Scorecard

Tewin 2XI v St Albans Cricket Club 4XI on Sat 27 Jul 2024 at 13:00
St Albans Cricket Club Won by 1 run

Match report Sports have their ups and downs, it’s the reason we play them, just one week can separate you from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs. This is the experience of the Olympians in Paris, and the 4s in Tewin, both competing at the highest heights of their respective sports.

The 4s travelled to Tewin with renewed belief in their ability to revive their season and drive towards the top of the league table in the remaining games. With reports from the 2s that the deck was awful there was some question on what to do at the toss, but the days of sun convinced the team that setting a total would be best. Winfield, skipper for the day, proceeded to win the toss and put the 4s into bat.

Nisar and Dean opened as normal and found themselves immediately on the receiving end of an accurate opening bowling spell that restricted scoring from the start. Neither looked settled in the first few overs, with Nisar picking out the fielder on multiple occasions and Dean defending resolutely. Scoring came slowly, but a foundation was needed and the two almost got through the opening bowlers. Dean would be the first to fall, just before drinks, caught trying to push the run rate up. Khan would join Nisar, and would score immediate runs, but it wouldn’t last, the number three caught on only 8. At drinks St Albans had amassed 40 runs, for the loss of two wickets, work to be done to set a defendable total.

Replacing Khan was Deshpande, on the back of three 50s in a row for the 5s, and he immediately looked to be batting on a different surface, scoring freely against the change bowlers. Boundaries came at one end, while Nisar fell at the other, another caught wicket. Nisar had performed stoically to score 25 against the challenging bowlers. Replacing him was Speller, who along with Deshpande looked to accelerate further, the young man playing with flowing technique. The pair would add a quick thirty before falling in quick succession, both caught looking to force the issue. Replacing them were Davey and Hingston, who had the brief of getting as many runs as possible out of the remaining ten overs. And get runs they did, Hingston the enforcer, as they began to dispatch the spinners to all corners of the park. Bicep Ben, as he will now be known, hit the ball so hard he almost pulled a bicep to the clear amusement of the fielders. He would end on 48*, blocking the final ball of the innings to avoid the need to buy a jug (See fineable moments). A brilliant innings, which had given St Albans a chance, 155 the target.

Opening the reply was the ever-dependable Telkman at one end and Husain at the other, both of whom began the defence with a series of wide balls, the slope clearly interfering with the normal lines of the bowlers. It wouldn’t last long though, both bowlers shortly finding their consistency, they restricted scoring well and Telkman would find the first wicket early in the innings. No further wickets would fall in the opening spell, but the scoring was restricted to way below the rate. Davey and Winfield would replace the pair, the former immediately removing the other opening batsman, caught sharply by Khan. Winfield would then find his first wicket of the season, much to the delight of the Clarence Park drinkers later that evening. The pair bowled through their 8 overs, bowling tight line and lengths and continuing to restrict runs, Davey would pick up a second wicket in his last over.
With the game hanging in the balance Dean and Arif were introduced. Dean would pick up the wicket of the destructive number five, who had looked to counter attack against the St Albans pressure, a great wicket. The Tewin six was clearly their best batsman, and was able to hit multiple boundaries and rotate the strike well throughout this period. But at the other end there were wickets falling, Arif picking up one in a strong spell that continued to pressurise the Tewin line up.

Telkman would be reintroduced to finish his overs, with the opposition still in sight of a win, and his overs would define the game. He would pick up a wicket in his seventh over, bowling the number eight with a delightful yorker. The game reached the final two overs with all results possible. Dean, bowling the penultimate was able to restrict the runs with all men back on the boundary and it was left to Telkman to defend 11.

Telkman, cool under pressure, would deliver a match winning over that went as follows.

First Ball: Two runs, a drive to the boundary returned well by the deep fielder, 9 to win.

Second Ball: Two runs, another mistimed drive to the boundary fielder, 7 to win

Third Ball: Wicket! The perfect ball from Telkman, the set batsman out, St Albans believe. 7 to win.

Fourth Ball: One run, a quick single in the ring. 6 to win

Fifth Ball: Two Runs, Wicket! A quick two to the boundary, and a silly runout looking for the third, 2 to win. 4 to win

Sixth Ball: Wide! Telkman fires it wide down the offside, a wry smile sent to the umpire. 3 to win.

Sixth Ball: 1 Run! He’s done it, a brilliant final over and the batter can only grab 1 run. The 4s win it by 1.

A brilliant finish to a brilliant game, credit to Telkman who looked cool under the pressure. A real all round performance from the 4s who deliver the win they so desperately wanted. Credit must go across the team, but to Hingston for his brutal onslaught of boundaries to get St Albans to a defendable total, and all the bowlers for their tight spells. A real team effort! Sport is great again!!

(Match report by Sam Davey)

St Albans Cricket Club 4XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
 
for 5 wickets
0
154		        
Nauman Nisar ct Conlon 25 2
Ashish Dean ct Bathia 8
Najib Khan Caught  8 1
Prathamesh Deshpande ct Cullen 28 3
Jamie Speller ct Sheppard 10 1
Sam Davey Not Out  22 2
Ben Hingston Not Out  48 5 3 1
Md Altaf Husain  
Tim Winfield  
Jamie Telkman  
Nadeem Arif  

Tewin 2XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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Tewin 2XI Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
3nb 16w 4b 3lb 
for 9 wickets
26
153 (40.0 overs)		     
Aidan Fortune ct Unsure b S Davey 20 48 2 41.67
Matt Ball ct B Hingston b J Telkman 2 12 16.67
Lewis Cullen b S Davey 18 58 1 31.03
James Conlon lbw T Winfield 5 23 21.74
Alfie Hubble b A Dean 30 32 2 1 93.75
Ben Sheppard b J Telkman 39 41 5 95.12
Marcus Hill b N Arif 1 6 16.67
Jon Ferdenzi b J Telkman 5 15 33.33
Eva Cullen Not Out  6 8 75.00
Chris Sage run out  (Unsure) 1 1 100
Mitulkumar Bathia Not Out  0

St Albans Cricket Club 4XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Jamie Telkman8.0133311.004.13
Md Altaf Husain6.011300.002.17
Sam Davey8.0129214.503.63
Tim Winfield8.0120120.002.50
Ashish Dean6.0129129.004.83
Nadeem Arif4.0022122.005.50