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Results 2003/2004

***2004***

Match reports for the games which have not been hit by cancellation this year will appear here soonest.

***2003***

WEEK 17

BOUNDERS V LDCC

Match cancelled as Bounders could not get a side out.

WEEK 16

LDCC V IBSTONE

LDCC 195-3 (40 overs)
IBSTONE 145 All Out (39.5 overs)

A good performance, with Hugo the star, on a classic Fonthill scorcher.

Hugo grafted and then belted 96 classy runs against a well organised Ibstone attack (Ibstone, a touring side from buckinghamshire, bowled and fielded like a league side, which was not a surprise given that half of them play league cricket together). Farrelly was grace personified as he stroked 53 beautiful runs which, aesthetically, were worth at least double that.

In the field, LDCC had probably it's quickest attack in the past 15 years with trousers (8-1- 25- 1) back from his charity work (don't ask him, he won't talk about it) and Alex Budge (5-3-12- 0), playing for the first time in a few years, who has added height and pace and hair since we last saw him. However it was Hugo again who did the damage, bowling his best spell of the season for LDCC ending with the lovely figures 7-2-13-4. Chaz was on the spot in another lengthy spell (10-0-13-0). And Nick Jennings (6- 1-35-1) and Alastair Macrae (4-0-21-3) finished Ibstone off as they tried to make 10 an over in the last 10 overs.

Definitely one of the better friendly performances this season.

WEEK 15

LDCC V DIRECT WINES

Match cancelled as LDCC could not get a side out.

WEEK 14

LDCC V SOUWESTERS

LDCC 50- 1 (35 overs)
SOUWESTERS dnb

Match abandoned in biblical rain.

WEEK 13

CHILMARK V LDCC

LDCC 223-5 (35 overs)
CHILMARK 184 All Out (34.5 overs)

Feather Flies

There was a time, around about the World Cup on home territory in 1999, when the England selectors attempted, without notable success, to pack the one day side with all rounders: Hollioake A., Hollioake B., Ealham, Fleming, White, Irani etc etc. On Sunday, LDCC showed them how to succeed with this policy.

But more of this new policy anon, for pride of place this week must go to LDCC's overseas amateur, Mark 'Butch' Feather.

On a largely warm day, and on a pitch which LDCC had never played on before, but which showed all the signs of keeping a little low, our hosts won the toss, specified a 35 over game, and inserted us.

In a maverick move, Keith decided to nominate Chaz/Baz as Rolli's opening partner, and Chaz seized his chance with both hands. Having seen Rolli caught early doors off a full toss (probably the most productive type of delivery of the day) for a quickfire 25, he anchored the innings, consistently scoring at nearly a run an over for the first 19 overs, before accelerating to a hard- earned 37. Meanwhile, at the other end, the White Feather had started stickily. Not finding the bounce and pace in the wicket of his native New Zealand, and perhaps suffering from the after effects of the Amesbury kebab on which he had lunched, it took him 13 balls to get off the mark, but once he had done so, it seemed that he only scored in boundaries. Despite manifest distractions (the short boundaries meant that every word spoken in the crowd could be heard in the middle; and, of particular concern to Mark with his Adelaide roots, there were a large number of children present at the ground, cavorting around), Feather both maintained intense concentration and showed extraordinary levels of physical strength for such a thin man to bat for 30 overs and amass a career best 90* with 14 fours and 3 huge sixes: he was only prevented from reaching a ton by his selflessness towards the end of the innings when he left the strike to others.

Although A Macrae, S. Whaley and G. Fletcher perished in the pursuit of quick runs, Jon Sealy, back from yet another holiday, enjoyed a fruitful sojourn at the wicket in typically bullying mood to also finish wisth an asterisk and take the side's total to 223-5.

After a delightful tea (the monogrammed tea-ladies' aprons are surely something to be looked at by LDCC's Committee during the close- season as an exemplar of best practice), Chilmark's pursuit of 224 to win began against an opening pair of Nick 'Golden-Arm' Jennings (one of only 2 specialist bowlers in the side) and Jon Sealy, who can hardly have had time to get his batting pads off before having the new ball thrust into his hands. Chilmark's centurion from last year, C. Shephard, again struck the ball cleanly, but disaster struck when he plopped a full toss from Jennings straight down Rolli's throat at deep square. With Nick realising that this was a productive delivery, he produced 2 more in short order, each of which produced a wicket, to finish with 3-35 in his 7 overs, and the game was effectively over.

Of the remaining bowlers, Jon's 7 overs resulted in 1- 17, Chas followed his innings with 3- 14, Alistair Macrae trapped a bemused batsman bang in front, Simon Whaley was unfortunate to find a short leg side boundary and a batsman able to play full tosses, and Kevin bowled poorly but took 1-27. Of the Chilmark batsmen, their opener-skipper made 72 in 34.1 overs, but they were never really up with the pace as LDCC ran out comfortable winners.

