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Match Review 2004

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Date Day Opposition Result Score Opp Score Best Batting Best Bowling
25-Apr Sun Marlow Drawn 178-7 216-6 dec A Padhani 74 B Jackson 3-30
43 ov 38 ov
02-May Sun Hit Or Miss Cancelled
05-May Wed Worcester Park Cancelled
09-May Sun Chipperfield Cancelled
13-May Thu Montenotte Lost - 8 wkts 133 a/o 136-2 Y Vora 33 J Hoare 1-34
45.4 ov 29.1 ov
16-May Sun Chorleywood Drawn 192-6 201-5 dec N Miles-Thomas 77 J Hoare 2-49
39 ov 36.1 ov
19-May Wed Pangbourne College Lost - 83 runs 75-9 (a/o) 158-9 (a/o) J Hoare 19* J Hoare 3-32
30.2 ov 31 ov
23-May Sun N P L & Lensbury Drawn 114-8 187-4 dec I Khan 31 J Hoare 2-70
40 ov 38 ov
26-May Wed Ruislip Victoria Cancelled
30-May Sun Horsley & Send Drawn 223-7 240-2 dec O Oldroyd 143 T Christie 1-26
48 ov 42 ov
31-May Mon Preston Cancelled
02-Jun Wed British Airways Lost 170-2 235-5 A Padhani 79* A Anish 2-8
40 ov 40 ov
06-Jun Sun Wellington College Won - 7 wkts 236-3 232-4 dec T Gemmill 98* M Sadler 2-44
45.5 ov 34.2 ov
09-Jun Wed South Hampstead Drawn 63-9 218-3 dec M Leitch 12 A Padhani 1-2
39 ov 40 ov
13-Jun Sun Hampstead Cancelled
16-Jun Wed Dulwich Cancelled
20-Jun Sun Stroud Green Abandoned 61-1 200-6 B Ganji 32 I Khan 2-23
12.2 ov 40 ov
24-Jun Thu Wembley Lost 147 a/o 148-2 A Padhani 52 A Zaman 1-20
38.5 ov 23.4 ov
27-Jun Sun Brentham Abandoned 198-5 dec 49-0 O Oldroyd 50 G Chaudray 0-4
35.1 ov 9 ov
30-Jun Wed Taplow Won 255-2 259-4 dec J Davis 101 D Reilly 2-54
39 ov 41 ov
04-Jul Sun Eastcote Won - 14 runs 260-0 dec 246-9 (a/o) J Davis 130* Y Vora 4-18
40 ov 39 ov
07-Jul Wed Flycatchers Abandoned 255-6 dec 46-0 A Padhani 103 I Khan 0-22
45 ov 6 ov J Hoare 0-22
11-Jul Sun Tiffin Tercels Lost - 15 runs 163 a/o 178-7 dec O Oldroyd 87 M Sadler 3-77
35 ov 46 ov
15-Jul Thu Richmond Cancelled
18-Jul Sun H.A.C. Drawn 251-4 dec 211-7 O Oldroyd 81 I Khan 3-58
43 ov 47 ov
22-Jul Thu Sunday Barbarians Lost - 51 runs 120 a/o 171 a/o D Harte 33 M Isepp 3-32
41.3 ov 50.5 ov
28-Jul Wed Ealing Lost - 35 runs 203 a/o 238-3 dec M Isepp 91 M Leitch 1-38
33.2 ov 45.2 ov
01-Aug Sun Adastrians Won - 79 runs 228-5 dec 149 a/o A Padhani 68 M Isepp 4-28
55 ov 36.2 ov
05-Aug Thu Winchcombe Abandoned
06-Aug Fri Gloucestershire Gypsie Lost - 7 wkts 192 a/o 195-3 D Harte 49* O Oldroyd 1-21
68.5 ov 48 ov
Many years ago William Wordsworth wrote the immortal words "I wandered lonely as a cloud". Well, wherever he was when he wrote these words he certainly wasn't at the Stowell Park Cricket Ground on August 6th 2004. The clouds were the most gregarious bunch of bastards you could hope to meet. Great hummocks of cumulo-nimbus filled the sky like misplaced barrage balloons.

