THE PRESIDENT'S XI
CRICKET CLUB

v. BRAEMAR
4 AUGUST 1990

LOST BY THREE RUNS
A HOME GAME AT HAYDONS ROAD

A curious match - made the more so by the scorers becoming so excited at the finish as to stop scoring. As best as it can be reconstructed, the Presidents were stretched thin - a muddle over fixtures requiring them to play an unprecedented two games in a weekend. They proved to be two of our closest matches ever.

Braemar bat - and wickets fall regularly. But Mark Jeremy scores steadily and most of the batsmen make a contribution. From 112-5 Braemar keep pushing on and despite every one of our six bowlers taking a wicket, a total of 183 of just under thirty overs looks pretty formidable.

We reply - and are soon deep in trouble. Grant Rudrum takes 3-2 in his first three overs - we are 14-3 and with some our our best hopes gone. Laurence Worms gets himself run out (again) - and it's 39-4. Newcomer Nigel Rawding and Ian Bullock claw us back and put on seventy for the next wicket - Nigel reaches his fifty with a six - and then elects to retire. Sporting enough - but we still need seventy-five.

Ian Bullock is stumped. Guy Martin - a brisk nine - but we are now in effect 123-7 in the twenty-fourth over - still needing sixty-one. Jim White joins Grant - and the match swings around. A stand of fifty for the next wicket (in just five overs) takes us beyond 170 - almost home. Jim run out - but a four and two singles to Simon Morecroft and we are on 180 - four needed. He falls to Alex Kairua.

And there the scoring stops. Osborne presumably bowled Barker for a duck - all over - all out - three runs short. Or did Nigel Rawding re-appear? - the "retired" is crossed through in the scorebook. However it happened, Steve Barker took a wicket with the first ball of his fourth over and there the match ended. The Presidents beaten by a mere three. And the next day was just as close.

BRAEMAR

CASE

...

b. DAVID DOYLE

20

BARKER

...

b. PHIL CROSSLEY

4

JEREMY

ct. JIM WHITE

b. GUY MARTIN

46

CAMPBELL

...

b. IAN BULLOCK

0

KITCHING

...

b. NIGEL RAWDING

17

PEARLE

ct. JIM WHITE.

b. IAN BULLOCK

19

RUDRUM

...

b. LAURENCE WORMS

13

KAIRUA

...

b. PHIL CROSSLEY

27

SOANES

...

run out

4

MILLER

...

not out

0

MORECROFT

...

b. DAVID DOYLE

4

EXTRAS

...

...

29

TOTAL 183 ALL OUT (29.5 OVERS)

PHIL CROSSLEY

6

2

28

2

LAURENCE WORMS

6

0

20

1

IAN BULLOCK

6

0

42

2

DAVID DOYLE

5.5

0

20

2

GUY MARTIN

4

0

23

1

NIGEL RAWDING

2

0

25

1

PRESIDENT'S XI

PHIL CROSSLEY

...

b. RUDRUM

0

STEVE GAYMER

...

b. RUDRUM

2

DAVID DOYLE

ct.

b. RUDRUM

5

NIGEL RAWDING

...

retired

53

LAURENCE WORMS

...

run out

7

IAN BULLOCK

st.

b. BARKER

13

GUY MARTIN

ct.

b. KAIRUA

9

GRANT

...

not out

20

JIM WHITE

...

run out

31

SIMON MORECROFT

...

b. KAIRUA

6

OSBORNE

...

...

-

EXTRAS

...

...

17

TOTAL 180 ALL OUT (30.1 OVERS)

RUDRUM

6

1

31

3

KITCHING

6

1

29

0

MILLER

6

2

20

0

SOANES

3

0

37

0

KAIRUA

6

0

26

2

BARKER

3.1

0

16

2

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