Hornsey Cricket Club

Weather permitting outdoor nets will start at the clubs ground (Tivoli Road, Crouch End) on:

Thursday 24th April - 18:00 - dusk

Hornsey summer colts nets starts on Friday April 18th (6-8pm)

All Hornsey juniors will need to register for the 2008 - 2009 season, please contact Lakshmi Hewavisenti email: l.hewavisenti@btinternet.com

* Colts pay £40 for annual membership (£30 for siblings) and £3 per training session – these 15 sessions take place every Friday from April 18th to the end of July and run from 6pm to 8pm.

* For those parents who prefer to pay for the training in one go, the club offers a slightly reduced rate of £40

* Family membership (£120) is available at the Hornsey Club – this is great for parents who want to play Tennis and Cricket!

* Please speak to Lakshmi, the Colts’ Secretary, if you need assistance with payment- we should be able to accommodate everyone and will not deny any child the opportunity to play cricket.

* There will be a bar and barbecue every week to help you (the parents!) enjoy the experience.

* Please remember to bring along any unwanted cricket gear - the club is hoping to run a 'bring and buy' stall where people can pick up what they can use and donate some money to the club in exchange.

* Syed Ahmed will also be there with some samples of new cricket wear at very good prices for you to order.

Hornsey beat Victoria Park in a close and thrilling match but then lost to a strong Mill Hill side.

Against Victoria Park, Hornsey fielded first. We took wickets early (Vijay Dale 2-11, David Reed 1-14, Tom Bacon 1-15) but Victoria Park lost no more wickets after the fourth over and batted steadily to reach 67 all out, with two run outs in the last over. This total should be gettable in this form of cricket, and Hornsey’s openers batted steadily with few alarms, reaching 42 without loss with three overs remaining. In the eighth over, however, Freddie Mills was out for 20, followed rapidly by Callum Foy, and only one run was added to the total. The ninth over brought 10 runs, 8 of them to Tom Ralston, leaving 15 to win off the last six balls. Vijay Dale hit a six then was out; Tom Bacon hit another six, then mustered the last three runs off the last ball of the match by virtue of some daring running. Tom Ralston batted throughout the innings and ended on 23 not out.

In the second match, Hornsey batted first and again started steadily, with the openers again surviving until the fifth over. The scoring rate, on this occasion, was never fast enough and despite valiant efforts by Freddie Mills (15) and Callum Foy (16) a total of 54-3 was likely to be inadequate.

Our bowlers managed to contain Mill Hill’s run rate, and their score was only just ahead of ours at five overs. One big over then took them to within sight of victory and their opening batsmen saw them home with 15 balls to spare. Tom Bacon (0-2) and David Reed (0-11) were the best of our bowlers.

These were the last matches of the indoor season, and our tally is played 7, won 3, lost 4.

The first U15 indoor match is on April 29.

Thanks to Lakshmi for scoring in her usual impeccable style.

Author
Gavin Ralston

This weekend will combine the Nat West Cricket Force weekend

http://www.ecb.co.uk/ecb/cricketforce

with the annual ground work party.

Its intend to clear the area in the far corner by the swimming pool. This is a project to involve the wider community in renovating sports ground.

We require 2 skips and light mechanical digger. If anybody can organise donations of this equipment for either day then please contact Emmerson on 0208 347 8838 or email thehornseyclub@btinternet.com.

Most importantly of all we require bodies.

All members, juniors family and friends are urged to turn up over the weekend and help. We will run from 9am until 4.00pm both days.

The 2008 AGM for The Hornsey Club will be held on Saturday 15th March 2pm at our Clubhouse in Tivoli Road, N8 8RG.

All current members are welcome to attend and vote. It is also a great time for lapsed members to visit and re-join.

The AGM will update all members on progress and developments through the previous year. It will also include the election of officers. The existing Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary and Captains are all standing for re-election.

Minutes of the 2007 meeting will be sent out this week and will be available on the day, together with accounts for the year to 30-9-07.


Please attend this year's AGM and show your support for the Club.

***Refreshments will be available***

Hornsey lost narrowly against a good Cockfosters side. Cockfosters batted first and by the end of the eighth over were 49-5 and looking unlikely to bat through their full ten overs; an expensive last two overs, however, allowed them to take their total to 78. The wickets fell to Callum Foy, captain on this occasion, who took 3-9, and David Reed, 2-11.

Hornsey’s batsmen established a solid platform, reaching 23-1 off five overs, but in the end left too much to do in the second half of the innings. Freddie Mills was the top scorer, batting through the innings for 24*, and Callum (11) and Vijay Dale (9) supported well. With an over to go, we needed 25 to win; a valiant effort from Freddie and Tom Bacon saw 16 added to the total and Hornsey lost by 8 runs.

The last matches of the season are next Sunday, March 9.

Author
Gavin Ralston

Senior Winter nets have started and are being held at holloway school every Tuesday from 7pm to 8.30pm.

Cost will be £5 and there will be a bowling machine plus plenty of room for drills etc.

Location:
Holloway School is located on Hilldrop Road between Camden Road and Brecknock Road. Parking and direct access to the cricket nets are available in Carleton Road.

The closest tube stations are Tufnell Park on the Northern Line and Caledonian Road on the Piccadilly Line.

Bus routes that can be used to go close by are 4,17,27,29,43,253,259,271,390.

The U15s second pair of matches were against Barnet and North Middlesex.

Against Barnet, Hornsey batted first and made 63 off 10 overs. None of the top three in the order made it into double figures and it was left to Callum Foy (23, including three sixes) and David Reed (15, two sixes) to take the score to a respectable level. Barnet bowled and fielded tidily (in particular restricting extras) and thereby kept Hornsey to an uncomfortably low total for this type of cricket. Despite losing a wicket in their first over Barnet cruised to victory and made the necessary runs in 7.1 overs.

North Middlesex proved far less formidable opponents than expected. Their batting was woeful and was no match for Hornsey’s bowlers. When they did connect with the ball they attempted wildly ambitious runs and suffered three run outs; their innings reached only 26 in six overs, with David Reed polishing off the last two batsmen in his first over.

North Midd’s bowling proved little better, and Hornsey achieved victory in only 2.3 overs – 15 of our 27 runs coming from wides.

With a break for half term, the next match is on Sunday March 2nd.

Author

Gavin Ralston

Hornsey U15s indoor league started with two contrasting matches.

Against Highgate, Hornsey were dominant: Tom Bacon took two wickets in the first over, and from then on we were in complete control, with two wickets also for Freddie Mills and two excellent catches by Jack Goldberg. Highgate mustered only 22 (of which 9 were wides) and when Hornsey batted Tom Ralston and Freddie Mills comfortably took the score to 23 without loss.

Against North London, it was another story. This was a team in a different class (they had won the East Area U13s last summer). They batted first, and despite another Tom Bacon wicket in the first over, quickly took control, reaching 94 off their ten overs. Tom Stevens, with 2-16, was the most effective of our bowlers. This was a difficult but gettable target but Hornsey’s response was dismal; wickets fell relentlessly in the face of consistently strong bowling, and we managed a total of only 13.

Thanks to Johnny Bruce for umpiring.

The next matches are on Sunday February 3rd.

Author

Gavin Ralston

Syed Ahmed is the new 2nd X1 skipper for 08 - and will also be supplying tracksuits, caps and shirts for the new season . He is off to Pakistan shortly to oversee the production. Syed was of course vice captain last year and we are delighted that he comes in after Dave Coventon who was not available for 08 and did an excellent job in 07.

Author
Graham Allen

Hornsey CC Colts Newsletter December 2007

At last – news on Winter Nets for Colts!!

Adrian Fawden has arranged for winter nets to take place at Holloway School, a specialist Sports College. Their brand new sports facilities this year include a large Sports Hall and a number of cricket nets.

Parking/Location:
Holloway School is located on Hilldrop Road between Camden Road and Brecknock Road. Parking for parents and direct access to the cricket nets are available in Carleton Road. The only difficulty with parking would be if Arsenal were playing at home but this is unlikely on a Thursday night. The closest tube stations are Tufnell Park on the Northern Line and Caledonian Road on the Piccadilly Line. Bus routes that can be used to go close by are 4,17,27,29,43,253,259,271,390.

Times :
Every Thursday from 10th January 2008 to 20th March 2008 inclusive except for the half term week, Thursday 14th February 2008.
(Total 10 sessions)

6 - 7pm –for colts aged between 8 and 11 (i.e. U9, U10, U11B and U11A)
7 - 8pm - for those aged between 12 and15 (i.e. U13 and U15).

The facilities will allow us to have both conventional cricket nets and skills practice /quick cricket areas going on simultaneously.

U17s can attend adult nets on Tuesday evenings – the start dates are yet to be confirmed.

Charges:
£3 per session (or £25 as a one-off payment for the complete course) for paid up members
For those who did not become members in summer 2007, there will be an interim membership fee of £15 – we will collect the 2008 subs in April, at the start of the summer nets.

If you intend to bring your child along to the nets could you please notify me in advance by e-mail on l.hewavisenti@btinternet.com

Kit:
If children do have a cricket kit (pads, helmets, gloves, protectors etc) they should bring these with them. The club does have limited supplies, which will be made available.


Other sessions being planned:
As I said on a previous mailing, we will have use of the St Aloysius Sports Ground (Hurst Avenue N8) on Monday and Wednesday evenings in addition to the club ground- so we can arrange more matches. Two U11 matches can be played simultaneously on these pitches, so hopefully all the colts at the club will get match experience. It is also anticipated that we will play some friendly matches at the start of the season to prepare for the league and cup games.

Hornsey CC is in the process of setting up an academy for a small number of older players (by invitation only). This is likely to take place on Monday evenings at Holloway School and will involve professional 1-1 coaching. In return for this, players will be asked to help out with coaching at winter and/or summer nets. More on this next month.

