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Wisley C.C., Reading (2026)

01/08/2017

Wisley CC - 262 for 4 off 40 overs
beat by 163 runs
Effingham CC - 99 all out in 32 overs
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The Big Bear’s rallying call earlier in the week of ‘ red hot tour comeback’ was said with the knowledge that this Wisley team was able to show more character than Wally and Curly would like to admit. Reggie, in particular, wouldn’t have liked to see the thrashing handed out by Wisley to a team that has so often turned the visitors over in painful circumstances. Retribution was harsh this time round, as Wisley inflicted a 163 run defeat on their underpowered opponents. No Mr Fewson this year, whose innings will forever haunt those there who were there to witness it, but Wisley hadn’t forgotten, and went into overdrive to severely punish their young opponents.
The day started badly for most of the team, as that band of the most selfish individuals on the planet (cyclists, that include the likes of ‘earth people’ Alex and Jerry) had closed most of the roads off in Surrey which resulted in some latecomers. No, you can’t beat a car, however much you try, but get out of the middle of the fu***ng road whilst attempting to try to. Mark was delayed, but made it for kick off time, but Ramesh and his band of snarling tigers were woefully late. Luckily Mark had won the toss and decided to bat against the advice pf some others, who were imploring him to bowl 1st. Ever the ignoramous, he discounted all pleas, and did what he thought best to win Wisley the game – he was to be proven right and put to bed the Bear’s disasterous management of the Kent touring team. Spin wizard Prasam was back, and although the Bear was ready to play with his gammy foot, it was perhaps best he saved himself for another day, as the Wisley team was a strong one. It was also bolstered by Wisley legend Rupert Style, who never fails to impress with the bat, or with his youthful looks of a 40 year old, despite being nearly 60..
So Wisley went out to bat with Axel and Styley leading the way. Carnage ensued as they put on 182 for the 1st wicket, never has that been seem before . Rupert was typically fluent in stroking himself to an impressive 65 before being caught , which included 10 fours and some Stylelish off drives over the off side, which was getting peppered by the both of them. Axel surpassed even Rupert, hitting his 2nd unbeaten ton of the season in making a chanceless 106 not out . It included 14 glorious 4s in very quick time before he retired himself out after getting a bit of stick from the opposition as they started telling him he was too good and why did he need to keep batting against a team with a large proportion of youngsters in it!
Oh, how they forgot where they came from, as 2 years previously, they took great pleasure in inflicting their 1st team premier batsmen upon the warriors. Alex retired himself soon after, which was to no real advantage to the hosts, as it brought Tim to the wicket, who had vowed to try to hit every ball for 6 . He was a man of his word, and did not defend a single ball ( although he did leave 1 delivery outside his off stump), as he went on the rampage. He was dropped 3 times, once over the boundary for 6, as he hit 64 not out in 9 overs, including four 6’s and seven 4’s Oscar batted well with him for a while, as the meathead recovers from his previously shattered confidence,. DD and Mark came and went quickly, but their role was a thankless one, as they were there to just push the score on as quickly as possible. Ramesh only had an over to augment the innings but did so safely leaving Wisley with the massive score of 264 for 4. Axel is nearing a the end of a remarkable season, and is actually in range of an average of 100, which would be some achievement .
Nick was there, with the brutal Matilda for the 1st half of the day, telling her that Richards snr was an extra from a horror movie, and the rest of the team were swamp monsters. She didn’t need telling though , as she routinely rebuffed all and sundry with scathing looks and dismissive hand gestures. Nick has finally found someone other than worzel Loud, who doesn’t truly hate him, as she scrambled into his arms at every opportunity. poor , deluded little mite

Style 65
Fletcher 106 (retired)
Richards T 64*
Richards O 9
Kerrigan 3
Domingo 0
Ramesh 1*

Tea was sh*te for £60, but for the 1st time this season Wisley could actually look forward to their fielding duties, knowing that a win was assured. Mark was offering odds of 1/6 for a Wisley win, no-one argued with that, such was the task ahead for Effingham.

