Friendly Match vs Old Fallopians, 14th May 2006, London Fields
They Think It's All Ova...
by our extremely rare correspondent, Paul "Teflon"
Turley
Having advised the opposing captain that 10am on a Sunday morning isn't the best time to call me (I sounded 'a bit groggy') I lost the toss and London Fields were asked to bat. After four overs we were a shaky 9 for 2. Spike came to the crease and with Jason Carwood put together a steady and much needed partnership of 49. However, after 19 overs we were still an uncomfortable 70 for 5. Any fears of not seeing out our overs were soon quashed with Matt Broadbent playing an anchor innings of 32 not out and leaving us with a defendable total score of 149 for 9, some help coming from the reliable Mr Extras (aided by Carl who went out to umpire the last over so he could back-foot no-ball the bowler).
There was a small delay between innings while the opposition consumed a small banquet they had brought with them.
Inspired captaincy saw the Fields start our bowling with the containment of Turley and the wicket taking abilities of Rupert leaving the opposition on 25 for 4 after ten overs. With no batsman doing any serious damage to anyone's figures we slowly chipped away at the wickets. Matt Cowie's second-change spell of 12 for 2 saw the writing on the wall for the batting side and at 95 for 9 the ball was handed to Matt Broadbent who finished the game off with his second delivery.
Neither team really got going with the bat on the day and it was the depth of our bowling that made the difference. There were 8 clean-bowled wickets and, well assisted by good keeping from Spike including a superb diving catch, only 6 extras conceded.
Here's the scorecard:
London FieldsBatting:
| Batsman | Scoring | How Out | Bowler | Total |
| Jason C | - | LBW | Clifford | 20 |
| Matt T | - | bowled | Bond | 4 |
| Colin | - | bowled | Palite | 1 |
| Spike | - | bowled | Clifford | 29 |
| Neil | - | run | out | 0 |
| Matt Cowie | - | caught | Roy | 2 |
| Matt B | - | not | out | 32 |
| Ru | - | bowled | Milne | 8 |
| Carl | - | caught | Clarke | 2 |
| Tony | - | run | out | 10 |
| Paul T | - | not | out | 1 |
| Extras | 40 | |||
| Total: 149 for 9 in 35 overs |
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Old Fallopians Batting:
95 all out (27.2 overs)
London Fields Bowling:
| Name | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Average |
| Paul T | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 7 |
| Ru | 5 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 6 |
| Carl | 5 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 22 |
| Tony | 5 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 26 |
| Matt | 4 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 6 |
| Colin | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - |
| Matt B | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | infinity! |