Wargrave 3s v Wokingham 4s: An Unlikely Hero

Wargrave 3s v Wokingham 4s: An Unlikely Hero

Wargrave 3s arrived at their new ground for the season over at Marlow Park CC to great fan fair. The town of Marlow had in fact been gracious enough to put on an entire festival for the team’s arrival, however the Matriarch of the Moss Dynasty™ was having none of it and used two words I won’t write to tell them to politely go away. At least it wasn’t just some of the Wargrave players that were spending their free time enjoying scouting for girls. The Wargrave side arrived in good spirits, resembling the Wargrave 1s circa 2011, before the club got good… and they got bad. The toss happened, haven’t the foggiest who won it, but it was Wokingham to stick the pads on.

WCC took the field with high hopes as J. Rimmer knew they could chase down any total set due to his in-depth knowledge of Wokingham’s tactical ring field style. It was J. Rimmer (2 -More than 25) and F. Lanch (2-Exactly 25) to open the bowling. Anticipation was in the air as no one quite knew how this could go between the both of them, Rimmer living up to the expectations by slinging down a 9 ball first over. However, the star of the bowling for Wargrave was F. Lanch who defied all medical practitioners claiming his playing days were over and the 27 WKD’s he’d strawpeedo’d the night before to put on a clinic of fast bowling. By the time he had bowled his full 10 overs in a row Wokingham were 73-3 off 20. So just to rattle off the mathematics for you here, that means every other bowler went for 178 runs between their 35 overs because F. Lanch only went for 25 off of his.

After F. Lanch (just to really drive this point home, TWO FOR TWENTY-FIVE OFF TEN) was bowled out and rendered immobile, Wokingham roared back into the game with some big hitting to make use of the large outfield on one side and the short boundary on the other to rack up some quick runs. When the opportunities did come they were heftily aided and abetted by acts of god. Many chances flew into the sky, just by finger tips… or to R. Jones. Some nice bowling by C. Hattey (2-31) and J. Rimmer at the end helped to limit the damage, but the game had started to slip away from the Wargrave side as Wokingham finished on 203-9.

T. Sohi (7) was first to fall quickly to a smart catch at square leg off of Wokingham’s Dilip’s (1-23) “right arm fast” bowling action before H. Thomas (33) and K. Bradley (20) decided that Marlow Park CC was where fun goes to die. I’ll sum up the following 15 overs for you before Bradley fell; block, block, block, leave, single turned down, leave, block, full toss block, leave, single

turned down. At one-point Usman (2-34) went 18 balls before a run was scored off him. They did start to settle in well once their eye were in and H. Thomas hit some booming drives that almost reached the boundary. We were all very proud of him. Wargrave came back into the game before the loss of 3 quick wickets left the club on edge.

Right, I am about to write a sentence and you will likely need to read it repeatedly to really be sure that you have seen it properly. Here goes… the game really swung in Wargrave’s favour after the brilliant innings by R. Jones (47). Yes R. Jones, as in Robert Jones (Huw’s mate). He had a masterful innings of premeditated blocks and big shots to grab the game by the throat. However, the fall of more quick wickets left it up to J. Moss (23*) and S. Walker (3*) to roll the years way back and guide the team to victory with 2 wickets to spare. A great win for Wargrave 3s to demonstrate that the side does in fact possess a spine.

Man of The Match: Robert Jones

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Man of the Match: Freddie Lanch (5”11/Athletic Build/Single)