Wisley took the field for the reply, and Mark in true Wisley spirit, he was determined to give everyone a go. The whole team bowled superbly with nearly everyone making a contribution. Unfortunately the he catching was less impressive , as things continued to go badly on that front . Axel dropped one off Oscar’s bowling, the usually reliable Ashwin dropped one off Mark’s bowling, and as is usual, Oscar dropped one off Janath’s bowling. Goalkeeper and rugby player my arse. Prasam dropped 2 off Ramesh’s bowling as the Wisley team shelled a multitute of chamces. Janath, DD and Axel did make up for some of the debacle by all catching difficult ones, DD way above his head and peddling backwards; Janath, a missile in the covers and Axel a sharp nick whilst standing up to Prasam . In fact DD’s efforts this year have been remarkable, considering his previous 15 years efforts had been pretty abysmal. . DD got one wicket, Ramesh got 1, Prasam got 1 in a spell of wonder that would of confused many a batsmen. At least half his deliveries spun past the batsmen’s outside edge as they just struggled to even smother the ball. Janath’s spell was also superb, taking the pace off, to bowl every ball in the same nightmare place which was impossible to get away. Ashwin took a wicket with his 1st ball and then got another later in his spell, the boy has swing potential. Mark spun the ball as well and got a deserved wicket, whilst Richards snr mopped up the tail by bowling each one of the last 3 batsmen . Take a look at these figures folks..

Janath 4 3 7 0
Domingo 4 2 6 1
Richards J 3 0 11 3
Richards O 4 0 16 0
Ramesh 5 1 12 1
Kerrigan 3 0 12 1
Ashwin 4 0 22 2
Prasam 5 1 11 1

The other story of the day was the tale of 2 dogs, one a white fluffy thing that had previously shat all over the artificial grass at the front of the pavilion, whilst the other was a ginger version called Nicky, who spent a large part of her evening titilating the victorious Wisley team. Had it been snowing in Effingham earlier in the day? , or was she just on heat?; either way her performance was rather entertaining . She worked her way around the team stealing f**s, before progressing to virtual s*x games with some of the more impressionable members of the team. She seemed to be attracted to Mark 1st, before he gave her the elbow after an argument about Bishops Stortford. The Bear was showing an initial interest , as is his penchant for all things freckly; but was put off by her knowledge of horses, which he thought might outweigh his own tips service ( go on Brian) Eventually she plumped for the younger versions of the team in Axel, Tim and Oscar. Tim wasn’t interested for obvious reasons; he is only 20 and she was old enough to be his mummy, Axel was also scared off by her age, but Oafscar started showing plenty of interest as she began to confide in him, she even started crying whilst sitting on his bench as she began to tell her life story. He said he would have taken up the offer if his dad and lil’ Bro’ hadn’t been hanging around like a bad smell, but we shall never know whether Nicky would have accepted his offerings, as he got a call from the only lady that matters in his life – his mummy, telling him his steak and kidney pie was on the table. Food and Deborah will always win the day in Oafscar’s eyes, and so off he went, and Nicky disappeared down the country lane.
The evidence ends there, although perhaps the story doesn’t, as Mark , who had sped off 30 seconds earlier, was seen to park his Vauxhall Corsa in the woods at the end of the very same lane Nicky was walking down – Mark, update please? forest of dean?

21/07/2017

We've landed...

18/07/2017

Counting down to the Tour.... Sandwich ain't gonna know what's hit it!

02/07/2017

A touch of class in today's venue! 🏏

20/06/2017

Sunday 18th June 2017

Wisley 213 for 3 off 28 overs beat West End Esher 130 for 5 by 83 runs ( 30 over game – thank God)

