Toss:: H Thurston won the toss
Result: Match Drawn
Umpires:Jeremy Coney & others
Scorers:Several
Debuts :None
Man Of Match:Tim Schneider
HUGO THURSTON's GAIETIES XI Innings
*H Thurston bowled Brockton 11
I Smith c Alexander b Khan 1
T Schneider not out 45
C Peerless c Brockton b Brooke 20
+P Bulteel bowled Fish 7
R Wyse run out 0
M Burton bowled Fish 29
I Thomas not out 1
M Warburton st Alexander b H Thurston 0
Extras (b8,lb2,w7,nb2) 19
TOTAL (7 wickets dec,30 overs)154
Dnb:ME Blumberg,AN Missing Gaiety
Fow: Missing
Bowling-Khan 5 0 25 1,Brockton 7 1 15 1,Brooke 5 1 19 1,Fish 5 1 17 2,J Schneider 4 0 17 0,Thurston 3 0 36 0,Dutta 1 0 15 0.
JAMES SCHNEIDER's GAIETIES XI Innings
B Nealon bowled Burton 0
S Dutta bowled T Schneider 20
*J Schneider c Burton b Smith 39
+K Alexander bowled Smith 16
G Kennedy c Burton b Smith 0
T Brockton not out 17
I Khan c Peerless b Thurston 36
Extras (b6,lb0,w0,nb0) 6
TOTAL (6 wickets,32 overs) 133
Dnb:D Thurston,C Fish,O Brooke,R Davidson
Fow:1-0,2-50,3-71,4-71,5-82,6-133.
Bowling-Burton 7 1 27 1,T Schneider 15 1 60 1,Smith 9 0 37 3,H Thurston 1 0 3 0.
The Gaieties Cricket Club had long played an inter club match. Following Ossie Gooding's untimely death in Autumn 2002 it was decided to play this match in his memory and invite the Gooding family to celebrate his memory. The first such Gooding match with superb Caribbean catering from Ossie's family was held at Tadworth Cricket Club in 2003 and played annually.
Following Harold Pinter's death in December 2008 the club decided to play the interclub match in memory of both these former tyros of the club.
This year the match was played on a beautiful summer's day at Old Hamptonians Ground. Following a sumptuous spread for lunch the match began around 3.00pm with a slightly flexible format wherebye the side batting first batted for 30 overs but either side could claim up to 5 overs for the second innings if a clear result could be achieved.
Hugo's side's total owed most to Tim Schneider's unbeaten knock of 45 and some fierce hittiing at the tail from Matthew Burton. After some serious tea Ben Nealon broke his run of centuries with a duck and Dutta and James Schneider struggled to reach the required tempo against tight bowling from Matthew Burton and Tim Schneider. Ian Smith with 3 wickets seemed to have snuffed any attempt to raise the tempo when the innings revived with great gusto as Iqbal Khan hit a series of huge sixes before being well caught in the deep by Charles Peerless.
When the time came to deliberate upon the extra overs there was some confusion and the match was declared completed as a draw after 32 overs although arguably there could have been a dramatic finish as 22 runs were required in 3 overs with 4 wickets left! Arguably there was a stage management error here.
Following the match Club chairman Roger Davidson thanked the Goodings for all their contributions and presented a fine bouquet of flowers to Mre Rhona Thelma Braithwaite,Ossie's sister. Ian Smith spoke of Ossie Gooding and Harold Pinter and reminded everyone that he had attended Corpus Christie College Oxford which was where Man Of The Match young Tim Schneider was now studying.
In addition to the injured Jeremy Coney who umpired for a while Roland Oliver attended the match.
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