Hawkley vs Rogate
Played at Hawkley on 26th April 2009
Hawkley’s season opened with a home game against Rogate. The Hawkley Cricket Ground was a magnificent sight bathed in the refulgent sunlight and the home team was cheered on by a large and vocal crowd lead by regular cheerleader Laura Stein and the WAGs.
Having been put in to bat by the visitors, Hawkley struggled initially as four wickets were lost cheaply. Keith Madeley however showed his usual limpet-like tenacity and with skipper Rich Humphreys joining him in the middle the score mounted rapidly. Both batsmen played a range of attractive strokes and Humphreys in particular hit a number of boundaries and looked well set for a half century until a calling mix-up saw him run out on 49. Thereafter Madeley continued to score freely, supported by Hudson (20) and Mullard (28), finishing unbeaten on 78 as the Hawkley innings closed on 210 for 7. Among the Rogate bowlers Curtis and Leverton stood out, taking 3-29 and 2-29 respectively off their eight overs.
Rogate openers King and Cartwright began in positive fashion against a Hawkley attack lacking regular opening bowler Nick Davies who was missing from his usual pedestal. Some loose initial bowling was punished, however the Hawkley bowlers shook off their early season rust and runs became harder to find as the bowling tightened up. Hallam Brown, one of several young players now maturing into very effective cricketers, finally got the breakthrough Hawkley needed when Cartwright on 18 skied a catch to Brushwood behind the stumps. Thereafter wickets fell regularly: Brown and Huntley claimed four victims apiece, Todd and Batten sharing the remaining two. For the visitors, King top-scored with 33 and Sean Guy (13) was the only other batsmen to reach double figures as Rogate were all out for 91.
This was a an excellent start to Hawkley’s season and the team hope to continue their good form next week against the XIIth Men.
| Hawkley vs | Rogate | Date: | 25-Apr-09 | ||
| Innings of: | Hawkley | ||||
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score | ||
| 1 | H Batten | b | Leverton | 4 | |
| 2 | N Davies | b | Curtis | 5 | |
| 3 | K Madeley | not out | 78 | ||
| 4 | N Todd | b | Curtis | 7 | |
| 5 | B Kneller | b | Leverton | 2 | |
| 6 | R Humphreys | run out | 49 | ||
| 7 | H Brown | c & b | Boyd | 6 | |
| 8 | N Hudson | b | Curtis | 20 | |
| 9 | S Mullard | not out | 28 | ||
| 10 | J Brushwood | ||||
| 11 | C Huntley | ||||
| Extras | 11 | ||||
| TOTAL | 210 | ||||
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | |
| 1 | Leverton | 8 | 1 | 29 | 2 |
| 2 | Curtis | 8 | 1 | 29 | 3 |
| 3 | King | 8 | 0 | 42 | 0 |
| 4 | Guy | 8 | 1 | 50 | 0 |
| 5 | Boyd | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 |
| 6 | Burton-Page | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 7 | Pinfold | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| 40 | 3 | 202 | 6 | ||
| Innings of: | Rogate | ||||
| Batsman | How Out | Bowler | Score | ||
| 1 | A King | ct Brown | Huntley | 33 | |
| 2 | N Cartwright | ct Brushwood | Brown | 18 | |
| 3 | T Curtis | ct Davies | Brown | 0 | |
| 4 | G Pinfield | b | Todd | 9 | |
| 5 | M Williams | b | Brown | 0 | |
| 6 | C McGregor | b | Brown | 0 | |
| 7 | S Guy | b | Huntley | 13 | |
| 8 | R Leverton | ct Madeley |
journo
From the enemy camp...
Match Report - Rogate vs Hawkley
Dealing with the positives first - it was a truly glorious spring day and we were playing on what the hosts claim, with some justification, to be the prettiest cricket ground in Hampshire. The pitch was in great condition and offered a firm and true batting track. The other good news related to my meeting with my report writing counterpart at Hawkley, Nick Hudson. Certainly my job has been much tougher with Nick Davis's move to Hawkley, as his skill with bat and ball, his ever fashionable dress sense (who will ever forget that wonderful enhancement of cricket dress - red football socks pulled up over the trouser legs when batting!) and the fact that it was always interesting to see first-hand the latest and best cricket kit available. If nothing else, he always provided me with plenty of material to work with.
The exciting news for readers of this weekly load of rubbish is that Nick Hudson has kindly agreed to keep me, and therefore you (lucky readers), up to date with Nick's progress and form at Hawkley.
For those of you who have progressed this far and were wondering why I have yet to mention the actual cricket game have probably guessed it wasn't a highlight from the Wayfarers point of view. Winning the toss and sending Hawkley into bat, we got off to a very promising start with fine opening spells by Roger and Tom who collected the first four wickets both quickly and cheaply. Indeed, things were going so well, Den started to pity the opposition and decided to give them a sporting chance by retiring both opening bowlers, and bringing Shaggy and myself into the attack. Hawkley started hitting runs more freely (certainly off my bowling) and in so mounted a strong recovery.
As for man of the match, Hawkley's Keith Madeley's innings of 78 was the undoubted highlight of the game and therefore I award the Hawkley square-leg umpire the man of the match title. His decision to, quite correctly, no-ball a delivery that saw Tom catch Keith from a Shaggy delivery pitched above the waist early in Keith's innings was the most signififcant event in determining the game's outcome. Nobody dispute's the call - we are just full of admiration for the bravery of such a call that meant for the rest of the match said umpire needed to endure various evil eyes as Keith hit yet another boundary. While clearly a disappointment to both Shaggy and Tom, the biggest victim were my bowling figures, as I think most of Keith's subsequent runs were hit off my bowling, including a towering six that cleared not only the fence but half the properties in Hawkley. Our heads began to droop, fielding mistakes were made and Hawkley posted a healthy total of 210 from their allotted 40 overs.
Tea report - very good spread at Hawkley (as usual). Tuna and egg sandwiches, great variety of cakes and biscuits etc and while it didn't quite scale the heights achieved by the strawberry sponge cake produced at Bury, the tea rated very well.
Back to the cricket - Rogate started the run chase reasonably well, with Nigel (the reluctant opener) setting a cracking pace. But running between wickets proved hard with tired legs and bellies full of cake. I'd like to think this was the reason our run chase failed to develop, but it was unforced errors that again proved our undoing. Mike and Craig repaid the selector's faith in picking them by both scoring ducks (albeit the fact that both purchased me a post match pint has done their future selection prospects no harm at all). More ducks from Stuart and Tom, plenty of dropped catches and a really uncalled for incident of swearing meant that the real winner of the day was the Guy family holiday fund as the fine total must have approached a small fortune.
I suppose we can regard the match as an improved performance, but it also highlighted we still need to be smarter and a little less impatient to throw away our wicket.
To quote our chairman coming off the pitch on sunday. "Oh well, there is always next week".
basil
Scoring
Nice match report liked it a lot - shame they felt the need to take pity on us!!
Just a quick thought, noticed the bowling figures for Hawkley arent quite all there was this a administrative error or was it when Alex "numbers" Erskine took over the scoring?
Basil