Cope turns the tables on abject OCs
OCCC 149 lost to Blackheath 151 for 5 by five wickets
This was as abject a display as the OC’s have been guilty of in recent years. On a Friday afternoon in the week preceding the Cricketer Cup final then perhaps a relaxed approach could have been expected. There is relaxed and there is sloppy and unfortunately our batting performance was unacceptable. The bowling attack was not too challenging although Graham Webb, playing his first game of the season, showed that he is still a masterful slow left arm operator. Some good catching, notably from Alan Cope, helped Blackheath but frankly the ball should not have been in the air in the first place.
After Matt Crump and Jumbo Jupp perished without Heather having to use much ink, Will Langmead continued the approach he seems to have adopted this season of trying to smash everything. In fairness to him he got 50 whilst batsmen who should have done better failed. Simon Copleston showed some application as one would always expect from him but to be all out for 149 well short of our allotted 40 overs was very poor.
The captain opened up with Luke Chitty and Phil Roper and both looked threatening. Chitty, generating pace and bounce from his unusual action, rapped Cope on the glove and tested him. Phil Roper, a man who was destined to be the new Webb but now doesn’t bowl enough, turned the ball nicely.
Chitty pinned Cope on the foot, on the full in front of the stumps yet it wasn’t given and that proved to be decisive. Crump came on up the hill bustling with bravado and probably desperate to chin his mate Cope. Sadly his two bouncer efforts were hooked effortlessly over the pavilion and the inevitable pitched up ball went down the ground for six more. It was a sobering over for the Cup captain and one which Alan Cope will have enjoyed immensely.
Ben Wilson on debut, Chitty and Roper all took a wicket or two but our fielding effort couldn’t make up for the batting one and we recorded a rather embarrassing loss. Paul Cope’s paella after the game softened the blow.
This was as abject a display as the OC’s have been guilty of in recent years. On a Friday afternoon in the week preceding the Cricketer Cup final then perhaps a relaxed approach could have been expected. There is relaxed and there is sloppy and unfortunately our batting performance was unacceptable. The bowling attack was not too challenging although Graham Webb, playing his first game of the season, showed that he is still a masterful slow left arm operator. Some good catching, notably from Alan Cope, helped Blackheath but frankly the ball should not have been in the air in the first place.
After Matt Crump and Jumbo Jupp perished without Heather having to use much ink, Will Langmead continued the approach he seems to have adopted this season of trying to smash everything. In fairness to him he got 50 whilst batsmen who should have done better failed. Simon Copleston showed some application as one would always expect from him but to be all out for 149 well short of our allotted 40 overs was very poor.
The captain opened up with Luke Chitty and Phil Roper and both looked threatening. Chitty, generating pace and bounce from his unusual action, rapped Cope on the glove and tested him. Phil Roper, a man who was destined to be the new Webb but now doesn’t bowl enough, turned the ball nicely.
Chitty pinned Cope on the foot, on the full in front of the stumps yet it wasn’t given and that proved to be decisive. Crump came on up the hill bustling with bravado and probably desperate to chin his mate Cope. Sadly his two bouncer efforts were hooked effortlessly over the pavilion and the inevitable pitched up ball went down the ground for six more. It was a sobering over for the Cup captain and one which Alan Cope will have enjoyed immensely.
Ben Wilson on debut, Chitty and Roper all took a wicket or two but our fielding effort couldn’t make up for the batting one and we recorded a rather embarrassing loss. Paul Cope’s paella after the game softened the blow.
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