Scorecard

County Hall v Hertingfordbury CC 1st XI on Sat 16 Aug 2008 at 1.00
Match was Drawn

Match report Despite predictions of a weekend of rain, a warm sunny day allowed a complete game of cricket. Winning the toss Edward Palmer had no hesitation in sticking in County Hall, who probably would have preferred to have a bowl first. Beckett and Bambling kept it tight but it was Gareth George who did the damage, taking 6 wickets for 18 runs, making huge inroads into the opposition batting. Had it not been for some big hitting from Andy Szemiako, County Hall surely would have been restricted to 140. The champagne moment in the field was perhaps Charlie Martin’s catch – has any cricket ball every been hit higher?

A solid opening partnership from Gibbo and Gareth George (they both made 45 runs) and a few big shots from the skipper gave Hertingfordbury a platform to go for the runs, but the middle order were not able to keep up with the run rate required and in the end the bury had to drop anchor for a draw. The champagne moment of the bury innings was maybe Alex Preston hitting a six off the last ball of the game to get a batting point.

County Hall felt that Hertingfordbury should have tried harder to get the runs. In hindsight County Hall perhaps needed to open the game up a little bit when the run rate started to climb with 10 overs to go, in order to tempt the bury to go for victory which would of course given themselves a better chance of taking 30 points

County Hall Batting
182 for 9
Player name Runs
Langton Caught  4
Schlaepfer Caught  47
Stevenson Caught  21
Szemiako Caught  76
Graves Lbw  1
Barnaby Lbw  0
Shah Caught  0
Mumford Caught  8
Hibbert Bowled  9
Batchelor Not Out  2
Hibbeard Not Out  0

Hertingfordbury CC 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Scott Bambling24.0493193.003.87
Jim Beckett7.0311111.001.57
Steve Rider8.022500.003.12
Gareth George10.041863.001.80
Charles Martin4.0022122.005.50

Hertingfordbury CC 1st XI Batting
145 for 6
Player Name RunsCatchesStumpingsRun outs
Gareth George Caught  45
Mark Gibbons Bowled  45
Edward Palmer Caught  19
Neil Darby Caught  0 1
Charles Martin Caught  4 2
Scott Bambling Lbw  6
Alex Preston Not Out  12 1
Jonathan George Not Out  3
Jim Beckett  
James Keens   2
Steve Rider  

County Hall Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Hibbert4.011300.003.25
Hibbeard18.0640220.002.22
Batchelor16.0549316.333.06
Graves9.0136136.004.00
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