Great Horkesley Cricket Club

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Great Horkesley Cricket Club First Team v Real Oddies on Sun 30 May 2004 at 2pm
Great Horkesley Cricket Club Won By 54 Runs

Match report Sunday 30th May 2004 will forever be an historic day in the history of not only Gt Horkesley CC and The Real Oddies CC, but also for the PDQ League in general. For it was on this day that Pete Pearson, wearing a green and black diagonal shirts delivered the first white ball to Gt Horkesley opening bat Jetty Sarat as the PDQ went fashionable. Coloured clothing, white balls, day-glo stumps and music to walk to the wicket was the order the day - and both sides claimed the game was highly enjoyable.
Gt Horkesley skipper Graeson Laitt continued his good luck with the coin as opposition skipper James Sadler called incorrectly - and offered the visitors the first chance of the Super County cricket ball. It went against Laitt's usual preference of bowling first at The Chantry, but with the ball likely to become harder to see the later the game went on, he backed his batsmen to put a decent total on the board for his side to protect.
The Hawks showed changes from the side that had lost the previous day at Gt Bentley. Hart, who had bowled a tidy spell the day before, Laitt Snr, Saunders, Pembroke, Jayasuriya and guest Sunil were all missing and in their place came Wallis, Asher, Fitzgerald and the Walker brothers - with Andy Walker making his first start of the season after returning from a year away in Australia.
It was Sarat who got the ball rolling with the first boundary of the innings after the first two maiden overs as he and David Walker took a look at the bowling. However, the break through came in the 8th over as Walker played back to one that kept low and was comprehensively bowled. Riddleston saw off the opening pair before falling to Andy Brook's slower ball which allowed James Wallis to come to the wicket for his first bat on his home ground.
Sarat, playing shots all around the the picturesque ground, and Wallis put on 88 runs for the third wicket with the new-boy scoring his first half-century for the club. However, the emotion of the day got to him, and a rash shot saw him caught out by Connell. It started a minor slump as the side went from 145-3 to 183-8 as Srikanth, Fitzgerald, Asher and Walker all recorded single figure scores while Sarat's innings came to an end on 74 with Steve Bulger taking the prize scalp. It was left to veteran Sid McLean to see the innings home, getting up to the double century mark before Pearson belatedly took the wicket he deserved in the final over.
The Real Oddies innings got off to a slow start as they tried to see off the pace and hostility of Richard Walker and Niall Fitzgerald. However, in the 7th over, Dickens mis-timed a short ball and could only watch as the ball ballooned off his glove and into the grateful hands of wicket-keeper McLean. Walker then got down well to catch Brook's straight drive, before claiming the scalp of opposition skipper Sadler with the score still on just fourteen.
Steve Bulger took the attack to the home side in his indomintable fashio smashing ten runs off two balls after Fitzgerald had bowled five maidens on the trot, and conceeding just two runs in his first over. When Phillips played alround Fitzgerald's off-stump yorker the writing looked on the wall but the Oddies have great spirit and would surely come back at The Hawks.
Indeed they did as Bulger and Pearson added over fifty runs for the fifth wicket. Pearson, content to nurdle the ball into gaps with Bulger extremely vicious on anything loose. It took a clever piece of bowling from Sarat to dismiss the dangerous hitter. After being smashed for six the previous ball, he bowled the quicker ball which rapped the left-hander on the green pads, and the finger was slowly raised. Another quick wicket was needed by the Hawks as the score went past the century mark but good thinking from the home skipper saw the end of Fitzgerald - caught by his well-position name-sake at mid-wicket.
With the light fading, Laitt decided it was time to bring back his trump card or lose his remaining eight overs completly. However, Fitzgerald's first ball slipped from his fingers, and crashed into the helmet of Hamblion with a sickening thud. The Horkesley fast bowler was over quickly to make sure his opponent was okay, and thankfully for all concerned he was - though he is sure to have had a bump this morning. The thirty-quid he paid for the helmet proving to be one of his best ever investments!
There was no compassion from Fitzgerald though as he bowled him later in the over before Riddleston did the rest. His mix of pace caused problems for the Oddies tail end, having Fitton LBW, and getting the crucial wicket of Pearson, again caught at mid-wicket, this time by Daren Asher. After a brief flurry of runs which got The Oddies over the 150 mark, securing the final point, Clouter was bowled by vice-captain Riddleston and the Gt Horkesley side had come out on top of this historic fixture.

Great Horkesley Cricket Club First Team Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
 
for 9 wickets
0
205
(0.0 overs)		    
Sarat Jetty thukaram b Bowled  74
David Walker Bowled  3
Steve Riddleston Bowled  3
James Wallis Caught  51
Srikanth Thotapalli Bowled  9
Niall Fitzgerald Caught  7 1
Daren Asher Caught  1 1
Sid McLean Caught  18 1
Andy Walker Caught  4
Richard Walker Bowled  8 1
Graeson Laitt Not Out  0

Real Oddies Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
P Pearson9.2221121.002.25
P Clouter10.0433216.503.30
A Brooks4.0030130.007.50
T Fitton3.003100.0010.33
S Bulger10.013348.253.30
T Fitzgerald6.0039139.006.50
T Dickens2.0013113.006.50

Real Oddies Batting
Player name Runs
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
151 (0.0 overs)
T Dickens Caught  3
A Brooks Caught  11
J Sadler (c) (wkt) Bowled  0
P Phillips Bowled  0
S Bulger Lbw  48
P Pearson Caught  36
T Fitzgerald Caught  16
T Fitton Lbw  1
N Hamblion Bowled  0
P Clouter Bowled  9
M Connell Not Out  6

Great Horkesley Cricket Club First Team Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Niall Fitzgerald10.052939.672.90
Richard Walker7.0223211.503.29
Sarat Jetty thukaram b6.0046146.007.67
Graeson Laitt8.0034134.004.25
Steve Riddleston4.301434.673.11