After last week’s superb win at the Bank of England, Wisley were back in the less salubrious surroundings of West End Esher. Axel was missing, as he was raising money for the British Heart Foundation by doing the London to Brighton bike ride; he dovetailed that in with calculating how many sunflower seeds the 195,000 sunflower plants could produce as he passed through the Suss*x countryside ....Nick is eagerly awaiting the answer, hoping that the result will indicate a severe crop famine of those nasty little buggers. Calvin’s wife had withdrawn him from the game without even telling him, as she was worried about his fitness in the heat - which is fair enough, but it would have been handy with a bit more than 1 hours’ notice. As usual, the squad’s Sri Lankan contingent came up trumps, by drafting our superstar fielder, the very fit Ashwin, and his dad Suren, who was very fetching in his French Foreign Legion head gear. The usual other reprobates where there in force. Baloo had done everyone a favour by agreeing to a 30 over game earlier in the week, which lessoned the pain for all and sundry due to the heat. Pre match talk included who was supporting who, in the ICC trophy. Richards snr was saying how he didn’t like the way the Indians supporters showed a lack of respect by refusing to clap any 4’s hit by Pakistan; he was soon to shut up by the skipper who told him to get his priorities right
Wisley were to bat 1st, and as it turned out, not many of them actually did in the end, such was the brutality of the action at the wicket. Mark re-installed himself as opener and did rather well in partnering Oafscar to an impressive start – 71 by the 7th over, before the Oaf skied one, which was well caught by the bowler. He hit a very quick 25, including lovely straight drives, as he and Mark pushed Wisley through the punishing heat ( more of that later). His exit brought Tim to the wicket, who had bashed 61 in a league match the day before , and so was a little weary. It showed in spades, as he and Mark either walked 1’s or hit boundaries. Wisley leaked over 20 runs by just walking 1’s, rather than running 2’s and 3’s. Tobago Alex would have been appalled. However , it was a sensible option, as it was obvious that West End’s young team were not going to get beyond the 200 mark from their 30 overs. Mark was bowled for a very nice 47, hooking and pulling superbly along the way . Like Oafscar, he also hit five 4’s and re-installed his confidence in the process. Tim was pretty faultless again, and this time turned his 50 into a 100 with ease, which included 15 fours and 3 sixes. He was joined by Nick for the last few overs, who also put to bed any issues he had with his ability and health, as he hit 23 in no time before being bowled having hit 3 fours. The skipper decided to declare in the 28th over once Tim had got to his 100, mainly to spare West End any more of the furnace that was burning at pitch level.

Wisley’s total amounted to 213 for 3; far too much for an understrength West End side
Kerrigan 47
Richards O 25
Richards T 100 not out
Reed 23

Tea was a strange affair, cakes at 4pm, with the offer of a burger after the match. Of course, for Wisley that is not a great option, as some live a distance away and want to head off at the end of the game, whilst others have a meal at home waiting for them. There were gripes, in that, although the burgers were nice, at £70 for teas, it was all a bit excessive, particularly as half of the team had left and secondly the collected money only came to £54, and that’s with everyone paying. Baloo came to the rescue by handing over £20 to cover the costs.

The heat hadn’t abated at all by the time Wisley took the field, but with a score of 213 on the board, the result was a foregone conclusion in reality. West End Esher never got near the total at any stage as Wisley did what they had to do to get through the 30 overs.. Oafscar got a catch, as did Nick, and a few went down , but there was no concern whatsoever. Everyone bowled OK with the wickets coming from DD x 2, Prakster, Nick, and our new bowling legend, The Great Geraldo, who knocked out the openers leg stump early in his spell. Yes, their were a few wides, but he was happy to get into the game. Everyone had a go, which is testament to Mark and to keeping everyone involved, which is how it should be. Ashwin bowled a nice spell, as did DD, and as usual, the fielding honours go to Ashwin, DD and The Great Geraldo, who chased everything down . Ramesh also did well in the field along with the brave Suren, who continues to field using the rarely seen ‘volley’ technique, i.e. the red sphere comes towards him at speed and he tries to kick it straight back. It’s an admirable trait , as it wastes no time in getting it back to the wicket, trouble is it is near on impossible to perfect, and when done correctly, it will result in several broken toes. Prakster got injured running for one in the deep, when many thought he was practising to be an extra in the new Scooby Doo movie; , arms all over the show, head back and legs that weren’t going anywhere, you know the stuff
The fielding disgraces were Mark, Tim and Richards snr. Mark because he fielded with no socks or shoes, having taken his Charlie Carolie looky likey shoes off at tea; Tim because he showed very little energy behind the stumps, but worse was Richards snr, who left the field in the 18th over through fatness exhaustion, having been moaning all afternoon. His great mate Baloo, had engineered this absence, and fed him copious amounts of water on the side-lines to cool him down, and even arranged for a young West End c**t to take his place. Baloo is owed a beer by his large mate, who acknowledges the favour with many thanks. They say fat blokes sweat, they aren’t wrong
Competence all round on the bowling front which easily defended the massive total set earlier

Richards J 4 0 9 0
Prakster 4 3 15 1
The Great Geraldo 4 0 17 1
Ashwin 4 0 18 0
Richards O 3 0 7 0
Domingo 5 0 20 2
Kerrigan 5 0 25 0
Reed 3 0 6 1

