Sunday 1s vs Crane
Author: Keeper Jeffries
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At 23:44pm on Saturday 5th May, the prophet Ockwell made his proclamation to the Putney Cricket – Sundays Whatsapp group. Accompanied by a photograph of one Paul Hogarth, the following message was preached unto the congregation: “The ‘a’ team will have to deal with this hungover man tomorrow” So it is written, so it shall be done. Cutting a jovial figure before the start of play, the aforementioned Hogarth looked in fine fettle as he strode out to open the batting alongside the Vicar of Wibberley. Sadly, no sooner had he entered the fray, he was gone. Struck on the pads first ball, Hogarth promptly departed for a golden duck. If his hangover was worsened by his brief stay at the crease, it must have been raging by the time the next wicket fell, some 22 overs later as Wibberley and number 3 bat Jeffries amassed a boundary-laden 152 partnership. Jeffries was the next man out for 66, caught on the long off boundary off the bowling of Putney’s Matt Taylor who was guesting for the visitors. With 189/2 on the board, Wibbs brought up his century to applause from both teams. His innings was a joy to watch, with 13 boundaries flayed to all corners of the ground and punctuated by some energetic running. With face now redder than the legendary Making PCC Sundays Great Again cap, Wibbs eventually fell for a quality 115 in the 30th over. Suddenly the Lower Common became the Wankede Stadium as new batsman Sayer muscled a ThunderBitch Maximum™ 100 metres into the next field. Support was provided by Jenkins, adept at rotating the strike. Sayer, on the other hand, stood deep in his crease and launched the tiring bowlers for a succession of boundaries through the leg side. The hapless Crane fielders scattered to the boundary, 6 of them at one point, but Sayers found the rope time after time. Another 100 partnership for the 5th wicket in barely 10 overs took our score past 300, with Jenkins finishing on 47* and Sayers 64*. Putney 305/4. Returning to the field, Putney served up a veritable banquet of pies – almost as tasty as the chicken dippers we inhaled at tea. Opening bowler Sam Cornick had evidently decided that the wicket was unhelpful and chose not to bother pitching the ball on it. This tactic proved difficult to maintain throughout, and on the couple of occasions the ball pitched, the batsman was reprieved by dropped chances at slip. Not to be outdone, Jenkins later managed to bowl an entire over without pitching the ball once. Hogarth by this time was deep in the vice of hangover, and his day was made even more miserable by Lord Brooks despatching him to field on the midwicket boundary. Soham Bendre saw off the Chase skipper clean bowled, and proceeded to bowl far better at his dad than at anyone else. A miserly spell was bowled by Tom Seaman, with probing lines outside off stump at a brisk pace. Clearly bored of his own stinginess, he would occasionally wang one miles down leg side just to see if the keeper was awake. Some late order biffing from Chase pushed their total up over 200, and Brooks revealed his masochistic streak in the final over by bringing Soham back to bowl at his dad. With one ball remaining Amogh chipped a full ball back to the bowler, but the young Bendre couldn’t cling on to the c+b chance and Amogh finished on 49*. Chase 206/5 – Putney win by 99 runs. MOTM – obviously Wibbs’ majestic century The make Putney Sundays great again (formerly known as champagne moment) Sunday ThunderBitch™ moment of the day – Adam Sayer for hitting back to back huge sixes Dick du jour – Soham for dropping his dad off his own bowling Thanks for coming, champ – Hogarth’s hangover |
Date | Time | Team | Opposition | Location | Putney | Opposition | Result | Scores | Points | Toss |
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06/05/2018 | 1pm | Sunday 1st | Crane | H | 305/4 | 206/5 | W | 0 |