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Chenies and Latimer - Sunday 17th May 2009

We completed a full 40-over one-dayer vs. Chenies & Latimer at their ground northwest of London, despite Sunday May 17th 2009 being somewhat rain-affected. At 10am, my phone was running red-hot with various members of the team offering impromptu ‘you should see how wet it is here – we’re not playing are we?’ weather forecasts. We were but couldn’t start on time. It had rained a bit.
 

Swanny and Richard Holden took public transport out there and Swanny had time to crawl under the covers to check the dry-matter content of the strip. Matt Fanning’s ‘I’ll be there at 12.30 – don’t start without me’ tactic came good when we agreed with the C& L skipper to have lunch first, then tee-off at 1.30pm.

Having won the toss and chosen to field, Nathan Masters & Kevin Marshall opened with 5 very tidy overs each – going for only a handful. Kevin picked up a well deserved wicket when the opener skied one to mid-on, Kevin helpfully instructing me to get out of the way so Matt Fanning could take the catch. (History doesn’t lie so I can’t say I blame Kevin for that one!)

Craig Robinson came on to replace Nathan and his season debut comprised 5 very tidy overs for only 9 runs, a terrific effort in the field including a full-length diving save to stop a certain four and a sharp catch at square leg off Richard Keyse.

Mike Oliver was breathing fire so came on after Kevin. Mike bowled fast and bouncy and was very unlucky as at least half a dozen thick edges snuck between fielders behind and square of the wicket. He did get some reward when he got a steeping one to come off the back of the bat and Tricky took the catch after racing around behind the slips cordon from gully.

The run rate was being kept well in hand compared to previous years. Richard Holden bowled 8 tidy overs and took a sharp return caught & bowled. I carried on reward less (seems to be the way the cookie’s crumbling this season!) at the other end for 6 overs, then bought on the somewhat-reluctant Tricky whose first ball was a toe-crushing full one plumb in front to remove the C&L skipper leg before. Only a few balls later Tricky knocked over leg stump to have the figures of 2 wickets off 2!
Remarkable!
 

Matt Fanning bowled the Second Annual Matt Fanning Over at the other end, then got greedy and kept the ball for the next over to bowl his second. Tricky needed a bit  of cajoling but we got him on for another over and Craig took the aforementioned catch. Strangely, Tricky seemed a little keener to bowl now and sent down the lucky last, which he closed by taking out middle stump on the last ball of the 40th over, giving him the excellent figures of 4-18 off 4 overs. Well done Tricky.

It was a terrific effort to restrict C&L to 186 in 40 overs, with some sharp fielding from TP (with a not-quite-right hammie) Swanny behind the stumps (although Craig got him in the brisket when Swanny threw in a cameo redux of the Bodyline series from behind the  stumps) and Blair Simm as well.

After tea – more cakes and scones – Matt Fanning and Blair Simm opened the batting. Matt put away some lovely boundaries but was taken by surprise on 14 when one popped onto the top of the bat handle and was taken in the slips cordon.

Mike Oliver joined Blair and a wonderful partnership blossomed. C&L’s best bowler, a young Aussie chap, fired them in with quite a bit of pace and bounce which Mike and Blair coped with very well. Blair’s disciplined half-century and Mike’s well-paced century were enough to see us home in an almost chanceless ‘we’re in the book’ combination of 170 runs. Tricky kept warm by keeping the pads on for 34 overs, and TP & Kevin looked after the book while regaling Nathan with tales of their youth in Wellington.

Matt Fanning did a wonderful job of packing the gear bag. (Well, he was the only batsman dismissed!)

Special mention to C&L’s 15-year-old ‘Willie’ who was terribly brave when an attempted run-out deflected off the top of the stumps and hit him full in the face. It made a horrible sound and Mike and Swanny were very concerned that he’d been seriously hurt but the youngster got back up after a few minutes, wiped the blood away and bowled his best ball straight after.

My thanks to all – some terrifically tight bowling, a committed effort in the field and a lovely display of quality batting - it was really rather pleasing to log a win there after falling short 2 out of the last 3 years. The GBK Voucher went to Mike, with Tricky a close second in the Sporting Index calculations. Thanks too to Martin Conway for umpiring with his usual consistency and to Karen Keyse and Sam Fanning for grinning and bearing it through the cold and rain showers.

LNZCC won toss and put C&L into bat in this 40 overs match (8 per bowler)
 

Scoreboard  Chenies & Latimer 186 for 7 (40 overs)  LNZCC 181 for 1 (32.4 overs)  LNZCC win by 9 wickets

Batting

                    Runs    Catches    Stumpings    Run Outs   Statistics

Blair Simm           56*
Matt Fanning         14         1                              caught
Mike Oliver         108*                                       14x4s, 3x6s
Richard Keyse       DNB         1

Kevin Marshall      DNB

Andrew Swann        DNB

Tony Penman         DNB

Nathan Masters      DNB

Craig Robinson      DNB         1

Gerard Walsh        DNB

Richard Holden      DNB

Extras               10
 

FOW: 18, 170* run partnership Blair and Oliver

Bowling

                    O    M    R    W     Statistics

Nathan Masters      5    2    9    0  
Kevin Marshall      5    2    6    1     caught
Mike Oliver         5    0   37    1     caught
Gerard Walsh        6    0   32    0
Richard Holden      8    0   39    1     c&b
Craig Robinson      5    0    9    0
Richard Keyse       4    0   18    4     lbw, bowled x 2, caught
Matt Fanning        2    0   15    0
 

Extras 23
 

Umpire - Martin Conway

GBK Man of the Match – Mike Oliver