In previous year's what has marked this fixture out from other matches has been the use of unusual and questionable tactics by the home side. One year they even resorted to arranging with RAF Fairford to send over a fleet of turbo prop De Havilland World War 2 Bombers to fly low over the ground as the Stage batsmen homed in on their target. This year's game was no exception: The Gipsies took to the field in a melange of beaujolais, cerise and old gold clothing and one half excepted to hear the strains of Tina Turner's "Simply the Best" to be blaring over the public address system as they took the field. This game, however, was not a quick biff, bang 20 over skirmish. This would be like comparing the game with last weeks copy of Viz with Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Even if some of the Stage's early batting  by Asif Padhani and Will Chitty reminded one more of the activities of Buster Gonad and Johnny Fartpants than Julius Caesar or Hannibal. Jenner and Oldroyd supplied some steadiness and restored the game to sanity but both succumbed on a pitch that looked about as trustworthy as one of Jeffrey Archer's Witness Box statements. At lunch, the Stage were in the parlous state of 84 for 5 and an air of fatalism hung over the side's previously contented demeanour.

However, the indefatigable Irishman, Dominic Harte supported by the diminutive Davis, till he was cruelly run out, the injury prone Barclay, the evergreen John Hoare (also run out) and the ebullient and pugnacious Beckman, who smote the ball with a healthy untutored gusto to most parts of this picturesque ground in scoring his 13 turned the Stage total into a respectable 198 all out. At this point sadly your correspondent was obliged to leave the proceedings and throw himself on the mercies of the Cirencester Accident & Emergency Dept. He is relying on "hearsay" for the rest of the game. From this point, therefore, objectivity leaves this report  rather like a virgin might leave a wife-swapping party. On his return he found the Stage had been vanquished by 7 wickets thanks to the efforts of two young tyros Tom and Edward Richardson. And so the Bamboozler makes his way to the Fracture clinic of St. Thomas’s Hospital, nursing his splintered spinning finger which was broken when fending off a rising ball from the Gipsies’ ferocious pace bowler. The Bamboozler has some very strong opinions about the inefficacy of batting gloves but does not wish to put these in print as it may well land him in litigation with the Gray-Nicolls  Company. One can only speculate whether we will ever see this incisive strike bowler wheel away again his with his devious mixture of long hops, full tosses and viciously spinning double bouncers. Or have the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune finally got the better of him. Who can say?
07-Aug Sat Ram Inn Won - 26 runs 182 a/o 156 a/o W Chitty 61 A Holiday 3-20
31 ov
08-Aug Sun Royal Household Won - 2 wkts 236-8 235-3 dec O Oldroyd 65 B Jackson 2-39
41 ov 47 ov
11-Aug Wed Worcester Park Drawn 118-8 175-9 dec A Padhani 64* R Durden 4-19
40 ov 42.4 ov
15-Aug Sun Wimbledon Won - 1 wkt 172-9 169 a/o T Gemmill 37 G Chaudray 6-54
40.1 ov 46.3 ov
18-Aug Wed Sevenoaks & District Cancelled
22-Aug Sun Chingford Drawn 172-9 177 a/o T Gemmill 84* G Chaudray 5-38
43 ov 46 ov
25-Aug Wed Butterflies Cancelled
29-Aug Sun Stragglers Of Asia Won - 2 wkts 196-8 195-8 O Oldroyd 63 N Dugdale 5-17
42.1 ov 62 ov
02-Sep Thu Gaieties Drawn 201-9 dec 185-7 T Gemmill 55 D Harte 3-19
45 ov 42 ov
05-Sep Sun Chenies & Latimer Won - 7 runs 153-5 146-8 N Miles-Thomas 46 S Brennan 3-15
20 ov 20 ov
08-Sep Wed Uxbridge Won - 9 wkts 175-1 174-8 dec O Oldroyd 101* J Hoare 3-36
28.5 ov 50.4 ov
12-Sep Sun Marlow Won - 10 wkts 108-0 104 a/o T Holas 62* A Taylor 5-18
12.4 ov 31.2 ov
13-Sep Mon Cross Arrows Cancelled
19-Sep Sun Knebworth Park Won - 8 wkts 222-2 218-4 dec J Davis 90 T Whyte 2-39
39.5 ov 46 ov
23-Sep Thu Montenotte Won - 5 wkts 154-5 153-9 dec D Harper 68* T Gemmill 2-8
28.2 ov 45 ov
26-Sep Sun Merstham Won - 88 runs 259-4 171 a/o T Gemmill 107* M Leitch 2-15
40 ov 39.5 ov

 

 

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