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Tigers Annual 2017 2 BDOC’s review of the 2017 season third was cancelled due to lack of numbers on both sides). Many matches were played out in poor conditions, on slow pitches that gave lit- tle help to the bowlers. Of the seven matches won, two were against the Railway Taverners, who do not have a “another disappointing season” strong bowling attack, and a further two – low -scoring narrow victories against Acme and Potter Street – were against sides with less than a full line-up. However, there were three good wins, one overcoming a strong Haringey Libraries side ('London's finest social cricket team'), an unexpected triumph in another low- scoring contest in Porto, and a good effort v N2 Casuals early in the season. It was ultimately another disappointing season for the club, the team winning just seven of 21 fixtures, the same total as the last two seasons. Consequently, of the last 64 matches over the past three summers, the team has won only 21, slightly less than 33%, and the number of defeats in the club's history now outnumbers the wins 57-55, with the win percentage slid- ing from 48 to 45%. Indeed, the total of 13 de- feats in 2017 may well have been higher, had the proposed games with Highgate, The Gen- tlemen of West London and Cincinnati gone Photobombed in Porto ahead. In a fairly average summer it was fortu- nate only two games fell foul of the weather (a 3 In fact, following the Porto victory, the team In 2017 just nine club members played in more did not win another game for almost three than half the games, with just six available for months, a run of ten matches, though during two-thirds or more of the fixtures, this decline this period two consecutive games were lost in availability becoming a worrying downward by just one wicket after the batsmen had post- ed totals of 222 and 237. Failing to defend high scores was a problem throughout 2017, further totals of 223, 188, 200, and 240 also proving insufficient. In real terms, the batting was not discernibly worse than in previous years, though the aver- “The main problem was the record num- ber of players used during the season ” Winchmore Hill - early summer age total per innings fell from 171 to 165, the Tigers being outscored by their opponents 3759-3480, despite taking five more wickets trend that needs to be addressed. 25 guests (165-160). The main problem was the record were used in 2017, sixteen of which played on- number of players used during the season ly one match (though two were loaned by our (44), seven more than in 2016 and an amazing opponents in the final match). Many of these increase of 20 on 2015, when only three guest were 'triallists' (if you like) who played once players were required and 11 of the 21 mem- and never returned. bers were available for more than half the matches. “In 2017 just nine club members played in more than half the games” Consequently, the captain rarely had a con- sistent line-up at his disposal, often presented with a number of unknowns, which frequently meant the batting had little structure. The lack of availability was most notably felt in the opening partnership. With the absence of the two Mikes (Herlihy and Delanian) for most of the summer, a whole plethora of openers were tried out, none proving successful. In fact, the only fifty partnership was between Ian Porton and Jim Shea in Porto, with the average for the Craig cutting loose in the heat of an summer being a paltry 15. Eastons Sunday 4 ing in 3 in 3 against Mayfield, from two differ- ent bowlers and a run out!). There were two centuries posted – Chris Wright's 103 not out in Porto (his third ton there in 4 visits) and Stewart Taylor (see be- low). In addition, there were a total of 12 fifties – Chris Wright (3 - including a 99 not out), Mitchell Greenham and Garret O'Brien (2 each), plus Andy Ward, Rowan Allerton, Simon Warren (a club best), Chris Dane and Stewart Taylor (all one each). Individually, the player of the year was captain Stewart Taylor, who led by example, never giv- ing less than 100%, the highlight being his first century since schooldays (101 v. Beamers) in a run aggregate for the season of 327 at an av- erage of 29.72, in addition to 20 wickets at Centurion and top scorer Chris Wright There proved to be only one decent alliance of batsmen in the top order, 118 for the second wicket between Chris Wright and Chris Dane at Eastons, although that innings tailed off to 188 and a subsequent six-wicket defeat. The more reliable batting came lower down the order, with the record for the seventh wicket (the lowest of all ten) being broken twice, first Garret O’Brien - safe pair of hands! by Chris Wright and Mitchell Greenham with 75 against Beamers, then by Stewart Taylor's 20.75, plus six catches and a stumping when and Matt Webster's 101 against the Taverners. filling in as