St Lukes 1XI v Selsdon Saturday 7 June.

 

Reported by Charlie Hillman (no one was made to sweat in the writing of this report)

 

On the back of a defeat the previous week it was important that St Lukes bounced back. A number of regulars were away including Captain Ed, so “Gentleman” Tim Hazlehurst stepped in as skipper along with Evan from the Scooby Doos and Matt “the Cobbler” Cobb who was playing his first game for a while. 

 

The sun was out, the crowd was massing with Charlie Blatt making an appearance to add to the numbers.

 

At 1:30 the Selsdon players were scarcer than an extra cake at teatime and had 3 players so St Lukes could have claimed the toss as they didn’t have enough to start with. “Gentleman“ Tim played it straight and tossed anyway. Selsdon called wrong and St Lukes were fielding. The Gentleman then gave Selsdon a further 10 mins to see if their players would arrive and after that they had to decide to either start with 3 players (but if they lost 2 wickets before the others arrived they would technically have been bowled out) or to start losing overs until they were ready. If they had known the St Lukes attack they might have started to bat!

 

Eventually the rest arrived and we finally started, with Selsdon losing 8 overs. Jason kept the runs down from one end. Evan was more expensive from the other but picked up a couple of wickets. Tim Blatt and Robin came on and the runs started to flow. Tim picked up a couple of wickets (he’ll buy wickets at any cost) and by now Charlie had 2 catches and the Matt the Cobbler had one. Dusty came on and although expensive picked up 3 wickets including a good caught and bowled. Michael “Sweaty” Krishna was also thrown the ball and where Jason had bowled “economically”, Sweaty started off “comically”. The first ball of his first over went for 4 and the second went for possibly the biggest 6 seen at Deckers. I think it landed the other side of the train track. Michael pulled himself together and bowled better for a good comeback. “Skinny” Tim Craig picked up a catch behind the stumps. Selsdon were in full flow now and were playing their shots. St Lukes didn’t really have an answer and although the team were crying out for change, the “Gentleman” ignored their pleas and didn’t give Charlie a bowl. He’s not the first captain to miss this trick and he won’t be the last. At tea off their 37 overs, Selsdon finished on 204-9.

 

Selsdon CC - 1st XI

      R B 4s 6s
Eric Clemmings ct Charlie Hillman b Evan Huyerman   8  0  0  0 
K Mukanden   b Tim Blatt   30  0  0  0 
Deo Shivmangal ct Matthew Cobb b Evan Huyerman   0  0  0  0 
Ken Shivmangal ct Charlie Hillman b Tim Blatt   26  0  0  0 
Amit Arora ct Dusty Ahmed b Dusty Ahmed   67  0  0  0 
David Shivmangal * Not Out   55  0  0  0 
Mike Levin ct Tim Craig b Michael Krishna   2  0  0  0 
A Arvind   b Michael Krishna   0  0  0  0 
Seeroot Kumar + LBW b Dusty Ahmed   0  1  0  0 
M Venkie   b Dusty Ahmed   2  0  0  0 
M Arun Not Out   2  0  0  0 
Extras  ( 4b  3lb  4w  1nb  )   12  
Total  (9 wickets, 37 overs)  204  

Fall Of Wickets

14-1 Eric Clemmings (K Mukanden*); 26-2 Deo Shivmangal (K Mukanden*); 64-3 Ken Shivmangal (K Mukanden*); 73-4 K Mukanden (Amit Arora*); 168-5 Amit Arora (David Shivmangal*); 189-6 Mike Levin (David Shivmangal*); 189-7 A Arvind (David Shivmangal*); 190-8 Seeroot Kumar (David Shivmangal*); 192-9 M Venkie (David Shivmangal*); -10 ; * = notout batsman,

Bowling
  O M R W Nb Wd
Jason Custance 10 3 24 0 0  0 
Evan Huyerman 6 0 31 2 0  0 
Tim Blatt 6 0 40 2 0  0 
Robin Ford 2 0 25 0 0  0 
Dusty Ahmed 7 0 40 3 0  0 
Michael Krishna 6 0 38 2 0  0 

 

 

St Lukes still felt we could get the runs as we had 45 overs. “Sweaty” and Jo “what do you mean I can’t play attacking shots” Durnall started cautiously. The first wicket fell at 25 and after that a steady stream of batsmen followed without troubling the scorer a great deal. Dusty was the pick with top score of 26. St Lukes were all out for 83 off 36 overs.

 

      R B 4s 6s
Michael Krishna   b A Arvind   9  0  0  0 
Jothann Durnall   b A Arvind   8  0  0  0 
Matthew Cobb st Seeroot Kumar b David Shivmangal   9  0  0  0 
Charlie Hillman   b A Arvind   1  0  0  0 
Tim Haslehurst * ct K Mukanden b David Shivmangal   2  0  0  0 
Tim Craig +   b David Shivmangal   2  0  0  0 
Dusty Ahmed ct Ken Shivmangal b M Arun   26  0  0  0 
Evan Huyerman ct Amit Arora b David Shivmangal   0  0  0  0 
Robin Ford   b David Shivmangal   4  0  0  0 
Tim Blatt LBW b Eric Clemmings   4  0  0  0 
Jason Custance Not Out   1  0  0  0 
Extras  ( 1b  2lb  13w  1nb  )   17  
Total  ( all out , 36.2 overs)  83  

Fall Of Wickets

25-1 Michael Krishna (Jothann Durnall*); 39-2 Matthew Cobb (Jothann Durnall*); 41-3 Jothann Durnall (Charlie Hillman*); 42-4 Charlie Hillman (Tim Haslehurst*); 44-5 Tim Haslehurst (Tim Craig*); 46-6 Tim Craig (Dusty Ahmed*); 46-7 Evan Huyerman (Dusty Ahmed*); 58-8 Robin Ford (Dusty Ahmed*); 79-9 Dusty Ahmed (Tim Blatt*); 83-10 Tim Blatt (Jason Custance*); * = notout batsman,

Bowling
  O M R W Nb Wd
K Mukanden 7 1 23 0 0  0 
A Arvind 10 6 13 3 0  0 
David Shivmangal 10 3 17 5 0  0 
M Venkie 5 2 11 0 0  0 
M Arun 3 0 14 1 0  0 
Eric Clemmings 1.2 0 2 1 0  0 

 

Umpires Ian Roberts

 

 

A disappointing result and in summary – Selsdon looked like they wanted to win, St Lukes didn’t and when the game was going against us we didn’t have answer. This is likely to happen fairly often and the days of just turning up and winning are left behind in the lower divisions. We need to do more to change the game and if we aren’t getting wickets and change the way we play. Batting and bowling were both poor.

 

Man of the Match – Charlie Blatt for sitting through it.

 

Key lesson learned – Beware of cricketers in blue trainers, they may be able to bat after all!