Catches - Richards O 1....... Reed 1

So, onto Salfords, lets hope it’s not so hot..............and also, Nick, could you stop sending an endless trail of insulting photos – i.e pictures of Mark with no top on, pictures of jerry mouse looking unhappy..... what the hell has Jerry the mouse got to do with Wisley C C ? As the Great Geraldo says, ‘do some bloody work man’

18/06/2017

It was all bit too much for Oafscar. Although he did do a few rolls over to change the score board while his not so ickle brother Timbo put on a ton. 🏏 ☀️ 🔥 💯

13/06/2017

Sunday 11th June 2017

Wisley 174 for 8 off 38 overs beat Bank of England 144 all out by 30 runs ( village rules)

After a depressing couple of defeats since the win at Oxshott, Baloo’s status and blue blood heritage, managed to get Wisley a stunning fixture at the Bank of England’s ground in Roehampton. They don’t invite teams lightly to such premium surroundings, and just getting through the security gate was an ordeal in itself. There were questions on which public school did you go to, and do you have an account with Coutts? - needless to say; Baloo, L*z and Axel all passed with flying colours; whilst the rest of the team were treated to further interrogations, like have you ever had an overdraft?. More pertinently, question 3 was ‘has anyone in your team ever been involved in robbing one of the Bank of England’s financial institution’s ( including getaway drivers) ? ’; Baloo briefed the squad that , due to a legal technicality, it didn’t include Post Office’s and so the team were able to say ‘no’ with a small degree of confidence. The team passed the test, but the last word from the gateman was ‘you can’t bring ci******es in here sir – ci**rs only’. Wally would have been appalled, but the questioning at the gate would have found him out anyway, as there is no way they’d have let such a left wing, anti- banking fruitcake anywhere near the place. Whinging Nick was back after his knee operation, as was brave Calvin looking to re-live his past glories, L*z was, as usual, the selfless individual that he is, by agreeing to let Baloo bat and then he would field on Baloos behalf, but the real bonus for Capt Domingo was the inclusion of a young 14 year old superstar in Prasam, an aquaintance of Ramesh, who effectively won the game for Wisley.
DD managed the team magnificently throughout ; how he managed to protect a meagre total of 174 was testament to his thought processes and decision making on the day. There have already been rumblings sent out on social media by some of Mark’s not so trusted cabinet; ( Rupert ‘Boris’ Geer ) questioning the position of Wisley’s leader after DD’s impressive leadership effort. Mark will have to keep a close eye on some of his Ministers, and which ones are plotting a coup. At least Baloo’s musings were there for all to see; it’s the likes of Nick, Jerry, and the Richards’ boys, that Mark needs to watch; and which of them are secretly scheming to be the modern day von Staufenberg. Don’t forget what happened to him though – shot at dawn – traitors beware, Mark has a ruthless streak.
It’s not quite clear what happened at the toss, as Wisley were asked to bat 1st, as BOECC like to partake in the substantial tea offerings, but only after fielding 1st . Strange one that, but it suited Wisley as the game was declared a ‘village cricket’ rules game, rather than the brutality of a 40 overs match. BOECC even supplied a full time umpire, (more of him later) and so rather than Richards snr and L*z umpiring the whole 40 overs each, they only did 20 each
Nick and Axel were 1st up, although Nick didn’t last long as he was bowled by a good swinging ball in the 5th over for just 2. Axel was back to his best, and was quick to get to 33 before being caught superbly at mid off in the 18th over. He hit 4 fours in a timely fashion, but something had gone slightly awry, as by drinks at the 20 over point, Wisley had only made it to 70. The reason was probably that they were leaking wickets at regular intervals, with Nick , Alex and Prakash all gone ( Prakash bowled for 4) , and so some rebuilding was a necessity. Tim really didn’t really do that in orthodox fashion, as in 13 overs he moved Wisley’s score from 70 to 159, to set a decent platform with 9 overs to go. He faced around 60 balls and in a faultless innings of top quality, he hit 10 fours and a very big 6, mostly off the opening bowler, who had returned to try to put a halt to the youngster. He did manage to break Tim’s toes as a legitimate way reining him in, but it didn’t work, as Tim continued to hit the boundary ropes in regular fashion. During this period, the previously mentioned Capt Birdseye lookylikey, AKA an ECB qualified umpire, decided to try to level things up somewhat by giving a couple of outrageous LBW’s decisions against 2 Wisley heroes. Ramesh was the 1st on the receiving end, as he stretched forward as far as any Wisley batsmen has ever done in their lives, to be hit on the front pad, only see to finger of death pointing at him after a 10 minute delay. It didn’t look out from the car park, let alone from the cricket pitch. Ramesh walked off disappointed, but in true cricketing fashion; without compliant. The Bear took a slightly different approach, and went down the dissent route, as he also took one on his stretching front pad to a ball pitched outside the line. Again, it just didn’t look out from wherever anyone stood, and Baloo made that plain to see; as he stood there looking at his front pad, then the wicket, then the umpire in perfect rotation for 3 whole cycles as the finger of fate was again employed after a significant delay. Unfortunately he had to walk in the end and so Wisley had been deprived of 2 of their best batsmen. Tim was soon out thereafter, bowled off his bat and pad going for another huge hit, and it was left to DD and Calvin to get Wisley to a respectable score. DD hit 2 nice 4’s, including a screamer over mid-on, before getting bowled. The boy always looks the part, but as is usual, he gets started before finding a way to get out. Calvin batted very well on his return, making 14 not out , whilst Prasam was not afraid to hit out in getting to 6 before being bowled as well. Oafscar, got some of his lost confidence back by hitting 5 not out , including a hard hit half volley which smashed into Capt Birdseye’s shoulder – karma indeed thought Rupert and Ramesh
Wisley’s total amounted to 174 for 8; 25 short of a par score was the call from the more senior members of the team, but little did Wisley know they had a young wizard in their ranks who is unscarred by previous Wisley CC efforts
Reed 2
Fletcher 33
Prakash 3
Ramesh 12
Richards T 70
Geer 1
Domingo 10
Prasam 6
Wilson 14 not out
Richards O 5 not out

