Balham & Tooting vs St Lukes

8th May 2010

St Lukes got of to a good start in the 2010 season by winning their first game of the season.

The side was Karl Quinn, Jono Watkins, James Somers, Charlie Hillman, Chris Hillman, Richard Bent, Adeel Hashmi, Imran Muhammad,

Tom Rimmer, Tim Blatt and Jason Custance.

The side changed slightly on the day because Chris [Karl’s mate] didn’t arrive till tea. A grand day out for Chris coming all the way from east London by train and then he wasn’t allowed to play. So luckily Chris [Charlie’s son] had come with him to watch the game and Chris always carries his whites in his bag. Chris was ready to start reading his Secret Seven book when Karl ran over and told him to change into his whites. St Lukes were fielding first.

Tim Blatt took four wickets, Jono Watkins and Jason both took two, Adeel Hashmi took one and Imran Muhhamad did a super throw to Richard Bent and Richard did a fantastic throw to the bowler’s stumps and it was bang on the stumps.

James Somers took two good catches and he almost got a third. Balham & Tooting finished on one hundred and thirty-seven runs after about twenty minutes of working out the scores both sides agreed on that.

St Lukes had a good day for fielding.

Karl Quinn and James Somers opened the batting well. Karl hit a massive six and when Tim Blatt went to look he was almost on the A3. Charlie Hillman got the most runs with thirty nine. St Lukes overcame their score with about twelve overs to go. The only disappointment was at the end when the showers weren’t working.

My man of the match goes to Tim Blatt.

By Chris Hillman [youngest player to play St Lukes 1XI league cricket]