RNVR Cricket Club

Scorecard

Banstead CC v RNVR Cricket Club on Sun 08 Jun 2014 at 14.00
RNVR Cricket Club Won by 7 wickets

Match report Banstead CC vs RNVR CC

Banstead 181 all out (R Wood 4 for 29)
RNVR 182 for 3 (C Bridges 114 not out)

RNVR win by 7 wickets

Cosmo Calypso

Summer arrives.

Glorious, sweltering day. Sun roofs back, sun glasses on and suncream applied.
Stories of faulty sat navs from several team members but roughly 11 assembled at 1.45 for the toss.
Ooops we seem to be in the field. I did mention sweltering. Never mind, enjoy the weather.

Sweaty palms for some, George admitted to nervous anticipation for his frist game of the season, and with hindsight maybe predictable that with this heat surely someone would blow a fuse, the ingredients were all there: Sunday always being the morning after the night before, sunshine, testosterone, no clouds and a recent repeat of a television classic "Grumpy Old Men' still on flash back in our minds...

George's nerves didn't show in his good pace but maybe translated to a slightly absract radar. Speedman opened with aplomb, accuracy and dependability and no real signs of grumpiness. It was he who looked most likely to make the break though. Even so close to the game itself it's hard to remember the precise order of fumbled catches and wickets but needless to say there were a number of "sorry's" and "shit, sorry's" in the mix.

The batsmen flattered to deceive and the bowlers decided the best way to secure wickets was to hit the stumps. Horribly conventional. It was Speedman who took the first wicket, followed shortly by George inducing the batsman to carve the ball into his own stumps. On arrival of the new man Speedman, I did mention someone bound to blow a fuse, gave instructions to new-boy-and-keeper-of-choice Phil - get your helmet (a fun item to wear for 35 overs in this heat) as the batsman stepped 3 paces outside his crease. (This writer over heard the incumbent batsman regale the incoming batsman with 'straight up and down' for a description of Speedmans finest efforts). Maybe he too overheard this description and that's what triggered the funk. Double teapot, expletives and an altogether unnecessary dressing down later... things settled down to a steady progress by both teams. One of theirs contributing a solid 60+. A couple more wickets using the more reliable, tried and trusted method of hitting the stumps, ushered in Wood, another new boy, to the bowling attack. C&B was the obvious answer to his team mates inability to catch catches. Followed by a dastardly psychological dismissal of a young pretender.

Accompanied (we bowl in pairs don't you know) ably by a man from the Cosmos who we shall speak of later. A few more dropped catches later. Davinder had a wicket... But Wood had excelled and the fielders, having gone off the boil as it were, ably supported him. 4-29 and very sound spell and just what the junior doctor ordered - as in captain, as in he's young and the previous captain is a doctor... ha! Then to prove that we could actually catch, the man from the Cosmos told everyone, batsman included, where the catch would come, placed himself there and duly took it. Was it going to be his day? Then the captain himself took a blinder (even our sarcastic and cynical bunch had to pay him a compliment). The coup de grace was issued by a Davinder and Phil combo: bowled/caught behind/stumped-mystery.

Off to tea, cake and hydration.

Captains conundrum 2: (the first being getting here) batting order.
Looking round he realised he was spoilt for choice with a selected team of 11 all-round batsman bowlers...

Phil and Cosmic enter the fray. 1st ball pinged to slip and dropped. Were we to see the other convention of RNVR cricket: in an attempt to score 12 an over every over we lose wickets rapidly and then seem surprised. In the proceeding 4 overs there were 6 dropped catches or was it 6 overs 4 catches dropped. Which just goes to prove its not only us that can't handle the heat... Either way P&C weren't hanging around! But after the initial cakes at tea sugar rush had subsided a period of batting dominance was entered into. Phil 25, Skip 15, George 17 all ably assisted a master class of batting from Mr Colin 'Cosmic' Bridges, 114 not out (containing 16 fours and 1 six - and an all run 3 to bring up the landmark) to see us home by a considerable margin by any measure. And unbelievably a maiden hundred. Congratulations.

Man of the match decisions:
1. The captain for not bowling himself
2. Atif for exemplar fielding
3. Junior for putting his body on the line for his team mate (in running the 3 for Cosmic's 100, he revisited Saturday night's adventures)
4. Julian for resolute gentlemanly conduct in the face of a boiling kettle
5. R Wood for 4-29
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6. A bowling, fielding and batting master class... Step forward Mr Bridges

[Scorebook note; Mr Earl was also caught behind and stumped!!]

Banstead CC Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
6nb 9w 8b 1lb 
for 10 wickets
24
181 (38.5 overs)		     
Pearce b  J Speedman 19 21 90.48
Montebello b  G Taylor 8 10 80.0
Stott b  J Speedman 2 12 16.67
Hunt ct  P Thorn Bowled R Wood 64
Criscuolo b  B Dale 7 14 50.0
Harper ct  & Bowled R Wood 36 49 73.47
Montebello b  R Wood 2 7 28.57
Kugathas ct  R Vaughan Bowled R Wood 5
Varanad ct  C Bridges Bowled D Ranu 13
Earl b  D Ranu 0
Binns Not Out  1

RNVR Cricket Club RNVR CC Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Jonathan Speedman10.0141220.504.10
George Taylor5.0036136.007.20
Ben Dale6.0115115.002.50
Colin Bridges7.002400.003.43
Roland Wood7.002947.254.14
Davinder Ranu3.5026213.006.78

RNVR Cricket Club RNVR CC Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
1nb 5w 2b  
for 3 wickets
8
182		        
Colin Bridges Not Out  114 16 1 1
Phil Thorn ct  & Bowled Montebello 25 5 1
Rupert Vaughan b  Montebello 15 3 1
George Taylor ct  Earl 17 2
James Massey Not Out  2
Atif Khan  
Julian Staples  
Roland Wood   1
Ben Dale  
Jonathan Speedman  
Davinder Ranu  

Banstead CC Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Kugathas6.012400.004.00
Montebello9.0161230.506.78
Varanad5.003400.006.80
Binns5.203400.006.38
Earl4.0027127.006.75