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Peppard 2 v Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Saturday 1st XI on Sat 21 May 2011 at 1:30
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Lost by 7 wickets

Match report PEPPARD CRUSH 10-MAN CROWS.

Ten-man Crows fell to a convincing defeat at Peppard after failing to capitalise on a patient start with the bat and early wickets with the ball.

Crows were put in by opposing skipper Woolfrey, keen to have a bowl at a makeshift-looking batting line-up. Last minute call-up Hill broke the shackles of four opening maidens with a boundary through the covers, but was bowled next over by a dipping full-toss. Glazier looked to be laying the foundations of a long innings when an effortless checked shot for six over long-on was followed up with a textbook forward defensive next ball, but a couple of overs later an ambitious shot to a ball of good length sent the ball skywards and eventually down into mid-off’s hands. With Gopie batting patiently at the other end Knight looked to attack - timing was tricky with the ball not coming onto the bat but the scoring rate began to move along nicely until he departed for 23, also swinging over a full-toss. Gopie and Charles made serene progress against the change bowlers, and when Gopie found his timing with some swept boundaries against slow bowler Mayers, Crows appeared to be in a good position to take control of the game at 111-3. Sadly, the innings fell apart at this point. Charles fell to Mayers for 34 and in the same over skipper Chalmers moseyed down the pitch to be stumped for a duck. Woolfrey returned to take three wickets in his second spell and Mayers had Jouanides lbw sweeping – the batsman a little disappointed not to be reprieved under Ian Bell’s 2.5m rule. The in-form Clarke, who had forsaken the first quarter of the game in favour of an extended motoring tour of the South Oxfordshire countryside, cracked one boundary but fell for 5 and suddenly 111-3 had become 127-9 (all out) and Crows had committed the cardinal sin of not batting out their overs.

A look in the scorebook showed the home team had been bowled out for 120-ish the previous week, and opening bowlers Chalmers and Glazier charged in at a good pace, perhaps finding more sideways movement that the home attack had. Tentative shots from both openers saw them lose their off stumps to a fired-up Chalmers and Crows were in the game at 20-2. Unfortunately Legg played a sensible and eventually match-winning innings, waiting for the loose balls and happy to block anything else. Half-chances were few and far between, with an awkward leg-side chance behind the stumps and a few mishits and edges not quite going to hand. A flurry of leg-side boundaries brought the target suddenly within reach and standards begin to slip as fielders’ minds perhaps drifted towards their plans for the evening. The sole moment of cheer was a late wicket maiden for Leach, winning an lbw decision from umpire Brown in his first over. Crows left the field well beaten and (surely temporarily!) bottom of the league table.

Ducks: Ross Chalmers
Umpire: Harry Stent
Captain: Ross Chalmers

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Saturday 1st XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
 
for 9 wickets
0
127		        
Micky Gopie b Woolfrey 32
Simon Hill b Vernon 4
Kevin Glazier ct ? bowled Woolfrey 8
Mark Knight b Khan 23
Terry Charles ct Chard bowled Mayers 34
Ross Chalmers st Hern bowled Mayers 0
Tim Leach b Woolfrey 2
Luke Jouanides lbw Mayers 5
Sam Roffey Not Out  1
S.D. Clarke ct Vernon bowled Woolfrey 5
A.N. Other  

Peppard 2 Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
R Woolfrey12.352746.752.16
B Vernon6.06010.000.00
M Khan7.0230130.004.29
M Chard5.012300.004.60
W Legg3.001500.005.00
A Mayers7.002237.333.14

Peppard 2 Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 3 wickets
0
128 (0.0 overs)		     
D Townsin b Chalmers 0
M Khan b Chalmers 9
G Legg Not Out  40
G Healis lbw Leach 38
J Hern Not Out  2
R Woolfrey  
W Legg  
A Mayers  
M Chard  
B Vernon  
C Williams  

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Saturday 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Ross Chalmers9.1340220.004.36
Kevin Glazier4.011100.002.75
Terry Charles6.012000.003.33
Luke Jouanides1.503100.0016.91
Tim Leach1.41616.003.60
Sam Roffey1.00200.002.00

  • Umpire :
    Harry Stent
  • Scorer :