Stanmore Jaffries Match Report
By Rohan Patel
A potentially tantalising encounter between two well matched teams failed to materialise due to a torrid pitch. Having suffered a last ball defeat in their previous encounter Myddelton were eager for revenge. On winning the toss MHCC Captain Sameer Patel could be seen licking his lips as he put the opposition into bat. In took less than an hour for him, along with Anuj Bhardwaj to skittle Stanmore out for 43. But both would agree that the wicket was more than helpful.
MHCC openers Brad Williams and Rohan Patel strode out to wicket confident that the runs could be knocked off quickly. However, even a batsman of such technical ability as Williams struggled with the inconsistent bounce of the wicket and was soon put out of his misery by the opening bowler. With the danger man out of the way the fielding side picked up its tempo looking for more early wickets with some aggresive bowling. Patel was forced back and onto his toes to defend one particularly ferocious bouncer. And when the next ball was also slammed in short few people were expecting it to be dispatched high over cow corner with the laid back authority of Viv Richards in his hey day, but that is exactly what happened. After that, there was nothing much to excite the crowd as wickets fell at regular intervals with David Fitzgerald eventually hitting the winning runs to the slight disappointment of his partner at the other end, a certain Anuj Bhardwaj, still looking to break his duck of never having scored the winning runs in a match in his life. Made slightly worse by the fact that this was the third time this season he has been in the middle when victory has been achieved.
A 20 over bash was played after tea with Stanmore winning comfortably.
A potentially tantalising encounter between two well matched teams failed to materialise due to a torrid pitch. Having suffered a last ball defeat in their previous encounter Myddelton were eager for revenge. On winning the toss MHCC Captain Sameer Patel could be seen licking his lips as he put the opposition into bat. In took less than an hour for him, along with Anuj Bhardwaj to skittle Stanmore out for 43. But both would agree that the wicket was more than helpful.
MHCC openers Brad Williams and Rohan Patel strode out to wicket confident that the runs could be knocked off quickly. However, even a batsman of such technical ability as Williams struggled with the inconsistent bounce of the wicket and was soon put out of his misery by the opening bowler. With the danger man out of the way the fielding side picked up its tempo looking for more early wickets with some aggresive bowling. Patel was forced back and onto his toes to defend one particularly ferocious bouncer. And when the next ball was also slammed in short few people were expecting it to be dispatched high over cow corner with the laid back authority of Viv Richards in his hey day, but that is exactly what happened. After that, there was nothing much to excite the crowd as wickets fell at regular intervals with David Fitzgerald eventually hitting the winning runs to the slight disappointment of his partner at the other end, a certain Anuj Bhardwaj, still looking to break his duck of never having scored the winning runs in a match in his life. Made slightly worse by the fact that this was the third time this season he has been in the middle when victory has been achieved.
A 20 over bash was played after tea with Stanmore winning comfortably.
posted by bradders @ 1.7.05
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