4th July 2009

1st XI v Gulval

 

Type of Match- League

Venue - Home

Toss Won by Porthleven who fielded first

 

Result - Gulval (19) bt Porthleven (8) by 28 runs

Gulval 164 All Out in 43.3 overs

N Cock 36

R Eddy 31

Extras (9B, 5LB, 14W, 2NB) 30  

 

Name
Overs
Mdn
Runs
Wkts
M Duck
6.3
2
23
2
JJ Walker
10
2
31
1
M Pollard
12
0
31
5
B Bury
12
0
46
2
D Walker
3
0
21
0

Porthleven 136 All Out in 34.1 overs

 

Name
Score
How Out
Balls
6s
4s
1
R Williams W
11
Caught
24
2
2
JJ Walker
18
Bowled
21
1
2
3
C Higgs
23
Caught
33
2
4
B Bury
6
Bowled
12
1
5
M Duck
57
Ct - Wk
59
10
6
D Walker
0
Bowled
2
7
D Parish C
0
Bowled
3
8
L Powell
0
Run Out
0
9
J Barber
1
Caught
19
1
10
M Pollard
4
Caught
6
1
11
N Chilton
0
Not Out
1
Extras (3B, 1LB, 12W) 16

Fall of Wickets

  

Wkt
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Score
33
33
49
119
119
119
119
130
136
136
Outgoing Batsman
1
2
4
3
6
7
8
5
10
9

                                    


Becoming something of a great tosser, Parish inserted Gulval into bat in warm humid conditions although the pitch seemed to have a mind of its own throughout the game.

Nigel Cock opened with Purvis, and the with Purvis removed cheaply it was left for Cock to stay around and stabilise. He struggled to get wood to the ball at times but battled away, but the scoreboard struggled to 70-2 after 24 overs, one incident in particular when Bradley 'Goose' Bury put in a quicker short ball that lifted sharply. Bury's ball made contact with Cock, the batsman going down as a nice shiner appeared under his eye, but he was fit to bat on, but from here on struggled as 'Pri' Mark Pollard's length caused problems for all the batsmen.

Pollard, J'J' Walker and Bury bowled great spells, Pollard ending with 6 wickets despite the book saying 5! After removing Shane Eddy first ball he was on a hat trick, the fielders gathering, the pressure on at the Roasters Dome, Pollard trotted in, the ball getting some extra bounce, gloved through to waiting keeper Ronnie 'Tramp' Williams who snaffled the catch. The Roasters went wild, the batsman stood, the umpire (who, it must be said had a shocker in the fixture at Gulval!) 'heard nothing' and Pollard was denied his hat-trick through a total lack of sportsmanship.

What made it worse was the boundaries said batmen then hit in the partnership with Ryan Eddy, Eddy scoring valuable runs to get a decent total on the board.

In reply Walker and Williams started brightly, passing 30 in no time before Williams fell. Walker was next to go, followed by Bury, but DCI Higgs bravely took the fight to Gulval, Martin 'Crispy' Duck playing the shots while Higgs dodged, ducked and weaved like a Dad at a wedding. Was it gunfire they were flinging down at him? Who knows? Maybe if he'd stood still he might've hit some of them!

Despite this, the pair took the score up to 119-3 when Higgs was finally removed, but sometimes one wicket brings two, but it this time it also brought the wicket of Dan Walker, Parish and the unfortunate Cozy Powell, run out without facing a ball! Crispy then fell for an entertaining 57, but with such a huge tail the target was just too far away.
Another very disappointing week