Sporting News

A Sporting Recap - The White Horse Vs The Apple Tree — 15th August 2004

A finely contested knock in not so fine August conditions. Nevertheless both sides turned out in fine fettle; the Apple obviously taking things very seriously in the neatly pressed whites (Not).

The Horse won the toss and after consultation with the Met Office decided to bat first, thus taking advantage of a fast, slick outfield. Little could have prepared them for the vicious Apple opening pace attack, with Carl Harrison (The Silent Assassin) taking 3 wickets for 5 runs in his opening 2 overs. Tim Watts and Paul Redfern soon restored order with two unbeaten 25+ innings which led to their retirements.

After skittling the tail order, The Apple graciously allowed The Horse to resume from the top of the order. This did little good for Jez Simpson who was soon out again ending his miserable day at the crease. After their full 25 overs the Horse had amassed 117runs.

With the rain falling and The Apple Tree order getting very wet both outside and in. The White Horse attack prepared to emulate the fine bowling displayed earlier. Had it not been for a slow and deteriorating outfield I fear that the runs would have come thick and fast as the openers soon picked the lengths and were able to manipulate the ball around the field at will.

Nevertheless, the dogged bowling of The Horse soon paid dividends as Brass Watts was caught at silly mid on after a dolly dropped from nowhere. Andrew Hollis and Pat Allen both put on 25+ in short order and retired to the pavilion to get wetter. The Horse, realizing they were in a pickle, resorted to bodyline tactics to stem the flow of runs. This achieved, it made scoring slow and by the last over The Apple was at 114 for 9 requiring 4 runs from the last over to win. The Horse, not to be denied success, bowled superbly and held the Apple to two meagre runs hence winning by 1 run. Congratulations White Horse.

(At time of writing the decision of the ICCQ had not made known to the author.)

10,000 steps a Day!!

To all those who replied to this short article about 10,00 steps—thank you. As soon as this issue of "The Quorndon" is completed you will be contacted, with the aim of staring the Walking Group in the New Year. And if you missed the article last time:

We are all encouraged to walk more, and get up to the magical number of 10,000 steps per day.

But it can be boring walking on your own. Are you interested in a Walking Group? No planned walks, just join with others to take more walking exercise and have a chat on the way.

If interested — then leave your name, address, telephone number and times when you would be interested in going out walking, for "The Quorndon" at Flowers by Sarah, and we will try to form Walking Groups during the week.