CC Derbys Away or Call Up for Corporal's Protege

First topic message reminder :

Nineteen year old paceman Matthew Dunn has been called into the Surrey squad for the CC match away at Derbys starting tomorrow. As readers of the original 606 forum will know, Dunn has been tipped since last season for full military honours by the Corporal.

Further details and views to follow ....

Churchy reckons that if you bowl really well on this pitch you can bowl a side out cheaply... Oh well that rules out Surrey then unless we get a generous declaration.....

Maynard out going for quick runs...

Maynard out as well time to declare 351 for 8

The viscount out the corporal's protege to the wkt

358 all out 25 runs for the last 5 wkts

Taking lessons from Sri Lanka

Gadzooks, 350 odd all out.

Quite tricky for Derbys to judge things from here. As shown today, our batting can rapidly fall apart but several can score very quickly.

Will Matthew 'Clive' Dunn bowl some short stuff tonight? They don't like it up 'em!

10 overs left

"Clive" takes his maiden wicket in cc

And now a second wicket for ''Clive''!

An England call up can only be a matter of hours away....

Now the Viscount strikes !

The boy Dunn good excuse the pun

3 overs left come on Surrey

The viscount strikes 28 for 4 1 over left

35 for 4 at stumps 77 ahead

Thanks to the Viscount and Clive we are on top and can dare to think of our second CC win this season.

Credit also to our main batsmen who earlier in the day made decent runs in double quick time to keep the game alive. That was in contrast to our late middle order and tail who not only failed to wag but fell away completely.

We will still have to play well tomorrow. Those hardly involved so far will need to turn up for the conclusion of this party. Batty will need to produce some of those 'mystery' balls, Jewell will need at least a semi- sparkling performance and Jordan will need to, aherm, do something!

Well well well, I disappeared and hour early last night to take my nephew to see X-Men, with a draw seemingly certain as we batted on past 350, only to discover our 'weak' attack wreaking havoc...........and now Derby are 5 down!

Get in! 'Clive' has 'Dunn' it again - 6 down and 4 for the boy now - they certainly don't like it up them!

Goochie - the only bad thing about this for me is that I'm desperately trying to submit some invoices to 'Woking Salt Mines Ltd' and keep getting pulled back to Archbishop Church on the radio!

Guildford and his family may starve but at least we'll have another win - won't we, Goochie?

Well done Viscount - that's 9 for him in the match now!

Hi Guildford

Does Churchy say if the pitch has deteriorated, or are lads bowling brilliantly? Put the invoice processing on hold til lunch!!

Fivefer on debut for Clive............I'm running out of superlatives (and Dad's Army jokes!)

Morning all 2 more wkts needed please Surrey wrap this up quickly

Goochie - well Dunn certainly isn't a 'stupid boy' to continue the Dad's Army references!

Churchy hasn't used the term 'deteriorated' (maybe he's too polite) but he has just said 'the pitch is offering a lot to the bowlers' and 'any target will be difficult'.

He's also been very complimentary about the Viscount and Clive.

Meanwhile, Jordan has just bowled a no ball!

Jordan gets a wicket! 'Not the best delivery you'll ever see but Luke Sutton couldn't resist and got a thick outsize edge' - Churchy.

127 is the lead. One wicket to get ....

Churchy has just emphasised 'the run chase won't be too easy'.

Jordan going at his normal 7 an over - even bowling against a number 10!

Oh he's got him now though!!

So Guildford, do we reckon 150 ish is going to be a difficult target? Surely our top 6 can get that??

All up for another caught behind off Jordan but not given ....

Well I'm back from the Big Apple, knackered and with some rather excellent tan lines!

I don't know, I go away for a few days and Surrey suddenly learn how to bowl! Quite ironic that Dernbach gets called up on the back of 2 poor performances to be replaced by Dunn who immediately repays the Corporals faith in him with a five-for. The viscount really is starting to step up the plate with his wickets which is excellent to see.

10 wickets in the match for Linley. Superb!

10fer for the Viscount! Well bowled sir

So 142 it is then - Come on Hyphen and J-Roy, get us off to a good start

Welcome back Carrot!

All out! Ten in the match for the Viscount - honours and biscuits to him!

Clive leads the team off.

142 to win. I really feel we can knock these runs off. The pitch will clearly be difficult but several of our frontline batsmen - particularly Le Roi - are rapid scorers which should greatly help if they can just stay in for a while ....

I'll stick my neck out and predict a 6 wicket win!

Carrot As they say in another sport its a funny old game

16 off 2 - no fear about this pitch from the youngsters!

Well bowled Mr Palladino! Just the 22 off that over!

22 off the fourth over...

Palladino 2 overs for 32 ouch

52-0 off 5 overs....

20/20 practice carrot

for a second there "le Roi" was scoring at less than a run-a-ball, I was worried about him...!

Hyphen gone 62-1

Hyphen perishes, but that's a superb start!

Calypso cricket from Surrey.

His majesty gone for 45 though...

Just 67 left required for the win after the 20/20 openers, things should calm down a bit now one would think with the old heads at the crease.

And that's lunch.

It couldn't have gone any better this morning
4 great performances!

2 maidens it has now returned to sanity. or what passes for sanity at the Oval rece

any one who speaks the dreaded s word ends up like this

A very warm welcome to you Crystal-Purley. What a time to join!

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