Match Report vs Clytha
1 August 2010 @ The Moat (Skipper and Report Cheese)
The Cazh met at the Clytha arms in plenty of time for the
14:00 “start” though as expected the Clytha team
were still arriving so the conversation drifted from Gareth
and Kim’s friendly banter about who was going to hit
the most sixes this season to JRs’ wife’s under
carriage and the back to Gareth over the best way to get his
TT to the ground.
Eventually Clytha team decide the winds were right and off
we went to the ground, after a quick pitch inspection, the
game rules were decided 30 overs with a max of 6; the toss
was lost and the Cazh were surprisingly inserted into bat.
Ed and Tesh opened up with the general idea of surviving
the first 5 overs and from the first ball that was always
going to be about lucky rather than skill. After getting through
the first 5 overs with a couple of boundaries due half trackers
and full tosses, the opposition bowlers decided to start using
the facilities and started to bowl a good length. The bowler
from the Hospital end was sending down predominantly leg cutters,
after getting away with a thick outside edge which looped
over the point, Tesh opened his body to ball that pitched
on leg looking to clip into the on-side only for the ball
to jag off the wicket and sail past the outside edge and clatter
into middle and off.
25-1 (5.4 overs)
JR was next to make the short walk to the middle and paddled
his first ball down to fine leg for a single. After a couple
more singles and byes in the next over, JR returned to face
the leg cutter. Bowling a off side line induced a couple of
wafts from JR, on the third go JR made contact only for it
to brush gloves and was caught behind.
34-2 (7.5 overs)
Kim joined Ed at the crease, with instructions from the
latter that the bad balls need to go. Kim eyes light up when
the first ball was a full toss at waist height and setting
himself to send the ball for the maximum, he played the ball
too early and got a toe end and was caught and bowled.
34-3 (8 overs)
Gareth strolled out to the middle looking to cash in on
the short boundary after Kim had not. After stealing the strike
at the end of the 9 over Ed was on strike to face the hat-trick
ball with only thoughts to deny the bowler his glory. This
defiance only lasted until the third ball of the over, when
he tried to sweep a ball that pitched outside leg to miss
it and got bowled around his legs.
35-4 (9.3 overs)
Shakey was up next and showed Ed how to play that type of
delivery by waiting for it and clipping around the corner
of a single. This brought Gareth on strike for the first time
and spanked his first ball to the boundary. Though the next
ball had not learnt the lesson from Shakey and was bowled
around his legs in similar fashion to Ed.
40-5 (10 overs)
As Mahesh joined Shakey in the middle there was a slight
air of panic in the Cazh paddock, this only subsided slightly
when we realised that the bowler who decimated the top order
had completed his allotted overs. Mahesh and Shakey started
to rebuild the innings with controlled aggression by hitting
the bad balls to the boundary and picking up the singles where
they could. Considering the wicket some of the shots played
by both were remarkable with the on side driving standing
out particularly.
This partnership stayed together for 10 overs contributing
44 runs to the total. With the rebuilding done by the 20th
over Shakey decided to go on the offensive only to be undone
by the pitch with on that kept low and he was bowled for battling
27.
84-6(20.4overs)
As one Stephens’ walked in another walked out, Paul
was in next. At this point I think Mahesh felt like he was
batting with the tail, as the next over he took for 17 with
Paul and me wondering where that came from. The shots were
done with such control that there was no real danger except
maybe the one that was whipped off middle stump to the midwicket
boundary. After the over was completed Paul reminded Mahesh
that he was no mug with the bat and the next couple of overs
were taken at a more sedate pace.
Until in the 26th over Mahesh decided to flick the switch
again taking this one for 20, 5 fours all carted to the midwicket
boundary. After this Paul decided to get into the action driving
the ball straight back down the ground only for the bowler
to flail out an instinctive hand and the ball to stick.
137 for 7 (26.1 overs)
Dion was next in with girlfriend watching from the boundary,
(never a good omen for many a cazh batsmen) first ball was
well left by batsmen and the keeper bring Mahesh back on strike.
