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KEMPTON CRICKET CLUB MATCH REPORT
DATE : 30th APRIL 2011.
TEAM 3rd XI
OPPONENTS BRITISH AIRWAYS
TYPE OF MATCH FRIENDLY
VENUE CRANFORD
RESULT WON BY 30 RUNS
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On
another glorious sunny day, Kempton skipper Si Arscott won the toss and decided
to bat first and make first use of a good pitch and a quick outfield. Openers
Maidment and Palekar got Kempton off to a rapid start, scoring 49 off the first
5 overs. Maidment in particular, found the bowling to his liking, taking five
fours from the 4th over. A stand of 55 was ended with Palekar LBW for
12, and his replacement Ben Green followed him quickly back, bowled by the
impressive Hassan Gill for just 4. David Maidment and Captain Si Arscott took
the scoreboard along to 95, as the run-rate slowed in the face of some
much-improved bowling.
Maidment
reached an excellent half-century before hitting a full-toss straight to mid-off
off the bowling of Khalid for 62. New batsman Dylan Richards got into his stride
quickly, timing the ball well down the ground and on the leg side. Young spinner
Jay Patel grabbed the wicket of the Kempton skipper in his second over for 19 as
runs became hard to come by. Martin Sherwood followed soon after for 11, and it
was left to Wayne ‘Mr Big’ Morgan and Dylan to push the score close to 200.
After an indifferent start, Biggy soon found his timing and launched a number of
hard-hit boundaries over mid-off and cover. Dylan Richards fell in Patel’s
last over, bowled looking for the boundary for a well-constructed 34. But with
the help of the lower-order, Biggy was able to see Kempton to 192-7 off their 40
over’s despite being run-out in the last over for 29.
Quick
wickets were needed by Kempton to continue the momentum gained from the last
over’s of their batting effort. Nick Peters and Matt Loveridge took the new
ball and gave little away in a tight opening spell. The pressure slowly built
and Nick Peters was able to take the first wicket, bowling opener Malik for 8,
whilst Javid followed in the next over for a duck stumped by Arscott off
Loveridge. Khalid came to the wicket and started well putting a number of bad
balls away to the boundary. Following an excellent 8-over spell of bowling by
Loveridge that went for just 23 runs, BA looked to be wrestling the initiative
back before James Warne made a double-strike. He first removed opener Amar Lal
for 14 then grabbed the wicket of Khalid, plumb in front, for 34.
Salman
and Rawman joined forces to slowly put British Airways on top. They combined to
see BA past the hundred without further loss through a combination of
quick-singles and frequent unorthodox boundaries. Their stand was aided by some
wayward bowling and four dropped catches, before Biggy settled into a rhythm to
help raise the required run-rate towards 6 an over. At the other end, Martin
Sherwood picked up the crucial wicket off Rawman, skying a catch to point where
Palekar was able to grab the chance. A further wicket fell in the next over,
before Salman and captain Flannary, started to lead the BA fight-back. Nick
Peters returned for the last 6 overs with 40 still needed, and picked up
Flannary unluckily dragging on for 16. With the boundaries almost completely
dried-up, and only a handful of singles available, Salman pushed into the covers
and Ben Green was able to take aim at one-stump to produce an excellent run-out.
The remaining two wickets fell quickly, first to Maidment with the help of a
Gawley catch and the tenth to Peters, caught Sherwood at mid-on.
On
balance, a deserved 30-run win by Kempton but improvements need to be made in
the field if a winning start is to be made in the league next Saturday.