Indoor Ups and Downs

Tuesday evening saw our first tentative steps into the world of indoor cricket.

We played our first friendly match and somehow won by a score of about 140-20.

The format is eight a side, 16 overs a side, batting in pairs for 4 overs each, in a big indoor net, where runs are scored for hitting the sides, ends, ceiling, and runs lost for dismissals. The under 12's are used to this kind of thing, but I'm not sure we were, given the frantic attempts to learn the rules in the 5 minutes before the game.

XX Dale and XXXX Dougie opened up and simply tried to wallop every ball through the back net. A very respectable 50 odd after 4 overs.

Boss Hogg and Chris See-Soar started slowly but added another 30 with Chris playing the shot of the night - a cross bat smash for 7 (a six plus a run single).

Skipper Tinno and Drurs soon realised that text book straight drives weren't the order of the day, and improvised a further 30.

Finally Bails and new boy Jay rounded things off with another 30 odd partnership.

In reply our fielding was electric and bowling erratic. We found catching rebounds off the wall was like grasping for the soap in the shower, but took a few beauties; Drurs a one handed dive off his own bowling, Tinno a cracker behind the stumps and Jay a scorcher at silly mid off. We had plenty of run outs, Dougie showing a howitzer-like arm, and in the end won comfortably.

The only downside was that Tinno dislocated his shoulder again, doing not very much. Get well soon mate!

KCC Golf Day

For once the weather was kind, and 10 teams with 4 golfers per team enjoyed KCC's annual golf day along with a few stragglers who turned up for the meal and evening drinks.

The winners were;

Team Winners – The Willowbrook Youth Policy (Simon Tuckwell, Paul Newell, Keith Hammond, Paul Sheppard) with 86 points

Team Runners Up – The Elliott Clan (Ted, Ben, Liam and Peter Elliott) with 84 points

Picking up the wooden spoon with 57 points were the Golden Boys team of Ian Graham, Dave Strong, Jamie Strong and Jon Short.

Nearest the pin on the 5th – Barry Baker

Longest drive on the 9th – Liam Elliott

Nearest the pin on the 15th – Chris Ladd


Big thanks to all those who organised the event and turned out on the day, and also thanks to JC, Meeky and Jude for helping out with golfing photographic prizes.

More 2020 Memories

Keyworth Under 12s wait to bat .......

KCC legends and Vice Presidents John Reeve and Eric Watson with over 500 KCC appearances between them .......

The calm before the storm at the BBQ tent ...

KCC legends Stewart, Palmer and Newby and Daft ......

Standing room only .........

Junior Stats

Click Here For 2009 Junior Averages

Snap Happy

Thanks to John 'The Adonis' Beeton for taking lots of snaps of the 2020 match.

'England' v 'Australia' line ups..........

Top slogging all the way.............

The champagne moment: Nick Palmer - Bowled Jack Palmer - 0

Don't look back in anger Sticky! ..............

Not the last prize the future Keyworth captain will scoop.......

Cllr. Cottee hands over the 'Ashes' to the victorious skipper.....

Rocket takes over as Shelley's 'favourite' after a MOM performance

Tinno reveals his star no.3 bat for next season

England beat the Aussies (again)

Keyworth ended their season on a high with the club Twenty20 match held on Bank Holiday Monday. Fortunately the weather forecast held for the fourth year running and a bumper crowd gathered to watch the Under 12’s and senior matches played back to back.

The seniors’ game was an Ashes-style battle between ‘Aussie convict’ Doug Bayford and ‘English knight’ Rob Baker who were captains for the day. Before kickoff, Bobby cried foul of the team selections that he’d been party to the previous week, so it was either last minute nerves or just some tomfoolery to give Dougie a false sense of security...

Bobby’s blue boys batted first with Tony Newby and Marc Bailey opening up. Scooby managed to hit Drurs, (Dougie’s opening strike bowler!), straight down the throat of Leeds festival hangover victim Geoff Tindsley who was patrolling the deep-cow corner boundary in the first over. This brought Boom-Boom Ted Elliott (19) to the wicket. He and Marc (26 retired) took a liking to the opening attack and Ted took great pleasure in sending son Ben to all parts, even when batting left-handed! There was no let up for Doug’s baggy greens as Rocket Man Steve Rendu (24 retired), Bobby Baker (19), Dave Hiller (24) and David Owen-Jones (25 retired) all tucked in to Doug’s flaccid attack and generous field placement.

However, the highlight of the innings, and the day, was seeing future KCC captain young Jack Palmer do his Dad all ends up first ball with a great delivery that sent the bails flying and the players into jubilation.

175-8 off their 20 overs was an above par effort for Bobby’s blue boys leaving a mountain to climb for Doug’s baggy greens.

The half time raffle saw a myriad of donated prizes won, including a Junior cricket bat, vouchers for an Indian Nights meal and tickets for Trent Bridge. Chris Soar managed to win twice, starting off with some wine gums and then opting for the vodka that was quickly confiscated by club President and Youth-Alcohol Prevention Officer Barry Baker.

In reply things were going to plan with opening pair Iggy and Cowlard both retiring after reaching 25 in quick time. But from then on, the baggy green middle order floundered with only Ben Elliott (11) and Dave Strong (17) ever looking like keeping up with the required run rate as Duncan Disorderly ripped through with 3-9 off his 2 overs. The blue team hung on to all their chances, with even Andy Hiller hanging on to one (this is not a misprint). With no chance of a victory, Jack Palmer (10*) and Sam Neece (3*) refused to give up their wickets at the end and saw the innings through to a close at 141-8, giving Bobby (and England) a deserved victory by quite a margin.

Rocket Rendu won the Most Valuable Player Award, collecting his bottle of champagne donated by Shelley and promptly leapt up the Scorer’s favourite chart by giving her a smacker on the lips in return!

Thanks must go as ever to all those who gave up their time both before and during the event to make it so enjoyable and such a success, and thanks also go to all those who took part and came to watch. Initial estimates are that the day raised over £330 towards funding next years’ junior sides.

One other thing that events like this aim to do is to attract youngsters to the game to secure its future. This was borne out by a magic moment overheard in the car park when a mum said to her young lad, “...well if you like cricket that much we’ll have to buy you some whites for next year...” Priceless.

See you all next year at the 2010 Twenty20!!!

Clifford Interviews Clifford

First the Evening Post, now Radio Nottingham.

Cliff was interviewed this evening on the Alan Clifford show about this weekend's events

You can listen again by clicking on the link below. If you move the pink slider on the iPlayer to 1:38:20 you'll find Cliff in full flow just following Dr. Hook.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p0045lq1

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