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Totteridge Millhillians Cricket Club 4th XI v Stevenage III on Sat 21 Aug 2010 at 1:00pm
Totteridge Millhillians Cricket Club Lost by 12 runs

Match report TMIV v. Stevenage III
21/08/2010
Played at Rowley Lane

It started badly, Chris won the toss throwing him immediately into uncharted waters. In a positive frame of mind the decision was made to bowl giving us maximum opportunity to win the match, plus the pitch looked a tricky one with yet more rain received in the week. Failure of course mean that not many points would be collected, ah.

Slightly unusually for the 4s the opening overs were loose something the opposition openers were more than happy to accept. Too many 4 balls were gifted in this time prompting an early change bringing the Chairman into the attack. The reward was almost instantaneous when a sharp caught and bowled was put down. An easier chance was also shelled at mid-wicket off of Siva before Sanjay was brought on to try and extract some uncertainty out of the pitch. He did so manfully and had the younger of the openers caught off a leading edge, Steve then extracted a positive LBW decision to see off the other opener and then saw the number 3 excellently stumped by AB collecting the ball a couple of inches off the ground. One of the youngest players we have seen all season emerged at number 5 and despite clearly having a sound technique he could not keep out Steve for long with the ball hooping around in the heavy atmosphere. We then enjoyed some moments of drama with a catch being disallowed from a marginal no-ball off of Sanjay and then a stumping given off of Steve rescinded by ourselves on the grounds that the batsman stated he thought it was a dead ball as Steve had knocked the non-strikers stumps over in his run up. All of this was taken in the right spirit but Sanjay did get his man in the end well caught by Siva. The lower order piped up at this point with a gentleman non-ironically named “Rhino” blasting a number of legside 4s. However, with fielders in the deep he perished caught 6 inches inside the rope at long on. Steve picked up his five-for caressing the off-bail of number 8 (he finished with a brilliant 21-7-56-5). Sanjay finished off his spell with 12-2-31-2 an excellent effort more so considering he had not been called upon to bowl for a fair number of weeks now. Two young guys were left at the crease at this point and so rather than the normal pyrotechnics we have come to experience in the last 10 overs things moved on relatively sedately with both sides seeming to settle for non-risky singles. Vivek managed to bowl a maiden for the 53rd over which can’t happen too often for a side with wickets in hand but both sides left the field reasonably content with the opposition having made a tricky 164-7 and the 4s knowing that we had chased this kind of total more successfully than not over the season.

The 4s response got off to the worst possible start with Chris airing the most brainless shot of the innings to the first ball he faced throwing the kitchen sink at a wide loosener which he only managed to snick through to the keeper. A poor example to set and when Vivek perished to the same bowler over excitably trying to smash a full one we feared the worst. However, this brought together the 4s two best batsman and once again they began the task of rebuilding the innings with some aplomb. Sanjay never one to get bogged down by a situation started wielding his trusty blade and scoring predominantly legside with some nice cuts shots interspersed. Rakesh was classy cover drives through and through and unfortunately his only lapse in concentration cost him dear; having seen an beautiful drive somehow blasted straight at the fielder his mind was lingering on that shot when the next one found its way through the gate to take the top of off. Sanjay continued but was undone by the same bowler when he edged one straight into the midriff of Rhino at slip exiting for an exceptional 72. These two had ensured that the run rate was easily manageable even though we had lost 4 overs for rain but for some reason no one cottoned on to this to adapt their approach accordingly. The card tells the sorry tale but credit to the opposition who bowled a probing full length and being rewarded with bowleds or LBWs, one of their bowlers picked up a well-deserved 5 wickets bowling a disciplined off-stump line. The innings finished on 152 all out, only 13 runs shy of victory but in reality without the efforts of Sanjay and Rakesh (103-2 between them) it would have been much worse (with extras taken into account the other 8 wickets scored 37 between them).

Results elsewhere meant that the 4s only dropped once place and remain in touching distance of first however we cannot afford anymore batting displays like today (exceptions already noted) failing to capitalise on excellent bowling and solid fielding performances.

Stevenage III Batting
Player name Runs
extras
TOTAL :
 
for 7 wickets
0
164 (0.0 overs)
L.Bailey ct  S.Patnaik (S.Venugapol) 39
I.Brown lbw  S.Lyall 19
J.Norman st  S.Lyall (A.Mathew) 1
N.Derrick Not Out  50
M.Tyler b  S.Lyall 4
H.Byron ct  S.Patnaik (S.Sakthivel) 2
R.Sullivan ct  S.Lyall (C.Benn) 13
M.Tennyson b  S.Lyall 4
D.Parmar Not Out  18
K.Fisher  
L.Cope  

Totteridge Millhillians Cricket Club 4th XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Sivasankar Sakthivel10.033600.003.60
Vivek Mallavarapu10.013100.003.10
Steve Lyall21.0756511.202.67
Sanjay Patnaik12.0231215.502.58

Totteridge Millhillians Cricket Club 4th XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
152
(0.0 overs)		    
Chris Benn ct  L.Cope 0 1
Vivek Mallavarapu lbw  L.Cope 5
Rakesh Venugopal b  L.Bailey 31
Sanjay Patnaik ct  L.Bailey 72
Mani Periyasami b  L.Bailey 3
Abhilash Mathew lbw  L.Bailey 9 1
Ketan Shah ct  L.Bailey 2
Kamlesh Bharadia ct  L.Cope 1
Sivasankar Sakthivel Not Out  11 1
Sreekesh Vanugopal lbw  I.Brown 6 1
Steve Lyall b  I.Brown 0

Stevenage III Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
L.Cope12.0232310.672.67
D.Parmar3.002200.007.33
I.Brown8.3027213.503.18
K.Fisher7.014100.005.86
L.Bailey7.011853.602.57