Scorecard

Totteridge Millhillians Cricket Club 1st XI v West Herts on Sun 14 Jun 2009 at 13:00
Totteridge Millhillians Cricket Club Won by 7 wickets

Match report TM's cup run got underway this week, after a postponement last week meant all manner of reorganisation to accommodate the extra game. We started the colts game early and moved the Ladies game to a nearby ground. As it turned out, both the Ladies and the colts could probably have played their game after ours finished, done and dusted as it was within a combined 34 overs.

Shaun lost the toss (again) and would have chosen to bat, but a slow, low, green wicket made things difficult for the visitors from the division - and indeed the league - above.

West Herts had clearly brought a reasonably good team, with several batsmen looking capable. But Hassan struck early, the Herts opener getting through his shot with time to have a cup of tea before the ball clipped the bails. The other opener began to assert himself, but wickets began to fall regularly, with the skipper bowling the 3 and Hassan getting the number 4 caught behind. Shaun then took an important wicket, clipping the shoulder of the opener's bat, for Kriss to take a great low catch.

And from there, it was really a case of the sublime and the ridiculous. Herts' kiwi pro looked a cut above but seemed, in all fairness, disinterested. That didn't stop him depositing Chris Mason for two gigantic sixes, and having quickly added 30 he looked capable of standing in the way of a steam-rollering. But a well thought-out full toss on leg stump brought a slight miscue, and the batsmen only succeeded in picking out Luke Deutschmann for a brilliant catch in the deep. Clever stuff indeed. Of the other dismissals, two stand out, both in the 'ridiculous leaves' category - the first for Peter Such, the number 7 padding up on the back foot to one that turned in, and the second for Mase, with the number 8 playing probably the classiest looking leave of the season, only to trudge off after losing his middle stump.

So we turned around quickly and set about the relatively simple task - and relatively simple it turned out to be, all of Mason, Aleem and Shaun getting after the Herts bowlers, and Aniket and Luke finished things in style, giving an unexpectedly easy victory within 13 overs.

Round 2 is on July 5th, away to either Northchurch or Sawbridgeworth.

West Herts Batting
Player name Runs
extras
TOTAL :
 
for 10 wickets
0
102 (0.0 overs)
  Caught  Waters b O'Brien 24
  Bowled  Mahmood 2
  Bowled  O'Brien 9
  Caught  Waters b Mahmood 11
  Lbw  Such 7
  Caught  Deutschmann b Mason 31
  Lbw  Such 0
  Bowled  Mason 0
  Bowled  Such 8
  Bowled  Such 0
  Not Out  0

Totteridge Millhillians Cricket Club 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Shaun O'Brien6.0027213.504.50
Hassan Mahmood8.0035217.504.38
Peter Such4.11832.671.92
Chris Mason3.002739.009.00

Totteridge Millhillians Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
 
for 3 wickets
0
105
(0.0 overs)		    
Chris Mason Caught  25
Aleem Hussain Lbw  12
Shaun O'Brien Caught  30
Luke Deutschmann Not Out  17 1
Aniket Gocoldas Not Out  18
Gregg Cruder  
Alex Book  
Haris Ali Soomro  
Peter Such  
Kristian Waters   2
Hassan Mahmood  

West Herts Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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  • Umpire :
  • Scorer :
    Elizabeth Harley