Saturday 2s vs Staines & Laleham
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Following orders from General Bendre, Putney arrived at Peter Roberts CC, otherwise known as Staines & Laleham, ridiculously early on Saturday morning. Watching Peter Roberts CC spend over 45 minutes hilariously struggling with their boundary rope was a particular highlight, as was the England tail wagging in the Ashes. Pride, they say, comes before a fall. After being forced to give up Rolf, Chin and Josh to the 1s in midweek, there was a new look to the side. Lewis Hill came in as a like-for-like Rolf swap, opening the batting with The Original Doug. It was brief, and Amogh found himself out in the middle in the first over. On a good track and fast outfield, Doug and Amogh piled on the runs as we reached 50-1 in about the 8th over, before Amogh was bowled by a beauty for 29. The quicker bowlers proved particularly fruitful as Doug continued to enjoy himself, driving anything full and pulling anything short to the fence. Jeffries came, saw and chopped on, but 2’s debutant Rohit kept up the scoring until Doug miscued a drive into the hands of Peter Roberts at cover for an excellent 51. This was Peter Roberts’ first involvement of the day, and he was swiftly brought on to bowl. The slower bowlers were much more difficult to score off, and Roberts’ stump to stump approach yielded a classic trio of bowled, lbw and caught at slip. From 108-3 we found ourselves 159-8 and were indebted to the endeavours of New Doug and Tom Seaman to drag us to a respectable but below par 199 all out. Peter Roberts opened the batting for Peter Roberts CC. He has been playing for the club otherwise known as Staines & Laleham since 1982, which is much longer than The Original Doug has played for Putney. It’s longer than most of our team has been alive. Peter Roberts deployed all of that 37 years of experience to survive two enormous lbw shouts and a caught behind appeal from his first three balls. When Seaman clean bowled the other opener, Putney scented blood; Peter Roberts had other ideas. Strong on the late cut, Peter Roberts took the wind out of our sails with a high tempo innings full of quick singles and what can only be described as “really good batting”. There were protests after the game but we’ve checked and being really good at batting is not against the Fullers league rules. None of the Putney bowlers bowled badly, or were particularly expensive, but with only 200 on the board we needed wickets, and they were in short supply. When Brian, Henry, Tush and New Doug were unable to find a way to wangle a wicket, Amogh threw the ball to Rohit and was immediately rewarded with two wickets. Seeing off numbers 3 and 4, had Rohit dragged us back into the game? In the end, no, as Peter Roberts saw his team home by 7 wickets with a few balls to spare. A lapse in scorer concentration meant that Peter's maiden ton passed without acknowledgement, but a fine innings nonetheless. In truth we didn’t score enough runs on probably the league’s best batting track, and Staines were never behind the run rate. Actual MoM – Peter Roberts (108*, 9-3-18-3, 2 catches) Putney MoM – Doug for his 50 Mug of the match – Rohit for excitedly appealing for hit wicket when Rich had knocked the bails off TBHOEDYDT – New Doug’s lusty blow for an “almost six” |
Date | Time | Team | Opposition | Location | Putney | Opposition | Result | Scores | Points | Toss |
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03/08/2019 | 1pm | Saturday 2nd | Staines & Laleham | A | 199/10 | 202/3 | L | 5 |