Captains Day 9 Sept  2002

Well. The weather looked a bit murky to start , but the sun really shone on Salix on Captains Day.

Report

This year the Rodbertonians faced the Clarkstars (or Gents versus Players..). The format was 2 x 15 overs, max 3 overs a bowler , retire at 30 and crucially, reverse the batting order between innings. The Rodbertonians got off to a reasonable, if not spectacular start, however mean, mean bowling from our very own Rahul Spillane and Steve-o Jacobs saw the Rodbertonians all out for 93. The Clarkstars powered out of the blocks and some hard fielding from the Rodbertonians saw Andy Bush put our wicket keeper, James, in hospital, which wasn't too helpful, but we persevered. At tea the Clarkstars were sitting on a decent lead (thanks to the leader himself and Mr Swindells)

After our Ribena and egg sandwiches, the Rodbertonians engineered a familiar Salix batting performance as they struggled to 93, highlights being Dave H eager to make up for his first innings golden and Clarkster making a great diving catch to get Fletch round the corner. And so as the clouds lengthened the Clarkstars had a fairly doable target which they made with 9 balls to spare, thanks to a great innings by Steve-o (who got more in one innings than he got all season), our very own Dominic Dravid, and of course, the man himself, Clarkster.

So it was back to the bar, to discuss next season and dream dreams of winnings. In the words of 10CC - "I don't like cricket, oh no, I love it"

 

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Captains Day
innings 1 Rodbertonians   90 all out
					overs	mdn	runs	wkts	ave
Shilling	b	9		ellis	2	0	7	0
fletcher	c	7		spillane	3	0	14	3	4.7
Henig	c	1		clark	3	0	11	1	11.0
Dodwell Bennett	c	4		nannery	2	0	26	0
Rodbert	run out	11		jacobs	2.2	0	8	4	2.0
Barn	c	31		kennedy	2	0	16	0
Manthell	lbw	2
Kulasingam	hit wicket	7
Bush	not out	5
Henig (again)	b	0
extras		13
innings 1 Clarkstars   103
					overs	mdn	runs	wkts	ave
newton	b	0		fletcher	3	0	15	2	7.5
Carter	c	10		Kulasingam	2	0	6	1	6.0
Swindells	not out	32		Henig	2	0	25	0
Nannery	c	4		Shilling	2	0	21	0
Ellis	b	14		Bush	2	0	19	1	19.0
Clark	not out	32		Barn	3	0	20	0
Kennedy	not out	3		Dodwell Bennett	1	0	8	0
Spillane	not out	1
Jacobs		dnb
extras		17
innings 2 Rodbertonians   97 all out
					overs	mdn	runs	wkts	ave
Bush	lbw	23		ellis	3	0	22	0
Kulasingam	c	7		clark	2	0	12	0
Barn	c	2		carter	1	0	6	1	6.0
Rodbert	retired	13		jacobs	3	1	18	0
Dodwell Bennett	c and b	0		swindells	3	0	17	2	8.5
Henig	retired	30		newton	3	0	13	2	6.5
fletcher	c	1
Shilling	not out	9
Dodwell Bennett (again)	not out	2
extras		10
innings 2 Clarkstars   75
Jacobs	b	13			overs	mdn	runs	wkts	ave
Spillane	retired	30		fletcher	3	0	22	0
Kennedy	run out	4		Kulasingam	2	0	11	0
Clark	not out	18		Shilling	1.3	0	14	1	14.0
Ellis	not out	1		Bush	3	0	14	1	14.0
Nannery		dnb		Barn	3	0	6	0
Swindells		dnb		Rodbert	1	0	5	0
Carter		dnb
Newton		dnb
extras		9

 

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Man of the Season Clarkster	Players Award Mr J	Captains Award - Matt Swindells	Fielder of the Year - Dr Dustman	High score Paul Rogers (absent in St Lucia...)
New Player of the Year Tinker	Batting Award Andy Bush	Man kisses wife	Batting Award Rahul Spillane	Worst Fielder. Fletch
Players Award Chris K	well, it's his camera	Mr K lets one go	we practise dropping catches	New recruit models "worst fielder" wig
New Dom celebrates getting Fletch	Bushy pads up to face Mr J	Dominic Dravid dobs one down	Fletch whacks out and gets caught out	The Shill scores
	Mr Ellis bowls a sinister one to Mr Shilling

Season Report (up to but not including Captains Day 2002)

Our Player of the Year is:  Neil Clark

The figures never lie. On average it took us 21.7 runs to get a wicket, but we gave our wickets away for 13.5 runs.  We dropped nearly half the catches (45%) that came our way. Our batsmen had an equal chance of being bowled or caught (75 each) and, bizarrely, an equal chance of getting LBW or run out (15 of each).  Only the main protagonists are shown – everyone else is on the spreadsheet.

