Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 5th XI v Hutton on Sat 21 Jul 2018 at 12.30

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Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 5th XI v Hutton on Sat 21 Jul 2018 at 12.30
Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club Lost by 38 runs

Match report I’ll begin with Tariq Jameel. 66, who made before he was finally caught behind of the bowling off I.Minter . Steady, resolute, defiant. This score added to his other recent knocks of 80 (odd), 90 (odd, on Sunday) and a sprinkling of 50’s tucked neatly within our scorebooks. He must have amongst the highest batting averages in the club by now. Someone should check. He was a standout performance and I’d say, right now, the MVP in the V XI.

As for the rest of Saturday’s performance: it was a disappointment. We played Hutton, a team we should’ve beaten and done so comprehensively. We had the bowling attack to restrict them to 150 - or below. We had the batting to chase the total down in 30 overs. We had a dry day, a flat wicket and a good outfield. We had able players, youth, and experience. Instead Hutton posted 217 all out, and we could only make 179. Hutton outplayed us in every department. The scorebook is factual evidence. My obedience’s to Hutton. They deserved it for their effort and tenacity.

What I would highlight of our own performance makes for honest but blunt reading:

There are key 3 disciplines to cricket. I will take them in the following order:

Fielding: most, if not all, teams dislike fielding. 40/45 overs chasing a ball is a long time, mundane and thankless. Runs-outs are perhaps the only real evidence in the scorebook. History does not reflect fielding like it does batting or bowling performances. Jonty Rhodes is a master but you will not speak of his performances in the same breath as Brian Charles Lara. In the heat of summer, fielding is worse. However, fielding wins matches. Field positions pressurise batsmen’s ability to score runs. Chasing the ball quickly rushes them to run harder and faster, think twice about the second run, and scamper rather an saunter. Holding catches, and creating those chances, changes momentum. The game becomes a pendulum more than a sport.

Our fielding positions weren’t as sharp as they should’ve been or had been in past matches; most of the team didn’t chase quickly or with effort (the writer included), and despite catches held by Thomas and Sammy the dolphin Varnes, I can’t recall chances we should’ve held. We were destined to be defeated in this game the moment we gave up the fight in the field. I mentioned most of the team. Akhil and Thomas continued to slide around on barren dry grass as if it were freshly laid turf on a wet day. Quick, agile and responsive. I took a lot of learning from their effort. My respect to those two sprinters.

This brings me onto the next discipline:

Bowling: A week to forget for most of the bowlers. Lines and lengths weren’t as metronomic and Parks allowed the Hutton batsmen to play freely, score at will and strike across the line without being troubled. The fielding was mundane so most shots were bringing runs in ones and twos. Huttons xx xx knock of 56 showed just that. At one point I recall thinking Hutton must feel felt like they were having a net practice on a square. Their batsmen should’ve, by rights, been sitting in the shade of the pavilion after losing their wicket, were scoring with aplomb and perhaps wondering why it was so easy when our first encounter with them was an exercise in conviction. What was more telling was two Parks bowlers took 7 wickets between them; 6 of the 7 coming in the closing stages of the innings. The wickets should’ve been more evenly spread throughout the innings. It’s unreasonable to say it was a bad day: we play cricket on our days off. Why would you want your day off from work to be a bad day……

Batting: We failed there too, bar Tariq ‘Zaheer Abbas’ Jameel and Andrew Beaven. Andrew’s 25 opening the innings was measured and steady. A shame he was caught and bowled mistiming a shot. Tariq, stuck to the crease like glue. Watching and playing each delivery carefully. That’s how it should’ve been done. The rest of the batsmen, and particularly our middle order, did not turn up. The saddest part was leaving the lower order exposed to get us over the line and expecting them too. That should never have happened.

One positive point to note: C Willoughby for Hutton was a treasure. He batted with maturity, using the pace of the ball to score runs rather than force a shot through the line. He made vital runs for them at the death. He bowled off-spin that turned noticeably. For a young colt who wasn’t fazed by the game or bowling to adults, he is a credit to Hutton’s youth programme. This writer hopes he continues to do well in both disciplines, and much like our young Talha and Karandeep, in a few years, progresses to their 1st XI.

What next: what we must do better going forward is get sharper, more determined, more ruthless, and certainly focus in the field. We can’t expect to bowl players out cheaply or score runs to make up for those what we leak in the field. You’ll forever be taking 20 wickets and aiming to make 400 runs per game. It makes no sense. We need to constraint with determination and ability. We need to bowl to make the batsmen think whether to come forward or back. The batsmen need to bed in, take a moment to feel the wicket, the pace and the bowler. Score of the bad balls not attempt to make every ball into a bad one – that only leads to is a bad shot. The V XI are better than the mess we displayed this weekend. Better things are expected next week.

Hutton Batting

Player name		Runs
extras TOTAL :	6nb 16w 1b 4lb for 10 wickets	27 217 (39.5 overs)
J.Southgate	b A.Beaven	41
G.Bonney	ct & b: T.Varnes	5
J.Wilson	b V.Vijayanathan	28
A.Burton	lbw S.Patel	30
D.Latham	b S.Fing	56
C.Willoughby	b T.Varnes	29
I.Minter	b T.Varnes	1
H.Sanderson	ct S.Varnes b: S.Fing	0
B.Debenham	Not Out	0
J.Sanderson	b S.Fing	0
P.Frame	b S.Fing	0

Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 5th XI Bowling

Player Name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
Thomas Varnes	8.0	1	27	3	9.00	3.38
Akhil Patel	4.0	0	27	0	0.00	6.75
Andrew Beaven	7.0	1	34	1	34.00	4.86
Vijay Vijayanathan	7.0	0	42	1	42.00	6.00
Shahid Khan	4.0	0	33	0	0.00	8.25
Subhash Patel	5.0	0	26	1	26.00	5.20
Sachin Fing	4.5	0	23	4	5.75	4.76

Oakfield Parkonians Cricket Club 5th XI Batting

Player Name		R
extras TOTAL :	1nb 10w 3b 1lb for 10 wickets	15 179
Balvinder Diocee	lbw D.Latham	5
Andrew Beaven	ct & b: C.Willoughby	25
Tariq Jameel	ct ?? b: I.Minter	66
Sachin Fing	lbw J.Wilson	11
Vijay Vijayanathan	b I.Minter	0
Shahid Khan	ct ?? b: P.Frame	16
Akhil Patel	lbw I.Minter	12
Umar Arbar	b C.Willoughby	4
Samuel Varnes	Not Out	13
Thomas Varnes	ct ?? b: P.Frame	11
Subhash Patel	b C.Willoughby	1

Hutton Bowling

Player name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	Economy
P.Frame	6.0	0	43	2	21.50	7.17
D.Latham	4.0	0	21	1	21.00	5.25
B.Debenham	4.0	0	22	0	0.00	5.50
C.Willoughby	7.1	1	33	3	11.00	4.60
I.Minter	8.0	1	30	3	10.00	3.75
J.Wilson	6.0	0	26	1	26.00	4.33

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