Scorecard

Hertingfordbury CC 2nd XI v Old Albanian III on Sat 10 Jul 2010 at 1.00
Hertingfordbury CC Won By 7 Wickets

Match report OA OA OA OA, OA, OA. (by King Louis)

Another blistering hot day in the endless summer of 10 (as it'll be come to be known). Alex didn't fancy keeping, skippering and melting, so we were hoping our VC would take pity on us and bat first, grinding down the oppo in the heat. No such luck. With a very decent batting lineup Tumble knew a run chase was our only guaranteed path to 30 big ones.
OAs batted conservatively throughout and despite Pearcey's early breakthrough we knew we'd be in for the long stretch.
Steve (we're all doomed) Rider having swapped his availability from Sunday, kept the pavilion end very quiet for 16 overs, allowing us to rotate the church end bowling.
Kevin was as miserly as ever and Smurf had no luck at all in a very good spell of pace. Surprising then that Skippy Gronert was able to extract enough life out of a knackered ball and dead track to grab 3 scalps for himself.
Our concentration and application in the field was great, but OAs would have to be disappointed with only 154 and 3 wickets in hand.
A fantastic tea by family Harley set us up for part 2.

Tumble and I opened, relaxed in the knowledge there was some heavyweight batting to come. After I went lbw to the slowest seam bowler in history (I think I fell asleep mid-flight) Smurf knocked a breezy 25 supported by Simon, who then took over and moved the ball around the field with his customary ease.
Will Harley joined him to steer us home. His knock included a sublime forward prod that shot to the boundary and proved he's a chip off the old block.

Old Albanian III Batting
154 for 7
Player name Runs
Perkins Caught  Pearcey 23
Wakeling Caught  Pearcey 1
Hughes Caught  Gronert 38
Baldwin Lbw  Rider 4
Hassen Bowled  Gronert 11
Harren Run out  43
Reed Caught  Gronert 3
Thaker Not Out  19
   
   
   

Hertingfordbury CC 2nd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Kevin Ives8.022100.002.63
James Pearcey7.001628.002.29
Steve Rider16.0035135.002.19
Ross Murphy6.001400.002.33
Anthony Gronert5.0031310.336.20
Marcus Smith5.002300.004.60

Hertingfordbury CC 2nd XI Batting
155 for 3
Player Name RunsCatchesStumpingsRun outs
Ross Dwyer Caught  Amin 22 1
Robert Stone Lbw  Perkins 10
Ross Murphy Bowled  Thacker 25 1
Simon Harley Not Out  61
William Harley Not Out  22
Anthony Gronert  
Kevin Ives   1
Steve Rider  
James Pearcey  
Marcus Smith  
Alex Preston   1

Old Albanian III Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Dawawalah8.012300.002.88
Perkins5.0026126.005.20
Amin7.0230130.004.29
Smith6.002400.004.00
Thacker5.2024124.004.50
Wakeling1.001200.0012.00
Hughes3.001500.005.00
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