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Holly's
Dorchester Tour Diary
27-30th May 2011
Set off from Kent with Vincenzo about 1pm friday, the same
time as Dave Bendy and Chilly Fraser McJocko, yet managed to
beat them to Dorchester by nearly two hours. Not that
surprising if Dave took his usual, via Brighton, route.
Chilly should've known as Dave's never liked to take the
direct route, much prefering to bend it to the left. Vin and
I had an uneventful journey apart from seeing a coach load
of "Where's Wally's" somewhere down the M3.
As
the evening turned to night the other lads started to arrive
and with that the beers started to flow. After that things
are a bit blurry apart from the deafening roar of the fire
alarm at 2am. Some rumoured that it was deliberately set off
by the following days opposition trying to disturb our
sleeping patterns; others that it was our desperate
neighbours trying to end our sing-a-long-a-Big Gay Al's
Ukelele party night.
Had a lovely full-English breakfast saturday morning and
headed off for our first game at Hazelbury Bryan. Three
wickets from The Raphist and Monster set us up for a
relatively easy win sealed by good batting from Peanut and
Jack The Ripper. Some handsome bearded guy took a lovely
catch as well. But my champagne moment was Tommy Wholemeal,
after a couple of shocking miss-fields and a drop catch,
telling us all to "just get this game over with".
Our hosts scored 154 all out off 29.5 overs:-
|
BOWLER |
OVERS |
MAID. |
RUNS |
WKTS |
| T.Holman |
6 |
0 |
21 |
1 |
|
R.Torrens |
6 |
1 |
10 |
3 |
| T.Ervine |
6 |
1 |
19 |
3 |
|
P.Sanders |
6 |
0 |
44 |
0 |
| J.Rogers |
3 |
0 |
32 |
1 |
| J.Holder |
2.5 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
We rattled them
off in 33.4 overs to win by 3 wickets:-
|
BATSMAN |
HOW OUT |
SCORE |
| 1 |
D.Bentley |
RUN OUT |
3 |
| 2 |
A.Manderson |
caught |
1 |
| 3 |
D.Holden |
bowled |
25 |
| 4 |
N.Warren |
bowled |
15 |
| 5 |
M.Rutter |
bowled |
34 |
| 6 |
J.Holder |
bowled |
1 |
| 7 |
J.Rogers |
caught |
41 |
| 8 |
T.Holman |
RUN OUT |
1 |
| 9 |
R.Torrens |
NOT OUT |
4* |
| 10 |
P.Sanders |
NOT OUT |
0* |
| 11 |
T.Ervine |
dnb |
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After an
Antelope burger or two in Hazelbury Bryan we headed back to
The Junction in Dorchester for Disco Night.
Sunday's game
was at nearby Martinstown. Martinstown Cricket Club is a
beautiful ground set at the foot of a valley with rolling hills
all around. Their boundaries are massive though, so although there
wasn't a lot of boundaries scored, their high youth content in their
team, (and our shocking fielding) meant they were able to
capitalise on many quickly run singles.
They scored 263
for 7 of their 40 overs. But despite a great opening spell
from Wholemeal, Chilly was our top bowler completing his
5for with the last ball of the game; much to Big Gay Al's relief who'd
missed a stumping off the previous ball.
|
BOWLER |
OVERS |
MAID. |
RUNS |
WKTS |
| T.Holman |
8 |
0 |
26 |
0 |
|
R.Torrens |
6 |
0 |
40 |
1 |
| T.Ervine |
8 |
0 |
61 |
0 |
| N.Warren |
5 |
0 |
24 |
0 |
| J.Rogers |
3 |
0 |
31 |
0 |
|
F.McGregor |
6 |
0 |
39 |
5 |
|
P.Sanders |
4 |
0 |
35 |
0 |
Despite 50's
from myself and The Ripper we were always struggling to keep
up with the required run-rate and run out of batsmen trying
to smash the ball over the distant rope. All out for 153 off
33.3 overs.
|
BATSMAN |
HOW OUT |
SCORE |
| 1 |
V.Reynolds |
bowled |
 |
| 2 |
A.Manderson |
bowled |
14 |
| 3 |
D.Holden |
RUN OUT |
57 |
| 4 |
T.Rutter |
bowled |
5 |
| 5 |
N.Warren |
bowled |
6 |
| 6 |
F.McGregor |
bowled |
2 |
| 7 |
J.Rogers |
caught &
bowled |
55 |
| 8 |
T.Holman |
L.B.W. |
2 |
| 9 |
R.Torrens |
bowled |
6 |
| 10 |
P.Sanders |
bowled |
 |
| 11 |
T.Ervine |
NOT OUT |
6* |
We headed to
their local The Brewers Arms' for a barbeque and their
annual 'auction of promises' fund raiser and then back to
The Junction for Karaoke Night.
Monday's game at
Hooke Powerstock was abandoned due to heavy rain, much to
the relief of some of the team suffering from mammoth
hangovers.
DRH
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