Match Scorecard

Match Report

Transcendent Tennant

Mark Tennant produced yet another spell of devastating bowling to give Wooburn their first win of the 2007 league season on Saturday.



After winning the toss, Finchampstead skipper Dick Potter chose to bat first on a damp wicket.  With James White bowling an accurate opening spell at the River End, Mark found great rhythm and pace from the Church End with the wind behind him and soon cleaned up Blogg with an inswinging yorker.  Ramskir and Rose both quickly followed, falling lbw and bowled respectively to leave Finchampstead reeling on 13-3 off 11 overs. 



Richie Barker took over from a tiring White bowling into a strong wide and continued with the tight line shown by White as Finchampstead looked to rebuild their innings.  Any chance of that was all but gone as Tennant once again swung one back in to Clarke to pin him lbw and then clean bowled Simmonite with the score now just 25-5. 



Potter was bravely hanging in their but when he inside edge another inswinging yorker onto his toe, the ball looped up to a grateful Jon Nelson at gully to hand Tennant his sixth of the innings.  Ian Woosnam and Vijay Singh lookalikes Barclay and Hirani then stayed together for the biggest partnership of the innings (16) playing some excellent shots in the process.  When Barclay drove one straight to White at mid off thoughts started to turn to whether Tennant could claim all 10 wickets in the innings!



Any chance of this happening was ended when a mix up between Vijay and Jubb saw Jubb easily run out by Chris Hall.  Vijay was very unlucky to then be run out when Richie Barker deflected a drive onto the stumps at the non strikers end. 



Finchampstead\s innings finally came to an end when Dave Small had Brown caught in the gully with Wooburn having to chase a very modest 52 for victory.



Andrew and Martin Tennant opened up for Wooburn, with both looking in fine form against the impressive pace of Jubb.  The opening pair added 40 for the first wicket with Andrew striking a glorious six before being trapped lbw by Jubb.  Martin Tennant soon followed, losing his off stump to Jubb, which was gratefully caught on camera by Pidge!



Paul Cooper and Jon Nelson knocked off the remaining runs needed for a 20 point victory without any further trouble and all eyes then turned to a very lacklustre period of extra time during the FA Cup Final as Mark Tennant relunctantly got a jug in…..



The 1st X1 travel to Aldershot next week