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Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI v BBC Caversham on Sun 18 May 2014 at 1.30 pm
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Won by 3 wickets

Match report Brendy bashes BBC with brilliant batting bonanza



The sun was out, the pitch looked good, and a crowd had gathered to see some great cricket at St Sebastians for the first weekend home game in this new era of crows cricket.

The toss was lost, and the opposition elected to have a bat and Ant ‘the colonel’ Cluett opened up the bowling, amid a flurry of KFC related punnery.

He switched from spin to seam to take the new ball, and came steaming down the hill from the tennis court end against the perennial blockers from the BBC. It was an impressive spell, and along with Pete Clarke, bowling at the pavilion end, kept the scoring rate very low, with wickets falling at regular intervals.

Mackenzie came on at the first change(a reward for collecting the tea) and promptly tried to ruin the good start that had been made. The scoring rate picked up, and his figures were only rescued with his final ball, a horrible leg side delivery that was skied into the hands of the diving keeper.

The Tipperary terminator- Sean O’Clarke -came on at the other end, turning in a very impressive spell of slow bowling, with maidens and wickets a plenty to undo the damage done by the frenzys 4 overs.
Aran long came on for his one over, (old age dictating he was not able to play a full part in his third game in 5 days) took two wickets. The first was a skyer down to fine leg, with the keeper chasing after it, the skipper took a fine catch over his head while running backwards, capping off a fine display behind the stumps, pouching 4 difficult chances...if only he could bat. The second was a clean bowl A Long classic, who then promptly retired to the outfield, having showed again that while form is temporary, class is most definitely permanent.

Partridge and Davies came on at the end to bamboozle and befuddle the BBC lower order. The twin spin attack cleaning up the remaining wickets in quick time, with the innings finishing on 140.


After tea, Mickey and Joe opened the batting in the full afternoon heat and promptly wilted. Joe Skying an easy catch from a leading edge, with mickey following soon after. Sean O’Clarke took to the field, followed quickly by Mackenzie, and they set about steadying the rocking crows ship with a nice partnership that kept the scoreboard ticking over nicely, before O’Clarke eventually fell to the bowling of Randall.

Mackenzie began to open up as wickets fell at the other end, with short stints at the crease from newly left handed Huelin and Long, eventually bringing Jocelyn to the wicket.

He proved the perfect foil for Mackenzie, with dogged defence and quick running, and the pair built a match winning partnership, with Mackenzie displaying a dazzling array of shots, including some powerful fours straight down the ground, and square of the wicket, as well as a monstrous straight six, before eventually spooning an easy catch to the bowler with a very tired shot on 66 after taking the total over 100 and the game away from the BBC boys.

Hester selflessly lost his wicket quickly for a duck (knowing the padded up Colonel was the most likely candidate to knock off the required runs), leaving Ant to come in to hit off the remaining runs with Jocelyn.

But by that point the damage had been done by the swashbuckling innings from the frenzy, who for once, had lived up to his nickname, after riding his luck early on.

Catches - RP Hester 4, A Cluett 2, T Huelin 1
Ducks - RP Hester
6s - B Mackenzie 1, A Cluett 2
Debut - N/A
Baggy Green - N/A
Captain - RP Hester
WK - RP Hester
MOM - B Mackenzie
Magic Moment - Sean O'Clarke's magical 5 over spell 5-3-11-2

BBC Caversham Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
16w 3b 1lb 
for 10 wickets
20
140 (36.5 overs)		     
T Castle lbw  A Cluett 2
T Massey ct  RP Hester b A Cluett 16
M Randall ct  RP Hester b A Cluett 7
A Williams ct  RP Hester b B Mackenzie 11
J Mitchell b  J Davies 59
J Champion ct  T Huelin b S Clarke 0
G Smith ct  A Cluett b S Clarke 0
S Townsend ct  RP Hester b A Long 7
P Quinn b  A Long 0
D Cowley Not Out  18
D Dudakia ct  A Cluett b D Partridge 0

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Anthony Cluett7.03832.671.14
Peter Clarke8.013100.003.87
Brendon MacKenzie4.0024124.006.00
S.D. Clarke5.031125.502.20
Chris Jocelyn4.002200.005.50
Dan Partridge5.5023123.003.94
Aran Long1.01020.000.00
Joe Davies3.0117117.005.67

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
4w 3b 2lb 
for 7 wickets
9
141		        
Joe Davies ct  Sq Leg b M Randall 5 1
Micky Gopie b  M Randall 5
S.D. Clarke lbw  M Randall 10 1
Brendon MacKenzie ct  & b G Smith 66 10 1
Tom Huelin b  M Randall 2 1
Aran Long b  M Randall 3
Chris Jocelyn Not Out  15 2
Richard Hester b  G Smith 0 2 0 4
Anthony Cluett Not Out  27 3 2 2
Dan Partridge  
Peter Clarke  

BBC Caversham Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
A Williams4.503500.007.24
M Randall8.031653.202.00
J Mitchell4.003300.008.25
P Quinn5.002600.005.20
G Smith5.0127213.505.40