Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club

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Maldon v Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club Sunday XI on Sun 26 Jul 2009 at 2.00pm
Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club Won by 7 wickets

Match report Copdock Earn Their Salt!

Copdock managed to get all the children to Maldon this week and win a game of cricket. As usual the side was hours and hours early, but the captain having experienced previous games at Maldon, where there's only been one member of the side to toss up, due to the lateness of the rest of the team (PIDGE!). We took our new pitch expert out to the middle to have a look at the pitch before the game and he was on the verge of tears. That square needed as much water as Africa! The maldon captain won the toss, not expecting the pitch to get any better and decided to have a bat on the Sahara.

Copdock opened up with the two strongest backs in the league, the captain was secretly quite happy to have got 9 overs from the two of them! Gravell's only costing 9 runs as he bowled at a ginger nonner who looked like he had no idea as to what cricket was. The cat entered the battlefield early, as he got rid of said ginger with the ideal left arm spinners delivery, remember how cat! Gauke provided the ideal foil and how he didn't turn one ball on that pitch is still beggars belief. However apart from one nightmare over the Onion bowled well. The pitch expert came on, saw it was playing like a fusarium covered nightmare and wheeled away. Shorten kept it tight and watched as the batsmen committed Seppuku (or to the non japanese speakers, Hari Kari; thankyou wikipedia!) Maldon seemed contempt at the way things were going, not scoring runs and losing wickets quicker than the captain could lose his temper. Andy "scoop" Westaway came on to finish off the Maldon batting quicker than a granite worktop. An interesting point on Westaway, who looks hard as nails, had lots of plasters on his fingers. We all expected it to be glass, barbed wire or something cool, but it was Harry Horatio Swallowdale, or Chris Swallows new puppy that was the destroyer!

Copdock went into a strange tea, a cheese board was a new, if pongy, addition and the pickled eggs proved much confusion to Archie, who took a bite out of one and said it tasted of vinegar, well i never! To everyone including copdock's scorer's surprise, the captain strapped his pads on to open up with Gravell for possibly the very first time.

This dream team partnership, didn't last very long as archie prodded one to the fat ginger nonner in the gully. In came Mark Burch, who had a Helmet that used to belong to James East, a Bat that used to belong to Chris Swallow, if anyone in the 1st team finds they've lost any kit I'd suggest contacting Mark Burch sooner rather than later!! After looking a shade scratchy, whilst getting used to the; well, dreadfull pitch he started whacking it! Burch is one of the best counters to 6 I've ever played with, it was an exhibition in the art of rotating the strike back to himself!! Thomas' 24 set the tone for the innings, for once not batting like a dick. The captain may just keep his place next week, but has just got a text from Tom Davey saying he wants his place back! Thomas was out hitting crap long hop from a crap bowler straight to square leg. He came off and threw every single toy out the pram, having a go at everyone! Burch batted well for the third time in a row and now has a higher average than Scott Harvey!!!!!!! Potentially, this team could have a tremendous batting side all under 20! The Future's bright! Burch hit one pull shot which went miles, had it had been hit to the short boundary he may have hit the first six of his career. Hugo Gravell came in a pushed the ball around for 26 good runs.

This was a thoroughly good weekend for the club, all 4 senior teams won and I'd like to send my congratulations to all senior members that played (especially AD Nel!). We played good cricket in the conditions given, maybe we'll make a charge for the title, but someone will have a barbeque, somewhere!
6-5
Reuters
27/7/09

Maldon Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
3nb 11w 9b 2lb 
for 10 wickets
25
148 (44.2 overs)		     
M Pedgewell b  Catlow 8
I Elliott ct  & b Shorten 44
C Harris ct  Thomas b Gauke 7
M Coker ct  H Gravell b Shorten 8
M Hawkes b  Catlow 22
T Poole ct  H Gravell Shorten 3
D Rayner ct  A Gravell b Shorten 25
L Cook ct  Thomas b Catlow 1
D Richardson b  Westaway 1
T Bache Not Out  4
C Pateman Run out  1

Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club Sunday XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Sasha Ward4.002200.005.50
Archie Gravell5.01900.001.80
Lewis Catlow10.022237.332.20
Steve Gauke10.0224124.002.40
David Shorten10.032345.752.30
Tom Harwood3.002000.006.67
Andy Westaway2.2016116.006.86

Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club Sunday XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
extras
TOTAL :
3w 5lb 
for 3 wickets
8
149		        
Archie Gravell ct  Redgwell b Pateman 11 1
Hugh Thomas ct  Poole b RIchardson 24 2
Mark Burch Not Out  80
James Hodgkinson ct  & b Elliott 0
Hugo Gravell Not Out  26 2
Sasha Ward  
Andy Westaway  
David Shorten   1
Tom Harwood  
Lewis Catlow  
Steve Gauke  

Maldon Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
C Pateman6.0018118.003.00
T Bache6.002000.003.33
I Elliott9.0031131.003.44
M Coker4.001500.003.75
D Richardson6.0026126.004.33
C Harris3.001500.005.00
D Rayner3.001900.006.33

  • Umpire :
  • Scorer :
    Katey