Lynchmere v Saracens Cricket Club 1st XI on Sat 12 Jul 2014 at 2.30pm

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Lynchmere v Saracens Cricket Club 1st XI on Sat 12 Jul 2014 at 2.30pm
Saracens Cricket Club Won by 85 Runs

Match report Our first UK tour for a while took us to Portsmouth, with games on both Saturday and Sunday, plus large amounts of eating, drinking and the normal Saracens p?£$ taking (Erm Banter).

After a relatively calm Friday night, Saturday took us to the wonderful village surroundings on Lynchmere, on the Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire border. A typical village cricket ground, set off the country roads was the ideal tour opener.

We all departed at the same time from our base at the Ocean Hotel, and thanks to a rolling road block (that no body else saw), the fun bus and Dingy arrived 35 minutes after the rest of the party, along with Matt and Rich - about 15 minutes before we were due to start. First potential W award moment

After we won the toss and elected to bat, the was another potential W award moment, when Bun entrusted Penny with the match ball and it ended up in the car on the way to Haslemere with the girls, who went to pick up food and beer.

After Tricky departed early, Matt and Randy put on 92 for the 2nd wicket as the sun belted down. Matt was particularly harsh on anything full or short, before he departed for 74, which included 11 4's and 3 6's.

Slogger then joined Randy for his 1st innings of the season due to injury, and added 33 before Randy holed out to deep square. Slogger continued on to make a well constructed 66 before holing out to long on, before some late order hitting from Rich Gough and Mini Man took the score to 217-5 after 31 overs, which bought a declaration.

After a very large and filling tea (plenty of cake, Bun had 4 pieces) - we took the field and had immediate success with Bun, sporting his "New" go faster stripe boots, striking twice in the first over to leave Lynchmere 8-2.

A 3rd wicket stand of 70 steadied the ship, before Dingy struck twice in quick succession to leave the score of 83-4. Good discipline with the ball accompanied by some good catching from Saracens had the score at 101-6 at drinks and the start of the final 20 overs.

Tricky and Rich Gough were introduced as we needed a break through, and Rich provided it courtesy of a good catch by mini man at cover. After 6 overs of medium pace, Bun and Dinghy returned to the attack as we looked to wrap up the innings and the match.

Bun duly oblijed, with good catches from Slogger and Dinghy and then he wrapped up the innings by bowling Wells with the ever reliable "moon ball".

An 85 run victory, but a very good game of cricket played at a good venue and in great spirt. A quick shower followed and then we departed for Portsmouth and dinner and more drinks.

W Award = Bun (not looking after the ball, not tightening the studs in his new boots (School Boy Error), nominating Penny for the W Award, eating 4 bits of cake at tea, dropping a caught and bowled, losing crazy golf to Jess)

Saracens Cricket Club 1st XI Batting

Player Name		Runs	M	4s	6s	Ct
extras TOTAL :	6w 2b 2lb for 5 wickets	10 217	(31.0 overs)
Matthew Ayre	b S.Cain	74		11	3
Richard Young	b S.Cain	4		1
Ian Randall	ct T.Cain b Wells	17		2
Ben Wallis	ct S.Cain b Barnes	66		10	2	3
Mark Yenney	ct M.Chapman b Wells	5		1		1
Richard Gough	Not Out	36		3	2
Tony Bunyan	Not Out	5				1
Chris Baker
Andrew Young						2
Mike Bigby
A.N. Other

Lynchmere Bowling

Player name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
S.Cain	10.0	0	63	2	31.50	6.30
Varnes	6.0	0	20	0	0.00	3.33
Wells	6.0	1	52	2	26.00	8.67
Barnes	4.0	0	47	1	47.00	11.75
T.Cain	2.0	0	27	0	0.00	13.50
Brown	1.0	0	4	0	0.00	4.00

Lynchmere Batting

Player name		R
extras TOTAL :	1nb 3b for 10 wickets	4 132 (41.0 overs)
P.Hill	ct Ben Wallis b Mike Bigby	4
T.Ayres	lbw Andrew Young	46
M.Barnes	ct Andrew Young b Mike Bigby	4
M.Chapman	ct Mark Yenney b Andrew Young	27
E.Spencer	ct Ben Wallis b Mike Bigby	22
S.Murrell	lbw Mike Bigby	1
M.Brown	ct Tony Bunyan b Richard Gough	2
T.Cain	ct Andrew Young b Mike Bigby	5
S.Cain	ct Ben Wallis b Mike Bigby	16
P.Varnes	Not Out	0
N.Wells	b Mike Bigby	2