2010 Season Review

Southgate Cricket Club 2010 Season Review Featuring the statistics from all matches played in 2010 SCC 2010 Season Review 1 SCC 2010 Season Review 2 SOUTHGATE CRICKET CLUB 2010 REVIEW Table of Contents Topic Page Table of Contents 1 Results Table 2 The 2010 Season 3 Geoff Slipper 5 Batting Averages 8 Bowling Averages 9 End of Season Awards 10 Highlights of 2010: 11 Batting totals 11 Centuries 11 Large partnerships 12 Bowling: five wickets or more 12 economical analyses 12 Fielding and miscellaneous statistical items 13 1st XI League Tables 14 1st XI League Averages 15 2nd XI League Tables 16 2nd XI League Averages 17 3rd XI League Tables 18 3rd XI League Averages 19 Two days in the life 20 1987 League Tables 22 4th XI League Averages 24 Southgate Colts 25 SCC 2010 Season Review 1 Southgate Cricket Club 2010 Results Category Fixtures Won Tied Drawn Lost Aband Canc’d 1st XI Middlesex League 18 6 0 8 3 1 0 1st XI Cup matches 4 0 0 0 3 1 0 2nd XI Middlesex League 18 0 0 4 14 0 0 3rd XI Middlesex League 18 4 0 3 9 2 0 4th XI 1987 League 18 2 0 3 6 2 4 1st XI Friendly 18 0 0 3 3 1 11 2nd XI Friendly 24 2 0 3 7 1 11 3rd XI Friendly 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Other Friendly 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 Totals 121 16 0 24 45 8 28 Sponsored by Underpin and Makegood (Contracting) Ltd 37 Millmarsh Lane, Enfield, Middlesex EN3 7UY Tel: 020 8805 4000 Fax: 020 8805 4222 DDI: 020 8344 4141 SCC 2010 Season Review 2 THE 2010 SEASON Ricky Gunn A challenging summer The 2010 season was a difficult one for the club. Availability was poor at the start of the season. This meant that teams at the top the club were weaker than normal and some 4th XI league games were cancelled for the first time ever. The reasons for this are a combination of a change in organisation in the cricket committee, lack of a website pre-season, and the lack of a 3rd XI captain. A major effort was made by the cricket committee to reverse this problem and, on a positive note, this was largely achieved by introducing youngsters into the lower teams once the exam period had finished. However, later in the season some players seemed to be dispirited by poor results and availability in the middle teams dropped off again. Sides played, but were weak. In amongst all this, Southgate lost one of its best loved members, Geoff Slipper, about whom a tribute follows immediately after this introduction. The 1st XI were mostly immune from these problems for league games. Although again without a guest overseas player, the core of the team regularly turned out and performed well in league games, though they struggled in cups on Sundays. They were in the top three of their division for most of the season, but just missed out on promotion in a very tight league, finding it difficult to turn draws into wins in the second half of the season. Alvin Durgacharan continued his wonderful form of 2009 with 721 League runs including a century against Harrow Town and seven other scores over 50. He was well supported by Matt Creese with 466 runs and Tom Allan with 394. James Watkins announced his arrival later in the season at Southgate with a memorable hundred against Enfield. Creese proved his invaluable worth by taking 30 wickets, while Tuan Hadgie weighed in with 29 and Faisal Mir with 24. This is a critical development for Southgate as taking all ten wickets in a half-day game on invariably flat tracks is the only way to ensure promotion – and then beyond. The other teams, however, generally struggled. This was partly due to the very difficult and slow start to the year due itself to the lack of available players. In particular the 2nd XI had a very challenging year. Playing in the top division for 2nd XIs in the Middlesex League against very strong opposition they did not manage to win a league game. Spirit was good for most of the season, but inevitably morale dropped towards the end. Nevertheless, newcomers Rob Dawson-Goodey and Olly Bellwood showed promise with the bat. While 17 year-old Tom Edrich continues to develop as a batsman, the team found itself relying on Paddy Robinson and William Dean when they were available to play. The principal weakness, though, was in the bowling where only Adam Vinson with 16 wickets made it to double-figures. The lack of players at the start of the season had a major on effect on the 3rd and 4th XIs. The 3rd XI had the challenge of having a few different captains at