Hope to see you all soon,
Best wishes and thanks to all those who sent me a cheque earlier in the year,

Author
Lakshmi Hewavisenti
Colts Secretary for Hornsey CC

Winter nets will take place at Holloway School, a specialist Sports College with brand new sports facilities including a large Sports Hall and cricket nets.

The facilities will allow us to have both conventional cricket nets and skills practice /quick cricket areas going on simultaneously.

Times:
Every Thursday
From: 10th January 2008
To: 20th March 2008

Inclusive except for the half term week, Thursday 14th February 2008. (Total 10 sessions)

18:00 - 19:00 –for colts aged between 8 and 11
(i.e. U9, U10, U11B and U11A)
19:00 - 20:00 - for those aged between 12 and15
(i.e. U13 and U15).

Parking/Location:
Holloway School is located on Hilldrop Road between Camden Road and Brecknock Road. Parking for parents and direct access to the cricket nets are available in Carleton Road.

The closest tube stations are Tufnell Park on the Northern Line and Caledonian Road on the Piccadilly Line.

Bus routes that can be used to go close by are 4,17,27,29,43,253,259,271,390.

Charges
£3 per session
(or £25 as a one-off payment for the complete course) for paid up members

For those who did not become members in summer 2007, there will be an interim membership fee of £15 – we will collect the 2008 subs in April, at the start of the summer nets.

If you intend to bring your child along to the nets could you please notify Lashmi Hewavisenti in advance by e-mail on l.hewavisenti@btinternet.com

U17s can attend adult nets on Tuesday evenings – the start dates are yet to be confirmed.

Kit

If children do have a cricket kit (pads, helmets, gloves, protectors etc) they should bring these with them. The club does have limited supplies, which will be made available.

Mr AKN Ollennu, otherwise known as Nii's dad has an excellent cricketing pedigree. He played his schoolboy cricket for Lancing College, whose averages appear in the "Public Schools" section.

He appears in Wisden for the seasons 1965 through to 1968, four years in the 1st XI a remarkable feat probably not bettered by anyone at Hornsey.

Wisden 1965 referred to him as a "cheerful rotund customer from Africa, a leg break bowler eminently fitted to scare the life out of boy opponents"

His bowling record was as follows (in the format overs-maidens-runs-wickets-average):

1965 129.4-23-475-23-20.65
1966 135-20-497-22-22.50
1967 160-28-684-40-17.10
1968 164.2-20-610-19-32.10

His batting record was as follows (in the format innings-not outs-runs-highest score-average):

1965 Did not qualify (less than 100 runs)
1966 17-2-253-52*-16.86
1967 12-2-148-42-14.80
1968 13-3-176-33-17.60

His best year was 1967 when he was picked for the Public Schools XI against the English Schools Cricket Association on 2nd August at Lord's. He did not bat and had figures of 6-2-13-3, despatching future first class cricketer Michael Heal.

The next day, 3rd August 1967 he played at Lord's for MCC Schools vs Indian Schools (who included future test players the Armanath brothers and Syed Kirmani), scoring 4 and recording figures of 7-1-25-0.

Mr O, good to have such a fine cricketer on board at Hornsey (albeit in a driving/supporting role!)

Author
Johnny Bruce

After seeing off thousands of aspiring fast bowlers and spinners UK wide, young Sheldon Greenland has made it to the final round of the London County Cricket Club's Search for a Star competition.

Sheldon totally impressed the ex test players and professional coaches and he will get the chance to bowl a further 12 deliveries at Lords on Saturday 15th September to further stake his claim.

The winner of Middlesex's search for a spinner is Hornseys own Charlie Joseph, which is great news.

Charlie is immediately taken on to the Middlesex Academy Spinner coaching scheme to be coached by John Emburey.

HORNSEY COLTS CRICKET

Please note that there will be NO colts cricket on Friday 27th July due to ground unavailability.

There will be Friday practice on Friday 3rd August and Friday 10th August and then the outdoor season ends.

Numbers drop off considerably when the school holidays start and the sessions will be a little more relaxed and will concentrate on games of Kwik cricket etc. It will also give some of our younger players a chance to have a formal net and introduce them to the hard ball.

Johnny Bruce
Club Captain

Further to the radio appearance of Adrian Fawden and Johnny Brucy there is an article on the clubs rejuvenation which can be found via this link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/07/19/hornsey_flames_feature.shtml

On Tuesday 17th July Adrian Fawden and Johnny Bruce were invited onto the BBC Radio London cricket program Over and Out.

Johnny and Adrian spoke about the cricket clubs recovery from the fire, which destroyed the old club house. The rebuild, the resurgence of the colts cricket, the chance to shine program and generaly about HCC.

The interview can be downloaded from the BBC London Archives.

Follow this link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/05/30/cricket_overandout_feature.shtml

down load from here
17.07.07 Listen again to this week's Over and Out

North Middlesex 155-4; Hornsey 40 all out

Hornsey suffered a heavy defeat in their last league match of the season to a strong North Midd side.

We started well with some tight bowling and two early wickets, one a spectacular caught and bowled by Adam Nickless-Wright, making his Hornsey debut. North Midd however then put on 100 for the third wicket, with some excellent hitting. Their task, however, was made easier by two dropped catches and wayward bowling (we conceded 23 in wides). The highlights were Adam’s bowling (1-23 off four overs), consistently good fielding from Freddie Mills and a solid performance behind the stumps from Oscar Ayyadi.

Making the target we had been set quickly slipped out of reach, with Freddie out in the first over and David Reed departing shortly thereafter, run out. Several further mixups between the batsmen ensued, leading to three further run outs. In contrast to Hornsey’s bowling theirs was accurate and consistent: the only resistance was shown by Alec Noar, who batted for most of the innings, and Lewis Strain, who had the dubious honour of hitting Hornsey’s only boundary. In the end the lower order batsmen did well to bat through all but two balls of the 20 overs.

Thanks to Joe Marshall (and Patric) for scoring, and for Bertie Mills who stepped into the batting line up as number 11 having already played in the U11 match that morning.

Author

Gavin Ralston

North London 131-6; Hornsey 42 all out

Hornsey were rather badly beaten on a wet and grey evening: rain fell throughout the latter part of North London’s innings and virtually all of the Hornsey innings.

North London batted steadily throughout their innings: in contrast to recent matches, Hornsey took most of the catches that were offered to them, but the fielding could have been tighter. We gave away probably 15 runs that could have been avoided, and failed to take advantage of three run out chances created by the North London batsmen. We were not helped by the loss of Joe Marshall early in the innings; he badly damaged a finger trying to take a sharp catch and have to leave the field. Jack Stevens, however, stepped into the breach and both fielded and batted. Best bowling figures were Vijay Dale (1-14 off four overs) and David Reed (2-20).

Conditions continued to deteriorate when Hornsey batted, with an already slow pitch becoming steadily damper, and balls grinding to a halt in the wet outfield. Our innings never really got going, North London’s bowlers exerted total control and we were all out for 42 off 15.5 overs.

There are two league matches left; if we win one, we still have a chance of finishing third in our pool, and qualifying for the knock-out stage. There is everything to play for.

Author Gavin Ralston

Brondesbury 90-6 off 20 overs, Hornsey 91-2 off 17.4 overs

Hornsey completed a second win of the season against Brondesbury in comfortable fashion.

Brondesbury batted first and got off to a rapid start thanks mainly to a blizzard of wides from our bowlers, but from the eighth over onwards we began to exert control. The decisive point in the innings came with the bowling of Joe Marshall, who took 0-11 in four overs, and Alex Robson, who in his best figures for Hornsey took 3-14 (all three bowled) in three overs. Hornsey’s fielding and catching were also much better than in the last couple of matches.

With a target of 91 for victory, Hornsey got off to a dreadful start with a shocking mix-up between Freddie Mills and Vijay Dale leading to Vijay being run out in the second over. Freddie, however, went on to put on 67 for the second wicket with David Reed, Freddie making 33 and David, after an uncomfortable start, 25 not out. James Thomas (9 not out) completed the job, and Hornsey won with 14 balls to spare.

Author Gavin Ralston

Hampstead 160-5 off 20 overs; Hornsey 94-7 off 20 overs.

Although we lost this match decisively, the result is a creditable one given that we were only able to muster nine players, only three of the regular U13 team were available, and four of the nine were U11s.

Hampstead, whose team included one Middlesex squad member and one London Schools’ player, batted well, although, like North Middlesex last week, would have reached a much lower total had we taken our catches. In particular, their number three, having been dropped on his first ball, went on to make 36 off 14 balls. Pick of the bowlers were William Matthews, with 2-22 off four overs, and Tim Spurr with 1-19 off four and a good catch.

The Hornsey innings got off to the worst possible start, with both William Matthews and Liam Baker out in the first over (the latter unlucky to be out to a superb return catch). Tom Stevens and James Thomas, captain on this occasion, then started to rebuild the innings. We then lost three more wickets and after eight overs were 20-5. James continued to play steadily and eventually batted for 19 of the 20 overs for 33 not out, scarcely giving a chance. He was assisted in partnerships of 37 and 31 by Alfie Beswick (17) and Oscar Wood (12), both displaying some excellent shots. We were never likely to get close to the Hampstead total, but in the end honour was preserved.

Author
Gavin Ralton

With several of our players needing to return in time for league matches, we agreed to play a 16 over match and managed to start by 9.15am. We waited for Casey Doyle at Tivoli rd but decided to leave without him in the end because of the time constraints.

Hornsey batted first and got off to a good start inspite of losing an early wicket in the 2nd over. Jack Goldberg (87 off 57 balls, 1six and 13 fours) and Zinzan Hewavisenti (57 off 28 balls,10 fours) took Hornsey to a safe total of 155 for 3. The team were confident they could defend this, but I don't think any of us anticipated the spectacular finish we got. Everyone except Liam (w/k) bowled 1 or 2 overs and Victoria Park lost an early wicket to Callum Foy in the 2nd over.

