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A Star is Bourne
On a wet, miserable day just off the M25, a Cavs debutant
etched his name in history.
Big Ben Thompson, who hadn't played cricket for eight years,
rewrote the club's record books with a stunning 28 runs
in an over.
He smashed four consecutive maximums into a wheatfield
and then bludgeoned a four before getting out trying for
a sixth boundary.
Ben's heroics surpass those of 2005's Hatfield Horatio
Jim Burton, who had held the Cavs record for most runs from
an over with 24.
It wasn't to be for the purple and blacks, though, as debutant
skipper Todd Baines' side were edged out in a thriller.
Defending a meagre 160, veteran medium-pacer Fraser Tant
took a club best 6-26 but the home side held on to win by
one wicket.
Having been put in a pudding of a track and with dark clouds
gathering, the Cavs had been looking to post a decent total,
get to tea and hope the heavens opened.
But it went badly wrong from the start with the loss of
Lythgoe and Rankin for ducks and only the recently-back-from-honeymoon
SNR holding firm.
Thompson gave the innings some impetus and together with
Lloyd, fresh from some great news on the home front, got
the middle-order going.
None were able to make the big innings required, though,
and when Baines went cheaply the innings was in tatters.
Tant chipped in with a useful knock, which included three
towering sixes, one onto the A41, but R. Timms and Moxham
both went for ducks (the latter's second for the Cavs in
two innings spanning eight years!) and N Timms for next
to nothing.
Timmy F then did all that was needed to keep his average
up.
Probably 20 short of a decent total, Baines led his team
into the field after the tea interval calling for a big
effort... and the Lowers stepped up.
Tant and Rankin took nine wickets between them and SNR
the 10th. Not a Fifth year scalp in sight!
It wasn't to be, though, despite a good all-round effort
and the Cavaliers circus rolls on to Redbourn this coming
Saturday.
