Captains Day 3 Sept 2006 , Match Report

After a week or so of abysmal weather (hose pipe bans still in force!) and England getting massacred in the Stygian gloom of Lords by Pakistan, the outlook for cricket didn’t look too bright on Captains Day.  Well, I am nearly always wrong these days as so I was again. 

After a dismal start, it brightened up so much that Padders went redder than a new VKS Cherry and will be needing the after sun copiously rubbing in.  But I get ahead of myself. 

At 10.30 several people dragged themselves up early to have a go versus Bison’s new bowling machine.  As to be expected there were a number of injuries resulting from clueless operators turning it up to 99. But a DVD was made (I’ll be in touch separately about this).  Around 12.30 those with hangovers etc turned up and the prize giving got going, with the lovely Julie (better half of our aged Chazza, not that that's hard..), mostly avoiding the hirsute embraces of the winners., We then assembled for a team photo (ta Victoria) . 

Then it was the toss and Ginger's boyz trotted out to bat under a blazing sky. I won’t write a blow-by-blow account of the events as the scoreboards tell much of it, but will resign myself to some selected highlights, as viewed through the distorted prism that is my senile recollection. 

In Gingers first innings we did pretty well and trotted in with 129.  Looked ok.  However Padders Angry men did quite lot better with 146.  It had become apparent that the difference between the sides was in the quality of imported players and whereas Elvis had judiciously imported a County level batsmen and spinner for Padders men, Gingers ringer had turned up a little on the pre-beveraged side.  Well, I say a little..

Still, after the usual appalling tea, it was still there for Gingers men, however we became sadly becalmed and left them only 90 to get in 20. However we went out with plan to keep the openers in whilst stopping them scoring .  This worked ok until SteveO cracked a massive one towards my face which gave me no choice but to catch it or have my nose rearranged.  Stu then dropped Raj and had his Equity card revoked and after that Wazza and Umish wrapped it up with 5 overs to spare. Iin particular Umish hitting a final 6 onto the Pavilion roof to simultaneously win the game and retire was a metaphor for his overall performance..

I have now eaten a whole packet of Nurofen and had a curry so am somewhat back to normal and would like to end by saying a big thank you to all our guests, welcoming our 4th ever father son partnership of Ian and Peter Roberts and generally hoping you all enjoyed it as much as I did.

 

 

Player of the Year: CK1 gets prize from Mrs J (at Gents Game)		Our Revered Captain: The German
Services to Salix CC: Chazza		Services to Salix CC: Elvis
Bowling Excellence : Rog		Bowling Excellence : Ginger
Fielding Sublimeness: Bison		Best New Player: Padders
Batting Excellence: Captain Ben

Thanks to Julie for giving away the prizes and avoiding slobbering players

 

The Ginger Hair Bair Bunch – no one tampers with our balls – first innings

Bison	Run out	21
Tinker	B Elvis	21
Rog	C Umish b Raj	1
Ginger	C Matt P keeper B Padders	19
The German	retired	26
Mrs Ranson	C Matt P keeper B Padders	6
Ian R	C Matt P keeper B SteveO	8
Stu H	Run out	5
Peter R	C ? B Umish	1
Puff	DNB
Direktor	DNB
Chazza	DNB
extras		17
TOTAL		129

 

	overs	maidens	runs	wickets
SteveO	4	0	21	1
Wazza	3	0	24	0
Raj	2	0	17	1
Elvis	4	0	23	1
Padders	4	0	28	2
Umish	3	0	25	1

 

Padders 12 Angry Men first innings

Martin D	B Ginger	6
Fumbler	Ct Mrs Ranson B Peter R	9
Jim	Ret	29
Flossie	Lbw Ginger	6
Matt P	retd	25
Padders	B Ian R	5
Elvis	Run out	16
Umish	Not out	22
Wazza	Not out	1
Smutmeister	DNB
Raj	DNB
SteveO	DNB
extras		17
TOTAL		146

 

	overs	maidens	runs	wickets
Rog	4	0	24	0
Ginger	4	0	15	2
Peter R	3	0	30	1
Ian R	4	0	29	1
Chazza	4	0	16	0
Bison	1	0	13	0

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The Ginger Hair Bair Bunch – second innings

 

Direktor	B Wazza	12
Chazza	C Elvis B SteveO	0
Puff	Retd	25
Peter R	B Fumbler	1
Stu H	C ?? B Padders	0
Ian R	Run out	16
Mrs Ranson	B Elvis	4
The German	C Padders B SteveO	15
Ginger	B SteveO	4
Rog	Out, but not sure how B SteveO	5
Tinker	Not out	8
Bison	Not out	2
extras		12
TOTAL		107

 

	overs	maidens	runs	wickets
SteveO	4	0	19	4
Wazza	2	0	11	1
Fumbler	2	0	22	0
Martin D	2	1	3	1
Elvis	4	0	20	1
Padders	4	1	7	1
Umish	2	0	5	0

 

Padders 12 Angry Men second innings

SteveO	C and B Direktor	11
Raj	Lbw Rog	22
Smutmeister	Run out	10
Wazza	Not out	14
Umish	Not out	30
Elvis	DNB
Padders	DNB
Matt P	DNB
Flossie	DNB
Jim	DNB
Fumbler	DNB
Martin D	DNB
extras		9
TOTAL		96

 

	overs	maidens	runs	wickets
Direktor	3	0	18	1
Bison	1	0	7	0
Chazza	4	0	18	0
Rog	4	1	22	1
Ginger	3	0	20	0
Puff	1	1	0	0