Batsmen 2 and 3 kept going at a steady pace for the next 10 overs, never looking like they would catch up with Hornsey's score but reaching a total of 71 in 12 overs. Charlie Joseph then took the wicket of their highest scoring batsman (34) and Matt Stevens promptly dismissed the other opener (30) and the new batsman in the 14th over. The rest just felt like a fast forward - I struggled to keep up with it all!

Hornsey proceeded to take 6 more wickets in the last 2 overs - 1 to Jack, 1 run out and 4 more to Matt Stevens, who ended up with incredible figures. Vic Park finished on 96 all out with 1 ball left

The bowling was fairly accurate - 8 extras in all. Here are the bowling figures:

Tom Bacon 2-0-13-0
Callum 2-0-16-1
Zinzan 2-1-2-0
Keith Michael 2-0-13-1
Niraj Parmar 2-0-9-1
Jamie Morris 2-0-16-0
Charlie 1-0-6-1
Jack-1-0-8-1
Matt Stevens 1.5 -0-11-6

I saw some very good fielding, but some some sloppy fielding too. Matt took 2 catches off his own bowling, Liam did well behind the stumps taking 2 catches, Charlie took 2 more ,Tom and Jack took 1 each.

Some very good performances today - well done. Jack has come very close to that elusive 100 twice now - maybe next time! Matt has re- established himself as a cricketer this season and we'll hopefully see him regularly at Friday training. Our next game is the 28th June, but don't forget the friendly match I'm organising on Sun June 24th for all the older colts (U13, U15 and U17).

Thanks to Jeff and Katy for umpiring and driving.

Author
Lakshmi Hewavisenti

This was a very different game from yesterday's cup match - Hornsey batted first with Jack Goldberg and Charlie Joseph opening. The opposition was clearly not a full U15 team - several of their players were much younger and the team had not played as a unit prior to this match.

The standard of NLM's bowling was very poor - 33 extras were given, mainly in the form of wides. Jack got off the mark quickly and scored 94* off 61 balls including 16 fours and a six. Charlie's start was slower, but he supported the partnership with 46 runs in 59 balls - he took a risky 3rd run on the last ball which led to him being run out! This meant, of course that nobody else batted. Hornsey finished with a total of 173 for 1.

NLM's opener kept the strike for 6 overs and managed to accumulate a score of 39 runs. He looked like a one man band who could have chased the big score on his own, but a timely catch by Jack from Callum's bowling stopped him early enough. The rest of the NLM batting line up did not look strong enough to meet the challenge they were set, they scored very slowly to reach 91. Hornsey bowlers had good figures:

Callum Foy 4 overs 1-20
Keith Michael 3 overs, 0-1 (and a catch)
Zinzan Hewavisenti 3 overs,2-4
Niraj Parmar 2 overs 1-9
Matt Stevens 2 overs 1-11
Casey Doyle 2 overs 0-8
George Martin 1 over 0-3
Tom Bacon 3 overs 0-22
Charlie Joseph 1 over 2-4

It was good to see that there was a part to play for everyone in the squad. Batting first, setting a high target and not losing a wicket meant that all those who did not bat got a chance to bowl.

I believe 94* is a personal best for Jack, who has started playing for the Hornsey 2nd team - we hope he will continue to reach these high targets as the season moves on.

Author
Lakshmi Hewavisenti

In a match shortened to 15 overs a side because of poor light and the threat of rain, Hornsey (104-1) beat Brondesbury (90-1) by 14 runs.

Hornsey batted first and scored steadily throughout the innings. Only one wicket fell (Freddie Mills for 12), and Tom Ralston and Vijay Dale were retired on 39 and 28 respectively. David Reed and Harold Winslet gave a helpful push to the score at the end, adding 18 in the last two overs.

Hornsey found it equally difficult to take wickets when they bowled, although the one wicket that was taken, to Lewis Strain's bowling, removed one of Brondesbury's dangerous openers and immediately slowed the scoring rate. A few tight overs in the middle of the innings (Lewis's two overs, Vijay's two and Joe Marshall's first) made the difference between the two sides. We could, however, have taken more decisive control of the game with sharper fielding in particular, and there is plenty to work on in practice sessions.

Thanks to Matt William again for umpiring.

Author
Gavin Ralston

The U11A team started their league campaign with a comprehensive win against North London Muslims.

Hornsey batted first and scored 135 off their 20 overs (although Scott Haughton lost the plot while scoring and the actual sore was probably more!).

Liam Baker lead the way with 24, Bertie Mills hit 21 and they were well supported by William Matthews (18), Jack Bruce (11) and Jack Stevens (10) all of whom were retired.

In response NLM were never really in the hunt and eventually reached 96. There were a number of instances of sloppy fielding by Hornsey (4 very simple catches dropped and at least two more chances that should have been taken). Jack Stevens and Patrick Haughton (on debut) took 2 wickets each and all of the bowlers bowled well. Oscar Wood and Elliot Burns both made their debuts and played well.

Hornsey's team was: William Matthews, Liam Baker, Bertie Mills, Alfie Beswick, Jack Bruce, Jack Stevens, Oscar Wood, Patrick Haughton, Adam Rasmussen and Elliot Burns.

Author
Johnny Bruce

Hornsey 123-5 off 18 overs, North London 124-5 off 14

A disappointing bowling and fielding performance led to Hornsey losing their first game this season. Hornsey batted first, and batted consistently through the order to achieve what looked like a respectable score. David Reed hit 20, James Thomas and Alex Robson 16 each and Harold Winslet a cameo 14 not out at the end of the innings.

When North London batted, however, it quickly became apparent that short boundaries and a good pitch made runs easy to accumulate. By the standards of the first two matches, Hornsey's bowlers struggled to keep a good line, and North London were able to hit 19 boundaries. Our fielding was also ragged, with several overthrows given away and two dropped catches. Wickets did fall steadily (one to an excellent delivery from Joe Marshall, making his Hornsey debut) but in the end North London reached the target with four overs to spare.

Hornsey had three players new to the team this week - Alex Light, Rufus Pope, and Joe Marshall.

Author
Gavin Ralston

Hornsey U15s won their 3rd consecutive match this evening against Southgate in the first round of Cup Games. The match was full of drama and reversal of fortune.....

Hornsey won the toss and opted to bat. Charlie Joseph and Jack Goldberg put on an opening partnership of 23 runs in the first 4 overs. The next 3 wickets fell in fairly quick succession and by the 7th over Hornsey were 44 for 4. Niraj Parmar and Jack then took the total up to 75 for 5 before Niraj (20) was caught out. It didn't look too optimistic at this stage, as there were not many specialist batsmen left. This is when Jack really started to let go - he ended up with a well deserved 74 off 50 balls (8 fours). Hornsey's score was the highest we have seen for a while - 154 for 8 off 20 overs.

The bowling was tight and we managed to restrict the scoring for the first few overs. Daylight, however, was quickly fading and I don't honestly know how the players could see what was going on. The last few overs were a nightmare to score but it was clear that Southgate were not likely to meet the required run rate....even though at one point their highest scoring batsman accumulated 45 runs off 22 balls. They ended up with 122 for 8.

Highlights:
Jack Goldberg - 74 and 3 wickets for 13
Callum Foy - 1 wicket and 2 catches

1 wicket each for, Jamie Morris, Matt Stevens,Charlie Joseph and Zinzan Hewavisenti.

The opposition dropped 3 catches and were generally not as strong as Hornsey in their fielding. Hornsey continued to show commitment and worked well as a team - good to see the confidence and determination. Matthew Stevens, I didn't know you could run so fast!!

I think all cricketers should eat carrots to improve their night vision (needed for midweek colts matches in the UK) ....or failing that we could campaign for flood lights?

Thanks to Cedric Michael (Keith's dad) for stepping in as umpire and Barbara for keeping the temperamental Hornsey scoreboard ticking.

Hornsey will play either North Midd or Wilf Slack- away.

Author
Lakshmi Hewavisenti

Subs for 2007 are as follows:-

Adult subscription (waged) £125. This rises to £135 on 1st June 2007

Adult subscription (student/unwaged) £65. This rises to £75 on 1st June 2007

Colts subscription £35.

Please pay by cheque (payable "Hornsey Club") to your team skipper.

Please note that for 2007 match fees are as follows:-

£10 for adult fully waged players
£5 for students/colts
£5 for unwaged adult players

It feels like Hornsey colts have made a good start to the season - the U13s have won their first 2 games, the U17s won their game and now the U15s have followed this example by winning 2 (friendly) matches. Hornsey batted first against North Midd and put on 101 runs for 8 wickets off 20 overs. North Midd only managed 74 all out in 19.5 overs. The idea of this friendly fixture was to to give as many people a game as possible - we agreed to retire at 30 and tried to make sure that those who wanted to bowl had a go. The wickets were shared out well - 2 for Niraj Parmar and Zinzan Hewavisenti, 1 each for Tom Bacon, Jamie Morris, Keith Michael, Charlie Joseph and Casey Doyle. Charlie and Niraj also topped the batting with 29 and 22 runs respectively. There was plenty of drama - Charlie was hurt and asked for a runner(Tom Ralston). After working with Tom for a while, he hit a big shot, saw the possibility of quick runs, forgot he had a runner and ran 3 runs himself....confusing all of us!!! Although we played well as a unit, the teams faced so far were not strong and so players got away with errors in fielding, hitting shots up in the air etc. Batting and fielding needs to be tighter - 12 extras were given away today. Author Lakshmi

Highgate 112 (18 overs) Hornsey 113 - 5 (17.3 overs) I apologise for a lack of details, but I am preparing this report without the scorebook. It was very useful for everyone to get a game at this stage of the season. Some rules were added to ensure that everyone got a game and this certainly helped Hornsey as it stopped Highgate's opener from building on a very impressive start, as he had to retire when he was 30. The scoring rate gradually slowed after his departure and some sharp fielding was helped by some poor running from the Highgate batsmen (there were at least two run outs, including one from a direct hit). It will be interesting to see whether the fielders can maintain this standard when the batsmen put it under more pressure. The fielding practice carried out before the game shows that everyone understands the importance of this part of the game. There were a number of wides and no balls, which need to be reduced and 5 penalty runs were given away when a helmet behind the keeper was hit. The requirement to use 6 bowlers did not hinder the team and, in fact, seven were used. A special mention for Keith, who picked up a couple of wickets near the end. The run chase began slowly against some accurate Highgate bowling, but the key point was that no wickets were lost, which enabled Charlie and especially Jack to build a good opening partnership. Jack had to retire and Charlie went through an array of unusual strokes before being caught. Some good shots from James Spurling kept us up with the rate before Keith hit three 4s in one over to put us in sight of victory. The winning runs came with 3 balls to spare. Well done to everyone for a well executed victory. Author James Coombs

Cockfosters 59 all out off 16 overs; Hornsey 60-5 off 11.5 overs.

