28th June 2008

1st XI v Botallack

 

Type of Match- League

Venue - Away

Toss Won by Porthleven who batted first

 

Result - Botallack (18) bt Porthleven (7) by 1 wicket

Porthleven 141 All Out in 44 overs

 

Name
Score
How Out
Balls
6s
4s
1
R Williams
38
Caught
74
1
7
2
D Bray W
4
Bowled
16
1
3
P Gardner
34
Run Out
44
6
4
J Carvelly
0
Bowled
1
5
M Roper
1
Bowled
26
6
A Young
1
Caught
4
7
J Salter
18
Caught
14
1
2
8
D Parish C
0
Run Out
0
9
D Goodchild
4
Caught
5
1
10
M Pollard
6
Bowled
6
1
11
P Francis
0
Not Out
0
Extras (4B, 11LB, 20W) 35

Fall of Wickets

  

Wkt
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Score
25
78
82
102
109
122
129
137
139
141
Outgoing Batsman
2
3
4
5
1
6
8
7
9
10

                                       

Botallack 144-9 in 37.3 overs

J Jalbert 50

Extras (14B, 11W) 25  

 

Name
Overs
Mdn
Runs
Wkts
J Carvelly
12
2
48
5
A Young
8
2
23
1
D Parish
7.3
2
23
0
M Pollard
10
1
36
3

On an unusually sunny and warm (for Botallack!) afternoon, the Roasters suffered a blow to their promotion hopes, going down by just the 1 wicket in a tight affair that should've gone the other way.
Missing a potential 7 first team choices through injury, work excuses (long paper rounds) and defending our country somewhere warm and dusty the skipper won the toss and decided to give his 'Mead filled' bowlers a rest, and despite the early loss of veteran Italian, Deano Brayzioli, fellow opener 'Christiano' Ron Williams and 'Champagne' Paddy Gardner put on 53 for the 2nd wicket, taking the score to 78 before the silky left handed Gardner was run out from a direct hit after a sparkling knock of 34, littered with 6 fours.
From here it all appeared to go downhill rather than uphill. Cif Carvelly was bowled for a duck, and although Martin ' Mildred' Roper hung around with Williams, only added a single before he was bowled. Strawberry blonde, Adam Young was caught out by one that popped on an unreliable pitch, but once Williams was caught for a well constructed 38, it was only the Squirrel, the pupils friend, Jamie Salter - fresh from a night's 'teaching' who made 18, running out his skipper on the way……hmmmm…..The innings was wrapped up for just 141, and how vital a few more would've been.

Carvelly opened up, bowling down the hill, his pace far too much as each batsman prodded and poked at the lovestruck Protea, Western first to go, caught be Williams in the covers for just 9. Tregear was next to follow, a brilliant return catch taken by the South African love machine. When he then followed up by cartwheeling Whittaker's off stump it looked like it was going to be a good day after all. Jalbert had other ideas, deciding the only way was to attack. He rode his luck, many scoring shots just evading fielders, others maybe shouldn't have 'evaded' them as a couple more catches were dropped, but with the 8 stone Australian bag of bones keeping it tight at the other end the pressure was maintained. Change bowlers Parish, and particularly Mark 'Bo-leng' Pollard kept the Roasters on top, Pollard having been out with a long term injury was forced into 1st team action due to the number of players absent, but put the ball on the spot every time, skipping in like a young foal he removed Taskis for 3 and Dan May for 9. With Parish unable to penetrate at the other end, Carvelly was brought back. Fired up and racing in, he caused further torment as the game became ever tighter. Edges flew wide of slip and 3rd man, a nightmare to keep on with the unpredictable bounce, the target edged closer. Pollard then removed Jalbert and swung the game back, his long face disguising his inner joy! Young then returned up the hill, Lee May tried to attack Carvelly but only succeeded in playing on, stumps shattered everywhere as the runs dried up. Young then had Lee Brewer caught behind and the tail was well and truly exposed, and when the Roasters sniff the tail, they usually get what they want. As the total edged closer 'The Bearded Wrist' Paul Francis took a great catch at 2nd slip off Carvelly, the ball flying through, but it's always satisfying to get one of the Wrist, and this was exactly that! The game finally swung in Carvelly's last over, Dougie Whittaker had decided the only way to get the runs was 'hit and hope', he hit, straight to cover, but it was dropped. The very next ball and easier chance was presented to point, the un-named fielder had time to position his body perfectly, but couldn't get his fat paws to hold onto the ball. This proved to be the last chance, with Parish bowling the next over, the first ball somehow just cleared the stumps, the 2nd a perfect leg stump yorker no number 10 should ever dig out, but somehow did, the next a big swing, right back over the bowlers head for a maximum. A cruel defeat, but not enough runs on the board in the end.