Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club

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Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 3rd XI v West Reading 3 on Sat 05 Jul 2014 at 1:30 pm
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Won by 87 runs

Match report An excellent win for the 3rds against West Reading.

We lost the toss and were put into bat, which meant we lost any chance of watchin Argentina v Belgium on our impressive new plasma. However Alaister Knox, Mike Storey and Sean Clarke may have had different ideas as they got out for 2 runs between them and very quickly. This brought the returning Morgan Kemp to the crease and he certainly made the difference, smashing 119 and forming good partnerships with Tom Nash who made 34, Alistair Warner-Rowley who made 30, and 13 year old debutant Sunny Sunwar who made 13, and looked very useful. Aran Long and myself barely bothered the scorers, Aza making 2, and I got my first duck in 20 years.

We were left in the luxurious position of being able to declare and with 9 wickets down and 40 overs gone, i made the decision to call the batsmen in with Nigel Payne only 42 runs short of his 50.

we all enjoyed a very healthy tea, as the opposition were on Ramadan and chose not to eat, but instead pray to the heavens in the hope of getting some sort of result. Plenty more food to go around, and the leftovers were enjoyed by the first and second team as they returned from their matches later that evening.

We opened the bowling with the old bowl, using our spin king, Mikey Storey and the very experienced John Cartledge. both bowled very well, with John striking twice in his 5th over. However I had a predetermined plan, and heartlessly removed him from the attack to replace him with Morgan Kemp and Aza Long. The visitors were down to 26 for 4, however they simply were not good enough to get to Aran or Morgans bowling and so chances were few. Runs were not important, they were never going to get to the 235 required, so I sacrificed the miserley Kemp for myself in an attempt to get them to hit out. It worked first ball as Mr Harees played all around one of my nonspinning spinners and lost his offstump. 5 wickets down, 30 overs left, we could taste our first victory.

However the middle order stuck around, they even withstood the confusing pace of Sean O'Clarke. The batting hero Morgan Kemp, even dropped a dolly of the skippers bowling putting his place in jeopardy. Alistair Warner-Rowley made up for it, by taking a great catch of his own bowling to leave the visitors on 82-7. West Reading defended resolutely, in their normal style by whacking ball after ball to cow corner, and eventually Aran Lang struck on 111 for for 7. Malik Tahin played a sensible innings batting at number 5 and staying around, obviously playing for the draw and frustrating us. While he stuck around Mikey Storey bowled Ahmed, and took the 8th wicket. it was tense, but Kemp came on for his second spell, and made up for the dropped catch, by taking the last two with fine catches by Alistair Knox who took 4 catches in the match. it took us 45.3 overs to wrap up the victory, so a good decision to declare.

Obviously a fantastic return for Morgan Kemp, 119 runs, 8.3 overs 3 for 8 and one dropped catch.

Also young Sunny Sunwar played well behind the stumps and batted very soundly on his debut

Captain: DJC Jocelyn
Keeper: Sunny Sunwar
Debut's: Sunny Sunwar
6's: Kemp 2
Ducks: Alasdair Knox, Mike Storey, Chris Jocelyn
Catches: Knox 4, Nash 1, Warner-Rowley 1, Payne 1
MOM: Morgan Kemp

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 3rd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
3nb 12w 9b 3lb 
for 9 wickets
27
234		        
Tom Nash b Ahmed 34 5 1
Alasdair Knox b Mahmood 0 4
Mike Storey b Mahmood 0
S.D. Clarke ct Harees 1
Morgan Kemp b Ahmed 119 21 2
Alistair Warner-Rowley b Harees 30 4 1
Aran Long b Khan 2 1
Chris Jocelyn ct Khan 0
Sunny Sunwar ct Ahmed 13 1
Nigel Payne Not Out  8 1
John Cartledge Not Out  0

West Reading 3 Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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West Reading 3 Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
12w 8b 2lb 
for 10 wickets
22
147 (45.3 overs)		     
Razzaq ct Payne b Kemp 11
Azeem run out (Long) 0
S Khan ct Nash b Cartledge 4
A Khan ct Knox b Cartledge 0
M Tahir ct Knox b Kemp 28
M Harees b Jocelyn 13
S Hafeez ct & b Warner-Rowley 21
A Harees ct Knox b Long 18
Z Ahmed b Storey 7
U Mahmood ct Knox b Kemp 23
S Khan Not Out  0

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 3rd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Mike Storey8.0137137.004.62
John Cartledge8.031427.001.75
Morgan Kemp8.33832.670.94
Aran Long10.0127127.002.70
Chris Jocelyn6.0029129.004.83
S.D. Clarke2.001700.008.50
Alistair Warner-Rowley3.01818.002.67