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Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI v Phoenix on Sun 26 Apr 2015 at 1:00 pm
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Lost by 134 runs

Match report Crows crash to catastrophic collapse.

Mackenzie won the toss and decided to field. Great opening spells from Sykes and Jeff went mostly unrewarded as a succession of chances went down, balls were skied into gaps, and the ball beat the bat over and over again. But the two openers hung around for 12 overs, and though Cluett eventually took the 1st wicket, that only brought the more expansive law to the crease. The batsmen opened up, throwing the bat and riding their luck as the bowlers shook off their early season rustiness, 3 catches were put down and the Crows would regret those missed chances later on.
Kally was approaching his Ton, and Law got his 50 before the skipper, Mackenzie, took matters into his own hands and brought himself onto bowl. Bamboozling the batsmen with a brilliant mix of slow loopy non spinning spin bowling, and slightly quicker and less loopy non spinning spin bowling, he took three wickets, including kally on 89, and law on 61 in two balls, prompting questions about why he hadn't bowled sooner. Billy 'the kid' Coles took a wicket with his first ball, and had two more catches dropped, but it was too little too late, and the damage had already been done.
the big tea didn't seem to slow the phoenix bowling down much. Rowdy, who finished with figures of 5 for 19 off 5 overs, ripped through the batting order, bowling quickly and bending it round corners. The economical Girdeep at the other end took 2 for 4 off 8 overs, as the Crows collapsed to 44 for 8 off just 12 overs. Gutsy rear guard batting from Sykes and Cluett made things look slightly more respectable, but Sykes went for 19, and when Coles was stumped after playing a couple of nice shots it was all over, with the crows skittled for 98, leaving Cluett stranded on 36 not out.

Speaking to the press after his first game as permanent Sunday skipper, Mackenzie took the responsibility for the defeat, 'It's not the result I was hoping for, and maybe my inexperience cost us a bit in the field, leaving us facing a big total. That put pressure on the batsmen from the off, which we didn't deal with very well.' After praise for his spell with the ball, Mackenzie responded modestly,'Yes my bowling was brilliant, but its about the team, and I'd exchange every wicket I took for the win. I hope to be able to put things right next week'

Phoenix Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
1nb 7w 10b 7lb 
for 5 wickets
25
232 (40.0 overs)		     
kally ct  ct manning b. mackenzie 89
prince ct  ct baroon b.Jeff cluett 8
law ct  ct manning b mackenzie 61
hakeb ct  ct j.cluett b Mackenzie 0
balkar ct  ct J cluett b Coles 1
babbu Not Out  11
sokhill Not Out  30
Nad  
Rowdy  
Girdeep  
sanj  

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Jeff Cluett8.0127127.003.38
Alex Sykes8.033200.004.00
Richard Barron4.001600.004.00
Gordon Hawkes4.002700.006.75
Peter Clarke6.003200.005.33
Dan Manning3.003200.0010.67
Brendon MacKenzie3.00933.003.00
Billy Coles2.0011111.005.50
Christopher Foxon2.001800.009.00

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
1w 1b 1lb 
for 10 wickets
3
98		        
Richard Barron ct  ct keeper b rowdy 14 3 1
David Shaw b  b rowdy 12 2
Daniel Boulton b  b rowdy 4 1
Gordon Hawkes ct  ct keeper b girdeep 1
Dan Manning b  b rowdy 0 2
Christopher Foxon b  b rowdy 0
Brendon MacKenzie ct  ct keeper b girdeep 7 1
Peter Clarke b  b sanj 0
Alex Sykes ct  b sanj 19 3
Jeff Cluett Not Out  36 6 2
Billy Coles st  b sanj 4

Phoenix Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
rowdy roddy piper5.011953.803.80
girdeep8.03422.000.50
sanj7.502739.003.45
nads3.00900.003.00