LOSCC vs Hockerill.

Report vs Hockerill

Match Report
Date - 21/06/09 
Oppo – Hockerill (a)
Type – Timed
Report by Dave Revell.

The O's suffered only their second defeat of the season at a chirpy Hockerill side. 
Stand-in skipper Revell won the toss and that's where his 100% winning record ends!
Batting first due to a lack of players, the O's got quickly into their stride, losing Evans and Kane for ducks.
Lighting James and Mulholland then set about rebuilding the innings before James looked at the clock, decided he
could get a good knock in here as there was still 1 hour and 45 minutes still to go and got himself out! Hughes was 
then sent in with the instructions to tell Mulholland to hang around until the end and to take his time and support Mulholland.
He started off in fine fashion with a smashing drive through extra cover for 4, followed by a wild heave ho, which saw his stumps splay
in all directions. Skipper Revell came in at 6 with the score on 73 for 4 and proceeded to build a good partnership with the in-form Mulholland.
100 runs later, the partnership was broken when Revell was bowled off his pads. Mulholland was by this time batting beautifully, handling an 
increasingly difficult pitch and hitting some beautiful 4's and 6's. Eventually batting through to the end on 105 not out, 
to record yet another ton to his already huge run total for the club.
After tea, the O's sprinted out onto the pitch, well those under 40! which to be honest was about 3!
A surprise appearance from regular scorer Les Edwards nearly had Liam fainting from what he perceived originally to be a wind up, when,
in the changing room Les was putting on whites. However, when he entered the field of play and fielded the first ball, picking it out of his ear
and keeping them to a single, Liam recovered sufficiently enough to continue.
Things started well enough when Hillier had the opener stumped by Revell off a wide and Wicks bowled the 3 dog.
From then on, it was all down hill!
The other opener was dropped off Wicks by Martin when on about 20 odd when the ball looped gently to him, went straight through his hands
and smashed him full on in the face. Shouts of "Oh Dear what a shame" from Wicks, or at least I think that is what he said, suddenly turned to
concern when witnessing Rhys rolling around on the floor like an African footballer and players rushing to him, 
fully expecting claret to be all over the square. However, after 30 minutes, he finally revealed his face from behind his hands to reveal, 
errrr, nothing! He then went off to put water and ice on his face and to make 400 phone calls to his mates in Africa, to see if they had seen his 
rolling around on TV. After 35 overs he decided he was well enough to come back on the field of play and typically enough, the ball followed him 
and he dropped the same guy, first ball back on the field. This time the opener was on about 80 odd and went on to get 123. So, not costly drops!
The other batsman called for a runner as his leg had gone and the 3 dog (who had scored 0 ) came in to run and made Jack look like Benny Hill.
Turning 1's into 3's etc. Although big Al, did get a small victory, by asking "Have you had a bat yet?" knowing full well he had bowled
him for 0. 
At one stage, the off-side field looked like a day out for the South Woodford over 70's bowls club.
A few bowling changes saw balls smashed to all parts of the ground and planes from Stansted diverted to Gatwick to avoid low flying missiles.
Hockerill eventually running out winners by 6 wickets with 9 overs to spare.

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