Cricket Report: Old Leightonians - Sunday 14th May 2023
The ODCC played its only match of the season, away at Leighton Park. The match was held in memory of the late John Shaw (1939-2023), ODCC's Hon President, who had coached every single player over his long tenure as Douai's 1st XI coach (1967-1994), and black armbands were worn.
Douai won the toss and went into bat first. A promising start saw a splendidly dogged innings from Alex Bedford (90/92/97) and a rather more swashbuckling one from Mark Boag (76/81). With the loss of that partnership, things rapidly went downhill. A complete middle-order collapse saw the loss of five wickets without a run scored. Despite a tail-end cameo from Edward Rossiter (91/96) the Old Dowegians were all out for 80.
The second innings could not have got off to a better start. Patrick Mullens (92/97) took out the middle stump with his first delivery, and went on to record very impressive figures of 3/22. It was, however, not enough to avoid the ensuing seven-wicket defeat.
Thanks to all who took part, especially (as always) the ODCC's skipper Peter Worrall (69/72) who commuted from his home in Spain.
OLD DOWEGIANS C.C. J Bairstow (ct Acland-Hood b Carter) . . 5
T Aylward (b Carter) . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 4
A Bedford (lbw b Storey) . . . . . . . . . . . 16
+ M Boag (b Storey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
P Mullens (st Hayles b Wood) . . . . . . . . 1
J Bedford (ct Natt b Storey) . . . . . . . . . . 0
M Roddis (ct Hayles b Wood) . . . . . .. . . 0
R Murphy (b Wood) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
E Rossiter (b Acland-Hood) . . . . . . . .. . 14
T Judge (b Natt) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
* P Worrall (NOT OUT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Extras: 8 TOTAL: 80 All Out
Bowling:
Shashank 6-0-18-0
Carter 6-0-15-2
Wood -1-24-3
Storey 4-0-4-3
Acland-Hood 3-0-5-1
Lynch 4-0-9-0
Natt 1.2-0-5-1
OLD LEIGHTONIANS C.C.
P Chima (b Mullens) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0
G. Shacklady (NOT OUT) . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
M Storey (b Mullens) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
+ N Hayles (lbw b Mullens) . . . . . . . . . 14
S Powers (NOT OUT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Extras: 7 TOTAL 81 / 3
Bowling:
Mullens 8-0-22-3
Bairstow 6-0-19-0
Rossiter 3-0-26-0
Aylward 1.1-0-10-0
Worrall 1-0-3-0
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