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Match Reports for the Saturday Sixth Elevens
Saturday Extra 6th X1 versus Churchleigh (away) on 20th May 2006 Churchleigh 138-8 ( Thomas 2-28, Mahey 2-55) Dulwich 102 all out ( Lambert 26, Campbell 22) Dulwich lost by 36 runs.
It was inauguration day for Dulwich cricket club’s 6th XI extras, as we like to call it. Ask not what your club can do for you but what you can do for club! Unfortunately, the performance of the team against Churchleigh’s 1st XI had little to do with John F. Kennedy’s magical prose. It resembled George W Bush’s confused utterings far more! After a long and difficult journey south, John Smith, el presidente and the captain of the team, won the toss and to the amazement of everyone present elected to field in this 30-over a side match. Amazing because Roxroy Thomas and his merry band of AWOLs had not turned up and did not do so for the best part of an hour. Predictably Jason Campbell got the blame! He was probably working out if his ASBO allowed him to make a mark on this gated community, which aptly had been a hospital for the mentally unwell! Not to worry! The opening bowling attack of young Laurie Davidson and Haseeb “The Mad” Choudhary performed wonders on a damp and drizzly day, restricting Churchleigh’s opening batsmen to a miniscule return. Chaudhary claimed his first scalp of the season and Dulwich looked in ominous form, with Pan Pylas especially showing some neat glove work in his first outing behind the stumps. The fielding all round was solid bar the performance of Nick Rochford, who following a text earlier in the day, had other things on his mind! Eventually Churchleigh laboured to a score of 138-8, helped by some hefty hitting in their middle order, which unfortunately tarnished the bowling figures of Tarun Mahey, who had shown a fair amount of guile with leg break bowling. Roxroy Thomas eventually found his bearings with the ball and in the slippy conditions got two scalps and just missed with a couple of beamers. Debutant Dinesh Lambert and Campbell also bowled tidy spells. The target was certainly gettable for a Dulwich line-up brimming with batting talent, or so the captain said. Unfortunately, openers Simon Gorst and Jon Cross struggled to keep the scoreboard ticking along at the start and the target loomed ever deeper. Cross, Pylas and Davidson were all out playing suicidal shots, while Rochford “The Distracted” was plum leg before. Were it not for some hefty hitting over the trees from Campbell (22), Lambert (26) and Chaudhary (16) at the end, the defeat would have been even more conclusive. A thirty six run defeat was sufficient for much talking about what might have been and some drinking in the bar, as the extra sixths were the only Dulwich team to lose that day. Nevertheless, we may as well look at the bright side. Kennedy was assassinated whilst Bush won re-election!
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