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Doctors beat Crowcombe All Stars by 6 wickets Tour de la France Due to an
oversight by your fixtures secretary, our planned visit to France narrowly
followed the French election and the rise of M. Macron to the position of
head of the Onze de Silfiac. Hence we were unable to go ahead with the
tour. In the event, our esteemed host Keith Powell who had been called
away on ecclesiastical business was quietly relieved that his home would not
be invaded in his absence. vs Crowcombe All Stars (latterly Set Square On the back of
the cancelled tour there was a glut of applicants for selection, and Phil
Barker had the unenviable task of whittling down the 17 possibles. It was a
beautiful evening, Graham won the toss and elected to field. Sedge
opened up with a testing over, clean bowling T. Ash with his second ball. At
the other end Hugh Ogle found accurate line and length just outside
off-stump, and ended his tidy spell of 3 overs with 0-8; Sedge took 1-11 off
a similar number, and for a while the opposition failed to move into
top-gear. G Metcalf retired on a grafted 27, and George Watson at 6
contributed a lusty 25. Andrew Guppy (0-18), Will Bere (0-24) and Will
Ogle (0-21) received some treatment, but Sam Powell (1-3), Matt Bere (2-13)
reigned them in, and Graham Fergusson (1-0), having narrowly failed with a
reflex backwards stumping attempt, immediately took the final wicket to fall. In reply, Keith
Powell scored a rapid 25 after his opening partner, Rob Adcock, unluckily
lost out to a catch when on 2. Matt Bere demonstrated his elegant
stroke-play once again before being unluckily caught on 23. Graham Ferguson
uncharacteristically fell to a top edge without scoring, leaving it to Hugh
Ogle and Chris Cullum who carried their bats for 25 and 16 respectively, to
take us home with 4 overs remaining. The season’s first victory was notched up to much rejoicing! |