the start of the year, but in the SCC 2010 Season Review 3 end had sufficient ability and experience to comfortably avoid relegation. The better 3rd XI players found themselves drawn into the 2nds and the 4ths into the 3rd XI No batsman in the 3rd XI reached 150 league runs, and only Paul Lassman (with 17) and Arvind Shah (16) exceeded 12 wickets. The instability of the sides was evidenced by the fact that no fewer than 48 players represented the 2nd XI and an even more remarkable 53 for the 3rd XI in 2010. Cancellation of four 4th XI 1987 League games in succession at the start of the season presaged an inevitable relegation. Fortunately there was some improvement towards the middle and end of the season and so there is something to build on. |As a result, the 4th XI were eventually only relegated on the last day of the season after a good fight. Gunn (251), Dowsett (114) and Gordon (111), at some horrific combined age, were the only batsmen to exceed 100 runs in the season. The loss of Roy Marett to the 3rd XI and only three appearances from Stuart Cradock meant a heavy burden on skipper Len Stokes who took 22 wickets. No- one else made double-figures. However, the lack of experienced players had a healthy spin-off in that it did precipitate the senior colts into the world of adult cricket. Although we could not expect a dramatic upsurge of victories it provided some cricket-hungry lads with a ready source of games. Ricky Gunn and Len Stokes represented the 1987 League XI and an inaugural Middlesex Over 60s game against Surrey. (There was a little flexibility on the age in the circumstances!) Games on Sundays got off to the same poor start as Saturdays. There were difficult cup games against strong opposition, but eventually several good friendlies were played as Paul Lassman, in addition to taking over the job of Team Secretary mid-season, took on the job of raising and captaining Sunday XIs. Over the season Alvin Durgacharan was the highest run-scorer with 859, followed by Phil Dunnett who continued to display his natural youthful ability with 596 runs including a maiden century coupled with 26 dismissals behind the stumps. Matt Creese (567) and Tom Yeomans (551 including a maiden Southgate hundred) were the only other players to exceed 500. Our poor season was also evidenced by the greatest individual wicket haul being only 38, shared by Len Stokes and Paul Lassman, followed by Tuan Hadgie (36) and Matt Creese (35). Perhaps the best individual batting highlight was Rob Johnson’s 88 from 61 balls (4 sixes, 9 fours) in the new Jim Conroy Trophy against the eventual competition winners Cockfosters. A new trophy, donated by Pat Slipper, the Geoff Slipper Spirit of Cricket Award for playing cricket in the right way, was awarded to Mark Singleton. www.southgatecc.com The new Southgate CC website was launched in the summer. This has been the culmination of many months of hard work by Hiren Patel, who has built and designed what I'm sure you'll agree is a fantastic site. He did it at no financial cost o the Club and we owe him a huge debt of gratitude. His company advert you'll see on the left hand side of the site - this is the very least we could do for him. Hiren has set up probably the finest site in the league and it'll be the envy of many clubs. The site, we hope, will be a major help moving the club forward over the coming years. It will be where any potential players, sponsors, supporters, colts, parents etc will look before deciding whether this is the club for them and where members and anyone else interested can keep up with events past and future at the Club. RDG SCC 2010 Season Review 4 GEOFF SLIPPER 1941 - 2010 Southgate Cricket Club was deeply saddened to learn that Geoff Slipper died on 22 July. Geoff joined the club in 1969 having previously played cricket and football for Old Stationers. A medium-pace bowler who could move it in the air and get deviation off the pitch, he was difficult to score runs off. In addition he was capable of entertaining “cameo” innings lower down the order. Geoff quickly established himself in the old Extra 1st X1 (who played exclusively in friendlies and cup matches and continued so to do even when the leagues were well established). His ability to bowl straight, and even more importantly to bowl to the field set for him, made him a great asset and was much appreciated by his captain (invariably Bob Cole).

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