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Northumberland Tour 2010
Tristan is finalizing the arrangements for our domestic tour of the year, to beautiful Northumberland. We will be playing two games – against our old friends Eglingham on Saturday 17th July, and a new team at a club ground in Newcastle on Sunday 18th July.
The plan is to get the 13.30 from King’s Cross on Friday afternoon, and come back either Sunday night or, if you prefer, Monday.
Tristan is booking train tickets in the next couple of days while they’re still cheap. If you are interested, please email him at tristan@haddow-allen.orangehome.co.uk.
Directions to Sanford, 23rd May
The match is a 2pm start, so please be at the ground for 1.30pm. The address of the venue is the Urnfield, Downside Road, Guildford ,GU4 8PH.
Road directions are:
From the A3 take the main Guildford exit, signposted Spectrum leisure centre
1] From slip road turn left onto Woking Rd {A320}
2]Take a immediate left at the traffic lights onto Parkway{A25}
3]Go past Spectrum leisure centre on your left , at Roundabout take 2nd exit onto Boxgrove Road {A25}
4]At the t-junction at the top of the road at the traffic lights turn right onto Epsom Rd.
5]Take the 3rd left into Tangier Road
6]At the top of the road at the t-junction turn left onto Warren Road
7]As the road bears sharply to the right , carry straight on into Downside Road; the ground is right at the end of the road.
Allstars v Gentleman’s Relish, 15th May 2010
A decent effort from a side slightly short of big names or established performers. We were asked to bat first, and unsurprisingly Sam MacDonald provided the backbone of our innings. The slowish pitch and variable bowling proved ideally suited to his scything, muscular style. His 63 was more than half the runs we scored off the bat.
Tristan also made 31 in a vital partnership with Sam, but when he was caught in the deep, and Sam retired unwell, our innings rather petered out, with the exception of Chris Harrison’s sprightly 15. Chris can clearly hold a bat and is a good middle-order prospect for us.
158 was respectable but probably too few unless we could keep taking wickets. Tristan, and an excellent Haroon Khalid, made early inroads to reduce Gent’s Relish to 25-3, but then their two best batsmen came in, and dropped anchor, and our bowling slackened in intensity.
This was also our first experiment in hiring a village ground for a home match. The venue was the Great Haseley Cricket Club in Oxfordshire, which was very homely and good value, and worth the drive up the M40.
Please add your comments on the match below, after the scorecard.
St Anne’s Allstars CC v Gentleman’s Relish
Saturday 15th May 2010
Great Haseley CC, Oxfordshire
Weather: Cool, mainly overcast
Format: 35 overs a side, 10 players a side, max 8 overs a bowler, lowest scoring batsman may bat again
Allstars
J Ryan b Grant 3
H Khalid b Taylor 0
S MacDonald c b Murray 63
†CR Gould b Taylor 0
TAR Haddow-Allen c b Hughes 31
C Harrison b Murray 15
FOJ Haddow-Allen b Noakes 8
RJ Stephenson c wkt b Noakes 0
V Seth c b Murray 0
*MJC Haddow-Allen b Territt 1
H Khalid not out 4
Extras (14w, 8nb, 11b) 33
Total (28 overs) 158
Grant 6 1 15 1
Taylor 5 0 18 2
Lightly 3 0 29 0
Hughes 5 0 27 1
Noakes 5 0 27 2
Murray 3 0 16 3
Territt 1 0 1 1
Gentleman’s Relish
Bartlett b Khalid 4
Hadnen b T H-Allen 2
Taylor not out 59
Evans b T H-Allen 4
Hughes not out 61
Extras (16w, 2nb, 10b, 4lb) 32
Total (27.1 overs) 162-3
Fall: 1-10, 2-18, 3-25
DNB: Territt, Lightly, Murray, Noakes, Grant
Khalid 6 0 18 1
T Haddow-Allen 8 0 25 2
Seth 4 0 27 0
Ryan 5.1 0 33 0
Harrison 4 0 40 0
Result: Gentleman’s Relish win by 7 wickets
Should the Allstars play more Twenty20 games?
It seems that teams composed mainly of Englishmen, with a smattering of overseas players, are rather good at the Twenty20 form of the game. Since the Allstars fit that description nicely, should we be playing more such games?
St Anne's Allstars 