Sunday 1s vs Club Tournament
Author: Paul Hogarth
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Dear all, It has been requested of me to jot down a few lines about the 2013 Putney Cricket Club Tournament that was played on 4th August. It has proved a difficult assignment. This is due to my lack of attention on the day, the haze of alcohol and the fact that no score sheets were retained. Some have (unkindly) suggested this lack of hard evidence of the days proceedings should not present a serving member of Her Majesties Constabulary with a problem as I should be adept at making up the evidence! Not true!!! Like all plods I promise to tell the truth the whole truth and only the truth so help me…etc etc etc. So here goes….. The first beer was cracked open at 10 sharp and the idyllic scene was completed when the initial game miraculously started on time! The Results: Game 1.Woody’s Choir Boys hammer Dez’s Right Hooks Game 2. Wendy’s Handbags slaughtered Matkin’s Diet (despite the latter having such a strong team!) Game 3. Woody’s Choir boys annihilate The Henshmen Game 4. Matkin’s Diet chase 72 to beat Owen’s Precious Game 5.The Henshmen clobber Dez’s Right Hooks Game 6. Wendy’s Handbags squeeze a win v Owen’s Precious. Wooden Spoon Final; The two worst teams! Dez convincingly overcomes Owen, despite Brett’s bowling. The Plate Final; The two, second worst teams Matkins beats Hensh with a six off the last ball by Devon The Grand Final; The best team against the fifth worst team Woody’s team (not the best players but with a great team spirit nurtured early in the day by the skipper, who showed his trust in the team by turning up late and therefore making them take responsibility…good move skip) and (graced with a sprinkling of the much maligned Sunday 2nd XI)… Hammered 72 of 6 then smothered.. Woody’s (The fifth worst team) Choir boys batting. (18 off first 3 overs) to lift the Trophy…despite Will Bowling bombs to Jason Dixon…who couldn’t hit them and was run out by a mile but was allowed to stay in coz he cried and Charlie (umpiring) was asleep. Some highlights and lowlights of the day included; Terrible fielding awards go to: Tom Moore, Charlie and Callum for dropped catches and woeful attempts at stopping boundaries and Willow for his farcical run out attempt which resulted in twenty or so over throws! And Brett Wilson for two spills in one over…well done boys…you’ve carried on a true Putney CC tradition! Great Fielding award goes to: Chadd for a stunning catch low down on the boundary despite him being half cut and to some other bloke who caught his captain out (CHRIS ‘DOLLY’ POWELL) for a golden duck!! Great Batting awards go to; Devon for his match winning 6 off the last ball and all in Wendy’s team for hitting over 70 in every match. Woeful batting award goes to: CHRIS ‘DOLLY’ POWELL- two or three ducks at least…maybe four or five..to be honest I lost count! And Jason Dixon for being run out by 22 yards and then claiming to be in! Blindest Umpire award goes to; Charlie……’Not out..errrr I mean OUT…NO..NOT OUT….ERRRMMMM actually I didn’t see it” Smulian Drinking awards go to Every Aussie who turned up plus special mentions for the drinkers of the Putney loving cup…Chadd, Jason and Paul ‘DOWN in ONE’ Heroes and Will ‘DOWN in several’ zero and to Chin for Drinking something out of some ones box…. Nice! All in all a great day for the club, when the sun shone the beer flowed the BBQ…BBQ’d. Everyone agreed (Even Jon White??!!!) that the best team won and 200 big one were raised for C-R-Y our chosen charity. Oh and did I mention Chris Powell was out for several Ducks! Paul Hogarth Ps If I didn’t mention you I apologise… It either means I missed your fantastic display or in fact you were rubbish and I didn’t what to embarrass you….like I did to Chris Powell |
Date | Time | Team | Opposition | Location | Putney | Opposition | Result | Scores | Points | Toss |
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04/08/2013 | Sunday 1st | Club Tournament | 0 |