MATCH REPORT - 7 AUGUST 1999

THE PRESIDENT'S XI CRICKET CLUB
v. SALIX 7 AUGUST 1999
WON BY EIGHT RUNS
A wet morning - but hot and steamy as we started play. Salix had turned up a couple short, so Brian Lake was seconded to them. The Presidents put in to bat - and struggle to get under way. Mike Edwards perishes cheaply and after ten overs it's just 26-1. A double bowling change at that point brings mixed results - Henig concedes twenty-one from two overs, but Brown nips out a couple of wickets. Carey Ollerenshaw comes in to join Clive Lewis - and the shackles are briefly broken. At twenty overs it's eighty for three. Clive battles on to make a valiant fifty (eight fours) - but it's not until the twenty-fifth over that the 100 comes up. At thirty overs it's still only 114 - and by now eight wickets are down. We are rescued by a splenid stand of thirty-seven for the ninth wicket by Ravi Muthiah and Will Thorogood. A mistake in the count gives us an extra over - but we close on 149-9. Salix to reply - but an economical start from the President's bowlers. Will Lake bowls straight through his seven overs - takes out Amselem - and at one point bowls fourteen dot-balls in a row. Laurence Worms concedes just eight runs from his first four overs - and Carey Ollerenshaw replaces him to do better still - seven overs for just thirteen runs - and neither of them concede a boundary all afternoon. Ravi Muthiah joins in and bags Shaw for a duck. At twenty overs it's 59-4 - ninety-one still needed at nigh on six an over. But Brown is still there and starting to add boundaries to his repertoire. And Newton joins him. A stand of sixty-nine for the fifth wicket - the Presidents fail to take a wicket for nearly an hour. Twenty-five needed off twenty-four balls - and the two batsmen well set. But Ravi Muthiah comes back to clean bowl Newton - and then Laurence Worms returns to do the same to Brown. Nineteen now needed off twelve balls - and the bowlers hold their nerve. Salix finish eight short. A cracking game - alive to the very last over - bowled at almost eight o'clock in the evening.
PRESIDENT'S XI
CLIVE LEWIS	l.b.w.	b. FLETCHER	51
MIKE EDWARDS	...	b. NEWTON	3
ED LAKE	ct. sub (DAVE SAWTELL)	b. BROWN	12
LAURENCE WORMS	ct.	b. BROWN	5
CAREY OLLERENSHAW	ct. &	b. FLETCHER	21
WILL LAKE	ct.	b. FLETCHER	7
STEVE QUIRKE	ct.	b. SWINDELLS	1
DAVE SAWTELL	ct.	b. JACOBS	0
RAVI MUTHIAH	ct.	b. SWINDELLS	24
WILL THOROGOOD	...	not out	10
GUY MARTIN	...	not out	1
EXTRAS	...	...	14
TOTAL 149-9 (36 OVERS)
JACOBS				7	1	16	1
NEWTON				7	1	30	1
HENIG				2	0	21	0
BROWN				7	2	16	2
FLETCHER				7	1	43	3
SWINDELLS				6	1	20	2
SALIX
BROWN	...	b. LAURENCE WORMS	62
AMSELEM	ct. STEVE QUIRKE	b. WILL LAKE	9
SWINDELLS	ct. CLIVE LEWIS	b. CAREY OLLERENSHAW	12
SMITH	ct. CLIVE LEWIS	b. CAREY OLLERENSHAW	0
SHAW	ct. STEVE QUIRKE	b. RAVI MUTHIAH	0
NEWTON	...	b. RAVI MUTHIAH	27
BRIAN LAKE	...	not out	1
FLETCHER	...	run out	4
HENIG	ct. ED LAKE	b. LAURENCE WORMS	6
JACOBS	...	not out	0
EXTRAS	...	...	17
TOTAL 140-8 (36 OVERS)
WILL LAKE				7	2	22	1
LAURENCE WORMS				7	0	21	2
CAREY OLLERENSHAW				7	1	13	2
RAVI MUTHIAH				7	0	36	2
DAVE SAWTELL				4	0	20	0
MIKE EDWARDS				4	0	25	0
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