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The Wimbledon Club - Sunday 21th September 2011
After a difficult
lead-up week of selectorial turmoil and last minute defections a well balanced
(and generally well-adjusted) side pitched up to Wimbledon CC in breezy and
mostly dry conditions. Having lost the toss,
LNZCC were in the field (well, all except Barkle of course, who was operating on
his own timezone quite independent of anything associated with GMT or Swiss
precision..) It is not often the
captain asks around the new faces as to what they do and hears anything but “aw,
bat a bit, bowl a bit” in reply so it was sweet music to hung-over ears to hear
from Richard Brooks the words “left-arm opening bowler” strung together in
consecutive fashion. Young, eager and
bustling Brooks gave the batsmen a real hurry up from the uphill end despite
being held back from full pace by his old running shoes and slippery turf.
‘Hurry up’ being a slight misnomer considering one of their opening batsmen
proceeded to noodle his way to 24 off the first 23 overs and caused some loud
and fervent abuse from his batting partners and some very curious refusals to
run between wickets due to the mutual acrimony between them - it was certainly
making Barkle’s role easier as Wimbledon could be described as ‘self-sledging’. TP had made the long
journey to get his overs up for the year and proceeded to do just that with 13
fine overs on the trot into the breeze...we even had a smile out of him as a
cleverly held-back slower-ball was clutched to Barkle’s breast after imparting a
solid and resounding bruise to the sternum area. TP’s first wicket for a couple
of games apparently so all was well with the world once again. The spin twins -
Holden (10 overs, 3 for 38) and Barkle (2 wickets), bowled with typical flight
and guile, especially once Barkle established that bowling to a left-handed bat
should perhaps best be countered with a change of line.. Fishy sent the middle
stump cartwheeling in his compelling 2 over burst and the fielding was
enthusiastic given the long boundaries. A fine diving catch from Guy Simm was
only surpassed in its brilliance by a running one-handed juggler from the
in-form allrounder (Fishy) at deep mid-off. Wimbledon finished
with 148 for 9 off their 40 overs and the LNZCC task was straight forward - as
long as Guy Simm didn’t run out of partners (as he had on Saturday v Hurlingham)
we would make it comfortably. (Match stats otw from Hurlingham, captain's match
report already written and will go out when married up - Hon Sec) And so it proved,
despite threatening storm clouds and a bowling attack including three
legspinners the runs were knocked off in style from about 30 overs. Highlights
included a classy 31 from Chris Hamilton playing in his first winning fixture
for the club (out of 6 games!), a double-bouncing lbw for Andrew Hales, and an
effortless 75* from Simm, whose name must be close to finding itself etched into
this year’s batting trophy to go alongside that of his father and brother. Thanks to the players
for a good day on and off the field and Marty as ever for officiating. Don
Scoreboard
Wimbledon 148 for 9 (40 overs) LNZCC 152 for 4 (32 overs) LNZCC win by 6
wickets Captain Don Hudson
lost the toss and Wimbledon elected to bat in this 40 over match with no bowling
restrictions. Batting Runs Catches Stumpings Run Outs Statistics
Chris Hamilton 31
lbw
Extras
13
8 b, 4 lb, 1 nb FOW
68, 95, 95 133 Bowling O M R W Statistics
Anthony Penman 13 1 33
2 caught, lbw
Extras 14 (8 byes, 3 leg byes, 3 wides) FOW
40, 52, 60, 65, 67, 82, 128, 135, 143
Umpires: Martin Conway, Martin Bird
Scorer: Barry Perry GBK
Man of Match: Guy Simm £20, Richard Holden £10, Richard Fish £10 |
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