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2009 Cricket Season

League Fixtures 2009|2009 League Tables (Final)

September 20th London Theatres, dressed in their fancy new greeen and white regalia (alias Australia), were in no mood for hanging around on Sunday and were soon cracking the ball to all parts, knocking up 239. Bobby Rai got 3 wickets: two of them via his trusty long on fielder, amid shouts of "Catch it, Stuart Payne!", but couldn't stem the flow. Denham (alias England) tried to match their urgency, but did so only in wickets lost, and succumbed to 144 all out with lots of Bopara- and Shah-like tens and twenties

At last the corrected League Top 25 Averages: Div1-1 Div2-2

September 13th Alan Coulson's teasing report about the Sunday side's victory over Chesham Bois. I reckon the deliberate lie was about Bitchy Raithwaite crying off. Bitchy never cries.

Coming soon: top 25 averages

September 5th Great Kingshill beat both Denham sides in this, the last week of the League Season, but the results were in doubt until near the end in both cases. The Ones got their opponents all out for 190, but collapsed to 167, an agonising 23 runs short. The Twos on the other hand knocked up an impressive 253/9 - dominated by Mark Shepherd's imperious 140 - but for Kingshill Twos Michaels and Leybourne set off at a terrific rate and enabled the visitors to reach their target in under 40 overs

2009 Final League Tables

August 30th Chertsey came along and rather unsportingly beat the home side by over 100 runs, but what was the noble Hemen Mehta's reward for taking 6/42: Read RB's report

August 29th Don't win the toss and bat on Bank Holiday weekend, Denham Skippers have been told, year in and year out. But did they listen? Only 279 runs were scored between the XIs and the oppositions lost a total of 3 wickets between them passing those targets (us 5 points, opposition 60)

August 23rd Twas the longest game that ever was. Cos of the bloody hedge, some say. Read The Hedge by RB

August 22nd No game for the Twos (would have played Englefield), but the Ones went down again. Facing Chalfont St Giles' 276/4, they were all out for 168 despite Mark Shepherd's noble 68. In the League Tables all Englefield Twos points for and against have been declared void - which has done no favours for our Twos - now languishing in seventh.

August 16th Uxbridge were welcomed and duely despatched, I think, in RB's existential thought-piece. Read Inner Workings

August 15th The Ones were dismissed for 150 (Usman Khan 42) and Taplow knocked off the runs for the loss of 4 wickets, but the Twos had a respectable draw against Hurley. The latter smacked an awe-inspiring 300/7 (Arshad 139*), but Denham scored 234/8 in reply, courtesy of knocks of 72 from Tamar and 55 from Ray Rulach. League Tables (that for Twos is approximate cos League Rep has messed up the figures)

August 9th Instead of ingesting more bad news from the League front (below), turn immediately to RB's account of a special Sunday match featuring Kenny Mehta, Chairman Bill Nicholas sans tank-top and a mystery keeper (pics).

August 8th Mixed/bad news from the League front. The Ones prevented defeat courtesy of R Bowry's staunch 78* out of 149/6 versus Winchmore Hill's 232/8. The Twos, on the other hand, have been seriously infected by the losing bug and are now a sullen seventh in the league after another batting collapse (all out 151 vs Wargrave's 257/9 with H Zaheer 3/49). League Tables have not been updated because they might cause seizures in longstanding Denham supporters.

August 2nd Another lovely contest and Denham victory (just). No thanks to James N who only scored 153, only took 2 wickets and only took 2 catches, although they were spectacular. Unfortunately Kenny Mehta found another spectacular way of expiring. RIP. Read on

August 1st Bad weather severely truncated most matches, in fact it was surprising just how many did manage to produce results. Unfortunately both Denham sides did. They bowled very well (M Shepherd 3/38 and J Nicholas 3/41 for the Ones, plus H Zaheer 5/43 and J Grover 3/43 for the Twos), but batted extremely badly. The one exception was J Bhagodia, scoring 54 for the Twos.

July 26th Delightful account (RB) of our great victory over a strong team of Woodley er - schoolboys, featuring the shot of the century, and some morbidly deadly bowling... Read on

July 25th RB discovered a crumpled questionnaire completed by one of the Cranbourne players. The answers tell the story of the game very well. Dreadful handwriting though.

July 19th Sir Stuart Payne's Finest Hour. Most of you were watching the Lords Test so you never noticed this little gem happening under your noses, featuring famous people such as The Motivator, Scorpion and local celebrity Sir Stuart Payne. Read RB's hilarious account.

July 18th The Ones bowled really well to dismiss Hawridge & Cholesbury for 173 (J Shaikh 4/56, F Mahmood 3/56), but the home bowlers did even better to dismiss Denham for 119. The Twos batted stoutly (243/6 off 50 overs, with R Rulach 70, M Dalton 51), but just couldn't winkle Hawridge & Cholesbury Twos out (162/8) despite M Shepherd's 4/49. 16 points gained, but down to fourth as Great Kingshill got a 30-pointer to overtake Denham. League Tables

July 12th The Sunday side had an even darker match philosophically against Chiswick & Latimer: read RB Sartre's existential account

July 11th The Ones - well, the less said the better. Actually P Richards scored a dogged and very creditable 52 out of Denham's 132 all out, but Wraysbury got this for 2 wickets in just over 28 overs.

