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TWCC v BHCC Sunday Selection
21st July 2024 Match report Jim Simon Friendly cricket - everyone gets a bat, and many bowl a few overs. If this inclusive ethos can also produce an exciting game then the skippers have, whoever wins, fulfilled their Sunday briefs. BHCC won the toss and chose to bat first, and they were soon in some sort of trouble as Henry took his customary early wicket bowling Andy Glynn-Jones, and Charlie, opening from the Downs End, had Brownsell comfortably caught by Henry. BHCC were 2 for 2. A recovery partnership of 40 between Jarvis and Murphy was then halted as Matt, replacing Charlie, took 3 for 1 in just two overs leaving the visitors reeling a little on 43 for 5. Matt took himself off and Ranunjay, in his first over, made that 48 for 6 - in just the twelfth over of the innings. The worry of a cold urn loomed, but Billy Fuller was scoring freely as he moved on past his fifty, and even though the wickets were falling he eventually found a partner in No.9 Thomas to move the total on past the hundred, and a potential tea crisis was averted. TWCC’s fielding, and even the catching, was excellent, exemplified by Ranunjay who held on to three excellent catches, one in particular diving to his left at cover point to hold a one-handed catch off Fuller’s top edge, whose 63 from batting at 7 had set the game up well. Ranunjay took three catches in all, Charlie two, and Henry, Chinu and Tony one each which left just two bowled wickets; Henry's earlier wicket and, at the end, one for Ed who wrapped up the innings leaving BHCC all out in the 35th over for 152. Sausage rolls, sausage rolls, sausage rolls, Sausage rolls, sausage rolls, sausage ro-olls, Sausage rolls, sausage rolls, sausage rolls, Sau-sage ro-o-lls, sau-sage rolls! Short family tea - thank you very much. Time for TWCC to get those 153 runs and go to the pub. Matt and Ed opened the batting, and there do appear to be a few fours in the book, but all too soon for TWCC there were also wickets. Ed was bowled by the excellent Toby Cranfield who got the ball to swing away from the right hander off a perfect length, and Matt soon followed, LBW, to the same bowler after a run-per-ball 18. Tony didn't help much being caught by the keeper for just 2 off Fuller, and Chinu, after his signature crunching flat bat drive, was also out to Cranfield for just 2. After six overs TWCC were 30 for 5... Jim came in at 5 determined to settle the ship, and at first with Ranunjay, then Kanishka some semblance of scoring did occur. Kanishka's lofted drive over mid-off for 6 was a sight indeed, but his tenure was, albeit productive, short lived. There then followed, as Henry joined Jim, a period of calm accumulation which was all that was required, and, it has to be said, BHCC's approach during these middle overs was generous and fitting as the visitors ran through all ten of their team only stopping short of giving the keeper a bowl. Henry and Jim didn't over-hit and ran well together with lots of good calling, smart singles, even hitting a few fours as the required run rate never moved from around three an over - quite gettable even though the home side were six down. Henry's patience and placement was lovely to see, and, speaking for Jim, very enjoyable to be part of, but the 46 run partnership ended as Murphy's second ball dropped down just under Henry's bat and went on to clatter in to the stumps. Good partnership - still a dodgy situation at 98 for 7. Jim upped the rate as he could but as Graham was caught behind, and specialist No11 Michael's promotion yielded just one run for him - but was that his first run for the club? - TWCC were suddenly 9 down, still needing a further 40 runs to win. Charlie, a capable batter to have at 11, showed his mettle, and Jim, hitting out at this stage of the innings, took the score on to 137, their side ending up just 15 runs short of BHCC's total as Charlie was bowled by the pacy Brownsell in the 33rd over. Game over. A good effort in the end, and that BHCC got to 152 was a sign of well-managed skippering from Matt, and that TWCC got close to 152 was a credit to the skippering from BHCC who only brought on their most forceful bowler in order to finesse a win for the visitors. And why not? Loss for the home side. Win for BHCC and Sunday cricket. Fun. Scorecard Toss won by BHCC who chose to bat first in a 40/40 game. Whether or not a draw was possible is unknown but makes no difference. I think it was. But it still doesn't. BHCC Innings: C Jarvis ct C Howes bld R Shekawat 21; A Glynn-Jones bld H Short 0; W Brownsell ct H Short bld C Howes 0; N Murphy ct R Shekawat bld M Edwards 18; R Goss ct C Howes bld M Edwards 0; D Girdhar ct R Shekawat bld M Edwards 0; B Fuller ct R Shekawat bld J Simon 63; G Cranfield ct C Sharma bld K Bhattacharya 0; M Thomas not out 17; T Cranfield ct T Pearce (wk) bld J Simon 6; P Murphy bld E Howes 5. Extras 23 (B6, LB1, W9, NB7) Total 152 all out (34.1 overs). Fall: 1-1, 2-2, 3-42, 5-43, 6-48, 7-83,, 8-133, 9-141, 10-152. TWCC Bowling: H Short 6-0-30-1; C Howes 3-0-25-1; M Edwards 2-1-1-3; J Simon 7-2-23-2; R Shekawat 4-0-27-1; K Bhattacharya 4-1-25-1; G Cuthbert 4-0-16-0; E Howes 3.1-1-4-1. TWCC Innings: M Edwards LBW bld T Cranfield 18; E Howes bld T Cranfield 4; T Pearce ct wkt bld Fuller 2; C Sharma bld T Cranfield 2; J Simon not out 53; R Shekawat ct N Murphy bld B Fuller 2; K Bhattacharya LBW bld M Thomas 11; H Short bld N Murphy 16; G Cuthbert ct wkt bld A Glynn-Short 1; M Short c&bld N Murphy 1; C Howes bld N Brownswell 2. Extras 25 (B9, LB2, W9, NB5) Total 137 all out (32.5 overs). Fall: 1-11, 2-24, 3-26, 4-28, 5-30, 6-52, 7-98, 8-106, 9-113, 10-137. BHCC Bowling: T Cranfield 3-0-10-3; B Fuller 3-0-20-2; M Thomas 4-1-11-1; C Jarvis 4-0-25-0; G Cranfield 4-0-9-0; D Girdhar 3-0-19-0; N Murphy 4-1-6-2; A Glynn-Jones 3-0-12-1; W Brownswell 2.5-2-1-1; P Murphy 2-0-13-0. BHCC win by 15 runs. |
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