roberts 20 |
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Having swerved playing
any cricket over a beautiful Bank Holiday weekend, The MAD ventured north
with temperatures and spirits now guillotined in half. Cublington is a village
nearer to Oslo than Oxford, but being a wholly bucolic experience, who really
gave a shit? Certainly not those that sponged a lift this Sunday gone. For the historians
amongst us, the place itself was recorded in the Doomsday book of 1086 as
Coblincote, and whether The Unicorn was the lone pub back then is anyone’s
guess. What is a definite is that it would not have returned any feedback
from a website called entitled fixtures dot com. The pub itself is
synonymous with a beguiling young bar lady straight off the Paris catwalk and
long hanging beams which sadly killed Tall Bob Roberts. There are also news
cuttings and scorecards framed in the toilets which detail a cricket match
played out in the mid nineteenth century between today’s opposition and
another team not remembered. Those were the days where every other ball had
your name on it on a track more suited to motocross than cricket, so the
cards are mostly binary with extras the dominant contributor. Not unlike the
early days of The Jude then.
The last footage of Bob before his untimely
demise. A short trip after a
pre-match pint (or two) found an elevated ground cut amongst some towering
trees, monied houses and patchwork fields rolling off into a sentimental
distance. One could only imagine how enchanting this place would be a on hot
summer’s day. A day such as the one on the last Bank Holiday Sunday when sod
all happened then. Captain Timms would
routinely win the toss and the opposition would be routinely put into bat,
thus ensuring the game lasted beyond the tea interval. The MAD bowling was as
keen as ever, with Darley (7-0-27-1) and Roberts (7-0-45-1) both reasonable,
with Reeves (6-0-23-0) in a supporting
role probably the pick after deciding he’d rather concentrate on playing
cricket than retire around the world most weeks whilst bitching about a lack
of social interaction. The home team total of 207-3
was constructed around opener Vilatakis’ 101 not
out. After the unpronounceable Aussie rode his luck earlier in his innings,
he settled back to play an increasingly mature knock which included hitting
Hoskins (6-0-46-0) into Oslo on a few occasions. Able support came from
keeper and captain fantastic Gordon-Stuart (64), who although containing way
more letters in his name than everyone else, at least could be pronounced
without the need of several off-field conferrals. Timms would eventually buy
his wicket (1-24) out in the deep, whilst Vermaak also went down incorrectly
in the Cublington mobile scorebook. * * - We could of course
turn a path away from referencing a “mobile scorebook”, turn our collar to
the wind and rain and all that, but this website and this team being what it
is, we won’t. Cricket is a sport thus surviving
centuries by the virtue of carbon or ink on paper, not an iPhone about to run
out of battery life before someone less scrupulous says “what the fuck is
this shit?” Moving on....
Jake (batting) enjoys some banter with the keeper
as Russ considers a different sport. After Howarth’s
customary couple of sliders at the death, and the one that sailed into
Reykjavik, the teams feasted on an excellent spread in a rather luxurious pavilion,
noteworthy for a bonanza of sumptuous cakes that Turner couldn’t quite manage
to eat, and a trio of cricket ball lampshades set high in the ceiling. After looking like he’d wandered onto the field in search of a game of
football earlier, Williams (19) now led Carter out to bat in his distressed
jeans, the creases slightly muddied by the grass of a dive. How the ghosts of
Jude past would have embraced the sight of a man seemingly picked from a pub
with only a borrowed jumper to suggest his sport. Cublington jaws
descended that Levi-Boy could actually bat, moreso he wasn’t the village idiot, but alas 501 wasn’t
to be his score on this day, or 527 for that matter. Carter (4) was also
gone, somewhere, perhaps he was never here....
A village version of T20 pyjama cricket. A middle order with
about as much substance as a Tory manifesto quickly subsided as Turner gave
slip practice, Hoskins (1) underlined his potential to be an apparition,
Howarth (19) acted like he could but really he can’t in being caught, stumped
and run out off the same ball, and Reeves (18) slogged
a few to leg which barely masked his limitations as someone who once played
for a pub team shitter than The MAD. A brief lull to the
crescendo of tumbling wickets and incompetence came with a drinks
break, a customary nicetie more than a necessity.
Thereafter, Turner ( 6)gave everyone out LBW (Timms
3, Vermaak 1) before the cream of the home team’s last-minute denim call ups
allowed the soon to be sentenced Bob Roberts the stage to twat a career high
of 20. It might have been more but for the fact he got out. At the other end,
Mr Darley (5*) never bitched once at bringing up the rear. In reflection,
Cublington are a team very much like ourselves. They
play the game for the love of the game, never once taking themselves too
serious and they are largely made up of guys in a downward spiral who
desperately cling onto their formative years (or maybe that’s just us?) They
also have an abundance of spirit, a twinkle of the eye, and they like a
drink. In addition, they have a surfeit of kids bolstering the ranks and a
genial Aussie. We used to have three genial Aussies but now they number none,
and our under 16s are rather thin on the ground. So
maybe we are a bit different after all? Either way, they are an engaging collective
and very much a part of our future hopefully.
