Roving Reporters Cricket Club

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Great Missenden Pelicans v Roving Reporters Cricket Club Roving Reporters on Sun 26 May 2013 at 2:00pm
Match was Drawn

Match report Match Report From Great Missenden Pelicans Website

Fresh meat was put before the Pelicans, but those Roving Reporters proved tough nuts to crack as an honourable, high-scoring draw was played out at Shardloes.

Pelis vs Roving Reporters, played in the bucolic splendour of Shardeloes, Amersham


Tickles hits out but the scoreboard reveals the scale of the task… (click to enlarge)


Joan and Asad at the wicket – a 6th-wicket partnership of 68


Pelis man of the match Asad hits to leg


No amount of creative accounting by Josh could repair the middle-order hole
Absent friends returned to the fold, with Tickles and Asad making their first appearances of the season, and they were in the action immediately as the skipper lost the toss and we were sent out to stand in the sun.
Now the last time we graced Shardeloes, there was an expensive drop. Surely history would not repeat itself? I’m afraid to say it did. The Reporters’ feisty, youthful opener mishit a short ball from Josh straight to Crystal Gayle at point. Setting himself with planted feet and hands in the right position, the ball went in. And out again.
When the feisty youth started slapping the ball around with relish it looked like it would be a costly drop. It cost precisely 99 as it turned out.
Crystal wasn’t alone in being guilty of producing filth in the field and it got so bad at one stage that Toobes put on a true show of Mildred flounciness by kicking the ball away like a stroppy teenager.
Thankfully a couple of our tribe were up to the job in the field. Inspired by Bech throwing himself around and making stop after stop in true Neville Southall style, the returning Asad broke the century opening partnership with a brilliant run out.
A couple of balls later and Asad stopped the opener one short of his ton by knocking over middle stump and suddenly the scoreboard had a better look to it.
I say better, that doesn’t mean it was great as the Reporters declared at 236 for 6. But before the Reporters’ skipper made the declaration, we had Toobes hogging the spotlight with a piece of fielding magic. The skipper floated one up outside off stump which lured the batsman to hoist the ball into the air. Toobes was under the ball, but he decided to ramp up the difficulty tariff by throwing a pirouette into the mix. In a blind panic, he dispensed with his hat (that never actually helps) and the ball hit the turf.
The Pelis set about their chase with relish and it swiftly became apparent the bowling and wicket held few terrors. The wristy Sushil looked extremely good, if a little warm in long-sleeve pullover, but those Reporters had a 12th man up their (short) sleeve. It wasn’t exactly a man, it was a horse. Horse and rider strode past the sightscreen, leaving Sush waving his pullover in disgust. One ball later, he lost his off stump. He was followed to the pavilion in quick time by Bech and Bails – leaving the skipper and Ticks to repair the damage.
Sadly, they did a p**s-poor job. Having slapped three to the boundary, the skipper went for a fourth. It was a juicy, loopy full toss. It could have been put anywhere. It looped straight to the man at square leg and it went so slowly that the skipper had time to howl ‘what have I done?’ before the ball had reached the fielder.
It was then left to Tickles to mark his return in style. It didn’t go exactly to plan. The Reporters tossed the ball to an Aussie leg spinner. This guy bowled more like Liz Hurley than Shane Warne, but proved good enough to take care of Ticks who smashed one to the rotund fella at backward square leg. He didn’t look like a fielder, but reached out a left hand and somehow clung on. Ticks’ mood had just about improved by the end of the game, but the bad memories returned at the sight of aforementioned rotund fielder repeatedly looking blankly at his left hand as if he had never previously caught a ball.
The Pelis needed some heroes and in Joan Cullen and Asad, they found them. The duo batted superbly, but they were their own worst enemies by not hitting the ball hard enough. Time and again they slapped the ball towards the long (it was very long) boundary. Asad’s little legs coupled with Joan’s shall we say unique running style thrilled the crowd and did a good job of tiring themselves and the fielders out.
Joan brought up his maiden Pelis 50 with a lusty blow but he was so in the zone that there was no raising of the bat. We felt maybe he was solely focused on a ton but it turned out he just didn’t hear the crowd. His innings was cut short at 62, shortly after losing his partner Asad.
Crystal strode out 99 runs in debt. He strode back a short while later still 99 runs in debt.
The Iceman produced a mixture of stoic defence and flashing blade and in tandem with Toobes, he took the Pelis to safety and a respectable 184 for 8.


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Roving Reporters Cricket Club Roving Reporters Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
extras
TOTAL :
1nb 9b 9lb 
for 6 wickets
19
236		        
Tony Rymer Run out  45
Tom Rowlands b Rehman 99
Peter Jenkins b Rehman 9
Nick Anson st Livie 39 1
Paul Smith lbw Livie 10 1
Steve Watson b Rehman 0
David Simmons Not Out  15
Jake Pike  
John Rogan  
Terry Miles  
Andrew Moffat   2

Great Missenden Pelicans Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Frank7.013700.005.29
Bailey5.003900.007.80
Rehman16.0169323.004.31
Tickler5.003000.006.00
Livie10.0243221.504.30

Great Missenden Pelicans Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
5w 1b 2lb 
for 8 wickets
8
184 (39.0 overs)		     
Patel b Moffat 22
Bechervaise b Moffat 14
Livie ct Miles 12
Bailey ct Moffat 2
Tickler ct Watson 7
Cullen ct Smith 62
Rehman lbw Smith 34
Gayle b Moffat 19
Gibson Not Out  4
Frank Not Out  0
Bailey  

Roving Reporters Cricket Club Roving Reporters Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Terry Miles9.0333133.003.67
Andrew Moffat9.023448.503.78
John Rogan7.013700.005.29
Steve Watson8.0053153.006.63
Paul Smith6.0224212.004.00