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Match Report for 'Great Houghton Cricket Club-First XI' vs 'Loddington-First XI' (a), (2010-07-03 13:00:00), (League Game)
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Watchful Bruno secures draw
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A sweaty journey saw many of GHCC's players take the field already wilted, as Loddington had won the toss and elected to bat on an interesting track to say the least. Uncle Greg began from the far end. Ginger village idiot and lanky village idiot swished Greg through the offside playing some shots that were arguably better than your average village idiot. Henners toiled and toiled and eventually tempted lanky village idiot, caught at cover by village intellect Huggy Bear. Muffin didn't have any such luck and was replaced by Funtime Frankie. Loddites Captain de Kock came to the crease and squirted boundires past a dejected Greg who had too much sun cream on his bruised hands. However de Kock slumped soon after to a full delivery about half way through Henry's marathon spell of 15 overs. Ginger village idiot continued to pummel boundires as often as he could, whilst at the other end Dave had dismissed the lastest village idiot for less than one. Robbie showed again what a good runner he is, attacking the ball swiftly to force a run out leaving Loddingtons No. 5 cursing his inability to say no. Talbot and Accrington Stanley swiped themselves into the 30's before Talbot was trapped by village intellect JSH. The ever thinning Ginger idiot stuttered his way to an admittedly deserved maiden century. The good news was on returning from what i would describe as Scotland via some STI ridden island Ben had not jibbed a catch. Instead he decided to drop a dolly off an angry huggy bear. Loddington scrambled to 255 - 7.
The tea was generally well received with plenty of refreshmets available. - tea rating 7.
The heat was unrelenting, many of us were just itching to get to the middle to see off the new ball in the baking sun, but eventually Frankie set Harvo and Pinch-hitter Bob to the task. Rob gave Herbert catching practice and James couldn't concentrate as he was so excited about his house party later. GHCC found themselves 50- 2 with Loddingtons openers bowling well. Eminem and Potty found themselves with some work to do for the first time this summer and manfully obliged putting on 78 for the third wicket with Boris Johnson passing 50 and Potty departing for a hard fought 20. Bruno found the boundary in fits and starts, with Village intellect JSH at the other end who left shortly for ironically the average number of toes in the Kettering area, 12. Jono strolled out to the crease and hit some blistering fours straight past de Kock who was now easily recognisable without his helmet on. Charlie slogged across the line like the village idiot he is, falling just one run short of a maiden league century. Uncle Greg, village philanthropist, didn't waste anyones time apart from his own. Ben only scored a debated 5 runs.
The win had looked possible but Loddingtons bowlers had applied pressure and took wickets on a fairly regular basis with some Herbert taking a match ball home with him. All we had to take home was sun burn and people who couldn't drive. On a positive note we probably would have lost this game earlier in the season and two of our top order batsmen have made big scores in the past two weeks; Proving that some of us arent village idiots as described by some moron, who hopefully is a policemen in Northumbria.
Lets crucify the Saints next week!
(THIS HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY HENRY BLENCOWE PUBLISHING [shocking grammar and spelling for an English degree student])
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