Hornsey's first match of the 2007 season ended in an excellent win for the U13s against Cockfosters in the first round of the Cup.

Cockfosters won the toss and chose to bat. From the beginning, Hornsey's bowling was controlled and the batsmen were never allowed to gain momentum on an unpredictable pitch with erratic bounce. Freddie Mills took two wickets in the second over and wickets fell at regular intervals. Pick of the bowlers were Vijay Dale, who took 3 for 5; Harold Winslet with 2-9; William Matthews with 0-5 and Tom Stevens (who also took an excellent catch) with 0-6. Areas to work on included the number of extras given away (12 wides, 5 no balls) and some slackness in the field.

In Hornsey's innings, Tom Ralston batted throughout and dominated the scoring with 35 not out. Other highlights were Vijay's 8, which included a superlative cover drive for 4 `which will live in the memory.

Special thanks to Matt William for preparing the team and for umpiring.

The next U13s match is on Tuesday April 24 at 6pm, at home against Hampstead.

Author Gavin Ralston

Outdoor nets for colts start on Friday April 20th (18:00 to 20:00pm).

This will also be the registration day, when annual subscriptions of £35 are due. In addition to this sub, payment for the weekly training sessions must be made - this can be a weekly payment of £2 or a one off payment of £30.

Please arrange to see Lakshmi Hewavisenti on the day or email:l.hewavisenti@btinternet.com

On Fri 20th, we have also arranged for a kit sale. If you would like to order a kit with the Hornsey logo on it, please let Syed Ahmed know email: ezeewear2003@yahoo.com

Outdoor nets on THURSDAYS, commencing Thursday 19th April. Commencement 18.15-ish until dark. Please make every effort to attend the first net

11am Sunday 15th April at the Club.

Couple of hours max. Moving sightscreens, whitewashing boundary walls etc etc.

To be held at THe Hornsey Club, Tivoli Road, London, N8 8RJ

8.15pm Monday 23rd April 2007

Agenda:

1. Approve minutes of 2006 AGM
2. Matters arising from 2006 Minutes
3. Chairman's statement
4. Treasurer's Report
5. Cricket Committee report
6. Tennis Committee report
7 Appointment of Officers

Jim/Richard/Nick are prepared to stand for re-election. Anyone also wanting to stand for these positions should declare their intention by emailing the Secretary, Nick Veitch, nick.veitch@eurocoin.co.uk, before Friday 20th

8. Bar/Social report
9. To approve Subs for 2007
10. AOB

Good news at last!

Hornsey Batted first and scored 88 for 1 in 10 overs
NLB followed with 63 all out in 7.5 overs

Hornsey won

A very confident Hornsey U 15 team made sure they won their final indoor match this season.It was quite straight forward - the batting held and Hornsey scored 88 runs in the 10 overs. After 6 overs, NLB were 52 for 1 and tried to up their run rate when they realised they needed 37 runs in 4 overs. Sharp fielding (involving catches, bowling, stumping and runouts) was Hornsey's response, and this led to a batting collapse for NLB.
A good innings for all, but performances to remember include

Charlie Joseph who led by example to score 31 * (19 balls) and took 3 wickets for 13 runs
Callum Foy who scored 27* runs (10 balls) and took 2 catches

Zinzan Hewavisenti 1 wicket and 21* (12 balls)

Jack Goldberg for a very quick stumping and 7 runs.
Thank you to Johnny Bruce for umpiring and little Jack Bruce for being a reliable scoring assistant.

A really special thank you to Keith Michael who came as ''7th man' incase 2 of our injured players did not feel able to play - it shows great commitment and was really appreciated.

Author
Lakshmi Hewavisenti

The annual Club Dinner.

To be held at the Club Pavilion starting at 19:30.

Dress is casual, although Hornsey ties (and, of course, blazers) should be worn if owned, spouses and partners are welcome.

Spaces are limited to 50 people the cost being £25 per head, £15 per head for Colts. A colt is defined as someone eligible to play for the U17s.

Please contact Johnny Bruce to confirm availability.

Cheques should be sent to Johnny at 22 Barrington Road, London, N8 8QS. Made payable to: "Hornsey Club".

The Club AGM will be

Saturday 24th March 2007

In the Pavilion. 17:00 start.

North Middlesex (144) beat Hornsey (57); Hornsey (82-3) lost to Hampstead (83-1).

Hornsey lost both matches on a rather bad-tempered afternoon, inflamed by a couple of umpiring decisions.

North Middlesex were a very impressive team with strong batting in depth, but their score was inflated by too many overthrows from Hornsey and 20 extras. When Hornsey batted, only Freddie Mills (16) and David Reed (10) put up much resistance, and wickets fell rapidly after the openers were out.

The match against Hampstead was much closer, but Hornsey's 82 always looked an inadequate total. Freddie (30, retired) was top scorer again, but Harold Winslet's dismissal to a disputed stumping seemed to knock the stuffing out of the team and the scoring rate fell off in the last few overs.

The best of Hornsey's bowlers were Freddie (0-9 in 2.1 overs) and Vijay Dale, on his debut for Hornsey, who took 1-17. Hampstead, however, were always ahead of the run rate and reached their target with three overs to spare. Hornsey's fielding was much tighter than in the first match, and there were no overthrows this time.

This was the last of the season's indoor matches; although the results have not been great, it has been a learning experience for all the players and our skills in the indoor game have improved steadily.

Thanks to Alistair Robson, whose scoring was immaculate.

Author
Gavin Ralston

Outdoor practice is every Friday from 6-8pm commencing Friday 20th April 2007 at Hornsey CC every week until mid August, weather permitting.

There will be net facilities on the square and also additional cut pitches around the ground.

The practices will be a mixture of nets, games and technical coaching with a minimum of 5 qualified coaches on hand plus other cricketers/parents on hand to assist.

Parents are welcome to stay and make us of the club house and bar.

Saturday 3rd March 2007.

This will consist of indoor nets at Highgate School’s Mallinson Centre on Bishopswood Road off Hampstead Lane.

Contact Adrian Fawden for more information

Note:
The Thursday evening sessions will continue until 22nd March and the Friday nets until 23rd March.

Highgate (88-0) beat Hornsey (86-7); Hornsey(91) tied with Stoke Newington (91)

Hornsey were disappointing in the match against Highgate, with our total never looking enough against a Highgate side with several strong batsmen. Top scorers for Hornsey were Tom Ralston (20) and Harold Winslet (19, scoring off almost very ball he faced). The pick of our bowlers were David Reed and Freddie Mills.

The match against Stoke Newington was an altogether more exciting affair. Stoke batted first and their scoring was restricted in the early overs by tight bowling from Freddie and Harold (3-14 off three overs). The last three overs, however, brought 41 runs so we had in the end a challenging total to chase.

After a disastrous start with Freddie Mills run out in the first over, Hornsey scored quickly, led by Tom Ralston (35) and Harold Winslet (28). With only 7 required off the last three overs, some excellent bowling from Stoke saw wickets fall and the scoring dry up. It was left to David Reed and Bertie Mills to level the scores in the last over, but, with tensions running high, a run out on the last ball of the match denied Hornsey the win.

Special thanks to Terry Page for acting as scorer and coping admirably with two matches packed with incident.

The next matches - the last of the winter - will be on Saturday March 3.

Author
Gavin Ralston

Hampstead v Hornsey
Hampstead batted first and won - Score 119 for 5 (Hornsey got 12 all out)

Mill Hill Vill A v Hornsey
Hornsey batted first, but lost scoring 49 for 5 (MHV A scored 50 for 2 off 7 overs)

Hornsey U15 played their first 2 indoor league matches today. Hampstead were a strong and experienced side as were Mill Hill Village A.The Hornsey squad did improve greatly in the second game and now seem to have a better idea of the restrictions and skills needed for an indoor game. Hopefully Matt can work with them on Friday.

3 wickets to Callum Foy , 2 to Charlie Joseph(over both games) and 1 to Keith Michael (new player - first match for Hornsey)

The next match report will be a bit more enthusiastic - promise!

Lakshmi

Hornsey won the toss and decided to bowl first against a strong Winchmore Hill side.

Winchmore Hill reached 42-1 off the first four overs, helped by a large number of wides bowled by Hornsey.
David Reed then came on, and with highly economical bowling (2 overs, 9-0) helped stem the run rate with Harold Winslet, only 29 runs coming off their 4 over spell. Tom Stevens then bowled an encouraging spell of 2 overs, 11-0 (his 2nd over only going for 2 runs), with Alex Robson (1 over, 9-0), before Harold completed the innings with a third over, giving him figures of 3 overs, 34-1, setting Hornsey a competitive 107 to win in 12 overs.

Hornsey bowled an enormous 20 wides, gifting the opposition 40 runs (wides were their top scorer)!

Hornsey got off to an encouraging start . Both Tom Ralston and Freddie Mills were retired(32* & 30*), and Liam Baker reached 14 before being run out in the last over, with Harold being stumped for 5 on the last ball of the innings. Hornsey fell 9 short of their target, with 99-2 in their 12 overs.

