Cavendish Cricket Club

Another sunny evening and a firm, dry pitch at Churchill. Our opponents seemed to be in some doubt as to whether to bat, so we obliged by winning the toss and making the obvious decision: put the runs on the board. With Brett missing, we reverted to our previous opening combo, with Matt playing sheet anchor and Colin (79, including 10 boundaries) resuming his familiar role and plundering the hapless Biochemical bowlers all over the park. While several kept a decent line and length, there was a certain lack of penetration to the attack, and some good straight bats and a lot of running brought up a hundred partnership in the 13th over. We stumbled a little at this stage, losing 5 wickets in short order and only scoring 21 runs in the last 5 overs, but the healthy start enabled us to post an asking rate of nearly 8 runs an over.

With Damo cavorting through Eastern Europe, Ed and JB opened our attack, and some tidy bowling saw the bad guys struggling for runs before Ed (2/21) cleaned up their opener in his third over. With the final ball of his spell he then took out their danger man from Durban, who complained to the umpire despite an edge to the ‘keeper that was audible from the boundary. Although they were still well in touch with the required run rate at 3/59, in the final analysis the Biochemists were not able to come back from this loss. Matt managed to hit the off stump with the first ball of his spell, but it was the leg bail that came off (arguably due to a rebound from Colin’s boot) so the batsman remained. However on the 3rd ball of the over Ed got himself into the game again with a blistering catch at cover to have them 4/65. Thomas bowled with his usual guile, and absolutely bamboozled their number 5 before having him stumped. The visitors were able to push close to 10 an over from their final 5, but found they had left their run too late and were still 26 runs short at the close. Although our bowling and fielding could have been a little tighter, we showed good experience and composure to comfortably secure our 6th win running against an opposition that was stronger than their previous form might have indicated. Well done boys.

Cavendish

Batting
C. Evans caught Ward 79
M. Riddle bowled Stewart 37
J. Palfreyman caught Stewart 2
E. Crossland bowled Rami 1
J. Benesch bowled Rami 2
K.J. Thomas not out 9

Extras 25

Total 5/155

Biochemistry

Batting
Brian bowled Crossland 12
Stewart ct behind Evans Crossland 24
James caught Crossland bowled Riddle 14
Tom not out 46
Nick run out 12
Kad stumped Evans bowled K.J. Thomas 2

Extras 18

Total 5/129

Bowling
E. Crossland 5-0-21-2
J. Benesch 5-0-31-0
K.J. Thomas 5-0-34-1
M. Riddle 3-0-16-1
A. Phillips 2-0-19-0