KEMPTON CRICKET CLUB MATCH REPORT

DATE :                                      17th APRIL 2011.

TEAM                                       SUNDAY XI

OPPONENTS                           CYPOS?

TYPE OF MATCH                   FRIENDLY

VENUE                                     KEMPTON 

RESULT                                   WON BY 25 RUNS

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The Sunday season got underway in a somewhat disorganised but ultimately successful fashion in the traditional opener against Cypos? who inflicted one our few defeats last season.

With Ellis Miah marking his Sunday debut as Captain by oversleeping and failing to arrive until 45 minutes after the start we won the toss and batted, with a side lacking many regulars who were still away on a Stag weekend. Opening pair Richard Warne & Dave Maidment got us off to a decent start against steady bowling with Richard looking in good form from the start. A century stand unfolded before Dave was caught at mid off in the 19th over for 24. Richard was then joined by Sachin Patil who was playing his first game for the club. After an understandably nervous start he soon joined Richard in pummelling the boundaries as the pair increased the run rate dramatically in a partnership which took the score to 232 before a tiring Richard was out for a magnificent 121 which included 15 fours & 4 sixes. Ellis came and went quickly and Sachin just failed to reach a century when he was stumped for a rapid 94 (10 fours & 5 sixes) and it was left to Trevor Warne & Tom Bovington to push the score on in the remaining few overs to 285-4 off their allocated 40 overs.

With an inexperienced bowling attack we thought we would need all these runs against a strong Cypos? batting line up but excellent opening spells from Bob Watts & James Warne who both bowled their allocation for 5 runs per over put Cypos further behind the run rate and despite some good batting the rate was soon up to 9 an over and despite some lusty hitting in the latter stages were never really in the frame despite Cypos posting 260-5.