The Cubs – a good bunch of lads. In summation, a lovely
day out if not the result, a super opposition found and a nod to everything
past and present. We wish the guys of Coblincote well. Hopefully see you next
year, lads. ‘King William’
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Statto Scorecards
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Far from the MCC versus Cublington CC Played at Cublington CC, 28 April 2019 Far from the MCC won the toss and
elected to field Cublington CC won by 83 runs Far from the MCC debuts: none |
19 / 476 35 over match |
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Team |
Cublington CC |
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# |
Batsman |
How Out |
Total |
Balls |
4s |
6s |
FOW |
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1 |
C. Volitakis |
not out |
101 |
(94) |
9 |
2 |
- |
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2 |
J. Gotzheim |
c Reeves b Roberts |
21 |
(36) |
2 |
- |
1-55 |
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3 |
J. Munday |
b Darley |
2 |
(11) |
- |
- |
2-66 |
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4 |
K. Gordon-Stuart *† |
c Darley b Timms |
64 |
(61) |
6 |
2 |
3-195 |
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5 |
M. Middleton |
not out |
10 |
(8) |
2 |
- |
- |
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6 |
T. Taylor |
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7 |
T. Gadsby |
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8 |
T. George |
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9 |
A. Howe |
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10 |
O. Middleton |
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11 |
H. Gotzheim |
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Extras |
LB5, B4 |
9 |
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TOTAL |
(for 3 wickets, 35 overs) |
207 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
Econ |
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1 |
Darley |
7 |
0 |
27 |
1 |
3.86 |
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2 |
Roberts |
7 |
0 |
45 |
1 |
6.43 |
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3 |
Hoskins |
6 |
0 |
46 |
0 |
7.67 |
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4 |
Reeves |
6 |
0 |
23 |
0 |
3.83 |
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5 |
Timms |
4 |
0 |
24 |
1 |
6.00 |
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6 |
Vermaak |
3 |
0 |
19 |
0 |
6.33 |
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7 |
Howarth |
2 |
0 |
14 |
0 |
7.00 |
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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 |
C. T. J. Williams |
b Gadsby |
19 |
(29) |
2 |
- |
2-29 |
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2 |
G. Carter |
b Howe |
4 |
(12) |
- |
- |
1-15 |
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3 |
R. P. Turner |
c Volitakis b Howe |
6 |
(11) |
1 |
- |
3-33 |
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4 |
I. Howarth |
c Gordon-Stuart b Middleton |
19 |
(26) |
3 |
- |
5-64 |
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5 |
J. D. Hoskins |
b H. Gotzheim |
1 |
(6) |
- |
- |
4-37 |
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6 |
M. K. Reeves |
lbw b H. Gotzheim |
18 |
(28) |
3 |
- |
7-77 |
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7 |
G. J. Timms * |
lbw b H. Gotzheim |
3 |
(7) |
- |
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6-67 |
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8 |
C. J. Vermaak |
lbw b J. Gotzheim |
1 |
(7) |
- |
- |
8-77 |
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9 |
J. C. W. Hotson † |
b J. Gotzheim |
1 |
(8) |
- |
- |
9-86 |
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10 |
C. D. Roberts |
b Munday |
20 |
(18) |
4 |
- |
10-124 |
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11 |
A. Darley |
not out |
5 |
(8) |
- |
- |
- |
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Extras |
NB1, W15, LB1, B10 |
27 |
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TOTAL |
(all out, 26.3 overs) |
124 |
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# |
Bowler |
Overs |
Maidens |
Runs |
Wkts |
Econ |
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1 |
Howe |
5 |
1 |
18 |
2 |
3.60 |
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2 |
Gadsby |
4 |
0 |
15 |
1 |
3.75 |
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3 |
O. Middleton |
6 |
0 |
25 |
1 |
4.17 |
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4 |
H. Gotzheim |
6 |
1 |
17 |
3 |
2.83 |
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5 |
J. Gotzheim |
2 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
1.50 |
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6 |
Munday |
2.3 |
0 |
24 |
1 |
9.60 |
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7 |
George |
1 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
10.00 |
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MOTM: C. D. Roberts Champagne Moment: A. Darley’s running
catch in the deep Buffet
Award: J. D. Hoskins’ specialised
margarita pizza with extra know-how MAD
Moment: R. P. Turner allowing a
stationary ball to dribble for four |
Opposition:
V107 / 01 Ground: G098 / 01 Captain: C022 / 77 Match No: 35 / 168 |