Our 300th Game: vs Old Priorians 18 Jul 2010
Report by: Yesterdays Man

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Cricket ? it's a funny old game. When we turned up (and Captain Angry lost the toss) it was what the Met Office describes as heavy grey cloud. Hot and sticky. This apparently suited Steve-OO and the Golfer as for the first 8 overs or so they were swinging the ball like the proverbial Pinner Housewives . Steve-OO in fact made a potential leg side wide come back about 2 feet to take out an off stump. Four wickets fell for 31 runs. And then the sun came out and bosh, the conditions turned the wicket into a total feather bed and an Old P's guy went on to get 115 not out.

So at tea, we were chasing 238. To celebrate our 300th game we had a Tescos Finest cake (some E Numbers) and some Smarties cup cakes (totally E numbers, no natural products at all.) This overload of chemicals has a deleterious effect on the lads generally and we not only lost wickets regularly and got behind the run rate, but we stayed there. A battling innings from CK1 and a 61 run partnership between Yesterdays Man and CGC (50!) were not enough to save us.

And so the big question: Why do our resident toffs play so well for the DJs but not us? To illustrate this let me quote directly from the scorebook re Darling A - run out. Duck (Never even a run there for Usain Bolt). Answers on a postcard please

Salix CC versus Old Priorians at Harlington on 18-07-2010 (35 Over Game) Salix CC (batting second) 192 for 8 off 35 overs Match Lost Old Priorians 237 for 9 off 35 overs
No Player Score How Out 1. Vikram Bhalla 4 Bowled 2. Dave Henig 5 Bowled 3. Christy Kulasingam 37 Caught 4. Adam Darling 0 Run Out 5. Kunwar Singh 21 Bowled 6. David Padmore 9 Caught 7. Stuart Lumsden 50 Not Out 8. Mike Ellis 2 Bowled 9. Roger Heaton 2 Bowled 10. Tony Fletcher 17 Not Out 11. Steve Jacobs 0 Did Not Bat Extras 45 Total 192		No. Player Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Ave SR Econ 1. Kunwar Singh 6 1 26 1 26.00 36.00 4.33 2. Steve Jacobs 4 0 22 3 7.33 8.00 5.50 3. David Padmore 7 0 58 2 29.00 21.00 8.29 4. Roger Heaton 7 1 37 1 37.00 42.00 5.29 5. Christy Kulasingam 1 0 13 1 13.00 6.00 13.00 6. Stuart Lumsden 5 0 37 1 37.00 30.00 7.40 7. Mike Ellis 5 0 38 0 - - 7.60
		Vikram Bhalla 1 catch Kunwar Singh 1 catch Vikram Bhalla 2 drops Roger Heaton 2 drops Dave Henig 1 drop Steve Jacobs 1 drop

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Steve-O left the following remarks on 22nd July 2010

I think the stats show Nurdler is clearly an aggressive batsman - getting caught out almost half the time demonstrates that he clearly tries to smite the bowlers all over the field!

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Yesterdays Man left the following remarks on 22nd July 2010

SteveO

b:10.9% / c:7.3% / c&b:2.2% / dnb:51.1% / no:24.8% / rh:0.7% / ro:2.9%

Nurdler

b:19.7% / c:45.9% / c&b:1.6% / dnb:1.6% / lbw:10.7% / no:7.4% / rh:0.8% / ro:10.7% / st:1.6%

Yesterdays Man

b:21.6% / c:28.4% / c&b:1.8% / dnb:20.2% / hw:0.9% / lbw:2.3% / no:18.3% / ret:0.5% / rh:0.5% / ro:4.6% / st:0.9%

These stats clearly show: Steve bats in less than half his games. The Nurdler always bats, but is a total rabbit for getting caught. Me, I am an all rounder when it comes to getting out and sitting around.

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The Nurdler left the following remarks on 22nd July 2010

Steve-O - incomplete stats! You haven't played all 300 games. We need to know you DNB percentage for games you played.

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Steve-o left the following remarks on 19th July 2010

Love it podge, you've no idea how much of my time (and clients' money) i've wasted interrogating the stats database in search of an interesting (to me if no one else) titbit of statistical nonsense :)

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Podge left the following remarks on 19th July 2010

You alone Steve give me joy and justify all those hours I spent on the stats database :)

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Steve-O left the following remarks on 19th July 2010

Oh and more importantly (than my 70 DNBs) Stu passed 1,000 runs for the club and CK1 played his 100th game for the club

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Steve-O left the following remarks on 19th July 2010

Just so you know our 300th game turned out to be my 70th DNB... as you can imagine I am very proud

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