With Mahesh still trying to dominate the bowling the final
overs were going to be interesting. Mahesh kept on attacking
only for one to stop on him meaning that he clipped the ball
into the air and was caught at midwicket for 58. A 58 that
was worth a ton on other grounds.
138 for 8 (27 overs)
This was not the pitch to come in on and try and score straight
away and Iain, Dev and Richie struggled to lay willow on leather
with any real venom. Dev was out caught off a leading edge
and Iain was undone by a good Yorker, leaving the cazh finishing
on 143 all out off 29.1 overs
Ed – 23 (bowled) (1x4; 2x6)
Tesh – 4 (bowled)
JR – 2 (caught)
Kim – 0 (caught)
Gareth – 4 (bowled) (1x4)
Mark S – 27 (bolwed) (4x4)
Mahesh – 58 (caught) (13x4)
Paul S – 2 (caught)
Iain – 0 (bowled)
Dev – 1 (caught)
Richie – 0 (not out)
As normal no tea break (although beer was available), so
on to the bowling.
Iain opened from the pavilion end with a 5 / 4 field, with
the cazh employing a fly slip. Iain bowled a great off side
line, hitting the pitch in the right areas and conceding only
4 runs off the bat in his 6 overs with a couple of extreme
wides which were down to the ball being too shiny!! Iain deserved
a wicket and would have had one except for an it’s yours
moment between himself, Mahesh and Tesh over a simple catch.
Pablo took the second over from the hospital end and bowled
a tight first over, though took a bit of punishment in his
second bowling a tad too short and getting pulled to leg but
managed to entice a false drive to mid on where Shakey took
a great diving catch. On request from the skip Paul held back
3 overs for the death where he tried his variations to get
wickets unfortunately they did not come off though did finally
get one past the bat and Kim took the bails efficiently.
Dev was next on from the hospital end and bowled tidy first
three overs. Then had a break and came back strong in his
last three overs. Getting his first victim bowled swinging
in and then going away to take the off stump. Then started
the Dev and Mahesh show with two identical wickets with Dev
finding the leading edge and Mahesh catching comfortably at
point both times.
Gareth bowled the second leg at the pavilion end and bowled
with good pace and control (at times). Gareth’s first
wicket was bowling the dangerous looking no. 3 but was helped
out by the stumps being varnished early in the season as it
only just clipped the leg stump. In the same over he bounced
out the oppo captain with Kim taking a sharp catch. There
were also great changes in pace during the spell and a well
disguised slower ball led to the batsmen chipping back the
ball to him for a well worked caught and bowled.
Shakey took the middle overs from the hospital end. The change
of pace allowed the batsmen to slap to leg a bit more, though
no batmen’s did this with any great authority. The opening
bat (who batted for 26 overs for 22!) did connect with one
that looked like it was going for a flat six. Dion managed
to get his hands to the ball though only to parry down inside
the boundary. Good spell from Shakey but just did not work
for him.
Tesh took the remaining 2 overs from the hospital end and
after a quick discussion went with the medium pace rather
than the moon balls. Bowling a good off side line he was unlucky
not to pick up a wicket.
Warwick: 6overs – 2 maidens – 7 runs –
0 wickets
Stephens P: 6-0-35-2
Dev: 6-1-8-3
Loveridge: 6-1-12-3
Stephens M: 4-0-21-0
Tesh: 2-0-4-0
The game ended with the cazh winning by 42 runs, this was
mainly down to Mahesh butchering 37 runs off two overs and
the bowlers working well as a group offering very few gimme
balls.
The only disappointment of the day was the tea at the end
with tales of previous gorge fests everybody was ready to
tuck in only for us to wonder if the paltry offerings were
just for us or both teams. The question was not pondered for
long as the Cazh dived in.
Good Game, interesting wicket, only to say when we book the
fixture for next year make sure they know who they are feeding.
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