A top tea by our hosts.... finely cut sandwiches, including egg, chicken, ham and tuna, followed by scones with individual pots of clotted cream. Tea was presented in silver teapots and milk in individual ceramic pouring jugs . Impresssive indeed. Axel, Wisley’s resident fast food expert, was less impressed though , and was not convinced that the sandwiches were made by hand; rather produced by a machine such was their symmetry. He could be right, as it was a Bank of England premises, where everything is done clinically.

What followed though, was pure magic, with everyone playing their part . L*z was actually observed diving to stop fours at one stage, Richards snr and Nick ran a few more yards than they’d like to have done, and even Tim, with broken toes, ran on in pain when needed. He did bite as a result of a bit of abuse hurled his way as to his speed across the ground,; so much so, he removed both his boot and sock to show everyone the evidence. This held up the match for 5 mins whilst everyone was ordered over to have a look. It nearly surpassed Nick’s ‘squeal piggy, squeal’ antics at Stoke from days gone past, but in reality nothing will ever beat that performance. ,Oafscar was a bit of an exception, he was caught kipping a couple of times on the boundary, and has a propensity to try to throw the stumps down 5 mins after the batsman has made it home. He has caught that disease off Tim, who again produced some overthrows , trying to effect a run out. He was, however, unlucky to not hit the stumps with a direct a little earlier on, by missing by a whisker to remove the stubborn opening bat .
A few edges whizzed through the slip cordon, which Nick tried valiantly to reach, but they were near on impossible, such were their speed, Axel shelled a very feint edge behind the stumps, and Calvin did make a hash of a skier,which he didn’t get his hands to in the end. However, all this is overshadowed by some stunning catches and committed fielding which helped win the match. The Prakster started it off, and is now Wisley’s ‘juggleberry’, having firmly taken away this long lost art from DD, who is grabbing everything thrown at him nowadays. Calvin’s 1st ball back in the fold, was a rank half tracker which produced an edge from their opener and Prakster juggled it home at the 3rd attempt. Calvin then dropped in a short one, in some of the worst bowling ever seen, and it was smashed straight into Richards snr hands at midwicket to get Calvin his 2nd wicket of the day. It was a full bloodied shot from one of BOECC 1st team stars who had been drafted in, and Wisley could ill afford to let the opportunity pass them by. Previously, DD and Oscar were again very unlucky with the edges that didn’t quite go to hand, but it soon became evident that fast bowling was not the way to go, as the other opener loved using the pace of the ball to deflect 4’s behind square. BOECC were going along at 6 an over early on and the result looked a formality. Then DD brought on the young Prasam in tandem with the wily Ramesh, and things changed dramatically in a very short period of time. The other BOECC 1st team star was caught near the boundary by a diving DD, as it went straight into his breadbasket without any sort of juggle, as Prasam begun to weave his magic spell. Ramesh traded blow for blow with Prasam, and they worked their way through the BOECC batting line up with precision and guile . Richards snr snaffled another good catch at deep cover off Ramesh, having been moved to that exact position by DD the ball before , whilst Prasam was continuing to strafe through the opposition at regular intervals. BOECC went from 105 for 4 in the 21st over to 144 all out, as Prasam and Ramesh motored on. Ramesh took another superb catch diving to his left off his own bowling, before Prasam finished them off, by inducing their number 10 to slash to the Prakster , who juggled magnificently before declaring it ‘game over’ as he held onto the ball aloft to give Wisley their 10th wicket , and glorious victory Amongst Prasams’ wickets’ was an LBW decision that really was a long time in coming , as Capt Birdseye had previously turned down at least 4 good shouts, and so to give one, was overdue. The umpire did say some nice words about Prasam during the lager frenzy in the clubhouse afterwards , and I quote’ I have rarely seem such control applied by someone of that age in nearly 30 years of cheating umpiring ‘
Magnificence all round, intelligently captained by DD ( once he’d listened to L*z’s views about taking the pace off the ball ) , and a welcome win for Wisley
Domingo 5 0 31 0
Richards O 5 0 19 0
Wilson 4 0 22 2
Ramesh 8 0 30 3
Prasam 8 2 24 5
Richards J 4 0 17 0
Catches - Prakash 2..... Domingo 1....... Ramesh 1……. Richards snr 2 .

