THE PRESIDENT'S XI
CRICKET CLUB

v. OLD OXONIANS
29 JULY 1989

WON BY ONE WICKET
AN AWAY MATCH IN OLD DEER PARK

One of our more unusual matches - and a match of three outstanding individual performances. The scorebook is lacking in fine detail - but Rob Johnston's seven successive maidens (seven overs, seven maidens, no runs, one wicket) made up as economical a spell as any of us can have witnessed before or since. Laurence Worms was comparatively profligate at the other end - but came back in a second spell to nip out a budding partnership between Glazebrook and Lewin. Knight and Dave Sawtell kept up the pressure - and it was only the lack of a fifth regular bowler that allowed the Oxonians to push on past a hundred.

Job half done - or was it? Glazebrook swept away our top and middle order - our first six batsmen out for just eleven runs between them. When Rob Wright joined Jim White at the wicket it all looked hopeless. But never say die - Rob blasted a miraculous sixty-three - his four partners hanging on for a grim 13 between them - extras the only other score to reach double figures - and with the Oxonians chivalrously allowing Simon Morecroft to bat again as we were one short - it was enough.

Alas poor Glazebrook - top-scored for his side, took 5-18, and still managed to end up on the losing side. But what an innings from Rob Wright - batting at eight - but nigh on three times as many runs from his bat as all his colleagues put together. A Presidential legend.

OLD OXONIANS

GRAY

...

b. LAURENCE WORMS

4

JACOB

...

b. ROB JOHNSTON

7

LINTON

ct. ROB JOHNSTON

b. DAVE SAWTELL

15

GRASS

...

b. KNIGHT

6

FARROW

ct. ROB WRIGHT

b. DAVE SAWTELL

8

GLAZEBROOK

ct. ROB WRIGHT

b. LAURENCE WORMS

25

LEWIN

ct. ROB JOHNSTON

b. LAURENCE WORMS

21

AKBAR

ct. &

b. STAFFORD-MICHAEL

8

MYERSON

...

run out

3

WINTER

ct. SIMON MORECROFT

b. STAFFORD-MICHAEL

4

FENTON

not out

...

2

EXTRAS

...

...

15

TOTAL 118 ALL OUT (33.2 OVERS)

ROB JOHNSTON

7

7

0

1

LAURENCE WORMS

7

2

19

3

DAVE SAWTELL

7

0

29

2

KNIGHT

7

0

22

1

SCANLON

4

0

33

0

STAFFORD-MICHAEL

1.2

0

9

2

PRESIDENT'S XI

LAURENCE WORMS

...

b. GLAZEBROOK

1

STAFFORD-MICHAEL

...

b. GLAZEBROOK

3

ROB JOHNSTON

l.b.w.

b. AKBAR

3

STEVE GAYMER

ct.

b. GLAZEBROOK

4

SIMON MORECROFT

...

b. GLAZEBROOK

0

DAVE SAWTELL

ct.

b. AKBAR

0

JIM WHITE

...

run out

7

ROB WRIGHT

not out

...

63

SCANLON

...

b. GLAZEBROOK

1

KNIGHT

ct.

b. FARROW

5

SIMON MORECROFT (2)

not out

...

0

EXTRAS

...

...

33

TOTAL 120-9 (28.5 OVERS)

AKBAR

4.5

1

12

2

GLAZEBROOK

7

0

18

5

LEWIN

4

1

15

0

WINTER

5

0

26

0

JACOB

3

0

12

0

FARROW

5

0

13

1

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