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Chase smashes OC oldies to victory
Old Cranleighans (154-3) beat Headley (152) by seven wickets
Mike Chase - whirlwind unbeaten 94
(June 16 2002) An unbeaten 94 from Mike Chase, including 15 fours and three sixes, guided the OCs to a comprehensive seven-wicket win at Headley with almost 17 overs to spare. It was a notable win for the first 'Golden Oldies' side fielded by the club - all bar Mike Chetwode were over 40m and he is only two months short of that milestone.
Under leaden skies, the OCs won the toss and put Headley in (mainly because opener Chase was stuck in a pub in Chessington) and despite some excellent bowling from Chetwode struggled to break through. It took an outstanding delivery which uprooted the middle stump to part the Headley openers - it was also Chetwode's 500th wicket for the club - and two balls later he repeated the strike to remove Hesketh for 0.
Mike Chetwode - 500 wickets, and some of them top-order batsmen as well
At the other end Mark Ballinger was making inroads with his own gentle wobblers; first he had the dangerous-looking Hopper well caught by Martin Williamson at mid-off and next ball Waller, who was averaging over 100 going into the game, smacked his first delivery to John Wells at cover. In his next over Ballinger was smashed for six by the younger Hopper but two balls later foxed him with a straight ball. Moss engineered a mini-recovery, hitting Graham Webb for several boundaries in an entertaining duel, but his guile was too much for the Headley tail.
With two hours to get the runs, the OCs had time and even overcame Henry Corp's fourth-ball duck.
Thanks for coming Henry ... 200 miles for a third ball duck
Rick Wells started slowly but soon began to look the class act he once was; at the other end Chase launched a remarkable blitz on Laidlaw, who was bowling fast but with no accuracy. Chase's first seven scoring shots were powerfully-hit fours.
Wells was run out but Bugge then out on 51 with Chase - his share being just 7 - before John Wells came in to partner Chase to victory.
Headley
Dennison b Chetwode 11
Hopper J b Ballinger 30
Hesketh b Chetwode 0
Hopper M c Williamson b Ballinger 6
Waller c Wells J b Ballinger 0
Ashby b Webb 6
Moss J c Bugge b Webb 38
Harmsworth *+ lbw b Webb 8
Smith D c Wells R b Bugge 3
Yelland b Chetwode 19
Laidlaw not out 6
Extras (b 3, lb 12, w 10) 25
Total 152
Fall: 36,36,43,43,54,80,89,114,120,152
Chetwode 8.2 3 17 3
Maskell 3 0 26 0
Ballinger 7 3 16 3
Webb 11 3 41 3
Wells J 4 0 8 0
Bugge 3 0 23 1
Chase 1 0 10 0
Old Cranleighans
Corp H b Laidlaw 0
Chase M not out 94
Wells R run out 29
Bugge D lbw b Laidlaw 7
Wells J not out 8
Extras (b 1, lb 4, w 10, nb 1) 16
(3 wkts) 154
Fall: 0,70,121
Webb G, Maskell A, Chetwode M, Williamson M+,
Ballinger M, Shelley P* did not bat
Laidlaw 9 1 52 2
Waller 6 2 24 0
Ashby 4 0 20 0
Hopper 4 0 31 0
Yelland 2.2 0 17 0
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