Jim Wilmott says, 'Old Bill Major's far too
good for you boys', as HTCC trounce Wormly in Cup
Wormly vrs HTCC 1st XI Becker Cup 1st Round
Wormly 150 for 9 (50 Overs) HTCC 150 for 3
(25 Overs)
I was really blown away by Sundays demolition
of Wormly, in the Becker Cup. Wormly were last year relegated from
Div 2 and are currently lying 3rd in Div 3, so not a bad
team.
We put in a thoroughly professional bowling
and fielding display to restrict Wormly to 150 for 9 in 50 overs,
with the bowlers H.Younis, Elech, W.Olam and Watson all deserving
praise. A special mention should go to Mr Singh, he bowled his ten
overs in the last 20 and he came on just as Wormly were looking
like they were about to get away from us. Mr Singh, who plays most
of his matches in the Saturday second XI, as their opening bat and
senior spin bowler, has gained a reputation in the first team of
coming on to bowl in big cup games, in high pressure situations
and turning the match around - he won us the game against
premiership Stevenage last year and in this game he tightened the
screws and Wormly didn't have a chance to increase the run rate,
but instead lost wickets and the scoring slowed.
In reply HTCC entered a cauldren of sledging,
which intensified after I started hitting across the line! However
we had a quick start scoring at 5 an over. Wormly were soon
silenced. Hewitt (28) and Elech put on 55 for the first wicket in
10 overs. But being able to witness what came next, made me
grateful to have lost my wicket! Martin Mason (46* in 32 balls)
and Ahmed Elech (64 in 72 balls) completely destroyed Wormly's
confidence, as well as their bowling attack. They hit 9 huge sixes
(one by Ahmed was described by Bob Akers, our chairman, as being
one of the biggest sixes he had ever seen) and 9 fours between
them and although Ahmed was dismissed near the end, they had
allowed us to reach the total in 25 overs! The hitting by these
two was phenomenal, both batsmen join the 'Two in a Row' club and
they then seemed to engage in an 'anything you can do, I can do
better' boundary competition!
What made this game extra special for me, was
that one of the Wormly bowlers turned out to be a bit of a legend
for some of the 'BRSA' veterens, myself included. Our late
president Jim Wilmott, for years (mostly the 1980's to early 90's)
told us that 'Old Bill Major' was far too good for us - I believe
that this came from a game where Bill Major had taken 9 for 105
against us (we did score 250!) and after the game Jim said his
legendary comment, 'Old Bill Major, Old Bill Major, he's far too
good for you boys'. So I was quite amazed to find out that Bill
Major was actually playing for Wormly, against us on Sunday
(Bill Major is a good left arm orthodox spinner, who I'm led to
believe used to take 100 wickets a season and is now about 58).
All in all, it has to be said that I took a great deal of personal
satisfaction from really doing a number on Bill Major's team.
Comments of the day
Sue Freer, whilst scoring was asked by the
Wormly scorer if 150 was enough runs to have scored against our
team. To which Sue replied, 'if this lot bat well, 150's going to
be 150 runs too little'
Wormly opening bowler asked me on arrival
'who are you?', I replied, 'Holtwhites Trinibis', to which he
replied 'Who are you?'
Wormly opening bowler said to me at the end
of the game 'don't you lot ever come back here again', to which I
replied 'Who are we?'
Paul Hewitt
