|
Played at Victoria Park, pitch 1
Report by Hassan Khan (captain)
Report
In the immortal words of the great Charles Dickens
"it was the worst of times, it was the best of times "... [You used
this one
last year
- TC]
On a glorious summer evening, Pacific won the toss and
elected to bat. Immediately, openers Rayburn and Deighan set about
bludgeoning our bowlers around the relatively short boundaries of
pitch 1.
The mayhem continued until Steve Hamilton, with
subtle changes of pace and turn, had Rayburn caught smartly by Jack
Holmes running forward from deep mid-wicket. Our relief was
shortlived as Deighan was dropped and capitalised fully with an
unbeaten 50.
All eight Fallopians bowled but Pacific's
slaughter continued unabated due to multiple straightforward spilled
catches. This culminated in myself having a traumatic nervous
breakdown in the penultimate over, as lusty hitting from Riz
Siddique took Pacific to an unassailable 210 from just 16 overs.
In reply and with severe scoreboard pressure on our batsmen,
excellent swing bowling from young Pacific pacer Niesse
comprehensively bowled Jack Wright.
Our dire situation at
3-1 declined further to 7-2 when number three Philip Barrass holed
out to Ireland, again off Niesse.
I now entered the fray to
join opener Jack Holmes. Like Hamilton's bowling, Holmes' batting
provided a significant highlight for us. He timed the ball perfectly
against a good attack, retiring on an excellent 52, having put on 80
with the skipper.
Young Jacob Freedland was castled early to
leave Yasir and myself unbeaten. With 211 always an academic target,
our final tally of 134-3 was a creditable batting effort against
testing bowling and excellent fielding.
Post-match analysis
at the Peoples Park Tavern by OF's Philip Barrass bemoaned " our
lack of a couple of seriously big hitters". My thoughts turned to
Charles Dickens again "the men who learn endurance, are they who
will call the whole world, brother "...
Pacific 209-3 (16 overs)
P Rajkumar c J Holmes b S Hamilton 45
J Deighan retired 53
T Ireland run out 41
M Siddiqui*† c J Holmes b J Stebbins 21
R Siddiqui not out 32
J Niesse not out 1
Extras (w 10, nb 3, lb 2) 15
Total 209
DNB: G Ayre, J Hargreaves
FOW: 72-1 P Rajkumar, 171-2 M Siddiqui*†, 192-3 T Ireland
H Khan* 4-0-52-0
P Barrass 2-0-28-0
J Holmes 2-0-18-0
S Hamilton 3-0-32-1
J Freedland 1-0-25-0
J Wright 1-0-16-0
Y Ali
1-0-19-0
J Stebbins 2-0-17-1
Old Fallopians 137-3 (16 overs)
J Wright b J Niesse 0
J Holmes retired 52
P Barrass c T Ireland b J Niesse 4
H Khan* not out 27
J Freedland b J Hargreaves 0
Y Ali not out 11
Extras (w 26, nb 1, b 2, lb 4) 33
Total 137
DNB: J Stebbins, S Hamilton
FOW: 3-1 J Wright†, 7-2 P Barrass, 87-3 J Freedland
J Niesse 4-0-28-2
G Ayre 4-0-39-0
J Hargreaves 3-0-35-1
T Ireland 4-0-23-0
J Deighan 1-0-10-0
Back to top of page
|
