{"id":646,"date":"2011-06-04T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2011-07-01T12:21:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T12:21:32","slug":"horsington-wins-a-stunning-victory-against-london-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Horsington wins a stunning victory against London invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Mann and Ian Hervey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Sunday bank holiday cricket match against the Tabard Pilgrims from Chiswick, West London, resulted in a 4-run victory for Horsington, after a thrilling finish.<\/p>\n

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The home team opted for a 15-over,\u00a0 two-innings format, with the batting order reversed in the second innings. This provided insurance against rain, and gave everyone a decent crack at batting. There were some thrilling catches and run-outs, numerous boundaries\u00a0 and sixes and some \u201cinteresting\u201d bowling. It was also enormous fun, and the good-natured game was enjoyed by both sides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ed and Dave White<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Pilgrims batted first and scored 116 for 9 wickets. Notable Horsington wicket takers were Nigel Cockerell and his son Jake, \u201cAccurate\u201d Dave and Ed White and Kevin Lane who, although he arrived late, took a wicket with the first ball he had bowled for two seasons<\/p>\n

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"Snoopy" Bennett and Patrick Legge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Horsington responded with 107 for just 2 wickets, \u00a0Stuart Lane retiring with 50, his best score ever, with his father Kevin Lane backing him up well with 19.<\/p>\n

Horsington elected to have their second innings straight after the(delicious) tea interval, and knocked up a 93 for 6.<\/p>\n

The Pilgrims needed 85 \u00a0to win, and 15 overs to get them. Their batsmen were pinned down by\u00a0accurate bowling from Jake Cockerell and Paul Mann and were\u00a0left\u00a0needing 14, with two overs to go. Despite some desperate slogging, they failed to meet their target and handed Horsington a well-deserved victory.<\/p>\n

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Stuart & Kevin Lane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Big thanks to \u00a0everyone who helped \u2013 Rob Hoddinott for the<\/div>\n

perfect pitch and imperial pavilion, Mardy Bennett, and Belinda Mann for the tea, Chris Bailward and Phil Bennett for umpiring,\u00a0 (Chris also reared, cooked and carved the delicious hog roast after the game) and Andrew Tarling, who organised the whole thing.<\/p>\n

Same time next year?<\/p>\n

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It was there a moment ago; Andrew Tarling prepares to walk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sunday bank holiday cricket match against the Tabard Pilgrims from Chiswick, West London, resulted in a 4-run victory for Horsington, after a thrilling finish. The home team opted for a 15-over,\u00a0 two-innings format, with the batting order reversed in the second innings. This provided insurance against rain, and gave everyone a decent crack at … Continue reading “Horsington wins a stunning victory against London invaders”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2763],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-aq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}