Captains Day 2000: By our man with the PhD in playing with himself

Let's let Dave Henig's Email tell the story along with the scorebook (below)

A fine day as you say - a day on which we finally found a team that was  exactly at our level, namely ourselves. All the usual Salix traits were  there, from collapses at top and middle of orders, to comedy run-outs, and  extremely unlikely wicket takers (Bush b Rodbert was my favourite, but  then I had a good view of it being at the other end for a second time  having been run out without facing first time round), not to mention the  failure of some to turn out and most others to turn up on time. 
The Rodbert gents tried out some interesting tactics, particularly opening the batting with Steve Jacobs, but these were countered by the Clarkster  opening with a strike force of Salix's most expensive bowlers (by runs  given per over not transfer fee), who promptly and rather surprisingly  took four wickets between them. In the end, the gents had to resort to underhand tactics, not bringing back their lowest scoring player, but the retiring captain, who thumped the ball round a bit. 
But cheats don't  prosper, the players had one over the gents, and some Salix players were on the winning side.
A forerunner of next season's undoubted triumphs?

PS from Fletch

I had a few favorite moments myself, Alex Newton's spectacular catching from Simons full blooded drive to  mid on.  We tried to prise the ball out of Alex's hand after the catch and failed.  Amazing.   And who could forget yours truly bowling the Swordsmen behind his legs.  And after he brought two babelicious women.  And Dominic Spillane took a catch!   And Marco who dropped one (a catch) as I was chatting to him about his hat...  mea culpa)

 

Player of 2000:  The Clarkster  (seen on left)	Bowler of the Season:  Dominic Guinness		Worst fielder of the Season Dominic Spillane,
Dom wears the Worst fielder Salix Wig	Clarkster Swings. Misses	The lads take a break as Andy impersonates John Inman	Clarkster swings and hits
John Legs Lock	Craig	Dominic Spillane	Marco
Matt	Dave Henig	Dominic	The Clarkster
The Director of Cricket	The Swordsman	Simon	Steve
The Shills	Rodders	Paul	Alex

 

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CAPTAINS DAY
This is not included in the statistics for the year Dulwich Sept 10th (at Marlboro CC ground)
Clarksters Players 152			Rodberts Gentlemen 141
Clarksters Players
					o	m	r	w
Brown	ct spillane	0		rogers	5	1	16	2
Maroudas	ct guinness	33		foster	4	0	9	0
Swindells	run out	4		mustafa	3	1	3	0
Clark	ct guinness	41		shilling	4	0	23	0
Fletcher	retired	28		guinness	4	0	21	0
Newton	stumped	32		jacobs	4	0	20	1
Henig	run out	0		sarif	3	0	22	0
Bouman	ct spillane	1		rodbert	2	0	16	2
Bush	b	2		lock	1	0	11	1
Henig (again)	not out	2
extras		12
Rodberts Gentlemen
					o	m	r	w
Jacobs	ct brown	1		Fletcher	5	0	26	2
Guinness	run out	6		henig	4	0	33	2
Mustafa	ct newton	13		brown	4	0	10	1
Shilling	ct maroudas	3		Swindells	3	0	13	0
Foster	b	2		Bush	5	0	17	1
Lock	b	22		Newton	5	0	16	1
Rodbert	ct brown	2		Clark	3.4	0	16	2
Sarif	ct clark	16
Rogers	ct	20
Spillane	not out	12
Guinness (again)	ct	25
	extras	9