Great Horkesley Cricket Club

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Kelvedon & Feering v Great Horkesley Cricket Club First Team on Sun 06 Jun 2004 at 2pm
Great Horkesley Cricket Club Won Won by 10 Runs

Match report Gt Horkesley picked up their 3rd "official" league win of the season with victory at Rye Mill Lane against Kelvedon & Feering 3rds. The visitor's racked up a score of two hundred plus for the third time in four games but Kelvedon got to within ten runs before losing their final wicket in the last over of the match.
Following last weeks razzamatazz, this game was always likely to be a tough one and with a few players unavailable to him, skipper Graeson Laitt was still looking for his eleventh player on Sunday morning. Thankfully, one was found and a reasonable side batted first - Laitt again keeping up his record of not having lost a toss this season.
The skipper's plan was simple. Bat out the forty-five overs and the game would be ours, and sure enough that was to be the case. Some stunning early shots from Sarat, and particularly Jayasuriya gave the visitor's a reasonable platform before both began the long walk back to the pavilion - Sarat caught at slip, and the Sri Lankan unluckily see the ball come off his gloves and dislodging a bail.
There then followed a long partnership between Srikanth and James Wallis - but it wasn't without controversy. Strong appeals for a caught behind against Srikanth were turned down by the umpire who later confirmed that he hadn't a nick, and that the ball hadn't deviated from its path. Srikanth made the most of his luck, racing to a well-worked half-century, his first of the season before trying to turn a single into two, and finding himself a long way short of his ground for sixty. When Wallis, who had an early life of Hard's when skying a sweep straight up in the air only for the wicket-keeper to fail to grab the ball, stopped his stroke on a delivery that popped on him, The Hawks looked to be a little bit of trouble, and a way from batting out their full entitlement of overs.
The home side had reckoned without Steve Riddleston who benefited from dropping down the order to number six. Although his timing was not quite there, he was able to punish anything short and wide, while cracking a violent 6 as Horkesley continued to pile on the runs. He was ably supported by McLean, and Saunders who unfortunately managed to get out to the penultimate ball of the innings - leaving his captain to face just one delivery and leaving Chris Hards on a hat-trick when he next bowls. If being critical, one run off the last over wasn't good enough, but with the score just over the two hundred mark, the away side were confident in being able to defend the score even on such a good batting track.
However, it was a while before the visitors had any success and it look as though the victory would be unlikely. The first breakthrough didn't come until the 19th over of the innings when Riddleston saw Anthony Pembroke take a catch mid-on. Jayasuriya snaffled Peperell at mid-wicket off the same bowler before the crunch wicket of Warner Snr, Wallis with the safe pair of hands at point, for Riddleston's third wicket of the day.
It was hoped that the back had been broken of the Kelvedon side. However, with limited bowling options, skipper Laitt had to carefully use his bowlers and set his field according to the batsmen. He was helped when Jayasuriya, bowling for the first time for Gt Horkesley, bowled Warner Jnr, and then opposing captain Cocks in quick succesion.
With ten overs to go, and Stuart Bonvini still at the crease the game still wasn't over and in that kind of situation, it called for the experienced head of the captain to bowl the remaining overs. Keeping the ball well up to the bat, and rarely giving any width, Laitt took the scalp of Bonvini with a crunching leg stump yorker before in the two overs later, seeing Hard's caught out in the deep by Anthony "bucket-hands" Pembroke. Sarath had S Johnson stumped by McLean, before Laitt finished proceedings off - nonchantly catching Griffith's left-handed off his own bowling before bowling the wicketkeeper to leave Kelvedon ten runs short.
Horkesley had played the better cricket and deservedly won the game with a side that was shorn of key players like Conybeare, Walker and Fitzgerald. With a break for the Chairman's game next week, the real business of pushing for promotion, and possibly first or second place, will begin in earnest.

Great Horkesley Cricket Club First Team Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
 
for 6 wickets
0
205
(0.0 overs)		    
Sarat Jetty thukaram b Caught  11
Nihal Jayasooriya Bowled  21 1
Srikanth Thotapalli Run out  60
James Wallis Caught  35 1
A Shira Bowled  2
Steve Riddleston Not Out  28
Sid McLean Bowled  12 1
Kevin Saunders Bowled  9
Graeson Laitt Bowled  0 1
Anthony Pembroke   2
Paul Hart  

Kelvedon & Feering Bowling

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Kelvedon & Feering Batting
Player name Runs
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
195 (0.0 overs)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Great Horkesley Cricket Club First Team Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Graeson Laitt9.3141410.254.32
Paul Hart5.012200.004.40
Steve Riddleston10.0136312.003.60
Sarat Jetty thukaram b5.0014114.002.80
Nihal Jayasooriya4.421226.002.57
Kevin Saunders2.001400.007.00