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Saturday Third X1 Match Reports
Dulwich Cricket Club - Saturday 3rd XI Match Report
vs Wimbledon (H) – Surrey Championship on Saturday 22nd July 2006
Wimbledon 230 for 9 wickets declared in 41.5 overs Dulwich 165 for 7 wickets (Arun Mahey 61*, O.Shokoya 43) in 41 overs Result: Losing Draw
The afternoon commenced with a strategy meeting amongst the players whereby Jose was advised how he could overcome the affliction felt by 3rd XI skippers of recent years, i.e., how to avoid losing the toss. Several suggestions were made, from the tried and tested (sending out someone else to do the job) to the downright ridiculous (something about double headed coins and bribery of opposite numbers). The compromise was reached when Jose agreed to use the £2 coin selected by BP from Ted’s pocket, and ensure he threw the coin with his left hand. So, when Jose put this into practice with the Wimbledon captain, incredibly….Dulwich won the toss. The new ball was taken by Bruce and Deadly on a humid afternoon and both were extracting movement in the air. Deadly was soon onto the scoreboard by forcing the opposition captain to play onto his stumps, and this was quickly followed up by Bruce enticing the number three batsmen to direct his first delivery into the hands of BP at gully. However, storm clouds were gathering and the ground suffered a deluge after 10 overs with Wimbledon precariously placed at 40 for 2. The break lasted over an hour and we were therefore now involved in an 82 over match. Deadly, although not swinging the ball in the same way he had been, still managed to pick up a quick wicket after the break for rain. Dallas replaced Bruce, who was struggling with the ‘bar of soap’ we were now bowling with. However, the shortened game and the small ground saw the Wimbledon batsmen counter attack, and there were some lusty blows to the short boundaries. Spin was introduced from one end – there was no shortage of action as Serious, Ted, and Jerzy bowled ten overs between them, picking up three wickets but going at more than seven runs an over in the process. Meanwhile the persistent line and length from Dallas at the other end accounted for a further two wickets, and Wimbledon closed their innings on 230 for 9. This week Shmuck was promoted to open with Ted. Things looked promising when Ted despatched a length ball over long off for six in just the fourth over, but there was some juice in the wicket which soon saw him caught at slip. Shmuck soon followed, and then Jose was adjudged caught behind. “Honestly, umpire, it was off me lid” he was heard to mutter on his way back to the pavilion (along with a few expletives of course), and followed this by middling an awesome cover drive, though alas the ball was substituted with the unfortunate dustbin that stood in his way on the boundary. Shmuck ventured that it was a better front foot drive than any of the Wimbledon players had managed. Loose shots from Jerzy and Nelson – the latter playing his last game of the season before departing on overseas adventures – saw Dulwich staring into the abyss at 30 for 5. However, BP - at last displaying some of the form which earned him plaudits during 2005 - was both picking off the singles and scoring boundaries, whilst Serious having joined him at number 7 was making the most of some poor Wimbledon fielding. BP departed for 22 (at 63 for 6) which saw the start of a match saving partnership when Shok joined Serious at the crease. Requiring seven an over with only four wickets in hand, the win was never really in sight, but between them Shok and Serious were striking the ball well and running aggressively. This period of the game was not without alarm but they showed what might have been if the top order had performed to their capability. Although Shok was out shortly before the end for 43, he and Serious (61 not out) ensured through their partnership of 95 that the only outright victory in either game against Wimbledon this season was the one achieved by Dulwich in the first fixture in June.
THIS WEEK’S STAR CAST: Jeff ‘Jose Maskers’ Mascarenhas Alistair ‘BP’ Sykes Stephen ‘Ted’ Heath Adam ‘Bruce’ Willis Luke ‘Deadly’ Howard Deb ‘Dallas’ Howard Arun ‘Serious’ Mahey Sunil ‘Jerzy’ Mahey Andrew ‘Shmuck’ Corbin Paul ‘Nelson’ Keymer Obafemi ‘Shok’ Shokoya
Champagne moment: Wimbledon’s number 3 batsman on a king pair - having succumbed in the first fixture at their ground to his first ball bowled by Bruce - arrived at the crease to a few friendly verbals from the boys but confidently replied it would not happen again. Then….Bruce ran up and delivered a beauty!
Pickled egg moment: Another Wimbledon batsman wins this one – this time the number 7 who, having displayed some nice stroke play in his innings, decided to try and reverse-sweep Jerzy, got in a tangle, and found himself clean bowled.
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