Bowling

Top wicket taker was Fletch, but at some cost. Paul Rogers and Andy Rayner  got wickets the fastest, and Andy Bush, Clarkster and Steve J were our most frugal bowlers.

	overs	maidens	runs	wkts	ave	strike rate	meanness
Bush	82.2	11	274	14	19.6	35.2	3.3
Clark	79.3	4	300	14	21.4	34.0	3.8
Ellis	20	0	106	5	21.2	24.0	5.3
Fletcher	123	3	683	28	24.4	26.4	5.6
Jacobs	103	15	369	19	19.4	32.5	3.6
Kulasingam	71.4	1	304	11	27.6	38.9	4.3
Newton	25.5	0	193	5	38.6	30.6	7.6
Rayner	32	0	176	10	17.6	19.2	5.5
Rogers	29.4	2	159	11	14.5	16.0	5.4
Swindells	8	0	43	1	43.0	48.0	5.4
Whole Team	645.4	39	3044	140	21.7	27.7	4.7

 

The Lurpak League

After two years at the top, Mr Spillane was, I am sure looking forward to his silver cup.  But it was not to be as our ancient slip fielder Fletcher edged him out by dropping more (but holding a higher percentage.).  A close thing. Easily the safest hands belong to Mr Newton

	caught	drop	net	drop %			caught	drop	net	drop %
fletcher	6	10	-4	63		darling	1		1	0
spillane	4	7	-3	64		guinness	1		1	0
amselem		2	-2	100		hayman	1		1	0
shilling		2	-2	100		henig	1		1	0
ellis		1	-1	100		manthel	2	1	1	33
hewitt	1	2	-1	67		nieri	2	1	1	33
kulasingam	2	3	-1	60		swindells	1		1	0
shaw t		1	-1	100		bush	3	1	2	25
kennedy	1	1	0	50		mason	3	1	2	25
nannery	3	3	0	50		rogers	3	1	2	25
rayner	1	1	0	50		jacobs	4	1	3	20
carter	5	4	1	44		newton	5	1	4	17
clark	5	4	1	44		shaw	7	3	4	30
						all team	62	51	11	45

Batting

An overall pathetic year for batting. Overall Andy Bush, Clarkster and Paul stood out as did Dominic Spillane for his true grit.  We also need to co-opt Mr Extras into batting higher up the order. At the lower end of the order, Mr J set a new record by hitting a four and Fletch had the highest ever number of not outs ever recorded by the team.

name	all innings	not outs	runs	Ave
Bush	12	4	237	29.63
Clark	14	4	228	22.80
Rogers P	10	0	215	21.50
Swindells	7	0	122	17.43
Rayner	9	1	127	15.88
Spillane	15	1	212	15.14
Shaw B	11	1	147	14.70
Newton	11	0	138	12.55
Mason	4	0	50	12.50
Nannery	11	1	100	10.00
Fletcher	16	10	58	9.67
Kulasingam	12	4	71	8.88
Carter	11	2	79	8.78
Manthel	5	1	28	7.00
Henig	6	0	38	6.33
Jacobs	8	2	13	2.17
all team	206	42	2218	13.52
extras	23	0	457	19.87

Other Matters

We played 19 games, won 5 , drew 2. and in all 35 people donned the Salix Cap.

Our Role of Honour this Year:

Salix CC Captains Award 2002: Matt Swindells, Alex Newton  

New Player Award  2002: Graham Nannery, Andy Rayner

Player Award  2002 Steve Jacobs, Chris Kulasingam

Batting Award   2002 Andy Bush,  Dominic Spillane

High Score 2002 Paul Rogers

Catch of the Year 2002   Ollie Carter

Best Bowler   2002  Tony Fletcher

Player of the Year  2002:  Neil Clark