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Four Elms - Sunday 25th July 2004
After a series of humbling defeats, London New Zealand got their season back on track on Sunday with a comprehensive defeat of Four Elms by 74 runs.
Captain Aaron Gale won the toss and opted ! to bat and his decision soon reaped its rewards. Openers Sam 'Axel' Foley and John McIntyre (17) shared in a solid partnership to get the innings off to a good start. Foley, fresh from a century the previous day for Harefield made 77 until he admitted he got bored playing in the 'V' and decided to go all agricultural and got himself out.
Richard Burgess contributed 44 in his own unique way (all through cow corner) and occasionally threatened to hit a cover drive but went when his desire for a fourth hamburger from the BBQ distracted his attention. Dave Chapman-Smith produced an innings of quality (watch and learn Burge) to clobber 69 in pretty quick time, including four sixes.
The hyphen was only undone when the word came that we'd bat for only two more overs and he took four swipes at possibly the slowest leg-spinner in history only to miss and see his middle stump sent cart wheeling by the delivery. Cue the humour. With quick runs needed Richard Dellabarca flayed one to the boundary only to then get out in side-splitting fashion. After failing to connect with another heave, the ball trickle to short fine leg while Dellabarca was being taunted by his own team-mates on the boundary. Unaware of where he was, he decided to go walkabout and when the ball was eventually returned to the keeper he was still out of his ground, prompting much laughter from his team.
Gale only made 3 and was condemned to bag-packing duties while Shaun Perkinson played for his average and made a boring 21 not out. Defending a healthy total LNZCC's opened with Gale and Sean Martin, but the arachnid was soon invalided out of the attack with pulled hamstring.
Windy and Chris 'Dog' Lee routinely beat the bat but the crucial breakthrough evaded them until an inspired bowling change by Windy. Fresh from going to an Elvis musical the night before, Kevin Marshall gave the batsmen a case of 'Suspicious Minds' with three quick wickets - a reward for bowling straight and on a good length. The triple breakthrough prompted some suicidal running between the wickets and two more went to run-outs with Dog's throw from the deep especially noteworthy.
But despite some good bowling, Four Elms seemed odds-on to stave off defeat until the golden arm of hyphen was introduced to the attack. In must be said that this was against the express wishes of Burge who was heard to utter "He can't farkin bowl", but hyphen proved him wrong, extracting turn and bounce in five overs of off-spin that got him 2 wickets. Windy chipped in with another 2 wickets, including a successful LBW from Chris King to leave the Kiwis needing one wicket for victory but with only 2 overs left. Who to turn to? Elvis was still in the building and it took Kevin Marshall three balls to wrap up the match via a Steve Dunne LBW decision.
(Back) Steve Dunn (U), Chris Lee, Shaun Perkinson (w), Sean Martin, Aaron Gale (c), David Chapman-Smith, Richard Dellabarca, Gordon Harcourt, Chris King (U) (Front) John McIntyre, Richard Burgess, Sam Foley, Kevin Marshall
Steve Dunn, Aaron Gale, Chris King We were privileged to have former test umpire Steve Dunn and current NZ first class umpire Chris King officiate in this game. Many thanks to them
Scoreboard
LNZCC 250/6dec (44 overs) Four Elms 176 all out (41.3 overs). LNZCC win by 74 runs.
Batting Runs Catches Stumpings John McIntyre 17 Sam Foley 77 Richard Burgess 44 Dave Chapman-Smith 69 Shaun Perkinson 21* Richard Dellabarca 4 Aaron Gale 3 Chris Lee DNB Sean Martin DNB Gordon Harcourt DNB Kevin Marshall DNB
Bowling O M R W Kevin Marshall 7.3 3 11 4 Aaron Gale 13 2 50 2 Dave Chapman-Smith 5 2 13 2 Sean Martin 4 1 13 0 Chris Lee 7 2 22 0 Gordon Harcourt 5 0 28 0 Sam Foley 4 0 25 0 |
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