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Ripley CC - Sunday 19th July 2009
Captain for the day Richard Holden (having pulled a swift one on Ben Dormer by swapping this game for the organisational nightmare of Ventnor) won the toss and we were in the field, Pete Coleman poised over the scorebook. Our entry to the field was marked, following a typically emotional speech from the chairman, by the presentation of an LNZCC cap to Glenn Cooper in recognition of 5 games for the club, the cap funded by the kind bequest of Harold Nottman. Coops proudly donned the prized headgear and, choking back tears of pride, took the new ball. He proceeded to bowl 13 overs into a gusty breeze, extracting turn and bounce at times and was unlucky to go wicketless as well as being a victim of the odd fielding indiscretion. Gerard Walsh steamed in downwind from the other end with plenty of intent but limited success, and with the Ripley openers (including their Kiwi pro) looking increasingly comfortable, we were staring down the barrel of a long afternoon in the park. At lunch we were wicketless, they’d brought up a century opening stand, and Tom Watson was 1 ahead going into the back nine at Turnberry. Lunch was a superb sit-down spread, with Matt Reinhold’s vigour in attacking the cheeseboard matched only by his dismay when the captain handed him the ball directly afterwards.
Back on the field after the break Ripley progressed to 140 without loss and were eyeing up a big total, however they reckoned without the indefatigable Tony Penman, who came on to bowl a match-hanging spell. After Reinholds had finally broken our wicket drought, TP proceeded to decimate the middle order, including bowling the Ripley skipper for a golden duck and squeezing an LBW decision out of Marty. In achieving the latter TP may have actually denied himself a 5-for, as when yet another Ripley batsman was struck dead in front (and with Fishy behind the stumps risking a hernia with a vociferous contender for appeal of the season), One-Time-Only Conway kept the finger tucked firmly away. Reinholds then picked up another wicket, before a seminal moment in the club’s history occurred with Chairman M Fanning taking his maiden LNZCC wicket via some silky glovework from the Fish. 45 overs up and Ripley trotted off with 215, considerably less than they were looking at the 30 over mark.
After a swift changeover Simm and Fanning opening up and both openers brought up their half centuries in quick time, Fanning achieving his in spite of some ruthless strike hogging from his partner. At tea the undefeated century stand was up and the Ripley catering crew produced another fine effort, supplemented by Karen Keyse’ lovingly prepared birthday cake for Tricky’s personal half century. In reaching for a piece of the afore-mentioned cake Matt F managed to injure himself and decided not to go back out after the tea break, consoling himself with a glass of fine New Zealand sav with the appreciative crowd on the sideline. He was replaced at the crease by Richard Burgess, who had heroically lifted himself off his sickbed to play the game after spending the better part of the week battling what is medically known as ‘the squirts’. Despite his iffy intestinal situation Burge was quickly into his usual dominant form, rattling up 30 quick runs. Simm, despite resuming on 65, was batting like Ray Charles and soon departed via a tame tap back to the bowler. Next man Tricky was still emotional after the rousing rendition of Happy Birthday and stayed in the middle only long enough to secure the bag duties (Simm elated to end a four game love affair with the f***ing thing), but some busy swashbuckling from Pete Tippen and a couple of swings of the blade from Matt Reinholds took us home to a comfortable victory by 6 wickets with ample time to spare.
The player of the match cup was presented to Ripley’s Steve Cliff for a well-compiled 92, while the GBK Man of the Match award for LNZ was awarded to TP for yet another devastating bowling performance (4-40 off 13). Coops was the nominated LNZ member to try and make it over the bar in the Ripley clubhouse but not for the first time he struggled to get a leg over and was ultimately unsuccessful, his overly-moisturised hands and forearms bearing the scars of several unsuccessful attempts.
Big thank you to everyone for turning out, with a pleasingly large array of wags, future LNZCC stars, friends, and general cricket groupies making for a great sideline atmosphere.
LNZCC won the toss and elected to bowl in this 45 over match with no bowling restrictions
Scoreboard Ripley 217 for 7 (45 Overs) LNZCC 218 for 4 (37.1 of 45 Overs) LNZCC win by 6 wickets
Batting Runs Catches Stumpings Stats 4s 6s
Blair Simm
73
c&b 9 1
+Richard Fish
DNB
1
Extras
33
W 9, B 19, Lb 5
Bowling O M R W Stats Glenn Cooper 13 1 60 0 Gerard Walsh 8 0 45 0 Anthony Penman 13 1 40 4 caught, bowled x 2, lbw Richard Holden 2 0 9 0 Matt Reinholds 7 0 36 2 caught x 2 Richard Keyse 1 0 13 0 Matt Fanning 1 0 3 1 stumped
Extras 15 (Wides 2, No balls 2, Byes 4, Leg Byes 7)
FOW 142, 161, 161, 178, 194, 194,214
Umpires: Martin Conway and Neil
Scorers: Peter Coleman and Louise Brown
Player of the Match Cup – Steve Cliff - Ripley - Runs 92
GBK Man of the Match award – Anthony Penman
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