Hornsey started afresh against Barnet, and were sent in to bat. Tom R was run out on a suicidal run for a duck on the fourth ball of the innings, and left Hornsey at 4-1(2 wides having been bowled) at the close of the first over. Freddie again acted as an anchor (32 retired), David made 6, Tom S 6 as well, Alex 7 not out, and Harold an encouraging 25, setting Barnet 101 to win.

The Hornsey bowling tightened up a little, but through some good hitting from Barnet's openers (31 retired and 30 retired respectively), they were on track after 6 overs (the halfway point). More tight bowling from David (2 overs, 9-0), left Barnet with 20 to make in the last three overs. Hornsey conceded 16 runs in the next over, and despite some excellent fielding, Tom S could not restrict Barnet to the 4 runs needed in 12 deliveries, with Barnet getting home with 10 balls to spare by 10 wickets.

Freddie had figures of 2 overs, 19-0, William Matthews 2 overs, 18-0, and Harold 2 overs, 23-0.

Thanks to Adrian Fawden for stepping in as umpire for both matches.


Author Gavin Ralston

Hornsey (75-3) lost to Mill Hill Village (81-1);
Hornsey (92-2) beat North London (89-5).

This was the first experience of indoor winter league matches for all the Hornsey players - and the umpire and scorer.

We played first against a strong and competitive Mill Hill side. Mill Hill won the toss and put Hornsey in to bat first. Unfamiliarity with the score and disciplines required in this type of match (12 overs, 8 a side) meant that 75-3 looked respectable, the highlights being 25 from Tom Ralston and 19 from Harold Winslet. In the event, however, this proved inadequate, and Mill Hill passed our total with more than three overs to spare. Mill Hill then went to beat North London even more easily.

The players learnt from the experience and were much tighter and more aggressive in the second match. North London batted first and were restricted to 89; pick of the Hornsey bowlers were Harold Winslet (who also fielded impeccably) with 0-6 off two overs and David Reed with 1-14, including an excellent caught and bowled.

Hornsey's opening batsmen got our innings off to a strong start, with both Tom Ralston and Freddie Mills reaching 30 before being retired. It was left to William Matthews to score the winning runs with eight balls to spare.

Overall, this was a pleasing performance, considering the novelty of the format and the fact that many of last season's strongest U13s have moved up to the U15 side. Many thanks to Lakshmi Hewivasenti for standing in as scorer.

The next matches will be on Saturday December 9th against Barnet and Winchmore Hill.

Author Gavin Ralston

February 7th – April 4th Wednesdays 9-10pm.

2 Nets Booked

Finchley Indoor Cricket School.

The Academy, Middlesex County Cricket Club, East End Road, Finchley, N3 2TA

COLIN NASH

You will recall that in the last Club News I scanned a copy of the scorebook from Colin Nash's only Club ton, 118* vs OMT in 1962. I asked Colin to see if he could name the XI. Colin came back with 13 names, of whom 8 played.

Colin the team was Nash, Simpson, Whitehead, Wicking, Cox, Savege, Marden, Coster, Berry, Dimond, Webber. You missed Savage, Marden and Webber and chose 5 who didnt play (Martyn, Bacon, Clarke, Brown, Sims).

CLUB COLOURS

From the Club's foundation (1870) until 1902, the Club colours were "Dark Blue and White". In 1902 they changed to "Crimson and Blue", and in the 1930s they were changed to the current colours of "Maroon, Blue and Silver Grey". The colours soon to be debuted on a limited edition Club Blazer, only 5 of us ordered and they are being tailor made as we speak. There is still enough material for one further blazer if anyone is interested. The previous blazers (and only one survives) were made in the Club's previous colours.

WAR MINUTES

Some very good minutes from committee meetings in World War I. Puts current committee minutes into perspective in terms of overall importance to life in general! Example from last committee meeting "James Coombs to take forward the ECB's Chance to Shine Programme". Compare this to the resoultion proposed at Committee meeting 7th March 1919. "No person shall be eligible for future membership who is an enemy subject or, being a naturalised British subject, is of enemy birth. Enemy subject means a person being a subject of Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey or such other country as may hereafter be at war with Great Britain". Passed at subsequent AGM by 13 votes to 2, and as far as I can tell never revoked. Presumably if we turn up an Iraqi fast bowler this winter we may need to amend Club rules to allow him to play.

PHOTO ARCHIVE

A shockingly ugly 1978 1st XI pictured here in front of the old pavilion. Spotted are a first class cricketer (front left, Kevan James) but also making an appearance on the photo of a current Hornsey player some 28 years later. It's fair to say the individual has aged remarkably well.

I can only name 5 or 6 of these guys. Can someone please email me everyone's name.

See web site photo gallery 1978 - Hornsey 1st XI

COLTS NETS

There are two sessions, one on Highgate Wood school for our younger colts. Expertly run by Fawds with help from coaches Joel Gregory, Ben Gillings and Scott Haughton. Friday nets at Highgate School for the older colts with expert coaching from Matt and Sanj.

MATT WILLIAM

Matt will not be playing for Hornsey next year because of other (non-cricket) committments. We are really sorry to lose Matt but he will be continuing his excellent colts coaching role. I hope to be able to persuade him to play the odd game over the course of the season, but it sounds like he has a pretty full diary. Matt made a major impact last year to our Colts programme and we thank him heartily. We have not, however, seen the last of him, I'm sure and it's great news that he will be continuing his coaching role.

Author
Johnny Bruce

The footbal section will be running a quiz night at the club on Saturday 28th November early evening.

Born 10 November 2006 7lb 7oz

Ambrose Murray Richard(s) Shufflebotham - think W Indies cricket in 1980s !

The new time for the table tennis competition is going to be:

Saturday 2nd of December - 16:30 start

Cost will be £5 to enter.

Remember to tell people to come and watch because it's more of a fundraiser than a anything else and it's always nice to have people in the bar. The footballers will be around so maybe we can get a couple of them to join in as well.

For more information contact Joel Gregory: by email - bassjag@hotmail.com

The Club House now has Sky Sport - Premiership Plus.

The club will be open:

Every Saturday Noon until late.

Every Sunday afternoon.

Joel Gregory is trying to arrange a table tennis comp at the cricket club.

The format will be a singles tournament, each match consisting of three 'first to 21' sets, with the winner advancing to the next round and the loser advancing to the bar to buy the winner a beer. The competition will culiminate with a grand final, commening after the play-off for third. The fixtures will be pulled from a hat at the beginning of the night before play commences.

There will be a trophy up for grabs for the winner.

It should be good fund-raiser for the club so an entry fee to the competition will be charged.

If you're not too confident with your table tennis skills and you wish to participate, still come along and make full use of immaculate bar facilities whilst cheering on the competitors.

Contact Joel (bassjag@hotmail.com) if interested.

Dear All,

Come down to Hornsey to watch the Ally Pally fireworks display on Saturday 4th November, it's a fantastic display and you get a perfect view from the warmth of the Clubhouse!

The bar will be open from about 5pm serving drinks.. mulled wine, coffee, tea, red and white wine, beers, soft drinks for children etc.

The BBQ will be lit at around 5.30ish to serve delicious hot-dogs, chicken and vege burgers.

Ally Pally fireworks start at 7.30pm and any of you who live in the area know how busy the traffic in Crouch End, Muswell Hill and Wood Green can get around that time, so please feel free to get to Hornsey as early as you like.

If you could give me an indication if you think you would like to come along that would be much appreciated.. last time we watched the display from Hornsey clubhouse the mulled wine ran out which was very disappointing to lots of us! Having a rough idea of how many people are coming will hopefully avoid that situation.

Please feel free to forward this to any friends or family who may wish to bring down even if they are not club members

Hopefully see you there.
Kate Chesser

kate@me-solution.co.uk

Nets have now been confirmed for the winter.

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All those in year 5 at school (Known as Under 11B) and anyone else aged 10 or under.

VENUE:Highgate wood school Sports block (car parking facilities available)
TIME:Thursday 6-7pm
DATES:
Nov 2,9,16,23,30
Dec 7,14
Jan 11,18,25,
Feb 1,8,15
Mar 1,8,15,22,29
Off during xmas and half term breaks.

WEEKLY FEE: £ 3 18 weeks in all
SINGLE, DISCOUNTED PAYMENT £45
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Under 11 A (Players currently in year 6 at school)

VENUE:Mallinson sports centre Bishopswood Road N6 4NY(part of Highgate school)
TIME:Friday 6-7pm
DATES:
Nov 3,10,17,24,
Dec 1,8,15
Jan 12,19,26
Feb 2,9,16
Mar 2,9,16,23,30
Off during xmas and half term breaks.

WEEKLY FEE: £5 18 weeks in all
SINGLE, DISCOUNTED PAYMENT £75
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Under 13 and Under 15

VENUE:Mallinson sports centre Bishopswood Road N6 4NY(part of Highgate school)
TIME:Friday 7-8 pm
DATES:
Nov 3,10,17,24,
Dec 1,8,15
Jan 12,19,26
Feb 2,9,16
Mar 2,9,16,23,30
Off during xmas and half term breaks.
WEEKLY FEE: £5 18 weeks in all
SINGLE, DISCOUNTED PAYMENT £75
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Features of the two venues:

Highgate Wood school - facilities do not include proper nets, but the room is large and we are hoping to work on skills and play at least 2 games simultaneously. Joel Gregory, who worked with the U10s in the summer will be leading this group with Adrian Fawden and parents on rotation. Adrian was the the one who organised the Winter net venues.

The Mallinson Centre - has proper nets facilities and is very expensive to hire. We did feel, however, that those who will be playing regular games in the summer do need a high standard of coaching over the winter. The facilities (2 nets) will work best with about 12 players per session another reason why it would be unsuitable for our very large group of U10s. Matt William, who coached over the summer, will be leading these sessions.

Expectations
Most players make very good progress in the winter nets regular attendance and a willingness to learn are essential.
If players have kits, we would like them to train in whites.Unlike the summer sessions, kits shouldn’t get too dirty!

