Venturers Vs Canal Taverners, Wednesday June 19th

Canal Taverners 109-9, Venturers 64

We mostly bowled all right, especially Kevin. He, Prashant, Rohit and Gregory each got a couple of wickets. We did miss three very easy runouts, though, and Rohit was (correctly) denied a wicket because of a no-ball. This cancelled what would have been Chris Smith’s first catch for us, although he has played quite a lot, but he only had an over to complain about it before a real one arrived for him, off a half-tracker from Gregory. Perhaps if we had been a bit more efficient in the field we might have kept them to 90. It would still have been far too many. They had a fairly quick and well-coached opening bowler, although his coaching did not apparently include being taught where to bowl from. His team-mates explained the no-ball law to him on request. He produced an excellent and legitimate ball in his first over that bowled Chris S through a solid-looking defensive shot. Then the slow left-armer who has demolished us in the past, playing for various Bradford sides, demolished us again. Only Chris M had any idea what to do, and even he was badly dropped once. Simon kept them out of the pub for a few minutes at the end, but that was about it.

Scorecard <table id="scorecardframe"> <tr> <td> <table id="scorecard"><tr> <td>Chris S</td> <td> 4 (1 ct) </td> </tr><tr class="alt"> <td>Chris M</td> <td> 14 </td> </tr><tr> <td>Rohit</td> <td> 0 </td> </tr><tr class="alt"> <td>Saad</td> <td> 7 (1 ct) </td> </tr><tr> <td>Kevin</td> <td> 8 (1 ct) </td> </tr><tr class="alt"> <td>Alex</td> <td> 5 </td> </tr><tr> <td>Tom R</td> <td> 3 </td> </tr><tr class="alt"> <td>Aby</td> <td> 0 </td> </tr><tr> <td>Prashanth</td> <td> 1 </td> </tr><tr class="alt"> <td>Simon</td> <td> 3 n. o. (2 ct) </td> </tr><tr> <td>Gregory</td> <td> 4 </td> </tr></table></td><td class="gap"></td><td style="width:250"><table id="scorecard"> <tr> <td>Kevin</td> <td> 4-0-8-2 </td> </tr><tr class="alt"> <td>Aby</td> <td> 4-0-17-0 </td> </tr><tr> <td>Rohit</td> <td> 4-1-21-2 </td> </tr><tr class="alt"> <td>Gregory</td> <td> 4-0-32-2 </td> </tr><tr> <td>Tom R</td> <td> 2-0-10-1 </td> </tr><tr class="alt"> <td>Prashanth</td> <td> 2-0-14-2 </td> </tr></table> </td> </tr> </table>