Scorecard

Hambledon Vs SACC Scorpions

1-Innings Match Played At Fleming Park, 22-Nov-2009, Fleming Park 2

Hambledon Win by 33 runs

Toss won by

Hambledon

 

Hambledon 1st Innings 142/2 Closed (Overs 12)

Batsman	Fieldsman	Bowler	Runs
J Lavous	Retired Not Out		25
N Scutt+	Retired Not Out		27
C Prentice		b M Edwards	12
J Atkinson	run out		9
P Tusler*	not out		15
R Tusler	not out		21
extras		(b0 lb1 w29 nb3)	33
TOTAL		2 wickets for	142

 

FOW

1-0 2-0

 

Bowler	O	M	R	W
J Cranston	3	0	40	0
R Carpenter	3	0	36	0
M Edwards	3	0	27	1
T Farley	3	0	38	0

 

SACC Scorpions 1st Innings 109/6 All Out (Overs 11.4)

Batsman	Fieldsman	Bowler	Runs
I Farley*	c J Lavous	b J Atkinson	16
R Carpenter	c R Tusler	b J Lavous	1
M Spicer+	c C Prentice	b R Tusler	4
J Cranston	c J Atkinson	b C Prentice	34
T Farley	c N Scutt	b J Atkinson	0
M Edwards	c J Lavous	b J Atkinson	1
extras		(b0 lb0 w44 nb9)	53
TOTAL		6 wickets for	109

 

FOW

1-0 2-0 3-0 4-0 5-0 6-0

 

Bowler	O	M	R	W
C Prentice	2.4	0	20	1
J Lavous	3	0	29	1
J Atkinson	2	0	20	3
R Tusler	3	0	21	1
P Tusler	1	0	19	0

 

Produced by Cricket Statz - www.cricketstatz.com Last updated 11-Dec-2009.

 

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Match Report

Against certainly the best team we've seen or met this season, Sarisbury Scorpions lost by 33 runs. It might indeed have been a much heavier defeat but for a wonderful innings from Jack Cranston.

Losing the toss, Scorpions fielded first and we bowled and fielded fairly well but the quality of the Hambledon batting line-up told with every batsman making a contribution. The two openers both retired but Mike Edwards passed the bat a few times before hitting the top of middle stump with his very last ball. That was the only wicket taken by a bowler with a run out at the keeper's end. We really stuck at it and didn't bowl that many wides, contributing 29 to Hambledon's total of 142-2.

The fielding and catching of our opponents was outstanding, though the bowling sometimes wayward, wides and no balls making up almost half of our total. Rob Carpenter was caught brilliantly square on the off side in the second over but Ian Farley and Matt Spicer scored steadily, though helped by wides. They took the score past fifty before Matt was victim of a great low catch, a stroke that would normally have got him a four. From 52-1 we sank to 53-5 with Ian caught for 16 and Tom Farley first ball - credit to him (in a game played in very good spirit) that he walked despite edging to the keeper and being given not out. Mike Edwards was the third man to be dismissed in the one over, a high catch right by the back wall. So Jack Cranston was last man standing and we could only hope for respectability with over 5 overs left. In over number nine, he launched into a counterattack and three successive sixes and with an able and willing runner in Dr Mike, he took the score past the century mark. With his score on 34 and ours on 109, Jack was caught off the wall in the last over, but the last wicket had brought us two batting points in addition to the one bowling point.

No shame in losing to Hambledon, still holding a 100 per cent record - this won't be the biggest win they have this season, that's for sure.

Keith Spicer