Payments for sessions should be made BEFORE players start training. If youngsters are making their own way, please make sure they have their fee to hand over to the adult in charge of subs:
Thursday 6-7pm Adrian Fawden
Friday 6-7pm Jo Stevens
Friday 7-8pm Lakshmi Hewavisenti

A discounted one-off payment to make the collection of monies easier and less stressful for everyone is available. If you know you will be attending most weeks, please use this facility. All cheques need to be made to ‘The Hornsey Club’.

Do get back to Lakshmi Hewavisenti: 0208 347 5931 (H) 07712349347 (M) if you have any questions

Note:

Please let Lakshmi know in private if you forsee problems with payments so that arrangements can be agreed. The club is aware that the weekly contribution is high, but feel that the costs of hiring and coaching cannot be met if the charge is any less. The important thing is to make it manageable for all those who want to attend and the club will do its best to accomodate everyone.

Another season ends, the Club's 137th (not quite true as no matches were played 1915-1918).

There can't been as many exciting endings as the Club won it's final game of the season off the final ball off the final over.

Welwyn Garden City 194-5 off 40 Overs. Fawds 3-37 off 8, Deepak Parmar 2-16 off 5.

Hornsey 197-9 off 40. An excellent victory set up by Graham Allen (83) and Ben Gillings (31) opening up, with Johnny Bruce and Jim Chapman keeping the momentum going. The final over saw us needing 5 runs with Charlie Joseph and Liam Brennan-Masters at the crease, which became 2 off one ball, with Liam smashing it down the ground for 4!!

Great stuff. An excellent chase, 127 needed off the last 20 and 70 needed off the last 10.

Extracts from Hornsey Cricket Club papers accumulated by Tony Dey and various other sources reproduced by Johnny Bruce. Summary details below, images available in the club photo gallery.

1902 Fixture Card
Familiar names on there (Finchley/Hampstead etc) although the Wed 11th June fixture may well be one to avoid; certainly one where you'd keep a close eye on your valuables.

1902 Averages
The averages for the season, five possible first class cricketers there.

Extract from 1875 Members List
Only one first class cricketer, possibly (SW Scott) but some pretty sumptuous addresses.

H Rood, a very good cricketer in the early days for Hornsey moved in the year (per the annotation) to 28 Old Compton Street, Soho! If anyone can enlighten us as to what that building currently is, please contact the club?

Don Nute, Hornsey Best Ever Bowling 10-10
2nd July 1967.

Hornsey vs Northwood. Hornsey win the toss and bat. 241-8(dec) off 57.2 overs.

Hugh Pearman 98, Roger Pearman 92 (partnership 148), Don Nute 33 and Northwood bowler Roberts takes a hat-trick in the 56th over. Northwood 24 all out in 20.4 overs. Don Nute 10.4-6-10-10.

The scorebook is in the photo galary. Note Don was hit for 6 in his 3rd over! The only ever 10-for in Hornsey's history. Don was also the only man to have score 10,000 runs and taken 1,000 wickets for the Club, mostly in the 1st XI. And he was over 40 when he joined the Club.

Don passed away last November (2005). If one of the older members could give us an appreciation of Don, that would be most welcome.

Extracts from Hornsey Cricket Club papers accumulated by Tony Dey and various other sources reproduced by Johnny Bruce. Summary details below, images available in the club photo gallery.

1902 Fixture Card
Familiar names on there (Finchley/Hampstead etc) although the Wed 11th June fixture may well be on to avoid; certainly one where you'd keep a close eye on your valuables.

1902 Averages
The averages for the season, five possible first class cricketers there.

Extract from 1875 Members List
Only one first class cricketer, possibly (SW Scott) but some pretty sumptuous addresses.

H Rood, a very good cricketer in the early days for Hornsey moved in the year (per the annotation) to 28 Old Compton Street, Soho! If anyone can enlighten us as to what that building currently is, please contact the club?

Don Nute, Hornsey Best Ever Bowling 10-10
2nd July 1967.

Hornsey vs Northwood. Hornsey win the toss and bat. 241-8(dec) off 57.2 overs.

Hugh Pearman 98, Roger Pearman 92 (partnership 148), Don Nute 33 and Northwood bowler Roberts takes a hat-trick in the 56th over. Northwood 24 all out in 20.4 overs. Don Nute 10.4-6-10-10.

The scorebook is in the photo galary. Note Don was hit for 6 in his 3rd over! The only ever 10-for in Hornsey's history. Don was also the only man to have score 10,000 runs and taken 1,000 wickets for the Club, mostly in the 1st XI. And he was over 40 when he joined the Club.

Don passed away last November (2005). If one of the older members could give us an appreciation of Don, that would be most welcome.

Extracts from Hornsey Cricket Club papers accumulated by Tony Dey and various other sources reproduced by Johnny Bruce. Summary details below, images available in the club photo gallery.

1902 Fixture Card
Familiar names on there (Finchley/Hampstead etc) although the Wed 11th June fixture may well be one to avoid; certainly one where you'd keep a close eye on your valuables.

1902 Averages
The averages for the season, five possible first class cricketers there.

Extract from 1875 Members List
Only one first class cricketer, possibly (SW Scott) but some pretty sumptuous addresses.

H Rood, a very good cricketer in the early days for Hornsey moved in the year (per the annotation) to 28 Old Compton Street, Soho....The Prince Edward Theatre

Don Nute, Hornsey Best Ever Bowling 10-10
2nd July 1967.

Hornsey vs Northwood. Hornsey win the toss and bat. 241-8(dec) off 57.2 overs.

Hugh Pearman 98, Roger Pearman 92 (partnership 148), Don Nute 33 and Northwood bowler Roberts takes a hat-trick in the 56th over. Northwood 24 all out in 20.4 overs. Don Nute 10.4-6-10-10.

The scorebook is in the photo galary. Note Don was hit for 6 in his 3rd over! The only ever 10-for in Hornsey's history. Don was also the only man to have score 10,000 runs and taken 1,000 wickets for the Club, mostly in the 1st XI. And he was over 40 when he joined the Club.

Don passed away last November (2005). If one of the older members could give us an appreciation of Don, that would be most welcome.

1928 COMMITTEE MINUTES

In 1928 the Committee met every Tuesday. I've got a copy of the minute book and it is hilarious reading. Samples:-

17th May 1928

Mr Wenyon reported that Mrs Lindsay would undertake the task of superintending cricket lunches. The price would be 3/6d (17p approx!) to include a bottle of beer and a bottle of ginger beer for each player

21st August 1928

Marshall (groundsman) explained that petty thefts had occurred from time to time recently and that he and Kentish (asst groundsman) suspected the scorer. The committee thereupon authorised Marshall to take such steps as he might consider desirable to arrive at the truth.

28th August 1928

The thefts from the pavilion had been perpetrated by the scorer. At the interview the boy stated that his father had thrashed him and he was instructed to write to the Committee to express his regret

11th September

Re thefts, the Hon Secretary had interviewed the boys father, who had given the boy a thrashing and returned some tennis ball that had been stolen.

1920s MINUTES

Did you know there was an 18 hole putting course in front of the pavilion?

Cost of prepataion was £7 and 15/-. Cost was 2d (slightly over 1p) per round, payable by putting oney into a tin in the pavilion. Passed by the committee 15 March 1927.Season tickets available for 5/- (about 15p).

RESULT

On Saturday a Club XI took on Morth Mymms in a 45 over match. North Mymms 189-8 off 45. 2 wickets for Bruce and C Joseph, and 1 each for Giles, Goldberg, Fawden. This looked like a decent target to chase, particularly with a batting order consisting of Fawds at 6 on merit!. In the end we finished 9 short, 180 all out after 44.1. Runs for Bruce (65), Allen (44 including 32 balls and almost 12 overs to get off the mark!) and Disco (32). 130-7 had become 180-8 so we should have won it after doing all of the hard work. Good game, nice ground, good tea, friendly oppo, September cricket at it's best.

2 late dropouts, both by text. Colts, please note, dropping out by text is a dead giveaway. Memo for next year, if you need to drop out at the last minute, phone and speak to the skipper so he can give you the bollocking you deserve.

The final match of the season is next Saturday, away at Welwyn Garden City.

WORKING PARTY

Virtually everyone who said they they would be there did turn up. Some of course didn't. At our sweepstake the previous evening as to who wouldn't turn up, everyone was able to accurately pick who wouldn't. Good turn out by Messrs Coleman, Chapman, Allen (G), Bruce, Peters, Giles, O'Connor, Makwana (K), Patel (S), Hewavisenti, Fawden, Emmerson, Emmerson (Jr), Fleming and Allen (M), and a selection of Colts. Mrs P and Lakshmi were on hand to provide tea and biscuits, and the work was done in a couple of hours. Many hands make light work etc etc. Apologies if I have missed anyone off.

CLUB PHOTO GALLERY

Some new photos on the website from the end of season awards and from the game at Enfield last week.

1920s MINUTES

Did you know there was an 18 hole putting course in front of the pavilion. Cost of prepataion was £7 and 15/-. Cost was 2d (slightly over 1p) per round, payable by putting money into a tin in the pavilion. Passed by the committee 15 March 1927.Season tickets available for 5/- (about 15p)

Author
Johnny Bruce Club Captain.

RESULTS

A Club XI played the traditional end of season friendly against Enfield. Enfield 225-8 off 50, far too late a declaration in theory, not so much when we were all out in 39 for 160-ish (max 44 overs)!!

For Enfield, James Gatting got a few, Raving Ron Greenwood picked up a few wickets and their keeper had 4 stumpings.

Decent game, good fun. All of the 7 bowlers took a wicket I think, and most of the batsemen seemed to get 15, except Kirit who got 40-odd.

