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Reduced to a 30 over game we batted first and were all out in the last over for 165 with only 3 making double figures .
O’C were reduced to 44/4 after 10 overs before the rain finished it .
Boffin got (I think he said a big fella ) given out lbw but the batsmen was adamant he got an inside edge on it and being a class act like his father 😆 said the batsmen could stay in .
Think he said a few of their players aren’t all south of the river hence they were ok with travelling to the dark side
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That's why you wear a helmet! Well it isn't why you wear a helmet, actually. You don't wear a helmet for that0
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Here's something to warm the cockles of the hearts of the likes of @Leuth @PaddyP17 and any other club spinners in the depths of winter .
Back in August, left armer Declan Farland opened the bowling for Henley CC 2nd XI against Marlow 1st XI. He finished with figures of 7.2-1-9-10 with the combined figures of the bowlers at the other end reading 7-0-50-0
One would suggest that Mr Farland pushes it through a touch quicker than most and that some of the batting could be described as somewhat average but it's not the sort of thing one witnesses too often and something that he will never achieve again in her lifetime.
Scorecard including the videos for all of the wickets:
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Back in around 1990, I captained my Sunday team against Linden Park 2's, played on one of the old bank grounds in Beckenham. We got 162 all out. I didn't think it was enough, as we'd lost the away game earlier in the season by 5 wickets, and it was most of the same players again.
I opened with our spinner, and rotated our three "quicks" from the other end. The spinner, helped by three or four excellent catches in the deep, took wickets at regular intervals.
When he took his ninth wicket (a club record), and all catches by the way, with the score on 150-odd, I told him it wouldn't matter a jot if we lost!
Our quickest bowler then got snicked over the slips, and despite another maiden from the spinner, Linden Park needed six to win. Should I risk the quick bowler again? No, my only option was for me to bowl my dobblers. Luckily, I only went for three, so they were still another three runs short of winning.
My spinner back on, he bowled the last man with his fourth ball and we won by two runs. His figures were 19.4 - 6- 92 - 10.
It was a fantastic game, but sadly the scorebook, completed in haste by Linden Park players, was a complete mess, with names crossed out, smudged ink, etc.
Thank fully one of our players wrote a poem about the game. It was called "When Malcolm took all ten..."
Happy days!
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Love stories like this ^0
