South versus
North - Sunday 2nd September 2007
And so it was, 7 south
islanders: VT, Dormer, Tippen, Tikao, Barkle, Keyse, then borrowed help from
Fish (honorary South), Tim Bills-Everett (also honorary south), club debutant
Josh Denize, Pete Gibson & Matt McMillan took on the North in an effort to
wrestle the Trevor Campbell Cup from the North. Having lost three in a row
previously the North were in no mood to relinquish their current reign of this
the most anticipated fixture of the season.
The North won the toss and elected to bat.
Sledging erupted from the off. So much so the South were becoming horse within
the first couple of overs of aggressive appealing and constantly taunting.
Comments of note were: ‘geez they’re some pretty large pads you’ve got on’, ‘did
you actually bring out a bat with you’.
However Mike Oliver, one never to take too many backward steps faced the opening
over and was four balls into it before he lashed out clipped an attempted yorker
(read full toss) for four. Sparking off some retaliation of his own when telling
the culprit ‘well Vancer smells much like last year’.
Having settled on the largest pair of pads in the club kit Matt Fanning soon put
them into good use. Matt found a couple of boundaries before finding his middle
stump carting wheeling for 13 in a first wicket stand of 28.
Terry Crabb entered and even without the luxury of the Honourable Jonathan Hunt
was given out LBW for 8. Two for 36, became 3-37 as Matt (captain for a day)
Reinhold’s was skittled, having played back to a short of the length delivery.
In truth, had Matt played forward a similar result may have ensued, such was the
nature of the secret weapon Tim BE unleashed together with his primal scream of
joy.
Enter Burg. Burg was quaking in his boots showing obvious signs of nerves having
coming off a decade of baron scores in the fixture. The South gathered and
discussed the best possible sledging tactic, ‘loads of noise, keep chirping,
abuse, character assassination… It was finally settled upon that ‘don’t even
acknowledge him’ was the best tactic.
90 runs were scored in the partnership with Mike being particularly brutal to
all forms of delivery. Burg departed for 37 going to a fantastic catch in the
deep to Ben Dormer. The frustration of not scoring a 4 for a few deliveries got
the better of Mike as he held out for 74 including 13 fours off a likely 60 odd
balls. 148 – 5 off 24.
Let off wasn’t at hand for the South as Perky 61 scoring his first inter island
half century and David Holt who was rumoured to have been 12th man for Northern
Districts put on 86 @ a run a ball.
David cleared the boundary several times in a fine display of straight hitting,
contributing 74 not out with five 4’s and three 6’s.
TP and Scott Foley added more runs at the death to complete a total of 299 off
45 overs.
Of the South bowlers, Vance picked up 3 wickets at the cost of a hamstring, TBE
bowled fearlessly in controlled stints, Dave Tikao found some rhythm. Dormer
mixed it up and proved his worth as a seaming option. Dart Ball Barkle bowled
unchanged for 9 overs, probably the first time in 15 years. Josh Denize in his
debut for the club tweaked with control and Matt McMillan took a fine caught and
bowled.
Lunch was taken with the North feeling somewhat content with their mornings
effort.
Leading club run scorer for the year Ben Dormer opened up for the South with
Pete Tippen. Strangely Ben spent more time adjusting his Gordon Greenidge 80’s
headband than playing his trade mark cross bat, whilst Pete had been reminded of
his cameo appearance the previous year having been run out without facing a
ball.
The first wicket stand was ended by Martin’s intervention when Pete shouldered
arms to Scott. 1-10 soon became 2 -20 as Ben was run out by inches from a Mike
Oliver direct shy at the stumps. Marty was ruthless and accurate in his
decision.
Having seen off a tight bowling spell from both Terry and Scott, Pete Gibson and
Rich Keyse consolidated and nudged the score to 70 – 2 off 14 overs,. TP was
brought on for his now trademark running up from a tangent in his rendition of
quick spinners. The challenge was going all Pete G’s way sending one said
spinner into the safety net holding off good protection for the adjacent
properties. Just as the pendulum was rocking towards the South lost the crucial
wicket to a leg side flick which could gone anywhere other than down the throat
of Terry. Pete’s 42 included one 6 and 5 fours.
Three wickets then fell in quick concession all bowled. Tricky missed a straight
one for 19, Matt McMillan walked around one for 17 and Fish heaved and missed to
forgo any Southern middle order consolidation.
Barkle and Thompson were brought together. This is a combination of folk that
should never really be trusted together. Throw in a runner for a torn hamstring
and chaos ensued as asking rate reached 10 an over.
Fletch picked up Vance at cow corner to go ahead of Scott as the leading LNZ
wicket taker for the season. Tikao and Denize clubbed a couple each before Rich
Holden mopped up the tail to inflict a 167 run loss.
Mike Oliver was selected as the North’s GBK player of the day, with his fine
batting display and a key wicket when running out Ben Dormer. Pete Gibson won t
for the South for a fearless keeping display and giving a glimmer of hope whilst
batting.
Following The Swann’s impressive umpiring and debt collecting, Burg purchased 21
pizzas whilst the club put up a bar bill that lasted the evening. The day was
complete with a gaggle of wives and posse of children making up a great club day
despite the result.
Perky had the last word, ominously stated, ‘there’s not too much joy in the
dressing room. We’ve only half way through our mission of 4 wins in a row’.
Scoreboard
North 299-7 (45 overs) South 132 All Out (31 overs)
North win by 167 Runs
North
Batting
Runs Catches Stumpings Run
Outs Stats
Mike Oliver 74
1
1 13 fours caught
Matt Fanning 11
bowled
Terry Crabb 8
1
lbw
*Matt Reinholds 1
bowled
Richard Burgess 37
caught
+Shaun Perkinson 61
10 fours caught
Dave Holt 74*
1
5 fours, 3 sixes
Anthony Penman 8
bowled
Scott Foley 13*
Paul Christian DNB
Richard Holden DNB
Extras
12
FOW
28, 36, 37, 127, 148, 234, 264
South
Bowling
O M R W Stats
Vance Thompson 8 0
56 3 bowled x 2, lbw
Tim Bills-Everett 8 1 50
1 bowled
Dave Tikao 4
0 33 0
Ben Dormer 9
0 49 1 caught
Andrew Barkle 9 0
51 1 caught
Josh Denize 5
0 38 0
Matt McMillan 2 0
14 1 c & b
South
Batting
Runs Catches Stumpings
Stats
Ben
Dormer 10
1
run out / Oliver
Peter Tippen 5
lbw
+Peter Gibson 42
5 fours, 1 six caught
Richard Keyse 19
bowled
Matt McMillan 17
1
bowled
Richard Fish 4
bowled
*Vance Thompson 5
1
caught
Andrew Barkle 7
lbw
Josh Denize 9
bowled
Dave Tikao 9
caught
Tim Bills-Everett 1*
Extras
4
North
Bowling
O M R W
Stats
Terry Crabb 7
1 26 0
Scott Foley 5
0 21 1 lbw
Anthony Penman 8 0
31 3 caught, bowled x 2
Paul Christian 8 1
34 3 bowled x 2, caught
Richard Holden 3 0
15 2 lbw, caught
GBK
Man of the Match North: Mike Oliver
South: Peter Gibson
Umpire: Martin Conway
Toss won by North captain Matt Reinholds