1928 COMMITTEE MINUTES

In 1928 the Committee met every Tuesday. I've got a copy of the minute book and it is hilarious reading. Samples:-

17th May 1928

Mr Wenyon reported that Mrs Lindsay would undertake the task of superintending cricket lunches. The price would be 3/6d (17p approx!) to include a bottle of beer and a bottle of ginger beer for each player

21st August 1928

Marshall (groundsman) explained that petty thefts had occurred from time to time recently and that he and Kentish (asst groundsman) suspected the scorer. The committee thereupon authorised Marshall to take such steps as he might consider desirable to arrive at the truth.

28th August 1928

The thefts from the pavilion had been perpetrated by the scorer. At the interview the boy stated that his father had thrashed him and he was instructed to write to the Committee to express his regret

11th September

Re thefts, the Hon Secretary had interviewed the boys father, who had given the boy a thrashing and returned some tennis ball that had been stolen.

MARY HODGSON

Graham has already passed on the sad news about Mary's death. A true Hornsey stalwart.

Author
Johnny Bruce
Club Captain

Hornsey have entered two colts' teams (U13 and U15) in this year's winter league.

Matches are played on Saturday afternoons at the Middlesex Cricket Academy in Finchley, and are 8-a-side for U13s and 6-a-side for U15s.

Exact dates of matches are not yet available, but the U13 gamesstart after the October half term, and U15s in January.

For further details contact Gavin Ralston:

RalstonGN@aol.com

RESULTS

The 1s, as you all probably know were relegated, despite a good effort chasing 273 in a must-win game against Harrow. Other results went their way, so a win would have made the 1s safe. The 1s were suitably dejected at the end of season social which was good to see in a way, and I'm really hopeful they will regroup and come right back up.

The 2s match report comes from Graham Allen:-

Although no great consequence at stake for the 2's last game at Hornsey - it was nevertheless a must win game for Harrow so we were desperate to put in a good performance. With 5 of the previous weeks side away this was always going to be tough. Harrow made their intent clear in the first few overs getting away to a quick start, however Joel Gregory in a rare 2nd team appearance bowled with pace and movement and restricted Harrow just as it looked like a big score was on the cards. In turn Adrian Fawden picked up 2 more wickets including a stunning caught and bowled. Joel came back for a long second spell and deserved his first 2's 5 wicket haul.
During the innings we were very disappointed with 3 LBW shouts that were turned down by the Harrow umpire. Tempers starting to fray towards the end.

No great surprise then that we lost out first wicket early to a dubious LBW shout and that had tempers boiling which did not help. Syed Ahmed looked like defying Harrow but we lost regular wickets and no one put up any sort of resistance to a frenetic Harrow bowling attack. Skittled for 87 was a disappointing end to the League.

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A very restrained match report from Graham there, everyone else who played in the game was of the opinion that the umpire was a blatant cheat. They had a South African playing for them who was deeply unpleasant as well. Hope he's reading this (unlikely, not sure he'd be able). If you are, no-one likes you.

The 3s finished off the season with an understrength side against Winchmore Hill. On a poor track away at Bessborough's 3rd team pitch, Hornsey did well to scrape together 172. Jas Cable an excellent 71. On an increasingly unreliable track, the Hill got off to a flier only to be pegged back and eventually dismissed in 26 overs for 110. Johnny Bruce and Nik Giles bowled unchanged for 4-41 and 6-59 respectively and we held every catch. Remarkably and disappointingly the loss, couple with wins for 8th and 9th placed Twickenham and South Hampstead meant that Winchmore Hill were relegated. Thats a shame, they are a good club, with great facilities and it's been the prime fixture in the 3rd XI calendar for a couple of years. We've always done well against them, but unfortunately this season we did a little too well. They only have themselves to blame, they should have beaten us yesterday.

SEASON SUMMARY

Graham Allen's 2nd team season's report below:-

On balance to finish 5th and half way was a pleasing performance and I was delighted to hand the player on the year award to Matt William in the evening presentations. Matt scored big runs when they mattered and offering controlling offspin particularly earlier in the year was a big difference to the 2's this year. With colts pushing for places and a more balanced attack - things look promising for next year.



Nick Coleman and Maurice Seaton also were crucial in the all-rounder and strike bowler roles respectively. Nick as ever has ended up with well over 350 runs and whilst not the strike force he once was, often opened the bowling tirelessly and restricted the opposition. At one stage Maurice was thinking of quitting but came back with renewed vigour winning games for us with 11 wickets over 2 weekends. He bowled with much greater control towards the second half of the season and of course hit the winning 4 in our outstanding win over Old Actonians chasing 300.



It seems that we bid Syed Ahmed farewell after just the one season due the business commitments. Syed enjoyed the first half of the season more than the second - he contributed some useful scores in the middle order and bowled tidy off spin. On reflection he may well have got more of a bowl but with Mat William and latterly Adrian Fawden returning we had the luxury of a strong spin department. Andy Tyler would be an ideal opener if we can hang on to him next year - he announced his arrival with 90 but didn't quite get going as he'd have wanted after that. Faisal Ansari was a curiosity who disappeared as quickly as he arrived. His 75 in the OA's return game was a match winner.



I'd also like to mention regulars like Andy Myhill, Dash, Ben Gillings who bolstered the middle order and often didn't get a regular spot which does not help. They each contributed - both Andy and Ben recording scores in excess of 50. Darren Browne ,Oliver Yew, Ed Waite, Simon Rae all made significant contributions. Joel Gregory had to play 3’s for the majority of the season but was a wicket taker when he played for the 2’s.



James Fleming took the Most improved young player award - he kept wicket well and with work should become a 1's player very soon thanks to his sound technique and a powerful back foot based game.



Lastly Johnny Marr has been scorer magnificent , and has updated all the scores with the league each week. He has also coordinated the car travel every week (no easy task!!) and provided us with a torrent of statistics and facts delivered in his own inimitable style!!! A Big thank you.



Lastly thanks to Kirit and Mark who have been great to work with in terms of selection and general running of the sides. Kirit I know has been desperately disappointed to get relegated a division but has tirelessly taken on the dramas of skippering at 1's level. He has done well. Sadly I believe Mark is having a sabbatical with new family additions to concentrate on next year. We should remember he has given 5 years of terrific service as 3's skipper. Never failing to get a side out on the park against the odds at times and more amazingly doing it all with a nonchalance and smile which defied the endless drama with drop outs and general flakiness!!! He'll be missed as skipper.



Play the friendlies if you can - September cricket is great fun .



AWARDS


The following awards were made at the end of season social:-

1st XI player of the year: Patrick Blair
2nd XI player of the year: Matt William
3rd XI player of the year: Joel Gregory
Best Young Player: James Fleming
The Southern Cross: Mrs Patel, richly deserved and long overdue.

A good turnout at the club for the end of season social, £400 taken over the bar, some pretty significant hangovers Sunday. Good to see Fawds back standing at the bar talking nonsense and Mark Allen reviving an age old tradition and walking around with a jug of beer. Just like the old days. Good also to see Arthur Cornick popping in to watch the match at Hornsey.

Can't help but echo Graham's sentiments in his seasons report. Great work in particular by the skippers Kirit, Graham and Mark. People these days are so unreliable, the job can be a nightmare. As you'll have seen, Mark Peters has stepped down as 3rd XI skipper due to new family commitments and John Simon has agreed to bring some bluff northern commonsense to the role for next season, just what we need after a number of years of namby pamby soft southerners. Mark will be available to play next year (we are assured), and don't bet against him skippering the odd week in a crisis. Unfortunately Harrow Town have been relegated, traditionally a "bring your favourite cheese" fixture. We will cast our eyes over the fixture list for next season to see which fixture gets the pleasure of that tradition.

Well done Emmo and Mark Allen, and Jim Chapman. The place looks and feels like a cricket club again. Paul Russon, wherever you are, can we have all of missing bar stock back? Great job on the website (Nik Giles) and the accounts (Disco, but could you please make them look a little more profitable).

I'll complete the league averages this week with a following wind and email them round to everyone.

All kit unclaimed from the changing rooms by Sunday 17th September will be chucked out as the club has no room to store it.

RESULTS

The 1s are still alive! A great win at home against Ickenham. Hornsey 238-9 off 50 overs, Ickenham 137 all out with 19 balls left. Runs for Dee Makwana and Matt William and wickets shared around, Patrick Blair 3, Garfield Struthers 2 and others chipping in. Great result. To avoid relegation, the 1s MUST win their last game at Harrow on Saturday AND Ickenham must either draw or lose against South Hampstead.

2s match report from skipper Graham Allen:-

Disappointing result up at Winchmore Hill. It really was a toss to win - we lost it! With bracing winds, damp in the air and a lively pitch WH's opening bowlers were a real handful and only Tyles really got going though he fell disappointingly to the spinner. Allen, Coleman and Ahmed all briefly got going but wickets tumbled at regular intervals and we grinded our way to 126 of 53.3 overs. The rain kept away and with a drier pitch and better conditions WH comforatbly knocked off the 123 to keep in the hunt for promotion. Maurice Seaton and Nick Coleman each picked up a wicket to raise our hopes but all too briefly. One last game to go - we'd love to end the season on a high , mid table with power to add next year. Winchmore Hill 129-2.

The 3s secured their league position with an excellent performance against Stanmore who have been promoted. Inserted on a green and difficult track, Hornsey started well, 73-0, collaped to 116-5, recovered to 180-5, collaped again to 190-8 only for Emmerson (19*) and Mark Peters (43) to haul us up to 262-9 off 51 overs. Joel Gregory 60, and contributions from Alastair Thomas, Terry Sherlock, Sam Joesph. Being light on bowling options, Joel Gregory bowled throughout 25-6-85-3, and Johnny Bruce bowled 20-7-73-3. Stanmore were in the hunt for a while but got further behind the clock and then lost wickets as they tried to accelerate. They shut up shop very effectively with 8 overs left, the 4 points enough to make relegation for Hornsey impossible.

