8 September 2007 St Lukes A v Burgh Heath (Friendly – 40 overs)) – Away

St Lukes:

Hemant Joneja (Capt w/k part)

Henry Packer

Richard Somers

David Houghton

Mitsi Patel (w/k part)

Wasif Zamir

Jason Custance

Bob Gaddes

Dusty Ahmed

Robin Ford

The weathermen promised nice weather but it was overcast and not very warm, quite a few players were caught out not having their jumpers.

After having 5 players drop out of the side midweek St Lukes could only manage to field a side of 10 and we were playing Burgh Heath who over recent years had a very good win record against us, they also had 10.

I'm not sure who won the toss but Burgh Heath batted first.

Bob opened the bowling first with Jason the other end. Jason took a wicket with his first ball and had another player given out caught behind by the umpire, the player started to walk, he was very unhappy due to "the ball come of my hip umpire". St Lukes were happy to give the player another chance as it was a friendly. No more wickets fell but Bob and Jason kept the runs to about 3 an over with the batmen taking quite a few quick singles (mainly to Robin)

Next up was Dusty who once switching to right arm around the wicket started to trouble the batsmen with ball swinging away from the righthander, he finished with 4 wickets for 37 runs, ripping the heart out of the oppenants (batsmen 2,3,4 & 5). Hemant took 3 very smart catches behind the stumps. Burgh Heath then put on a late partnership to carry there score to 138-8. Mitsi (1 wicket) & Robin also bowled 11 overs between them only going for 2 runs an over. Richard Somers also came on for a rare bowl and was delighted to knock back the stumps for his 1 wicket for 14 runs. Hement also took a wicket.

1 c Hem b Jason 5

2 c Hem b Dust 24

3 c Hem b Dust 12

4 b Dust 0

5 b Dust 5

6 c Dust b Mitsi 8

7 b Richard 9

8 no 29

9 b Hem 24

10 no

Bowling

Bob 5-0-14-0

Jason 8-1-21-1

Dusty 7-1-38-4

Mitsi 5-1-8-1

Houghton 3-0-14-0

Robin 5-1-9-0

Richard 3-0-14-1

Hem 4-0-16-1

After a very good tea Bob G and Richard opened the batting and wickets were soon to fall with Richard losing 4 partners with Robin top scoring with 4. Things were not looking good at 28 for 5. Hement had joined Richard at the crease and the other 3 batsmen were padded up ready to bat. Laxton had bowled well taking 4 wickets but a injury stop him possibly from finishing his spell (or the opp were feeling sorry for us)

Richard and Hement went about building a partnership and when Richard reached his 50 a unlikely win was on the cards, usually you know what comes next lose a few wicket etc etc BUT that didn't happen Richard and Hement took there partnership on to a unbeaten 113 the rest is history.

Bob c wk 1

Richard no 62

Robin c wk 4

Wasif c opp 2

Mitsi c wk 0

Dusty c opp 2

Hem no 46

David dnb

Henry dnb

Jason dnb

Man of the match – Richard Somers for his wicket and match winning innings