So, 3 successive friendly victories for LDCC, and it is onwards and upwards to the much sterner test of the Sou'Westers in an all day game at Fonthill next Saturday. Will Chaz keep his opening berth? Will Jon be on holiday? Will Ali S-G bat? Only time will tell.

WEEK 12

LDCC V KUMQUATS

LDCC 218-8 in 38 overs
Kumquats 135 all out in 34 overs

Roasting hot day. Good toss to win. LDCC made 218 comfortably against some wayward but enthusiastic bowling, with runs spread about between ali 46, elton 43, hugo 42 and kevin 39.

Kumquats were shackled from the outset by good opening spells from trousers (7- 1-21- 1) and especially parny who went for 1 an over (6-1-6-0). They lost wickets steadily with hugo, kevin and henry all taking 2 wickets. In the end it was a comfy win. But needed given our horror run of losses.

LDCC V WILTSHIRE QUERIES

LDCC 210-5 in 40 overs
Wiltshire Queries 97 all out in 38 overs

Another scorcher. LDCC recovered magnificently from the lows of 42-4 with hugo 92 and trousers 71* putting on 168 for the 5th wicket. Trousers heads off for 2 weeks on top of both batting and bowling averages - he's doing charity work, but doesn't want to talk about it.

The Queries put on 70 for the first wicket before hugo struck. From there it was all about nick jennings marathon spell (10-3-15- 4) including 4 in 5 balls, which demonstrated the virtues of bowling consistently straight. The other feature of note was Chaz's renaissance - figures of 2-20 in 10 and the beginnings of a moustache show that Chaz has seen off his nemesis Sebastian.

WEEK 11

LDCC V ARMADILLOS

Armdaillos 196-5 in 40 overs
LDCC 165 all out in 35 overs

The Silence of the Lambs

Armadillos won for the second year in a row, despite being underdogs going in. LDCC has only won one friendly since the first weekend of the season.

Skippered by Hugo, Armadillos negotiated the toss, and batted first. Roared on by the partisan crowd of locals (sheep), LDCC made an aggressive start lead by a pumped up Pete Slade who (11-2-45-2) was moving it around knowingly. Gradually, however, the Armadillos drew the sting of the fiery veteran and the other bowlers and eventually put on 100 for the first wicket before Simon Whaley (3- 0-16-1) struck to break the stand and Ali was run out by Elton for 63. By now the sheep were subdued. The Armadillos innings ended with a bang with Hugo (30*) taking 20 off Pete Slade's last over including two substantial sixes out of the ground. On a positive note it was good to see trousers back after injury, with a tidy performance (8-1-30- 0) bowling with control and a little within himself.

LDCC struggled at first, but then a very good partnership between the Slade (31) and Elton (53) put LDCC in pole position. Slade's two violent sixes off Kevin was a brutal violation of their relationship. Farrelly was hit out of the attack, a broken man (4-0-31-0). But then Hugo (7- 3-13-3) and Henry Freeman (10-1-31-3) broke the middle order, and Elton ran out of strike and partners before he was finally run out.

So for LDCC the lambs still scream, until next year.

WEEK 10
SHREWTON V LDCC

NATIONAL VILLAGE KNOCKOUT DORSET/WILTSHIRE FINAL
SHREWTON 245-5 40 OVERS
LDCC 195-8 40 OVERS

Sadly, we lost the cup final at Shrewton on Sunday. However there was nothing to be ashamed of in our performance on the day and across the two days of cricket played. Shrewton, a young side, outbatted outbowled and outfielded us on Sunday (by clear but not great margin) - although we will never know what might have happened in very different conditions the previous week at Fonthill when the game was on a knife-edge.

Having won the toss on a hot and sunny afternoon, Shrewton showed the value of wickets in hand as they accelerated from 77-1 off 20 overs to 245-4 off the 40 overs, as everyone that bowled in the second half took heavy punishment defending short boundaries against powerful hitters. This was probably 30- 40 over par, but gettable. We were doing ok until ali was out for 31, quickly followed by hugo for 6 who was unlucky to get the first ball of the match that had misbehaved on an otherwise excellent wicket. From here, against obviously ultra defensive fields and an escalating run-rate, we were always going to struggle - especially after we had lost our bigger hitters already. However we made it up to 195-8, petering out a little towards the end, with Tim making 52, Jon 43*, and Rolli 28.

Thanks again to all that helped with the cup this year: Sally Martin, Simon Whaley, and Dick Penson.

A disappointing end to a good cup run - we now have the rest of the season to look forward to, knowing that the cup run was a relatively successful team effort. We have several excellent friendlies coming up, which should answer a number of burning questions: has kevin become LDCC's 5th choice spinner? how many times will chaz bowl round the wicket and how much worse will the statistics for this be than when he bowls over the wicket? dd tim and jon eat all the pies and did they buy them from somerfield? when will keith go brown this season? who stole jon's milkcow?

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