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Match Reports for the Saturday Sixth ElevenSaturday 4th August 2007: away to NPL 1st X1
SevenO 201-7 declared Dulwich 120-6 Match drawn.
There are many arboreally resplendent emerald swards dotted around the diaspora of South London on which the game of Cricket is played. Sadly, The James Hood recreation Ground in Morden cannot be included in this panoply of rural splendour. It is a vast open and exposed expanse of pasture which could be used as an alternative landing spot should the Boeing 747 flight from Boston find itself unable to land at Heathrow due to environmental protesters. It dominates Pages 33 and In the middle of this blasted heath, many miles from any civilization, did Dulwich VII's toil against Seven-O. The latter were in some crisis when Dulwich arrived. There did not appear to be any of them actually on the ground. How it is possible to lose an entire Cricket team on such a vast space was a mystery to the Dulwich players. After a lengthy search around the more leafy confines of SW 20 Cap'n "Pugwash" Smith located a member of the opposition who informed him that the others were in the pub, but should be on their way shortly. This meant that tossing up was something of a pointless exercise as only one team was 100 per cent present and would therefore field first, which they duly did. In the time it took the Dulwich players to change (in the toilets, which were in Putney) and make their way to the match, which was in St. Helier, Seven O mustered their forces. Dulwich's opening attack of Mullaney and Edis was steady but non-threatening and the Seven O opening batsmen looked to have "Booked in for bread-and breakfast". It became clear that Pugwash would have to makes some kind of penetrative bowling change: if any inroads were to be made into the obdurate Seven-o batting. Gibson was introduced in to the attack and immediately breached the defences of Haque and his replacement Taylor. The lethal combination of flight, spin and guile from the modest and self-effacing Gibson, once again proved to be the key to unlocking the door of the opposition front door. Unfortunately, as has happened so often in the past, Gibson was unable to sustain his accuracy and resorted to the low tactic of bowling a mixture of Pie-chuckers and grubbers later in his spell. Both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reside in the soul of this enigmatic cricketer. Pugwash removed him from the attack. The excellent Kushal Patel, son of the Dulwich Legend, took up the cudgel and bowled a steady medium pace and removed his namesake and Rann and finished with excellent figures of 9-1-25-3. Gibson's figures of 6-0-55-3 were less impressive. This bowler does not so much "buy" wickets as take out second and third mortgages on them.
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