North London CC v Hornsey Cricket Club 3rd Team on Sat 24 May 2008 at 13.00
Hornsey Cricket Club Won
Hornsey won the toss on a very small ground and asked North London to bat on their postage stamp ground. We were high on confidence after having bowled out Shepherds Bush cheaply the previous week.
We started off slowly however with some sloppy fielding and they raced away to 30 without scoring many from the bat. Tucker removed the opener but that brought in the slogger at 3 who with the skipper moved the score along very quickly swinging at most balls. We dropped him with the score on 80 and they stayed together till they were 140 from only around 20 overs.
He did however hole out after some terrible Kiwi sledging from Alistair, caught and bowled to Marty and once they were 2 down, they had a long tail. Tucker worked his magic bowling straight and Nik Giles picked up the other 3 wickets with Joe Jermotte taking 3 catches behind the wicket.
Marty finished with 7-103 which was his only century of the game. North London finished with 208 from 36 overs so we had plenty of time to chase their total.
We lost 2 quick wickets before our late tea then Alistair and Marty set about the bowling. Like a good kiwi rugby player, Alistair choked when the going got tough and with a few quick wickets falling, George Charlton held his end very well to let Marty cut loose at the other end.
Marty ended up with 96 not out, a fantastic knock and a another thoroughly deserved man of the match award.
Author,
John Simon
North London CC Batting
208 for 10
| Wallace |
93 |
Caught |
| Hatter |
5 |
Bowled |
| Raza |
37 |
Caught |
| Dobbins |
0 |
Caught |
| Fowler |
0 |
Lbw |
| Malick |
16 |
Bowled |
| Battock |
9 |
Bowled |
| Popplewell |
10 |
Bowled |
| Rosson |
8 |
Caught |
| Lewis |
0 |
Not Out |
| Seanthebury |
0 |
Caught |
Hornsey Cricket Club 3rd Team Bowling
Hornsey Cricket Club 3rd Team Batting
210 for 7
North London CC Bowling
| Lewis |
11.0 |
0 |
68 |
3 |
22.67 |
6.18 |
| Rosson |
5.0 |
0 |
26 |
1 |
26.00 |
5.20 |
| Scanthebury |
10.0 |
2 |
40 |
3 |
13.33 |
4.00 |
| Battock |
3.0 |
0 |
32 |
0 |
0.00 |
10.67 |
| Malik |
3.0 |
0 |
25 |
0 |
0.00 |
8.33 |
| Raza |
1.0 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
0.00 |
8.00 |