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7th September 2025
We feel, here at the Gazette, that these brief reports are more easily
tolerated by the static readership than the usual bloated fare, so
let's just pick out a few highlights.35 overs per side was agreed, win or lose, and Jez Humphreys-Davies, skippering for Horsted Keynes, chose to bat first. Henry and Charlie opened the bowling for TWCC and it was Henry who, in his third over, took two in two - both clean bowled! Another possible all-bowled hat... didn't happen. In short order then (no pun intended) Jez came in at 4 and began a long and important residence, though he did fall much later, again to Henry, caught by Paul in the gully, for 29. Other significant batting contributions were made by Ben H-D and O Wright, both of whom somewhat did the business. Charlie was hard to get hold of and his figures are excellent, and then Kanishka, bowling well, found the edge of opener Purvis's bat and Tony took a clean catch in the slips. Matt, following on from Henry’s opening spell, no doubt had a few edges dropped, or, if he didn't, he must have almost had some because that's how he bowls, but he was wicketless on the day. Rob and Jonathan were involved in the most PC moment of this innings, with a full length out-swinger from Rob finding the bottom end of Ben H-D's bat and the ball flew fast into Jonathan's gloves for a really good (and welcome) wicket. Jim was conspicuously expensive with some ego-shattering 6's swiped into the surroundings by Wright, knocking a few thousand off the local house prices. Jim wasn't alone, we’d like to report, as 6's featured heavily in many analyses... most of them, if not all, from the bat of Wright as his true eye and no compromise approach did the business. Henry replaced Jim (thank goodness) and soon bowled Simpson, leaving Wright on 38 and M Floyer with 6, both not out after the 35 overs, with the home side's total 154 for 6 after the 35 overs. The general characterisation of this innings was that Horsted Keynes, in spite of Wright and Ben H-D’s later scoring, hadn’t scored enough runs early on, which difficulty was successfully overcome by those TWCC bowlers of a generous nature. Hot dog tea! What a good idea. TWCC's batting reply began as Paul pulled a quick 4 but was then was defeated by the low bounce from Elwell, yorked on the ball’s second bounce... if there’s a way of being unlucky and finding unusual ways to be out, Paul sadly seems to be the man to find it. This was yet another one of those dismissals when the batter just wants to have another go... Matt also left rather early, with 10 to his name, but Tony looked good and one could hear him and Mikey, in at 4, debating affairs from the pavilion, but Mikey it was who left early, out for 18. This brought Jim to the middle, and he it was who was going to make the most significant contribution of the day with the bat. Chipping a wide ball outside the off stump to cover point he got out almost immediately thus making way for Rob, and he and Tony saw the runs pile on up and up through into the 31st over when Rob punched a full toss for a straight six off the bowling of the returning Elwell to win the match. With lots of good running and plenty more boundaries Rob’s quick 38 and Tony’s wonderful 72 were where it was at, and off we went to the pub. Scorecard Toss won by Horsted Keynes, and Jez chose to bat first in a 35:35 overs no draw just win or lose game. Horsted Keynes Innings: J Purvis ct T Pearce bld K Bhattacharya 16; R Spetch bld H Short 7; J Kashdan bld H Short 0; J Humphreys-Davies* ct P Hunter bld H Short 29; B Humphreys-Davies ct J Rowland (wk) bld R Rydon 41; O Wright† not out 38; D Simpson bld H Short 1; M Floyer not out 6. DNB B Williams, P Nicolls, D Elwell. Extras 16 (B5, LB4, W4, NB3) Total 154 for 6. Fall unrecorded,or at least there's the odd mention of it but it peters out. TWCC Bowling: H Short 6-2-4-4; C HOwes 5-0-9-0; M Edwards 7-2-33-0; K Bhattacharya 7-3-18-1; R Rydon 4-0-21-1; J Simon 3-0-27-0; R Brock 3-0-27-0. TWCC Innings: P Hunter LBW D Elwell 4; M Edwards ct J Kashdan bld B Williams 10; T Pearce not out 72; M Pearce bld R Spetch 18; J Simon ct J Kashdan bld R Spetch 1; H Short ct J Kashdan bld M Floyer 2; R Rydon not out 38. DNB R Brock*, K Bhattacharya, C Howes, J Rowland†. Extras 14 (B8, W3, NB3) Total 159 for 5 in 30.4 overs. Fall 1-4, 2-18, 3-94, 4-96, 5-103. Horsted Keynes Bowling: D Elwell 6.4-0-31-1; B Williams 6-1-22-1; R Spetch 6-0-29-2; D Simpson 4-1-13-0; M Floyer 4-0-23-1; P Nicolls 2-0-17-0; J Kahdan 1-0-14-0; B Humphreys-Davies 1-0-3-0. TWCC win by 5 wickets. Top of page |
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