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Farnham Royal vs Frimley Green Cricket Club - Sunday 5th May 2013, 14:00

Farnham Royal (112 all out) beat Frimley Green Cricket Club (77 all out) by 35 runs

Match Detail
FGCC, travelling just past Slough to Farnham Royal's beautiful ground for hopefully the first of many visits, lost the toss on a perfect late spring day and feared the worst when asked to bowl first. Those fears, however, were unrealised, as, despite several hungover team members (JP relinquishing the gloves, so bad did he feel), Frimley Green put in a creditable performance in the field. Nug and Mike, opening the bowling, kept things tight and nipped out one of the openers, before a deathly-looking Rich, having not bowled since last summer, immediately hit a good line and length and took 3 wickets, one of them a beauty which ripped a left-hander's off-stump out of the ground. At the other end, Kevin bowled a very economical spell, and the slowies of Jim and Ralph O'Meara, the latter on his first appearance in a long time, resulted in more tight overs and a couple of further wickets. Rus Edmonds, despite back pain and a number of pints the night before, then bowled the spell of the innings, his 4.5 overs taking 3 wickets for the concession of only 8 runs. So, at half-time and having taken full toll of the teas, FGCC were in confident mood. That confidence, though, was soon to be shattered. Rich and Tim started solidly and saw off a tricky opening spell, but first-change bowler G Mohammed bowled a terrific spell to take 5 wickets for 20 runs, 4 of those clean-bowled. His final two wickets in particular were body-blows - Rich going for a hard-fought 20 and Mike Parry following to an identical ball, seeing his off-stump toppled after a belligerent 20 which contained some exceedingly well-struck shots. After that, it was down to the tail, and sadly they folded meekly, the last 5 wickets falling for just 7 runs.
Farnham Royal Innings Runs Balls
Full scorecard not available
Extras (5b, 3lb) 8
Total (all out, 35.5 overs) 112
Frimley Green Bowling Overs Maidens Runs Wickets
Kevin Whitehorn 8.0 1 13 1
Jim Barker 6.0 0 24 1
Rich Loosley 5.0 0 19 3
Mike Parry 5.0 0 19 0
David Huggett 5.0 1 17 1
Rus Edmonds 4.5 0 8 3
Ralph O'Meara 2.0 0 4 1
Frimley Green Innings Runs Balls
Rich Loosley bowled G. Mohammed 20   58  
Tim Jones bowled G. Mohammed 10   29  
Alan Greaves caught G. Mohammed 0   4  
Neil Searle bowled G. Mohammed 0   3  
Mike Parry bowled G. Mohammed 20   23  
Jonathan Prior caught C. Shave 3   17  
Jim Barker caught R. Shah 6   6  
Rus Edmonds caught C. Shave 0   6  
Kevin Whitehorn bowled R. Shah 0   2  
Ralph O'Meara not out 4   6  
David Huggett bowled R. Scott 0   4  
Extras (5b, 12w, 1nb) 18
Total (all out, 27.1 overs) 77
Farnham Royal Bowling Overs Maidens Runs Wickets
Bowling figures not available
: Nug's 'Monty Moment' - Jim turned down a run, Nug slipped and fell halfway down the wicket, got up and did a full 'Monty dive' back into his ground in the nick of time.
: Rich Loosley