wicket-keeper for one weekend. Wright appeared in the only other century Not far behind was Matt Webster, who stand of the season, an undefeated 125 with bagged 23 wickets at 18.08 each as well as 148 Richard Burgess, to win the away match over lower-order runs at 24.66. Disappointingly, on- the team from Crouch End. Worryingly, by the ly five players improved their career averages end of the season the team were leaking wick- in batting and bowling, which included ets in clumps (3 in 2 balls, 4 in 3 and culminat- 5 Simon Warren with 101 lower-order runs at 25.25 and 12 wickets at 17.58. The remainder of the improvers were Stewart Taylor, Matt Webster, John McGirr and Jimmy Carter (batting and bowling), Rowan Allerton (batting) and Steve Bignell (bowling). There were no Michelles for the bowlers, though six of them took four wickets in an innings – Big- nell, Taylor, Dane, Warren, Sikandar and Matt Webster. The two new regular members, Mitchell Greenham and Garret O'Brien both proved their worth, Mitch with 232 middle-order runs at 21.09 and 15 wickets at 20.86, plus seven catches, and Garret as regular wicket-keeper with 14 victims (10 caught, four stumped), plus Wicket-taker James Robertson Justice a highly promising 283 runs at an average of 23.58. Chris Wright was once more leading run -getter with 565, easily topping the batting av- Steve Bignell, Chris Wright and Simon Warren erages with 40.35, despite a disappointing mid (all 12) were the other successful bowlers. Ro- -season drought. Chris Dane was as consistent wan Allerton (159), Richard Burgess (136) and as ever with 258 runs at 23.45. Ali Sikandar (12 Chris Boden (110) were the other main run wickets @17.58) topped the members' bowl- scorers. Steve Rennie, Ian Porton, Andy Ward ing averages. Chris Dane (13 wickets), and Craig Murray also scored useful runs. Hopefully, the team will see more of Ian Daffern next season, his contributions being badly missed. With regard to the fielding, 69 catches were taken, seven down on 2016 but in two fewer matches, with Garret and Rowan both pouch- ing four in an innings, Rowan's all on the boundary! On the career front, Chris Wright still leads the way with 2879 runs, with Chris Dane becoming the second batsman to reach 2000 runs in 2017. Stewart Taylor also passed 1000 runs this year. Matt Webster (117) and New boy Mitch Greenham at Molehill Chris Dane (104) became the first bowlers to reach 100 wickets for the club in 2017. 6 RESULTS 2017 APR 23 JUDD STREET TIGERS 121 ao (Carter 24, Dane 21) SOUTHGATE COMPTON 124-6 (Webster 3-17, Greenham 2-16) APR 30 JUDD STREET TIGERS 163-8 (Greenham 75, Carter 20) N2 CASUALS 84 ao (Bignell 4-26, Greenham 3-2) MAY 7 JUDD STREET TIGERS 212-7 (Ward 61, Porton 44, Wright 29) HARINGEY LIBRARIES 187-6 (Taylor 4-25) MAY 13 JUDD STREET TIGERS 223-8 (Wright 103*, Porton 30, Shea 27) OPORTO 225-7 (Taylor 2-40, Luff 2-56, Webster 2-59) MAY 14 JUDD STREET TIGERS 116-9 (Luff 37, Shea 20) OPORTO 94 ao (Taylor 3-4, Warren 3-18) MAY 21 GRACES CC 226-9 (Carter 2-28, Webster 2-29) JUDD STREET TIGERS 123 ao (Carter 24, Porton 22) JUN 4 SPARTAN CC 234-9 (Dane 4-47) JUDD STREET TIGERS 161 ao (Wright 46, Dane 39*, Allerton 28) JUN 11 JUDD STREET TIGERS 222-7 (Wright 99*, Allerton 53, Greenham 29) BEAMERS 223-9 (Greenham 3-36, Webster 2-21) JUN 17 JUDD STREET TIGERS 237-7 (Greenham 56*, Warren 52, Wright 31) MOLE HILL GREEN 239-9 (McGirr 3-47, R Fowkes 2-28) JUN 18 JUDD STREET TIGERS 188-8 (Wright 71, Dane 32) EASTONS CC 190-4 JUN 25 SPARTAN CC 167 ao (Sondh 2-18, Dane 2-30, Blundell 2-39) JUDD STREET TIGERS 133 ao (Allerton 41, Taylor 22) JUL 2 JUDD STREET TIGERS 200-6 (O'Brien 82, Taylor 45) MOTLEY CREW 203-5 (Sondh 2-28) JUL 9 JUDD STREET TIGERS 240-4 (Taylor 101, Dane 72*, Allerton 25*) HARINGEY LIBRARIES 242-3 (Taylor 2-50) 7 RESULTS 2017 (cont.) JUL 23 S E CHALLENGERS 117 ao (Warren 4-39, Bignell 3-8, Webster 2-13) JUDD STREET TIGERS 62-2 (Wright 24*) Match abandoned as a draw AUG 6 ACME 144 ao (Sikandar 4-26, Jani 2-35) JUDD STREET TIGERS 145-8 (Boden 37, O'Brien 36) AUG 13 POTTER STREET 87 ao (Dane 3-26, Sikandar 2-24) JUDD STREET TIGERS 88-7 (O'Brien 36*) AUG 20 JUDD STREET TIGERS 237-6 (O'Brien 57, Taylor 52*, Webster 43*) RAILWAY TAVERNERS 193-3 SEP 3 JUDD STREET TIGERS 157 ao (Taylor 46) SOUTH LONDON ODD BODS 159-7 (Taylor 3-26) SEP 10 MAYFIELD 200-8 (M Webster 2-6, Wright 2-24) JUDD STREET TIGERS 164-9 (Boden 37, Warren 27*, Taylor 26) SEP 17 RAILWAY TAVERNERS 164 ao (M Webster 4-28, J Webster 2-12) JUDD STREET TIGERS 167-4 (Wright 72*, Burgess 47*) SEP 24 SPARTAN CC 257 ao (Greenham 3-39, M Webster 3-43) JUDD STREET TIGERS 121 ao (O'Brien 24) RESULTS SUMMARY Year Played Won Lost Drawn Tied Win ra- 2012 16 7 7 2 0 44% 2013 20 16 2 1 1 80% 2014 21 11 10 0 0 52% 2015 20 7 11 2 0 35% 2016 23 7 14 2 0 30% 2017 21 7 13 1 0 33% TOTAL 121 55 57 8 1 45% 8 2017 averages BATTING GAMES INNS NOT OUT RUNS BEST AVE.