Scorecard

Thatcham Town Cricket Club Thatcham XI- Wednesday v Kennet Pirates on Wed 01 Aug 2012 at 6.10
Thatcham Town Cricket Club Lost by 26 runs

Match report Poor Town Bowling Gifts Victory to Williams brothers and Kennet Pirates

This fixture had all the excitement of a local derby with familiar faces amongst the Kennet Pirates ranks, but in the end 2 crucial elements went against the Mighty Trouts, (1) the wet outfield (and wet ball) while we were bowling (which had all but dried up by the time KP fielded), and (2) the fact that the second half of our innings was played under moonlight.

The match had earlier been moved to Kennet School after steady drizzle and the game was reduced to 14 overs each. The match started with opener Thompson given out LBW to Aaron Voller. But that was one of the few bowling highlights for Town as the Williams brothers' (Danny and Jason) partnership was decisive.

Let’s take nothing away from the Kennet Pirate batting performance. They batted sensibly when the bowling was good, particularly from Aaron Voller ((1/15) and Shiva (1/29), but never failed to put away the bad ball, and rotated the strike cleverly. This set them up nicely and when our bowling performance toward the end sprung a leak the Pirates swarmed aboard and with what can only be described as the Sweeney Todd Experience we served them up a whole range of pies. Eddie Wylie and Andy Rishton were asked to bowl some spin to try and nullify or break the Williams' partnership, but this just played into their hands as the red soap could not be controlled resulting in some steak and ale full toss pies from Rishton and long hop pasties and full toss rum & cheese pies from the Cheesey Wotsit, they only bowled 1 over each but conceded a total of 50 runs. There comes a time in most men's lives where they feel the need to raise the black skull and crossbones flag. However on this occasion it was just the white flag that was limply raised as Danny Williams had his cutlass out and was deftly ticking the scoreboard over whilst at the other end Jason Williams was unleashing the grapeshot cannon and was batting like a hybrid Roger Federer / Johnny Depp. With the scurvy infested Trouts bowlers begging for mercy, eventually a breakthrough came as the impressive Ben Denton Powell broke through to shiver Jason’s timbers.

The average man will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. This must be the case with Andy Rishton because despite his 1 over, which read 414.4446 and would have made any other lad morose, he kept chirping away on the boundary like a sea-sick parrot.
With Tom Mahoney voluntarily warming himself up Rochy turned to Simon Rider instead. Bones can be described as “right arm slow” and bowled Danny Williams (for an excellent 57) with a customary delivery but it was with some amusement that there was time for U15 colt George Anderson to be bowled by the Rider slower ball (I didn’t think that was possible until I saw it). Lastly, Tommy Mather was incredibly fortunate to survive a loud time out appeal from the Trouts, faffing about strapping on thigh pads to face the last ball of the innings!?

After the pillaging of HMS Trouts, the Pirates took to the field and with the outfield drying up all along in the evening sun, George Anderson and Owen Jenkins were able to begin applying accuracy with a drier ball that many of Town’s bowlers just couldn’t in the preceding hour or so. With Jenkins in particular effective in taking 1/23 from 3 overs, containing Town well below the required 13 runs per 8 ball over, the writing was on the classroom wall. With Andy Rishton batting like he had an eye patch and a termite infested wooden leg, it was Peter Spriggs (20) who gave the early part of the innings momentum, much to the disappointment of the wicket-keeping Tommy Mather who was rather hoping for a caught-behind duck. But after Spriggsy fell the rest of the Trouts top order tamely walked the plank trying to up the run rate, including Rider, Youngy and Mahoney Jnr.

Pirates captain Chris Adams (2/24), or Mr Adams to the Kennet School pupils, raised some eyebrows with some of his antics instead of being remembered for his bowling.

To be fair, the game was realistically out of reach by the time it got dark, but any slim hope the batters had was snuffed out in the gloom. After Rishton finally found some momentum there was still hope but he was bowled by Danny Williams (2/23) leaving Shiva Karthikeyan (13) and Aaron Voller (9*) to entertain us with some late blows, Town eventually falling 26 runs short as Phillimore picked up 2/14 at the death.


Kennet Pirates Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
4nb 23w 2lb 
for 6 wickets
29
183 (14.0 overs)		     
A Thompson lbw  A. Voller 0
D Williams b  Rider 57
O Jenkins lbw  Karthikeyan 10
M Abrams ct  (Rishton) b. Rowsell 5
J Williams b  Denton Powell 71
C Adams Not Out  5
G Anderson b  Rider 1
T Mather Not Out  2
E Phillipine  
M Long  
A Mahon  

Thatcham Town Cricket Club Thatcham XI- Wednesday Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Aaron Voller2.0015115.007.50
Shiva Karthikeyan3.0029129.009.67
Will Rowsell2.0025125.0012.50
Eddie Wylie1.002300.0023.00
Ben Denton-Powell3.0043143.0014.33
Andy Rishton1.002700.0027.00
Simon Rider2.001929.509.50

Thatcham Town Cricket Club Thatcham XI- Wednesday Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
extras
TOTAL :
2nb 16w 4b 1lb 
for 10 wickets
23
157		        
Andy Rishton b  D. Williams 47 4 1 1
Peter Spriggs ct  G. Anderson 20 3
Simon Rider ct  O. Jenkins 6 1
Tom Mahoney ct  Abrams 1
Jack Young ct  D. Williams 8 1
Eddie Wylie b  Adams 8
Chris Rochfort ct  Abrams 5
Shiva Karthikeyan b  Adams 13 2
Aaron Voller Not Out  9 1
Will Rowsell ct  Phillimore 0
Ben Denton-Powell st  (Midgit Mather) b. Phillimore 2

Kennet Pirates Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
G Anderson3.0036136.0012.00
O Jenkins3.0023123.007.67
M Abrams3.0033216.5011.00
C Adams2.0024212.0012.00
D Williams2.0023211.5011.50
E Phillimore1.001427.0014.00