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ISIS CRICKET CLUB 2010 Ground: Queens College, Abingdon Road, Oxford |
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Last Update: 05/09/2010 © Keith Whiter, April 2003 k.whiter@elsevier.com |
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2005 AGM - Captain’s report (Olly Walter) |
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It has been a fantastic season, thoroughly enjoyable (apart from my failure at the opening game against Minster Lovell at the Warneford Hospital!!)
Pleasure & honour to be captain. Great set of players and friends.
A few thank-you’s…
· Keith Ponsford – For support/good humour/club figurehead throughout season. Frustrating for him due to injury, on behalf everyone hope he plays regularly again soon. As a captain, not having his tight bowling and safe hands is sorely missed. More than anyone I want to see the return of the Whiter/ Ponsford opening partnership. · Keith Whiter – Outstanding set of fixtures, really good range in both weekend and 20/20. Thanks for an excellent tour/6-a-side. Congrats to leading us to Barton CC first time around this year! · Nick Wyatt & Paul Jacobs – Both vice captains have been great support, both on and off pitch. Especially grateful for their help with team selection which for nearly 60 fixtures, is a very tough job indeed. Ta for bailing me out of my occasional hangover!
Individual acclaim…
There have been some outstanding individual performances this year, both in one-off games with bat and ball, & in terms of consistency throughout season.
· Pete Wiblin – his total of 813 runs (6th on all time run scored in season list) is a great achievement. Not bad for a bloke who can’t run for first 5 overs. Pleasure to bat with, and a source of excellent cricketing knowledge! · Nick Wyatt – Incredible tally of wickets (69, an Isis record). Very consistent, intelligent bowler. Progressed this year in terms of control this season, this creating pressure for batsmen, which in turn, leads to batsman mistakes. He has also mastered the art of the slide in the field as well. · Keith Whiter – Superb season with ball. Genuine wicket-taking opening bowler, also with good economy. Many times Keith has been brought on towards the end of innings not necessarily to take wickets (which in the match situation is a bonus) but to shore up runs, as he is so difficult to score off. Some of his spells this season were simply outstanding spells of fast bowling (especially Great Haseley away, Wooton away). · Joe Walter/Graham Godby – As captain, often most important players are sometimes all-rounders. Both are ideally batsman I suspect, but both have crucial with the ball this season. If Joe or Graham don’t play, Isis miss out, and we always look like a bowler and batter short. Congrats to Joe on maiden 50! · Paul Jacobs – great season behind stumps. Consistent. · Neil Johnson – very good season with the bat. When he opens his shoulders, he is destructive. · Chris Williams/Dave Penhallaurick – Oh to have them playing more. Both are sheer class with the bat. · Jon Ponsford – Great spells of strike bowling (e.g., versus Mechanicals at SSJ), deserves more wickets. · Dale Jacobs – Great improvement in all 3 disciplines of the game, batting, bowling and fielding. · Harry Stoneman – Again, great improvement, and his bowling is extremely promising for future.
Match highlights…
24/4/05 – v Astons While the rest of the top order failed, Wiblin hit a cultured 85, and Jakey a useful 19 not out to get us to 168. KW 4-18 from 6 overs, 2 apiece for Dave L and Ged, and 1 each from NW and Harry.
2/7/05 – v Wytham. Solid batting display all the way down, OW 36, DP 25, TW 41 n.o, KP 29. Total of 189. KP (2-24 off 8 overs), Jim, NW, Nick H (3-28 off 8 overs) bowled with great control, and Wytham always behind run rate. Top fielding performance as well.
31/7/05 – v Great Haseley KW – top-class spell of fast bowling to rip through both openers. NW bowled with his usual guile, and then Wib rolled back the years with a Warne-esque 6 overs of leg breaks, googlies, doosras, flippers, top spinners, ended up taking 4-39. Restricted them to 149. OW 58 n.o, LW 84 n.o knocked off the runs on a tough batting pitch and some hostile bowling and appealing (Nick enjoyed his stint of umpiring that day!!)
14/8/05 – v Hospitals. Our bogey team. NW skippered in OW absence. GG classic openers knock of 48, DP 72 n.o, Wib and DL in the 20’s. Total 185-9. Isis 2 best bowlers had great games, KW 4-37 from 12, NW 3-35 from 8. Hospitals laboured to 108. Match memorable for astonishing 4 superb catches from Wib, leading to the nickname of Panther Wib.
11/9/05 – v Charlton OW scored 72 (one of his favourite grounds to bat on, short boundaries!!), Nellie sensible 35. Total of 154-9. JP terrified their openers on THAT pitch (7-1-16-2). Good support Basit, Wib, GG. Up to NW to unflappably bowl the last few overs, eventually luring the final batsman to hole out to OW at long on for a great victory.
3/7/05 – v Astons. 2nd favourite game of season. LW majestic 62 on a terrible wicket, JW supporting LW with a crucial 18. Total of 150. Astons cruising, but DL and Easty came to party. DL bowled incredible 16 straight overs (6-27), Easty 10-1-26-4. In the end it came to final ball of the innings, Astons 9 down, they needed only to survive one ball to draw, DL took a memorable caught and bowled. Roy of the Rovers victory.
21/8/05 – v Wooton & Boars Hill. Most memorable game of season for me. OW got in and then got out for 33. DP scored a cultured 62, Wib a flashing 78 (despite being dropped umpteen times…). Total of 213 for 7. At last a competitive total. Great spell by KW (8-2-17-2) and NW (7-0-27-4) turned the screw on Wooton who buckled under pressure against the run-rate. Support from Simon W, Easty, Joe, and 2 crucial wickets from DP. Won by 65 runs, celebrations began.
For next season…
· More application with batting – “you can’t score runs sat back in the pavilion” · More 50’s from people · Continued energy in field, supporting whoever is bowling with max effort – it was excellent this season. · More beers sunk at Queens. |