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Theale & Tilehurst v Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Sunday XI on Sun 10 Jun 2012 at 2:00
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Lost by 64 runs

Match report 85 over match won by Theale & Tilehurst CC

The forecast rain stayed away so Crows headed to Theale & Tilehurst for the first time in a few years. The Crows skipper was put on the back foot right from the off as the opposition captain declared a baffling array of rules just as the coin was in the air, and a bamboozled Sheppard said the first thing that came into his head; Crowthorne would have a bowl.

Monty Miller opened the bowling and immediatley swung the new ball with great accuracy, taking the T&T openers for 0 runs apiece. Mike Chalmers was aggresive from the other end and the opposition were soon 4 down with not a lot on the board. Wigmore showed some resisitance with a useful 37 before being bowled by the pacey Patel, the same bowler soon claimed Why? thanks to a 'Matrix like' reaction catch from the skipper behind the stumps.

Crows' thoughts of an early tea were put to bed by the partnership of Cooke and Osborn. It was the unfortunate O'Loughlin and Garrett who took the brunt of the punishment during this 100+ run partnership, much to the disgust of Jules who declared Osborn to be the most distasteful cricketer he had ever faced. This is not too say that he wasn't perfectly friendly; but with his too small trousers precariously affixed half way down his ample arse, and every shot a dirty slog just out of reach of a fielder, he was not a player of Gentleman Jules' persuasion.

Osborn was finally brought down for 63 by a sharp stumping off the bowling of Cluett, and T&T's innings was closed at a seemingly arbitary 199/7 after 43 overs.

After a respectable if conventional tea which rated a 6.5 on the MacKenzie scale, Crows opened up with the father & son duo Tony and Ricky McDowell. The opening bowlers were as tight as Osborn's flannels, with Acomb reeling off 4 maidens on the trot and byes comfortably top scoring. The fall of McDowell snr brought Cluett (A) to the crease and the scoring picked up a bit, with another excellect innings from the rookie. Support came from Jules and Crows were back on track for a possible victory, but the fall of Cluett saw a Crows trademark middle order collapse to match any seen previously, complete with scrambled padding up and frantic umpire swapping as first Chalmers fell for 2 then Garrett and Sheppard faced around 4 balls between them for no runs.

Harry Stent restored order for a while as Crows' ambitions had firmly reset themsleves towards a draw, but he fell to a sharp caught behind of the bowling of Why? and Crows inevitable fate was sealed with a golden duck for number 11 Clarke, given out bat before wicket by McDowell jnr who clearly had eyes on the pub.

Debuts: n/a
Golden Ducks: Pete Clarke
Ducks: Tim Garrett, Simon Sheppard
Baggy Greens: n/a
6s: n/a
Captain - SD Sheppard
Wicketkeeper SD Sheppard
MOM: Field Marshall Montgomerie Miller 3-23 & 1 n.o.

Theale & Tilehurst Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
1nb 8w 2b 5lb 
for 7 wickets
16
199 (43.0 overs)		     
Codd b  Miller 0
White b  Miller 0
Cooke b  Chalmers 12
Morris ct  Sheppard b. Miller 4
Wigmore b  Patel 37
Why? ct  Sheppard b. Patel 3
Cook Not Out  58
Osborn st  Sheppard b. Cluett 63
Parcell Not Out  6
Cooper  
Acomb  

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Sunday XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Marshall Miller6.022337.673.83
Michael Chalmers5.0116116.003.20
Peter Clarke7.002600.003.71
Mehul Patel6.001427.002.33
Julian O'Loughlin8.014800.006.00
Tim Garrett4.003500.008.75
Anthony Cluett5.0019119.003.80
Tony McDowell MBE2.001000.005.00

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Sunday XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
3nb 11w 5b 3lb 
for 10 wickets
22
135		        
Recardo McDowell b  Cooper 9 1
Tony McDowell MBE lbw  Acomb 1
Anthony Cluett b  Cooper 46 6
Julian O'Loughlin lbw  Cooper 28 6
Michael Chalmers b  Cooper 2
Tim Garrett b  Cooper 0
Simon Sheppard b  Cooper 0 2 0 2 1
Harry Stent ct  (keeper) b. Why? 12 1
Mehul Patel b  Acomb 4 1
Marshall Miller Not Out  1
Peter Clarke lbw  Why? 0 1 0

Theale & Tilehurst Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Acomb9.051728.501.89
Parcell7.031900.002.71
Cooper10.023666.003.60
Cook5.012200.004.40
Osborn4.001500.003.75
Why?3.011427.004.67