Everyone paid up for the teas, in fact there was £5 over, and so it might be worth Mark offering to pay Prasam £1.09 an hour to play for Wisley in next week – it doesn’t sound much, and certainly doesn’t match Wally’s weekly pension income of £2,300 net that we all are paying for; but it is a gesture of appreciation to a young man who had just won Wisley the game.

16/05/2017

Wisley 239 for 4 off 40 overs beat Maori Oxshott 220 for 9 beat all out by 19 runs

Sunday 14th May 2017

After a few ritual beatings over the last few years at the hands of old adversaries Moari Oxshott, Wisley turned in an inspiring performance to win their 1st game of the season in style. After winning just once in each of the last 2 seasons, Wisley are now firmly on the board half way through May, which is some achievement, after a slide into what seemed to be terminal decline. Scott was back this week, and what a performance he put in for his beloved team; he not only adds some real class to the batting line up, his fielding and enthusiasm rub off on some of the more pessimistic members of the Wisley squad. However, the star of the day was Axel Fletcher who caressed his way to his maiden ton in an innings of rare quality to carry his bat through the whole 40 overs. Mark managed the team magnificently throughout and despite Maori Oxshott having a pretty good line up, the Wisley total of 239 for 4 was just too much for them to chase down.
Wisley were there early, and drinking heavily, 90 mins prior to kick off. Stalwart, Richard ‘mortar bomb’ Hansom was there for the 34th consecutive year, and regaling us with some stories of past players and events from that period. It’s been around 23 long years since Wisley last saw him with a bat in his hand, and so was nice to see him run the 22yds in an effort to get Oxshott over the line. It was all the more remarkable as he had pulled calf muscle during his bowling stint, and it was only fitting that the Bear declined the offer to run him out and let the Oxshott legend carry on trying to dig his Oxshott team out of the mire. Ultimately, he failed, but Oxshott’s loss was not down to him.
Richards snr dropped out this week with the usual physical affliction, but was cajoling the Wisley Warriors from the boundary ropes, although Bear was insistent that he was removed, as he reckoned he was disturbing Nick’s concentration (easily done at the best of times)
Mark’s 1st bit of good work of the day was to convince the Oxshott skipper Wisley were proper cannon fodder; the evidence was there however, as Wisley had been bowled out for 105 in their 1st game this season, and did little better at Englefield Green last week. He had pleaded that it was necessary to let Wisley bat 1st and the Oxshott skipper took the bait.
So Wisley batted 1st and cousins’ Oafscar and Axel were 1st up. There was once a time when these 2 were trading blow for blow as to who was going to flourish and develop into the next young Wisley star to take over from Buncey. How they have gone their different ways; Oafscar finding all sorts of ways to get out in the first 12 balls, whilst Axel is now able to bat the whole 40 overs without breaking sweat. Oafscar is now a batting pariah, and all round walking wicket, who may now benefit from a drop down to order to refresh his weary mind. Axel, full of confidence, was well overdue a ton after numerous knocks that took him into the 70’s over the last few years. He couldn’t have done it at a nicer ground either, as he gave all those watching a lesson of how to compile a near perfect 100. Steady at 1st after Oafscar’s departure, then seeing Prakash through a difficult period caused by some accurate bowling, to finally opening up the sluices when Nick and Scott arrived at the crease to up the run rate from a very careful 1 run per over in the 1st 9 overs, to a finishing run rate of nearly 6.
