Date 23/05/2004
Season 2004
Competition Friendly
Match format Timed game
Opposition Linden Park
Venue Higher Ground Tunbridge Wells
Toss Won
Decision Crusaders bowl first
Result Drawn

Linden Park innings

No Batsman   Runs
1 Humphrey c Richard Carr b Darren Moyse 0
2 Healing b Spud Whale 23
3 Tassel b Mike Taylor 18
4 Dowrick c Darren Moyse b Mike Taylor 7
5 Van Lierop lbw b Spud Whale 2
6 Hayes b Spud Whale 16
7 Chellel b Spud Whale 0
8 Scott Ham b Richard Carr 4
9 Travis not out 3
10 Harvey not out 74
  Extras b 8, lb 4, w 3, nb 0 15
  Total 8 wickets, 55.0 overs 162

Did not bat:




No Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Wides No balls
1 Darren Moyse 12.0 3 41 1 2 0
2 Mike Taylor 13.0 5 22 2 0 0
3 Spud Whale 14.0 6 33 4 0 0
4 Mike Griffiths 3.0 0 8 0 0 0
5 Richard Carr 6.0 2 8 1 0 0
6 Simon Burr 7.0 1 38 0 0 0





Crusaders innings

No Batsman   Runs
1 Grant Reynolds c b Hayes 12
2 Chand Channa b Van Lierop 26
3 Richard Carr c b Hayes 3
4 Mark Paine c b Van Lierop 54
5 John Greggains b Scott Ham 6
6 Mike Griffiths c b Scott Ham 2
7 Neil Morrison run out 1
8 Spud Whale not out 16
9 Simon Burr not out 6
  Extras b 8, lb 11, w 6, nb 6 31
  Total 7 wickets, 29.0 overs 157

Did not bat:




No Bowler Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Wides No balls
1 Van Lierop 11.0 1 53 2 2 2
2 Tassel 1.0 0 15 0 0 2
3 Hayes 7.0 1 14 2 0 2
4 Humphrey 4.0 0 17 0 4 0
5 Scott Ham 6.0 0 39 2 0 0

Match Report

For successive weeks we plied ourselves against new opposition, with a first visit to Linden Park. Again the result was a draw, with our hosts using a combination of sleep deprivation and starvation techniques to keep us on the field for three hours while they crawled to a declaration total of 162._An exceptional tea was followed by a valiant assault on the target. Chand and Grant made their intentions plain, taking suicidal runs and in Chand's case - including an outrageous six over extra-cover -throwing the bat at everything. Darkie stroked a fluid fifty in the heart of our innings, but Linden Park had adopted a very defensive field, which saw us fall short by six runs.