DODGERS v OFFICE OF THE RAIL REGULATOR
Tuesday 27 July 1999
20 overs
Chiswick
Dodgers batted first by virtue of only having 9 players at the start
DODGERS: 123 for 2 (Priest retired 50, McBarron 40, Rose 2-18)
ORR: 118 for 4 (Ringer retired 53, Rose 30 not out, Hilary 1-13, Crawford 1-13)
DODGERS WON BY 5 RUNS
DODGERS MAN OF THE MATCH: Neil Priest
Our fourth annual match against ORR turned out to be the closest so far and one of the best games this season - despite ORR no longer having the services of Meneer and Murphy to call upon.
We batted first and John Adey promised us that the bowling would be a buffet of lollipops - ha! (there's a quote of the week in there somewhere but I can't quite put my finger on it). ORR's recent new entrants include some very useful cricketers and this year their were only one bowler light. Despite some good line and length swing bowling on a pitch with variable bounce we got off to a solid if slow start, Priest and McBarron eventually putting on 101 for the first wicket before Phil was bowled off his pads by Rose and Priest retired having made 50 (at last!). Westhead will want to forget his first ball which he chipped straight back to Rose but some speedy running from Benn and big swings from Crawford (a couple of which he actually connected with!) took us to a good total of 123.
Henry opened the bowling and quickly ripped out the middle stump of one of the ORR openers. Unfortunately this only served to bring Ringer (surely not his real name...?) to the wicket who proceeded to smash our bowling to all parts of the county before retiring with a quickfire 53. Fielding and Rose continued the battering and we were lucky to hold on to win by 5 runs - mainly due to four very tight overs from Crawford at the death. Some of the other bowlers will wish to forget their figures so I've included them for all to see! Generally, we dropped too many catches (although none were easy - Priest 2, Brown, Roper and Westhead 1 each) and bowled to short - we'll need to be better against BSI next week...
All in all though, the kind of game that makes the trip to Chiswick worth it.
Tuesday 27 July 1999
20 overs
Chiswick
Dodgers batted first by virtue of only having 9 players at the start
DODGERS: 123 for 2 (Priest retired 50, McBarron 40, Rose 2-18)
ORR: 118 for 4 (Ringer retired 53, Rose 30 not out, Hilary 1-13, Crawford 1-13)
DODGERS WON BY 5 RUNS
DODGERS MAN OF THE MATCH: Neil Priest
Our fourth annual match against ORR turned out to be the closest so far and one of the best games this season - despite ORR no longer having the services of Meneer and Murphy to call upon.
We batted first and John Adey promised us that the bowling would be a buffet of lollipops - ha! (there's a quote of the week in there somewhere but I can't quite put my finger on it). ORR's recent new entrants include some very useful cricketers and this year their were only one bowler light. Despite some good line and length swing bowling on a pitch with variable bounce we got off to a solid if slow start, Priest and McBarron eventually putting on 101 for the first wicket before Phil was bowled off his pads by Rose and Priest retired having made 50 (at last!). Westhead will want to forget his first ball which he chipped straight back to Rose but some speedy running from Benn and big swings from Crawford (a couple of which he actually connected with!) took us to a good total of 123.
Henry opened the bowling and quickly ripped out the middle stump of one of the ORR openers. Unfortunately this only served to bring Ringer (surely not his real name...?) to the wicket who proceeded to smash our bowling to all parts of the county before retiring with a quickfire 53. Fielding and Rose continued the battering and we were lucky to hold on to win by 5 runs - mainly due to four very tight overs from Crawford at the death. Some of the other bowlers will wish to forget their figures so I've included them for all to see! Generally, we dropped too many catches (although none were easy - Priest 2, Brown, Roper and Westhead 1 each) and bowled to short - we'll need to be better against BSI next week...
All in all though, the kind of game that makes the trip to Chiswick worth it.
DODGERS
Priest Retired 50
McBarron b. Rose 40
Westhead c&b. Rose 0
Benn NOT OUT 7
Crawford NOT OUT 11
Extras 15
TOTAL (20 overs) 123 for 2 wkts
FoW: 1-101, 2-101
DNB: Roper, Adey, Pope, Brown, Hilary, Sharp
Bowling
O M W R
Umer 4 0 18 0
Bryant 4 1 17 0
Brennan 1 0 18 0
Kerrigan 2 0 16 0
Rose 4 0 18 2
Bulmer 4 0 32 0
Nadir 1 0 2 0
ORR
Ahmed RUN OUT 17
Hafeez b Hilary 0
Ringer RETIRED 53
Fielding c Priest b Crawford 0
Rose NOT OUT 0
Bullman c Benn b McBarron 9
Kerrigan NOT OUT 0
Extras 3
TOTAL (20 overs) 118 for 4 wkts
FoW: 1-1 2-71 3-74 4-117
DNB: Henderson, Brennan, Stott, Meers
Bowling
O M R W
Hilary 4 1 13 1
Roper 4 0 28 0
Adey 4 1 28 0
Sharp 2 0 18 0
Crawford 4 1 13 1
McBarron 2 0 17 1
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