RNVR Cricket Club

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St Albans CC v RNVR Cricket Club on Sun 12 May 2013 at 13:30
RNVR Cricket Club Lost 6 wickets

Match report St. Albans CC vs RNVR
Clarence Park - 12th May 2013

RNVR 154 all out (38.2 overs) – (Bridges 37, Atif 20*, Vaughan 19)
St. Albans 156-4 (23.5 overs) – (Happy Days 2-49)

St Albans win by 6 Wickets

A Vintage Spring Day: Rain 1 RNVR 0

After last week’s elation it was a rather cold come back down to Earth for the RNVR this week.

It started out as a truly vintage English spring day. The sun was out. The birds were singing. And the team were ready with their sunglasses aplenty. As the skip won the toss and elected to bat first, it couldn’t have started better. Tiger Tim sent the ball to all corners early on, but after he fell attempting a pull off St. Albans eager opening bowler (who managed a casual 15-over spell), the wheels slowly started to come off the wagon.

First the weather decided to go against us. The rain started to come down and the temperature dropped. Good ol’ April showers in May. As the battle-hardened supporters started to head for the covers, so did our batting (or into the hands of cover to be more exact). Fergie finally succumbed to the opposition’s sledging, and Bill and Charlie fell shortly after that. Despite some middle order resistance from Bridges, Vaughan, Massey and Atif (with some late blows), the RNVR finally fell for 154 all out.

Fair to say there were some catches of a rather higher quality than we were normally used to.

As the team attempted to re-group at the interval by tucking into some jam doughnuts, the biggest worry turned to how many jumpers we could wear in the field as we began to add jumper’s no.2 and 3 on in an attempt to combat the cold. We were joined on the field by some fellow in an opposition sweater (or was that Charlie?) who popped up at backward point, needless to say, we could’ve done with some extra fielders. St. Albans started confidently and started to pepper the boundary with some forceful shots. Happy Days responded with two brute Yorkers that would’ve made Dale Steyn proud. Both openers back in the hutch. Game on.

Unfortunately, despite our pleading with the umps to call “rain stopped play”, we persevered on in the field and against the biting rain. A couple of spills here and there, and despite a couple more wickets, including the overseas to our skip’s fine “off” spin, our score was surpassed shortly before the 24th over for 4 down.

Nevertheless it was a valuable performance, and good to get some time out in the middle in some “testing conditions”. Here’s to a summer of good British weather.

RNVR Cricket Club RNVR CC Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
1nb 10w 6b 1lb 
for 10 wickets
18
155		        
Tim Hardman ct C Hay 7
Steve Ferguson ct Hancock 18 1 1
Bill Allen ct Hancock 6 1 1
Colin Bridges ct C Hay 37 7
Charlie Crichton ct &b C Hay 10
Matt DeLooze Bowled  8 2
Rupert Vaughan ct by Hay, b? 19 1 2 1
James Massey Bowled  11 1
Atif Khan Not Out  20 3
Tony Oudejans Stumped  0
Davinder Ranu Caught  1

St Albans CC Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
C Hay15.0349316.333.27
Hancock9.0231215.503.44
37.0048224.006.86
44.22832.671.85
53.011100.003.67

St Albans CC Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
5w 4b  
for 4 wickets
9
156 (23.5 overs)		     
Eames b Anthony Oudejans 12 2
Nigar b Anthony Oudejan 17 3
Jones Not Out  66 10 1
Manoj ct Colin Bridges 32 6
Oakley ct Rupert Vaughan 15 1
Still Not Out  5 1
   
   
   
Hay  
Hancock  

RNVR Cricket Club RNVR CC Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Tony Oudejans5.0049224.509.80
Davinder Ranu6.012800.004.67
Colin Bridges5.0220120.004.00
James Massey3.002200.007.33
Rupert Vaughan2.5015115.005.29
Atif Khan2.001800.009.00