Result: Old Rutlishians CC – 1st XI win 50 overs by 2 wickets

Championship – Division 3

Warlingham 176, 43 overs; Old Rutlishians 179-8, 43.1 overs.

The First XI completed their league programme at Church Lane in the same sort of form as they have played all season and lost again. However, with a little more luck, and a few runs, the result might have been different. Skipper Alex Pizzey won the toss and decided to bat, and despite putting himself at No.5, he was batting as soon as the forth over with the score on 5 for 3 wickets.

The rest of the Warlingham innings was all about Pizzey as he single handedly gave his team a respectable, if ultimately insufficient, total. Batting watchfully at first, as the situation demanded, he was soon dispatching any loose deliveries cleanly and efficiently to the boundary. As other batsmen came and went at the other end, he raised his own tempo and reached 50 with his tenth boundary from 83 balls. He shared stands of 46 with Denham Earl, who made 6, and 43 with Amit Patel who contributed 1. He was eventually eighth out immediately after completing his first League 100, the second 50 coming off 33 balls. His 102 contained 15 x 4s and 4 x 6s and with it he passed 500 league runs for the season. The next highest contribution to the total was extras with 22 and we were all out for 176.

The start of the Old Rutlishians’ innings couldn’t have been more different from ours: they reached 70-0 in only ten overs. Amer Saleem gratefully accepted his hosts offering of pies and smashed the wayward opening bowlers (one could hardly refer to them as an ’attack’) all round the ground before being caught on the boundary for 57 from only 38 balls.

The slower bowlers applied the brakes; Wes Lind conceded only 8 in his ten over spell, but Warlingham were always fighting a loosing battle as Saleem’s more sedate opening partner Kevin Foster batted solidly and kept the score mounting steadily. Wickets fell, three to Nihal Patel, but when Foster was out for a 111-ball 56; only 4 were needed for victory. Evan Foster, a fifteen year-old playing his first game for Old Ruts, made an impressive debut, taking three wickets and scoring an important 11 towards the end of the match

Warlingham: Dilpesh Amin, Nihal Patel, Dan Chrystie, Andy McNamee, Alex Pizzey, Wes Lind, Hitesh Patel, Denham Earl, Amit Patel, Mahesh Amin, Matt Pizzey.

MCJW – 07/09/2009

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