The Sunday 2nd XI had an enjoyable game against St Johns Wood CC. Hornsey 187-8 off 40 overs (Alastair Thomas 55, Deepak Parmar 42), St Johns Wood CC 154 all out in 32. Wickets for Zinzan Hewavisenti (2), Charlie Joseph (2) and Jack Goldberg (3). Comedy 14 ball over from Jim Chapman, the last ball of which was spooned to square leg, 1-0-16-1. And he had a cattch dropped at deep square leg.

SATURDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER

All back to the pavilion after the final league games. Bring your other half. BBQ will be on, but it's important we all turn up to congratulate/commisearte with each other for the season.

CHANGING ROOM

Pigsty. All kit unclaimed from the changing rooms by Sunday 17th September will be chucked out. We have no room to store it. If there are any nice bats, I'll nick them.

RESULTS

The 1st XI lost of the last ball away at Barnes. Hornsey 195-5 off 52, Barnes 200-7 off 48. Sanjay Patel scored 85. To avoid relegation, Hornsey MUST win their remaining two games at home to Ickenham and away at Harrow. In addition Ickenham must not win or tie against South Hampstead on the final weekend.

The 2nd XI ensured their posiution in the league for next season with a comprehensive drubbing of bottom team Bessborough. Bessborough 89 all out. Maurice Seaton 5-45 and Nick Coleman 2-7 off 12 overs (including his last six overs being maidens) did the early damage. Fawden 2-14 off 8 and Giles 1-20 off 7. In reply, Matt Williams hit a powerful 62* to wrap up victory in the 24th over.

The 3rd XI match away at Twickenham was cancelled due to a "waterlogged pitch", although the match was cancelled in blazing sunshine at 11.30am. It was the only match cancelled or indeed rain affected in the whole league. The cynics may suggest that perhaps they were weak and didnt fancy it? Availability was poor this weekend at Hornsey, perhaps it was worse at Twickenham? Who knows, but it was a strange decision.

There was no Sunday match this week, due to poor availability.

SATURDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER

This is the date of the last league match. As usual, all teams back to Hornsey afterwards for beers! Compulsory.

Averages criteria for official documentation is

Batting, 3 completed innings

Bowling, min 20 overs bowled.

Could be some exceptions to the batting. If someone bats 12 times and is not out 10 times

(i.e. only 2 completed inns) and has scored loads runs then I think we could safely have him as top of the averages.

Never yet happened, but who knows?

Photo updates of club Dopplegangers seperated at birth.

A selection of shockers from the 80's...beards and glasses included.

http://www.hornseycricketclub.co.uk/gallery

RESULTS

Graham Allen has already sent round the league results.

The 1st XI are now firmly rooted to the foot of the table after being bowled out for 75 against South Hampstead. Not much to say, although Sanjay Patel gave a succinct summary of Hornsey's batting. Unfortunately, I feel unable to repeat it, or indeed even spell most of it.

2nd XI match report provided by skipper Graham Allen:-

Terrific win for the twos at Enfield.....

An outstanding opening burst from renaissance man Maurice Seaton left Enfield in tatters at 39-6, the ball swinging away at pace and including a superb delivery which took out one of the openers, pitching middle and swinging away to clip the top of off. But this is a good track as everyone knows and the lower Enfield order fought hard to eek out valuable runs. Adrian Fawden made a welcome return and bowled a very tidy spell of 9 overs for 29 - a couple of dropped chances going down. Syed immediately made a crucial breakthrough and whilst we had to work hard to knock out the tail a score of 153 was getable. Maurice returning 6-35 by far his best analysis of the season. Allen went early but Mat William (41) in partnership with an ever more impressive James Fleming (38) took us to 80 without trouble. Both fell quickly and suddenly there was a lot of work to do. The middle order, Dash and Andy Myhill, pushed on but just as we seemed to be looking comfortable wickets fell. It was left to Nick Coleman to keep a cool head at the end and we ended up 6 wickets down, being made to work hard for our 3rd victory. With 3 games to go there is good momentum and spirit in the side with everyone contributing in some way. Very pleasing.

The 3rd XI virtually assured themselves of Division 2 cricket next after a season dabbling with relegation with a good win against struggling South Hamsptead on a very green wicket at the Peter May ground in Walthamstow. South Hampstead had the right idea on a difficult wicket, throwing the bat at most things in their half, but with wicket taking deliveries just around the corner it was only a matter before wickets fell. Joel Gregory, now operating off only a five pace run up with only a marginal loss in pace recorded the sensational figures of 22.3-7-69-9. Only the 16th time in the 136 year history of the club has anyone taken 9 wickets in an innings. Helped enormously by deft catching behind the wicket and the fact that the bowling at the other end was so ordinary and never looked like taking wickets! For the record the one wicket Joel didn't take was the second to fall, so the 10-for was never really on the cards. In reply, the run chase was always likely to be tricky. In the end, we got there with six wickets down. We wobbled at 50-odd for 4 but then Joel Gregory making good early use of the Chinese cut and the inside edge capped a memorable match with 63. Alastair Thomas batted through the whole innings virtually, for a vital 39*. Not at his fluent best, but not out at the end. Just what we needed. Good late cameo by Mark Allen (15) rolling back the years with flicks off his legs and flowing cover drives. Good 1980s kit from Mark, skin tight whites and "flowerpot" style white sun hat and pads with metal buckles.

The Sunday 2nd XI played Stanmore. Stanmore were almost entirely an adult side whereas Hornsey included 7 colts. Stanmore 223-7 off 40 overs. Ed Waite 4-20, Adrian Fawden 2-23, Hornsey all out 141. Alastair Thomas 46, Ed Waite 29 and Liam Brennan-Masters a career best 11* (although 2* would have done it).

RELEGATION

The 1st XI probably need to win at least 2 games out of the 3 remaining to avoid relegation and even then need other results to go their way.

The 2nd XI are probably safe now. If they avoid defeat against Bessborough next week, then relegation would only be a mathematical improbability. The 2nd are actually in 5th place now, but there are a lot of teams bunched around there. Bolstered by the return of Adrian Fawden, they are a realistic bet even to finish 4th. Amazing turnaround sparked by the incredible run chase vs Old Actonians a few weeks ago.

The 3rd XI mathematically are not safe but realistically are (touch wood). With a good finish to the season, the 3s could actually finish 3rd or 4th, because there are a lot of teams bunched together mid table, although availability isn't too good for next week. With Joel Gregory on fire at present anything is possible. Next week's match sees us go to Twickenham who have the self proclaimed "fastest 3rd XI bowler in any of the leagues". He was swift all right, but Joel was in the 2s when we played the reverse fixture, so expect to see a bit of chest puffing and short pitched stuff to see who is top dog. My money on Joel.

Not sure also what will happen at Barnet CC this year. Their first team played with only 8 men on Saturday. Their 2nd XI have often played with only 8 men and their 3rd XI have been unable to raise a team for many weeks. It's possible therefore that they may leave the league completely, all XIs, in which case the 2nd XI would not be demoted in the (very) unlikely event that they finish bottom.

LOOKEY LIKEYS

On holiday in Cornwall spotted a Mark Peters doppelganger. Photographic evidence on the website soon once Nik Giles has posted the pictures. Several idiotic attempts to get him into a photograph, asking Jane to go and stand in his vicinity so I could get him in shot etc etc.

Similarly a Charlie Joseph (aged 25) lookalike from last weeks Sunday times.

Pictures of all Hornsey look a likes gratefully received

PHOTOS

A number of new photos on the website from the mid to late 1980s. Sensational stuff. If not already there, will be as soon as Nik Giles posts them. Lots of fresh faced youths and atrocious haircuts. Look out especially for the 1st XI team photo from an end of season match at Ilford in 1986, with Mark Allen wearing the exact same kit he wore yesterday.

RESULTS

The 1st XI lost in the last over away at Southgate, which was disappointing as they had played some decent cricket in the game. Hornsey 221 all out (Reza Fuard 54) but ex Middlesex player David Goodchild held the reply together with an unbeaten ton as Eastcote won with three balls to spare by 3 wickets.

The report of a sensational 2nd XI game at Hornsey is provided below by skipper Graham Allen

The big one. We turned over Old Actonians in June and the return game had everything... and the right result!!!

Inserted, Old Actonians flayed our attack to all corners of the ground. At the 10 over stage they had 70 and their Aussie tore into Joel Gregory including a hoiked six bouncing against the pavilion which doesn't often happen against a bowler of his pace.. Slowing things down provided some respite and Syed Ahmed bowled well against a rampant batting line up. His spell included an extraordinary one handed caught and bowled. However the lower order carted the bowling again only Ollie Yew bowling a long spell which kept the lid on things at one end. 2 wickets for Maurice Seaton and Syed Ahmed. Score - a mammoth 299-6 of 44.2 overs!!! Joel Gregory 13-1-116-1! We took tea tired deflated but chasing that kind of score as any batsman knows gives licence to just go for it....

Faisal Ansari and myself got off to the start we wanted with Faisal taking the attack to the bowlers hitting a mixture of stunning extra cover drives and brutal lofted straight hits. We put on 80 odd at a decent lick, but after I was out for 31, we immediately we lost Richard Charlton in quick time and the momentum swung back towards OA's. Dash played anchor role and Faisal fell after a superb 71. Joel added useful quick runs but the experience of Nick Coleman - taking toll of spin and pace alike meant we went past 200 in good shape. The last twenty left a target of over 110. Dash fell for 24 and Darren Browne started slowly but under big pressure pulled of a couple of stunning boundaries to keep the momentum going. Then he was given out caught when the fielder diving forward clearly caught, then dropped the ball. The law stating control of the ball is key, which in this case it wasn't. Syed and Nick as before this season looked the perfect partnership in a chase, Syed smashing several crucial boundaries. Nick however just as we were whittling down the last 40 fell caught behind for 56. The momentum had shifted back especially when Syed was caught leaving John Simon and Maurice to get 30 runs in 4 overs. Maurice swung hard but missed many balls in the darkening light, but just when we looked to be falling too far behind John Simon cut to the bo