RNVR Cricket Club

Scorecard

Cuckfield CC v RNVR Cricket Club on Wed 09 Aug 1961 at 11.30am
RNVR Cricket Club Lost by an INNINGS and 22 runs

Match report Without doubt the largest defeat in RNVR history.
A year after acceding to the Captaincy of Cuckfield CC, but then playing for the RNVR, in a rare visitor victory, Geoffrey leads his side to a massive win in 1961.

If one assumes that the day had started off with the normal format anticipated, then CCC won by 6 wickets with Mr Bassano and Mildred at the crease at about 4.10pm
In which case only a wicket each for Cross and Cox and a pair for Connolly would count, but history tells another tale......

Cuckfield declare at 5.26pm having accelerated to 208 for 8 decl, and had time for a 19 minute tea (4.31pm-4.50pm), so scored an unlikely 83 in the session from 4.50pm to 5.27pm. A period of feasting in which the RNVR's 9th bowler Patrick Sergeant took his wicket........while Peter Connolly only conceded 6 runs in a second spell of 4-2-6-1, so Hensher and James took the brunt.

CCCs run rate
50 in 45 mins
100 in 80 mins
150 in 111 mins
200 in 132 mins


And Bassanos 50 in 55 mins

The RNVR second innings starts at 5.40pm and is over at about 7pm - A fairly high proportion (56 x 91 = 62%) of RNVR 2nd innings are boundaries.....Entertainment was not lacking!

It had all started so normally, but at 24-2 at 12.21pm (11.45am start) AGH sends in a lunch watchman with 55 minutes till lunch, Tony James, inked to bat at 8 is promoted. He survives the last three balls of Heath's opening over ( the 11th), but after a single off the first of Gould's spell is out. Is it possible that players were as tardy to arrive in 1961 as later years? Is that the birth of the arrive 20 minutes early we are guests thing on the fixture card??

By lunch at 1.15pm, RNVR are 7 down for 90 , and lost Cross to the first ball after the resumption, with Ashford gone to the 3rd. 10 down.
Innings over 12 minutes after lunch, at 2.41pm.

The "first" job of passing 91 is done in 75 minutes and then the entertainment started!


Just before he became a Published Author, President and opening bat Geoffrey Longfield recalled:
Piers you have disturbed the Muse and this reply will be nearly as long as my book “70 Years at the Crease”. You will be delighted to hear that the book has been printed but disappointed that “the Launch” is being postponed until the Covid Restrictions have been eased. Someone suggested a Launch on Wed 4/8/2021 (the RNVR game) but this is too late in the season.

As you say 1961 was my first year skippering Cuckfield, Tony Cahill having resigned after 4 years (1957-1960). I can remember all the Cuckfield players but only 3 RNVR. I opened with our wicket keeper Brian Rodin and then came Tony Gould who was probably in his last year at Ardingly College (Tony’s brother John was later captain of Lindfield). No 4 was Richard Roberts, a regular player, who later moved away to the Tonbridge area. I heard of him last year playing golf at Knowle Park, I think,

Brian Bassano who came from South Africa played Cricket at Ansty and was guesting for us and of course made top score of 78. John Mildred was a left arm opening bowler and Barry Galbraith played little but his twin brother Martin was a good left arm slow bowler. At no 8 W.S.H.Garforth our one legged (a tin leg) batsman whose house at Ansty now belongs to Jon and Marion Petitpierre. You allowed Bill to score 25 – just as well for RNVR that he was handicapped! Ray Tidey (another Ansty resident) was over 6 feet tall but was not quick enough to worry the batsmen. Jeremy Thacker later regularly opened the bowling with Tim Peacock. Lastly Roger Heath a local lad and useful bowler.

I have to admit that I did not see or pay any attention to our great win vs RNVR when going through the old scorebooks.
After all it was not Cuckfield’s biggest win, only an innings plus 22 runs!
In an all day game v Preston Nomads in 1966 the victory margin was innings plus 54 runs. Nomads one of our strongest opponents batted first and by lunch had been dismissed for 55. During the afternoon (despite the celebratory lunch) Cuckfield scored 172 for 5 declared and then after tea shot Nomads out for 63.


RNVR Cricket Club RNVR CC Batting - 1st innings
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
1w 11b 2lb 
for 10 wickets
14
95		        
E C Mason b Tidey 0 8
Sir Patrick J Sergeant b Heath 8 36 1
J Baxter b Gould 25 66 2
C Anthony (Tony) H James b Gould 0 4 4 0
Eddie G Cox b Gould 16 24 2 1 1
Ken C Walker ct Roden, Bassano 0 5 1
W Cross lbw Thacker 14 17 3
Arthur G Hensher st Roden, Bassano 11 10 2
Peter M Connolly Not Out  4 16
H Ashford b Thacker 2 1 2 100
R A V Frost ct Gould, Heath 1 8 1

Cuckfield CC Bowling - 1st innings

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
R Tidey5.0111111.002.20
J Mildred5.02800.001.60
R Heath6.421326.501.95
A V E Gould7.022538.333.57
B Bassano4.001326.503.25
J Thacker3.001125.503.67

Cuckfield CC Batting - 1st innings
Player name RMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
1nb 1w 6lb 
for 8 wickets
8
208 (39.4 overs)		     
Geoffrey Longfield* ct Cox, Cross 7 15 1
Brian Roden + b Connolly 1 17
A (Tony) V E Gould lbw Cox 21 34 3
Richard Roberts b Connolly 39 51 5
Brian Bassano st Walker, James 78 76 11
John Mildred b James 5 14
Barry Galbraith b Baxter 3 8
W (Bill) S H Garforth ct Frost, Sergeant 25 34 3
Ray Tidey Not Out  7 5
Jeremy Thacker Not Out  12 2 1 1
Roger Heath  

RNVR Cricket Club RNVR CC Bowling - 1st innings

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Peter M Connolly10.0326213.002.60
W Cross7.0217117.002.43
Eddie G Cox5.0121121.004.20
H Ashford4.002600.006.50
E C Mason1.00800.008.00
C Anthony (Tony) H James4.4043221.509.21
J Baxter3.0022122.007.33
Arthur G Hensher4.001900.004.75
Sir Patrick J Sergeant1.00212.002.00
RNVR Cricket Club RNVR CC Batting - 2nd innings
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
3lb 
for 10 wickets
3
91		        
E C Mason b Galbraith 5 220
Sir Patrick J Sergeant ct Tidey, Galbraith 14 20 3
J Baxter ct Bassano, Galbraith 20 20 2
Eddie G Cox ct Roberts, Galbraith 12 13 2
Ken C Walker b Mildred 4 7 1
W Cross b Bassano 10 10 1
Arthur G Hensher b Mildred 1 6
C Anthony (Tony) H James b Mildred 13 10 2
Peter M Connolly b Mildred 2 23
H Ashford ct Tidey, Bassano 6 4 1
R A V Frost Not Out  0 4

Cuckfield CC Bowling - 2nd innings

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Thacker4.011400.003.50
Heath3.02500.001.67
Roberts4.011500.003.75
Galbraith6.003448.505.67
Mildred5.03441.000.80
Bassano2.001527.507.50

Cuckfield CC Batting - 2nd innings
Player name RMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
 
for 0 wickets
0
0 (0.0 overs)		     
Longfield  
Roden  
Gould  
Robert  
Bassano  
Mildred  
Galbraith  
Barforth  
Tidey  
Thacker  
Heath  

RNVR Cricket Club RNVR CC Bowling - 2nd innings

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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