The Twos against Amersham Hill were so like England on Sunday, but lacked a Monty, or was it that they were forced to play on in the dark? Anon's trenchant report inclines towards the latter.League Tables

July 5th The Sunday side outplayed Birkbeck College, but who is mystery opening batsman Dick Philson? Read Alan Coulson's fine report.

July 4th The Ones sank further into obscurity, all out for 102 versus Penn & Tylers Green's 225/8 despite the brave resistence of Dave Maynard (45), while both Nicholas J (3/44) and Mahmood F (3/61) had earlier performed creditably with the ball. League Tables

The Twos, on the other hand, regained their form and second spot in the League. Coleshill were kept down to 203/7 (Jack Grover 3/47), and with both Ambrose Treacy, 55, and J Bhagodia, 52, in form, the Twos reached their target for the loss of just 5 wickets for a 30-pointer. League Tables

June 28th AUGMENTED The Sunday side trounce Knotty Green: Another great report by RB

June 27th The Ones game was brought to an untimely end with the match very much in balance (Great Kingshill 247/8, Denham 88/3 off 20 overs). But the Twos faltered against the high-flying Great Kingshill 2nd XI: Denham 161 all out (with S Schembri 61), Great Kingshill 167/4. Denham now down to third behind GK. League Tables

June 21st Great report from RB on the very entertaining match against St Johns Wood

June 20th One up, one down. The Ones recorded their best total of the season, at 254/9, with the help of Faisal Mahmood (72) and Russell Bowry (52), but Binfield were in no mood to hang around, passing their target in just 37 overs for the loss of 4 wickets. Bobby Rai, 4/99, did his best to prevent them. The Twos, on the other hand marched on again, with the aid of a terrific 8/31 from Henen Mehta. Denham 161, Littlewick Green 71 all out. But who is going to tell the tale about his great feat?

League Tables | New: Top 25 Averages up to 15/6/2009

June 13th More defeats. The Ones knocked up a respectable 205/7 (Bobby Rai 85, P Richards 61) but Winchmore Hill had been watching the Twenty20 - and knocked the runs off for just 3 wickets in 31.1 overs despite all Jamil Shaikh's good efforts (3/49). The Twos on the other hand, had a day to forget: all out 106, Wargrave 107/2 in just 20.3 overs and down to second place behind White Waltham

June 6th Crappy weather forced the Twos match to be abandoned (Twos still at the top of the table) while the Ones got the worst of a rain-shortened match (Taplow 153/9 off 27 overs, Faisal Mahmood 4/42); Denham 99/7, with Jamil Shaikh unbeaten on 43) - and remain on the bottom

May 30th Same theme, different opponents.

The Ones bowling held Chalfont St Giles down to 236/8 off their full 52 overs (J Shaikh 3/45, J Nicholas 3/65), but the Denham batting collapsed to 115 all out. Result: 27 points clear at bottom of table. Awaiting full story of the villains

The Poets XI allowed Englefield to score more runs (246/9) but knocked them off for just 5 wickets. Result: 22 points clear at top of table. Awaiting full story of the heroes: but evergreen Sir Stuart Payne claimed 4 catches and Mark Shepherd's 66 was the mainstay of the Twos innings

May 23rd Mixture as before, but not quite. The Ones were beaten (NB not thrashed) by 39 runs (Penn & Tylers Green 227/8 off the full 52 overs, with Faisal Mahmood 4/75; Denham 188 all out).

The Poets XI prevailed yet again - that makes 4 out of 4 and top of the table by 12 points. This time Mark Shepherd (7/48) put on a super performance to dismiss Coleshill for 171, while JK Bhagodia was not to be outdone with his 85 not out as he guided Denham to a 3 wicket victory and 30 points. We're expecting nothing less than Iambic Pentameter for the match report this week.

May 16th Another black and white week: the Ones managed a single point in their thrashing by Hawridge & Cholesbury (them 257/3, us 82 all out), but the Twos - hurrah for the Twos - achieved a splendid victory over Hawridge & Cholesbury Twos (us 210/6, with Jack Grover 53, and Mark Shephard 46, them 143 all out, H Zaheer 4/39, A Kirby 3/39). The Twos are now third in their League. The match report for the Twos by Jack and Ray is all in hilarious verse

May 9th Black week for Denham - both sides skittled, both sides thrashed. Awaiting reports and excuses. And Sunday was no better - a 9 wickets defeat. It can only go up from here...

May 3rd Excellent pictorial report by RB of the Sunday side's visit to Windsor to play The Royal Household (and watched by the Duke of Edinburgh)

May 2nd 2009: One up, one down. The Ones were duly thrashed (all out 158) at Wraysbury by 8 wickets (read James Nicholas's Report), although J Wellbury hit 43, but the Twos had a bright start to the season by beating Amersham Hill by 77 runs, (Denham 199 all out, with A Saberwhal 40, visitors 122 all out, Ray Rulach 4/31)

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