Keyworth BATsmen kapowed in GOTHAM City...
On a muggy, humid and overcast day, a relatively strong KCC 1st XI arrived at neighbours Gotham City full of optimism.
With only Tinno AWOL (enjoying the rare sunshine seen down at Glastonbury), skipper 'Commissioner' Graham could afford to promote 'Two-X' Collison to the Stiffs and Adam Somech was given his debut in the middle order.
It was the same old story for Iggy when he lost the toss, but surprisingly Gotham's caped crusaders decided to Bat on a very hard wicket with a tinge of green and overhead conditions that would suit the Keyworth Villain's seamers.
Steve 'The Penguin' Rendu, potentially the Bat(s)man's greatest enemy, opened up with a very fast and hostile opening spell, and was unlucky not to get the breakthrough in his 7 overs (0 for 11). He certainly had the opposition openers on the back foot, and put their skipper on his backside with a snorting bouncer! BIFF!
At the other end, 'The Riddler', Andy Hiller bowled a steady spell, hitting some good areas and he was rewarded in the 6th over with the breakthrough.
A 2nd wicket stand of 67, although not always pretty on the eye, was to prove very effective on a wicket where the batsmen would never be fully in, and this helped set the platform for a reasonable Gotham total. First change, 'Two-Face' Dave Hiller, bowled some useful stuff and broke this partnership but he was targeted a little. He was probably seen as a bit of welcome relief from the Rocket Man and so his 7 overs went for 40, which was a tad expensive on a seamer friendly track.
'Catwoman' Strongy (sorry Dave, running out of villains!) had now gone lame in the outfield and wasn't fit to bowl, so 'The Joker' Bobby Baker was introduced into the attack to partner senior spinner Graham. They accounted for the middle order between them with Iggy returning 2 for 52 and Bobby 3 for 40. Andy Hiller was reintroduced for some rabbit catching and he managed to pick up another 2 wickets to return figures of 3 for 36. Bobby was left on to bowl out at the other end as he was managing to keep the run rate down, but this was probably a welcome relief to the Gotham Batsmen as even his arm ball wasn't quite as hostile as the Long Haired Buffoon's slower ball...
187 for 9 was the first time the team batting first hadn't reached 200 at Gotham all season, and it was testimony to some excellent bowling and a buoyant and athletic fielding display particularly from Lee Potts, Adam Somech and Dave Hiller.
With the tinkerman Ian 'Dermott Reeve' Graham deciding to mix things up again to keep the Gotham lads guessing, he dropped himself down to six and moved Rocket to 3 after his golden duck last week. Doug Bayford fresh from his pinch hitting (14 from 31 balls...) the week before, kept the role ahead of Baker whose 40 off 47 balls two weeks ago obviously wasn't noted by the guesting Skipper!
After Dougie was unfortunately snaffled for a duck at first slip, Rocket occupied the crease for a while with regular opener Marc Bailey. Marc looked comfortable until he was caught of his gloves hooking on unpredictable bounce, something that was going to be a familiar story. Somech joined the Rocket man for a while, and played the cut of the day before he too was caught behind playing a hook.
The first of the young drunkards then joined Steve in the middle, Lee Potts, was in the main positive with an assured knock off 27 before he was 4th out. Unfortunately KCC collapsed from 72 for 3 with the departures of Rendu, Graham (who gave himself the job of 'the finisher') for a 3rd ball duck, Ben Elliott 0 and Baker 1 (the latter two also out hooking!). The Hiller sisters managed 5 each to keep things happy in their Cotgrave love nest, and the best no 11 in the league Dave Strong was left stranded on 1 not out for a typical red inker.
106 all out was an inept batting display and The Millers suffered for not occupying the crease. Positives were the return to form of Potty who will now hopefully join Bailey at the top of the order, the acquisition of debutant Somech, and Iggy realising that he can't finish something that didn't really get started - so the best bat in the league will be back in the top four in future!
