Game 2 v Obelisk I

St Michael's Cricket Club

Opponent	:	Obelisk I
Date	:	5 May 2007
Venue	:	Kislingbury
Result	:	Won by 34 runs

Innings of: St Michael's

1	S Tinant	ct Wright	b Kennedy	18	Bowling	O	M	R	W
2	A Bartley	ct & b	b Macklin	21	B Kennedy	12	4	32	2
3	D Harrison	ct Robinson	b Richardson	14	S Macklin	9	2	32	2
4	M Swann		b Foremen	7	B Richardson	9	2	24	1
5	W Kingston jr		b Kennedy	11	B Foreman	12.2	1	30	4
6	I Geddes		b Foremen	21
7	M Collier		run out	18
8	T Marlow		b Foremen	0
9	B Ahearn	ct	b Foremen	1
10	S Cannell	LBW	b Macklin	4
11	M Baker		not out	0
	Overs	42.2	Extras	23
	Wickets	10	Total	138

Innings of: Obelisk I

1	M Richardson		b Baker	12	Bowling	O	M	R	W
2	B Robinson	ct & b	b Marlow	10	M Baker	11	1	33	4
3	M Smith	ct	b Baker	5	T Marlow	9	1	26	1
4	W Wright		b Geddes	36	M Swann	6	2	20	2
5	B Richardson	LBW	b Baker	3	I Geddes	4.1	0	17	3
6	A Adams		b Baker	0
7	B Foreman		b Geddes	8
8	D White		b Swann	13
9	S Macklin		b Geddes	3
10	B Kennedy	ct	b Swann	1
11	I Lewis		not out	0
	Overs	30.1	Extras	13
	Wickets	10	Total	104

Match report

On a cloudy afternoon, St Michael�s had their first home fixture of the season against Obelisk II who finished 4^th in the Division last year. Obelisk won the toss and elected to field.

It soon became clear that the wicket was of variable bounce with some keeping low and others rearing up off the wicket which had some large cracks in it. The top order made slow but steady progress and at the halfway stage 67 had been made with the loss of only 2 wickets with Bartley digging in for a solid 21 in 27 overs.

Runs were difficult to come by as only 6 batsmen got into double figures and with the score on 125 with 5 overs to go 150/160 seemed possible. But in the space of 3 overs 5 more wickets fell for only 13 runs and the total of 138 including 23 extras (top score) looked 20 or 30 short of a testing target.

The Obelisk reply started steadily but in the 5^th over Baker got the breakthrough when he bowled Richardson for 12. There was a lull in the proceedings but then Baker struck to grab 3 more wickets and Marlow chipped in with one in the space of 3 overs to leave Obelisk at 39 for 5 and looking at certain defeat.

Swann and Geddes replaced the tired Baker and Marlow but Obelisk continued to play their shots and progressed to 72 without further loss helped by a couple of dropped catches and then onto 92 for 6 with Wright leading the way with an excellent 36. However just as it seemed that Obelisk might make St Michael�s pay for their earlier mistakes, Swann and Geddes bagged 2 wickets each in consecutives overs to leave Obelisk short by 34 runs with Geddes getting the final wicket of Wright with one that kept low � the pitch had the final say!