Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club

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Holyport v Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Sunday XI on Sun 04 Aug 2013 at 2:00
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Won by 47 runs

Match report COLONEL CLUETT BASHES HOLYPORT

The Crows arrived at Holyport, home of the best tea on the Sunday circuit, keen to put last weeks duck debacle behind them.
The skipper surveyed the battlefield, and winning the toss, elected to bat on what looked like a used and patchy wicket. The raised eyebrow of the opposition skipper should have tipped him off that he was to be the victim of an ambush.

The Captain marshalled his troops, positioning his artillery on the team sheet, then took to the field with Ant Cluett to open the batting. After one classy clip to leg, was out, as the ball died and he played his shot too early, spooning an easy catch to the jubilant enemy troops.

Jules, Will Avrili, Tom and Brendon all went missing in action, victims of a pitch full of demons, to balls successively keeping low to the extent they almost rolled, and then exploding off the pitch from a length to end up at chest height. each batsman went out with a clear mission in mind, to get forward to combat the low bounce, to dig in, stick around and build a total, but the pitch turned every ball into a grenade. 60 odd for 6 it looked like a full on rout was in progress, the brave crows soldiers picked off by sniper fire, and returning to base weary, and wounded.

at the other end Ant was dealing well with the assault, deflecting the balls as they flew at him, like a Kevlar vest deflects bullets, he battled on, though enemies beset him from all sides.
Then through the fog of war, another hero strode out onto the battle field. Davies walked head high past the corpses of his fallen comrades to the crease, unbowed by the oppositions banter and cocksure confidence.

Suddenly the pitch seemed to lose some of its variability, a number of fours and sixes were dispatched, like mortars to the boundary, and suddenly you could see the fear in our enemy’s eyes. the confidence ebbed, their banter reduced and suddenly they were on the back foot, retreating over the ground they’d gained, as Cluett and Davies put them to the sword.

A 50, then the century for Cluett, swiftly followed by a fifty for Davies left them shell-shocked. Davies was removed soon after, but the damage had been done. superb knocks from both batsmen, who really dug in, and used their technique to manage the uneven bounce, and occasionally strange bowling to put on the highest ever 7th wicket partnership in the clubs history.

Cluett left the battle field at the end unbeaten on 166, the second highest score in Crows history. Both teams left the field, and like the brave gerries and tommies in the first world war, who left their trenches mid battle to have a game of football, came together to celebrate the greatest of teas.

Battle was re-joined all too soon however, and it was the turn of Monty, and Jules to fire their missiles down the pitch.
With the field Marshalls military medium from one end, and general Jules releasing his bouncing bombs from the other, the openers were kept confined to base, and the scoring was slow. a wicket fell, like a poleaxed sentry, but the scoreboard kept ticking over, like an unexploded mine, inadvertently reactivated on a Dorset beach.

The batsmen took a leaf from Colonel Cluett’s book, dug in, and slowly started to open up. With each bowling change came more runs, but not enough, as with each over the run rate required increased, like the body count at the Somme.

Bowlers struck decisive blows, to defeat the enemy in the field and they surrendered after 40 overs, short of where they had aimed. Partridge, like a rogue sniper, took aim at the hapless skipper who surrendered his off stump and pride in equal measure.

While the key to victory here was the great batting of Cluett and Davies, in great adversity, for which they will be mentioned in dispatches, it was some truly great fielding from privates Avrili, and Huelin, which in the end may have been the actual difference between the two teams as the opposition fell only 47 runs short of their target.



Full report to follow

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Sunday XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
6nb 8b 5lb 
for 8 wickets
19
262		        
Richard Hester Caught  1
Anthony Cluett Not Out  166 25 1
Ant Avrili Bowled  6 1
Julian O'Loughlin Lbw  1
Tom Huelin Bowled  0
Brendon MacKenzie Caught  1
Will Avrili Caught  7 1 2
Joe Davies Caught  56 9 1 1
Dan Partridge Bowled  4 1
Luke Jouanides Not Out  1
Marshall Miller  

Holyport Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Quasham8.0137218.504.62
Lappin8.022847.003.50
Cox8.007400.009.25
Bailie8.0049149.006.12
Ali7.0047147.006.71
Taylor1.001000.0010.00

Holyport Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
2nb 14w 5b 3lb 
for 7 wickets
24
216 (40.0 overs)		     
Harris ct W Avrili b.O'Loughlin 8
Paswari ct + b J Davies 73
Butt ct W Avrili b Partridge 50
Bailie Not Out  32
Jeeahathan b J Davies 0
Taylor b Partridge 13
Ali lbw Davies 4
Perkins b Partridge 0
Cox Not Out  6
A N Other  
An Other  

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Crowthorne Sunday XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Marshall Miller8.002800.003.50
Julian O'Loughlin6.0023123.003.83
Ant Avrili4.011600.004.00
Luke Jouanides7.004700.006.71
Brendon MacKenzie3.001800.006.00
Joe Davies5.0039313.007.80
Dan Partridge7.0135311.675.00