Mark surprised the team by inserting the ever smiling Prakash at 3, he went out and hit 13 entertaining runs, including a massive six which smashed into the sight screen. However, by the time Nick got to the crease, Wisley were 10 for 2 in the 10th over, and in a fair bit of trouble. Nick 1st scoring shot was the usual screaming off drive which flew to the cover boundary, and he was feeling confident until the Wisley nemesis of years gone by was brought into the attack. ‘Bomber’ Hansom was to do for him, after Nick decided to do a very accurate impression of the long lost McCarty beast, as he ended up eating the grass in lobbing Bomber’s death ball to square leg for an easy catch. Scott was next, and it was at that point that the fortunes changed for Wisley, as the pair of them put 159 runs for the 4th wicket with a series of blistering drives and cuts which went to all corners of the ground. Scott was the perfect foil for his great mate Alex, as he was able to keep the runs flowing when Alex was off strike. He hit a quick 65 before being bowled 2 overs from the end . He hit 8 fours and never gave a chance. Alex didn’t relent in the slightest, and continued to straight drive impressively throughout his innings. He hit a massive 20 fours and ran a two to reach his 100. Off came the helmet as he threw down his bat to be gleefully accosted by a very excited Scott. He only gave 3 chances, one a difficult slip catch when he was on 50; another to square leg, and the last, ( his 1st shot after scoring his ton,) when he was dropped at point . That one didn’t matter a jot, as he had done his job by then as he remained not out at 111 – unlucky for some, but not for Alex. Ramesh was 2 not out as Wisley’s total amounted to 239 fro 4 off 40

Richards O 2
Fletcher 111 not out
Prakash 13
Reed 15
McIntosh 65
Ramesh 2 not out

A top tea by our hosts as usual, then onto the Oxshott response

A monumentus fielding effort ensued, with all the bowlers playing their part . OK, Jerry dropped 2 catches, but he did walk a long way from the station to get there, and did take one very good catch before getting the jips. DD caught one near the boundary at a critical time, and Prakash also caught 2 with consummate ease... smiling as he did so. Alex and DD worked in tandem to remove the Oxshott skipper and all round top bloke, as he edged one behind and then walked without even looking at the umpire. It was a crucial wicket as if he was not out at the end Oxshott would surely have won the game . However the fielding accolade must go to Ramesh, who not only held onto a rocket at cover to remove one of Oxshotts top batsmen, he surpassed this with a catch off his own bowling that defied belief. He dived full length to his left to snaffle the ball no more than a couple of inches off the ground to remove another of Oxshotts star players. Young Janath bowled a lovely line to get his 1st 2 wickets of the season, Oscar got one, Ramesh got one , and then the daddy of them all, the Bear, gave us some vintage spin which earned him 3 further wickets. Champagne moment was a tribute to Bomber Hansom, as the Bear unleashed an ice laden replica to the founder of the method as Bombers 1st ball He was in shock, but kept it out to remain not out at the end.
Magnificence all round, beautifully captained from fingers, with a mixture of humour, shrewd fielding positions and the occasional swear word of determination thrown in
Domingo 8 2 30 2
Richards O 8 1 39 1
Janath 8 0 53 2
Ramesh 8 0 44 1
Geer 7 0 41 3
Reed 1 0 9 0
Catches - Prakash 2..... Fletcher 1....... Snelling 1........ Domingo 1....... Ramesh 2.

Alex (Simon) paid for a jug afterwards to celebrate his ton, as the Oxshott stalwarts and the Wisley team had a long drink on the outfield after a super days cricket.
With no Mark, Ru and DD next week, Nick the allocated skipper, might struggle, although Scott, Alex and the returning Tim should ensure a batting line that is a competitive one

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