At O from 7 now, Keyworth are glad that they've only got the unbeaten Caribs at the Field of Dreams next week...
With only Tinno AWOL (enjoying the rare sunshine seen down at Glastonbury), skipper 'Commissioner' Graham could afford to promote 'Two-X' Collison to the Stiffs and Adam Somech was given his debut in the middle order.
It was the same old story for Iggy when he lost the toss, but surprisingly Gotham's caped crusaders decided to Bat on a very hard wicket with a tinge of green and overhead conditions that would suit the Keyworth Villain's seamers.
Steve 'The Penguin' Rendu, potentially the Bat(s)man's greatest enemy, opened up with a very fast and hostile opening spell, and was unlucky not to get the breakthrough in his 7 overs (0 for 11). He certainly had the opposition openers on the back foot, and put their skipper on his backside with a snorting bouncer! BIFF!
At the other end, 'The Riddler', Andy Hiller bowled a steady spell, hitting some good areas and he was rewarded in the 6th over with the breakthrough.
A 2nd wicket stand of 67, although not always pretty on the eye, was to prove very effective on a wicket where the batsmen would never be fully in, and this helped set the platform for a reasonable Gotham total. First change, 'Two-Face' Dave Hiller, bowled some useful stuff and broke this partnership but he was targeted a little. He was probably seen as a bit of welcome relief from the Rocket Man and so his 7 overs went for 40, which was a tad expensive on a seamer friendly track.
'Catwoman' Strongy (sorry Dave, running out of villains!) had now gone lame in the outfield and wasn't fit to bowl, so 'The Joker' Bobby Baker was introduced into the attack to partner senior spinner Graham. They accounted for the middle order between them with Iggy returning 2 for 52 and Bobby 3 for 40. Andy Hiller was reintroduced for some rabbit catching and he managed to pick up another 2 wickets to return figures of 3 for 36. Bobby was left on to bowl out at the other end as he was managing to keep the run rate down, but this was probably a welcome relief to the Gotham Batsmen as even his arm ball wasn't quite as hostile as the Long Haired Buffoon's slower ball...
187 for 9 was the first time the team batting first hadn't reached 200 at Gotham all season, and it was testimony to some excellent bowling and a buoyant and athletic fielding display particularly from Lee Potts, Adam Somech and Dave Hiller.
With the tinkerman Ian 'Dermott Reeve' Graham deciding to mix things up again to keep the Gotham lads guessing, he dropped himself down to six and moved Rocket to 3 after his golden duck last week. Doug Bayford fresh from his pinch hitting (14 from 31 balls...) the week before, kept the role ahead of Baker whose 40 off 47 balls two weeks ago obviously wasn't noted by the guesting Skipper!
After Dougie was unfortunately snaffled for a duck at first slip, Rocket occupied the crease for a while with regular opener Marc Bailey. Marc looked comfortable until he was caught of his gloves hooking on unpredictable bounce, something that was going to be a familiar story. Somech joined the Rocket man for a while, and played the cut of the day before he too was caught behind playing a hook.
The first of the young drunkards then joined Steve in the middle, Lee Potts, was in the main positive with an assured knock off 27 before he was 4th out. Unfortunately KCC collapsed from 72 for 3 with the departures of Rendu, Graham (who gave himself the job of 'the finisher') for a 3rd ball duck, Ben Elliott 0 and Baker 1 (the latter two also out hooking!). The Hiller sisters managed 5 each to keep things happy in their Cotgrave love nest, and the best no 11 in the league Dave Strong was left stranded on 1 not out for a typical red inker.
106 all out was an inept batting display and The Millers suffered for not occupying the crease. Positives were the return to form of Potty who will now hopefully join Bailey at the top of the order, the acquisition of debutant Somech, and Iggy realising that he can't finish something that didn't really get started - so the best bat in the league will be back in the top four in future!
At O from 7 now, Keyworth are glad that they've only got the unbeaten Caribs at the Field of Dreams next week...
posted by kccblogger @ Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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