THE GENT No.170 October 2020 Through adversity to the stars A majestic season Season’s summary Around the circuit Averages and career Top 20s Planning for 2021 Match reports: Bricklayer’s Arms (won by 5 wickets) Winchmore Hill Tigers (won by 42 runs) Squirrels (lost 1 wicket) Millfields (won by 137 runs) Holtwhites Trinibis (won by 3 wickets) Salix (won 4 wickets) Read about the Gents on www.gowlcc.org Contact this magazine via email
[email protected] Around the circuit Season’s end is traditionally time to assemble an opposition XI of the year but that is rather difficult when only eleven games were played. Instead we praise two of the most friendly, committed, and best organised sides on the circuit; Bricklayer’s Arms (who played 16 games) and Battersea Eagles (17). Eagles played three midweek and Brick four. Brick’s season ended with a defeat to Khukuri, a team of rather talented Nepalese Gurkhas from Hounslow, several of whom are Brick regulars. Nobody was disembowelled but poor skipper Tremain, who took 1-0-25-0 and was bowled third ball for a duck, felt as if he had been. Tigers used 33 players and had a 7-4 season after a strong finish, winning three of their last four. It is a pity that they are reluctant to travel away to play the Gents. Wycombe House 1sts and 2nds had good seasons in the Middlesex County Cricket League. There was no promotion or relegation, but Hamzah Khan’s young 1sts, average age 22, were a point off the top in late August before their form fell away after they were docked 12 points for a dangerous pitch when, after eight overs, their game with Eastcote had to be abandoned.