Whyteleafe ‘V’ St Lukes -League 45 Overs Saturday 31^st May

Report by Jason Custance

After Michael's report last year saying lets not get in the same situ again, there we were nearly a year later in the exactly the same situ, with 5 possible 1st team players missing. We were playing the same side at the same ground and as luck would have it yet again the 2nd's only had a friendly game.

The game didn't start well as Ed lost his first toss of the season, with the end result of St Lukes put in to bat.

We struggled throughout the game with the slow out field and loss of wickets at regular intervals. We were 54 for 4 when Tim Craig came to the crease and a battling 35 not out gave us a fighting chance. We finshed on 131.

Michael Krishna ct Paul Flatley b Paul Flatley 9

Richard Bent ct Owen Rees b Martin Horrocks 7

Ed Hardwicke * ct David Holloway b Neil Goodwin 22

J Somers b Neil Goodwin 2

Tim Hazelhurst ct Matt Vines b Martin Horrocks 17

Tim Craig + Not Out 35

Hemant Joneja ct Asa Curtis b Martin Horrocks 8

Dusty Ahmed ro Asa Curtis 11

TIM BLATT ct David Holloway b Owen Rees 2

Robin Ford b Paul Flatley 7

Jason Custance ct David Holloway b Paul Flatley 0

Extras ( 7lb 4w ) 11 Total ( all out , 44.5 overs) 131

Fall Of Wickets 9-1 Richard Bent (Michael Krishna-1*); 24-2 Michael Krishna (Ed Hardwicke-2*); 39-3 J Somers (Ed Hardwicke-14*); 54-4 Ed Hardwicke (Tim Hazelhurst-7*); 70-5 Tim Hazelhurst (Tim Craig-5*); 78-6 Hemant Joneja (Tim Craig-5*); 109-7 Dusty Ahmed (Tim Craig-23*); 112-8 TIM BLATT (Tim Craig-24*); 131-9 Robin Ford (Tim Craig-35*); 131-10 Jason Custance (Tim Craig-35*); * = notout batsman

St Lukes started well bowling some tidy overs and keeping the run rate low. Annal was dropped by Tim Blatt (same last year) trying to take a very hard diving chance to his right (he ended up being not out, same as last year). Jason struck when the score was on 23 and St Lukes thought that may be the break through that was needed, but in came Asa Curtis who after playing and missing a few times started to smack us all round the park, hitting a unbeaten 74 from 54 balls with the Annal 44 not out. The only thing that wasn't the same as last year was that St Lukes lost.

Whyteleafe CC - 1st XI

Annal Mohabir Not Out 44

Graham Curtis ct TIM BLATT b Jason Custance 8

Asa Curtis Not Out 74

Extras ( 4b 1lb 1w 2nb ) 8 Total (1 wickets, 30.2 overs) 133

Fall Of Wickets 23-1 Graham Curtis (Annal Mohabir-15*); * = notout batsman,

Bowling O M R W Nb Wd

Jason Custance 10 3 16 1 0 0

TIM BLATT 10 2 40 0 0 0

Dusty Ahmed 3 0 14 0 0 0

Robin Ford 4 0 35 0 0 0

Hemant Joneja 2.2 1 13 0 0 0

Michael Krishna 1 0 9 0 0 0

Men of the Match: Tim Craig and Jason Custance (by Ed)