Scorecard

Thatcham Town Cricket Club Thatcham 1XI- Saturday v Kew on Sat 13 Jun 2009 at 1.30pm
Match was Drawn

Match report Thatcham entertained top of the table Kew at Brownsfield on Saturday in a closely fought contest and just shaded an exciting drawn game with Kew hanging on at the end just 8 runs short of Thatcham’s total with the last pair at the crease.

Earlier in the day, Kew skipper Ed Knowles called correctly and inserted the home side into bat. Pearce and Foster took full advantage of a very lively and bouncy track and soon had Thatcham in trouble with James Ettridge(7) and Dan Stone(6) both departing in quick succession to the pace of Pearce. Duncan Johnson joined Steve Wyatt at the crease and the two experienced left handers mixed some quality shots with a fair slice of good fortune, both riding their luck to post a partnership of 74 before Wyatt was caught at the wicket by Friderichs off Rob Tindall for a hard fought 46. Johnson kept going and was rewarded with another half century but then saw Matt Denness depart for 12, gloving an unplayable delivery from Baig through to Bajaj at slip. The Thatcham skipper was the next man to go, bowled round his legs by Bajaj for 64, the home side though were well placed at 161-5 from 40 overs and now looked to push on with Paul Jenkins and Jack Andrews towards a 200+ total. Andrews put bat to ball with no fear and hit 5 four’s in his breezy knock of 22 which was all over too quickly as he tried one shot too many and was bowled by Bajaj. Jenkins was next to go, as the returning Pearce had him caught by Duhusinghe for 12 and a procession soon followed as Rochfort(7), Bishop(3) and Chris Bird(3) all perished trying to hit Bajaj for boundaries to give the spinner 5-34 from his 7.5 overs and leave the home side all out for 209 in the 50th over. Thatcham had made the error of not batting out their allowed overs and were hoping this would not come back and bite them later on in the day.

With 50 overs to get the target, Kew openers Kidron Thomas and Bruce Friderichs strode out to the middle and it was vital for Thatcham that early breakthroughs were achieved. Paul Jenkins delivered exactly that, Thomas going for a pull shot from the 4th ball of the innings and only succeeding in finding Johnson at mid-on and the dangerous West Indian was gone without scoring. Mistry was next to follow soon after, Jenkins finding the edge of his flashing blade and Steve Wyatt took the catch at 1st slip safely. Friderichs was beginning to find the boundary with alarming regularity as the prolific South African cut and pulled anything short, but Pete Edgcombe was in the middle of a superb spell of medium placed swing bowling and Friderichs top edged an attempted pull and Johnson again took the catch, running round from mid-on to see the back of the dangerman. Pearce and Duhusinghe added useful runs, but Edgcombe struck again, removing Duhusinghe for 31, a fine catch from Jenkins. Kew were always in the hunt and up with the rate though and wickets had to keep falling for the home side to get something from the game and Pearce was striking the ball well, but he hadn’t accounted for Nick Bishop and the wily off-spinner got his reward as he found a gap in Pearce’s defences and bowled him for 45. Johnson then got in on the act with the ball, Knowles caught and bowled for 16 and then Tindall well caught by Ettridge on the line at deep midwicket for 3 as Thatcham sensed a unlikely win. Kew needed 25 runs from 5 overs, but with only 2 wickets in hand the game could still produce all three possible results. Baig chanced his arm and had reached 22, before he tried to hit Johnson over midwicket and top edged high into the air where the Thatcham skipper took a well judged running catch to once again swing the game in his sides favour. Last man Bajaj joined Foster and Kew needed 8 runs from the final over from Nick Bishop for victory. In a tame ending however, just the 1 run came from it as Foster stoutly defended the last 5 balls without incident to leave the match drawn, Thatcham emerging with 15 points and Kew 10 points. It was a great effort from the Thatcham side led by Pete Edgcombe 2-41 from 13 overs and Paul Jenkins 2-40 from his 9 overs. The other bowlers all contributed to the cause, Nick Bishop 1-38 from 12 overs and Duncan Johnson 3-41 from 8 overs and only Chris Bird 0-31 from 8 overs was not among the wickets.

Thatcham travel to new league leaders Harefield on Saturday after a date with the Sky Sports camera’s as this week they are the ‘Team of the Week’ on Cricket AM, which is sure to produce a lot of laughs and hopefully they can then go and get a win from the studio’s in Isleworth and onto Harefield.

Thatcham Town Cricket Club Thatcham 1XI- Saturday Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
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209		        
Steve Wyatt Caught  46 1
James Ettridge Caught  7 1
Dan Stone Caught  6
Duncan Johnson Bowled  64 4
Matthew Denness Caught  11
Paul Jenkins Caught  12 1
Jack Andrews Bowled  22
Chris Rochfort Caught  7
Nick Bishop Caught  3
Chris Bird Caught  3
Peter Edgcombe Not Out  1

Kew Bowling

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Kew Batting
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TOTAL :
 
for 9 wickets
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201 (0.0 overs)		     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Thatcham Town Cricket Club Thatcham 1XI- Saturday Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Paul Jenkins9.0240220.004.44
Peter Edgcombe13.0241220.503.15
Duncan Johnson8.0141313.675.13
Chris Bird8.033100.003.87
Nick Bishop12.0138138.003.17

  • Umpire :
    Panel
  • Scorer :
    Ian Martin