Knockers Vs Shoreham

Lose :: Played on Sunday 5th July 2009

Knockers
242-7

Shoreham
244-6

Match Report

Blood and Gups not enough

A visit to Shoreham on a sunny afternoon greeted the Knockers elite squad of 13, including 2 umpires, although Paul styles entered the fray for Shoreham in the early stages following an injury.

Batting first a circumspect start saw Knockers lose the early wickets of Tom Cobb and debutant Sam Spink, following a couple of exquisite drives. Tom Cobb on the otherhand displayed a masterclass of how to play and miss outside the off stump, before picking out point for a catch. The only time the fielder stopped the ball all day. Captain Guthrie Miller steadied the ship with a half century, bludgeoning the ball in the same fashion as the previous year and returning to form. The Knockers though were in touble again soon after as Miller(60) fell shortly followed by Grant Sykes (25), Paul Cook (10) who dealt in boundaries and Will Smith, all failing to master keeping out the straight ball. A somewhat cautious 45 from Ben Cobb saw the scoreboard to 150 but he suffered the same strife previous batsmen had and missed a stright one to be clean bowled. The innings finished on a high as Chris Martin produced an array of strokeplay around the wicket to lift Knockers well past 200. The Shoreham attack had no answer, even throwing down a piano at one stage. Ted Darry at the other end compiled a 20 odd not out with delicate touches. 240-8 a defendable total, you would think.

With Ben Cobb behind the stumps, Will Smith and Chris Martin opened the attack for Knockers but both struggled against opener Arokiasamy whose powerful strokeplay saw the highest six seen by many players hit, and somewhat surprising a few when it landed 2 yards ver the boundary as it appeared to be heading somewhere close to the 9th green on the Darenth Valley golf course. It could have been different as Tom Cobb shelled a dolly at mid off of the first ball of Martins spell, and Borehams record for the most expensive drop looked in jeopardy. Will Smith made the breakthrough. Change bowler Andy Darry showed guile and class to claim further victims to add to an increasingly large collection, but as Arokiasamy continued smashing boundaries Knockers total appeared small. Ben Cobb removed the pads to bowl, but disaster (or comedy, depending how you want to look at it) as the ball smashed out to deep mid wicket two balls later was misjudged, went through the despairing hands and thudded into his eye-socket, som showed sympathy, many laughed including Ben, whilst Darry cheered thnking a catch had been taken, i hope. Having been patched up the bloodied hero returned to the fray to have a bowl, sporting a shiner, and took 2 quick wickets as Darry removed another. 6 down. Time for Miller to bowl a mix of undescribable filth, as it turned out against a batter on 130 who finished the game moments later.


Conclusion: Catches win matches, although had it been taken 240 would have been more than 100 too many, so a good game was made.

 

Batting

Batsman	How Out	4s	6s	Runs
Tom Cobb	caught	0	0	5
Sam Spink	bowled	0	0	20
Guthrie Miller	caught	0	0	50
Paul Cook	bowled	0	0	10
Grant Sykes	caught	0	0	16
Ben Cobb	bowled	0	0	45
Will Smith	bowled	0	0	10
Edward Darry	not out	0	0	26
Chris Martin	caught	0	0	44
Ken Cowan	dnb	0	0	0
Andy Darry	dnb	0	0	0

 

Bowling

Bowler	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts
Will Smith	6.0	1	33	1
Chris Martin	3.0	0	32	0
Ken Cowan	5.0	0	28	0
Andy Darry	7.0	0	47	2
Edward Darry	4.0	0	42	1
Ben Cobb	5.0	0	22	2
Guthrie Miller	2.2	0	25	0