Scorecard

SACC Scorpions Vs Hedge End B

1-Innings Match Played At Fleming Park, 20-Dec-2009, Fleming Park 2

SACC Scorpions Win by 12 runs

 

SACC Scorpions 1st Innings 151/2 Closed (Overs 12)

Batsman	Fieldsman	Bowler	Runs
I Farley*	Retired Not Out		25
R Carpenter	not out		33
M Spicer+		c&b A Agha	13
T Morton	Retired Not Out		26
T Mitcheson	run out		2
C Pye	not out		4
extras		(b0 lb1 w47 nb0)	48
TOTAL		2 wickets for	151

 

FOW

1-0 2-0

 

Bowler	O	M	R	W
A Agha	3	0	31	1
J Meredith	3	0	39	0
T Robinson	3	0	41	0
J Fletcher	1	0	20	0
H Parker	2	0	19	0

 

Hedge End B 1st Innings 139/5 Closed (Overs 12)

Batsman	Fieldsman	Bowler	Runs
J Ayling	not out		32
T Robinson	c T Morton	b R Carpenter	1
A Agha	c R Carpenter	b C Pye	5
H Parker		b C Pye	22
J Meredith	Obstructed Field		28
J Fletcher	c T Mitcheson	b T Morton	10
extras		(b1 lb0 w28 nb12)	41
TOTAL		5 wickets for	139

 

FOW

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

 

Bowler	O	M	R	W
T Mitcheson	3	0	38	0
R Carpenter	3	0	41	1
T Morton	3	0	21	1
C Pye	3	0	38	2

 

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Match Report

A match that we never looked like losing ended with Scorpions victorious by 12 runs at Fleming Park. Despite only having three regulars, the replacements did sterling duty - again everyone contributed to a fine team performance.

Buoyed by the news of Stingrays' dramatic first win, we lost the toss and were inserted by Hedge End B, scorer and all. As with the Christmas story, it was apt that a Carpenter was the evening star, Rob hitting two early sixes and retiring in but the 4th over. Fellow wise man Ian Farley took up the reins to also enter the stable and we'd reached 72 after just 5 overs. There were no donkeys to be seen in the batting and Matt Spicer and veteran Terry Morton shepherded the score along reasonably and two more maximums (actually, the plural is 'maxima' but that's Sky Sports for you) also got Terry past retirement while Toby Mitcheson (2) was run out and Matt Spicer (13) well caught off the wall chasing quick late runs. Perhaps we should have amounted a bigger total than 151-2 given the great start but Rob Carpenter returned to increase his innings to 33 not out with indoor debutant Cam Pye on 4 not out. It was also the first time we'd scored over 100 runs off the bat, 103 in fact with 48 extras against, what it is fair to say, a mixed attack.

After the first over went for 15, all the bowlers bowled tightly. Rob Carpenter took the first wicket as Terry Morton swivelled like a ballerina to take a catch off the wall and Cam Pye snaffled his first victim as Rob caught one off the side net. As the opposition failed to get more than three singles off Terry Morton's 2nd over and Toby Mitcheson bowled four successive dot balls in his 2nd over, Hedge End B were still 100 short of their target at halfway. Though the acceleration did come in the second half of the innings, they never seriously threatened to win, with Cam Pye clean bowling the number four for 22, finishing with 2-38 and just one wide, never panicking after being milked for a few threes late on. A great reaction catch by Toby Mitcheson off the wall at short third man was pretty much the final nail in the Hedge End coffin, Terry Morton (1-21 from 3) the bowler. 28 needed off the last over from Rob Carpenter (we've been here before I think) but he showed an old head on young shoulders, cutting down his pace slightly for the sake of accuracy, allowing five 3s. The last ball saw a mode of dismissal I have never scored or even seen live as Matt Spicer threw the ball back to the bowler's end only for the non-striker to surreptitiously plant his size 12 in the ball's path. The two umpires consulted like two wizened army generals before the finger was raised and "obstructing the field" entered in the scorebook. The final total was 139-5, bringing a third win in five league games for the Scorpions.

A fine game played in a fine spirit and very well done to all the players, young and not so young.

Keith Spicer