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December 12th, 2009 | Published in 2009, Scorecards and Match Reports
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Westmount Ravens
Sunday 30 August 2009
Pirates of the St Lawrence bagged their eighth win of the season with a whopping 91-run victory over Westmount Ravens Rugby Club at The Candy Fields on Sunday.
After a two-hour delay from getting a bbq to the ground, the Pirates batted first. Openers Andrew Granville and Tom Schmidt slashed their way to 17 before Schmidt was stuffed by two of his teammates. Granville chipped the ball in the air to substitute fielder Shaun Loubser at short mid wicket. The South African missed the catch but got the run out, as the batsmen attempted a suicidal single.
Bell, desperately hoping for 1,000 runs this season, was bowled second ball for nought by English cad Tom Edmeades. Umpire Bhajooram Sukhdeo had the best view. “This bowler, I thought he was like Wasim Akram,” he said later. “I don’t know how he did it. The ball pitched half a foot outside off stump on a length, and cut back and hit the top of leg stump. It cut back so quick, you know. There was no way you could play that ball. But then he never bowled another ball on the stumps. Everything else was wide.”
Dr Savage joined Dr Granville at the crease, the McGill lecturers working the ball patiently. With so little pace on the ball, and so many balls wide, runs off the bat were difficult to come by. Dangerman Tony O’Driscoll, running on beer fumes, was particularly miserly.
Wides continued their impressive season, notching up a record half century. After some heckling from the stands, the good doctors picked up their running between the wickets and watched the worm chart soar. Savage was ruthless with anything leg side, and Granville cut like Clive Lloyd. He unleashed a monster six over mid wicket and struck 5 fours.
Granville and Savage amassed 119 in 18 overs – the sixth century stand of the season – before the former was run out by an O’Driscoll missile from long on, coming back for a second.
The nervy running between the wickets continued with the arrival of Shaun Loubser at the crease. Savage was left for dead, run out by a third of the wicket, on 46. It was his highest score for the Pirates.
Loubser and Bullivant sliced and drove the ball to all parts before Bullivant was bowled by a Hugh Brodie submarine. With the pitch now utterly churned up from rain and running down the middle, there was nothing the New South Welshman could do as the ball rolled along the dirt.
O’Driscoll induced a tickle to the keeper from Loubser to bring Brian Llewellyn-ap-Dafydd and Bhajooram Sukhdeo – two nightmare names for any scorer – together. Sukhdeo swivelled and pulled a mix of beamers and long hops, while Llewellyn-ap-Dafydd, having banished all thoughts of the Dartmouth deer incident, scored his first runs for the Pirates. The pair took the team total to 197 in 31 overs.
A required run rate of nearly six and a half an over looked a big ask for a rugby team nursing hangovers and half sozzled again. Chef Don Hudson did his best to sober them up with his gourmet pies on the bbq.
Pirate Ray Nowrang, batting as a substitute, fell for a blob driving Schmidt low to Bell at extra cover. It was Schmidt’s second wicket for no runs on the weekend, the Saxon-Romano-Australian making a late bid for the top of the bowling averages. He struck again in his next over, as Tom Edmeades cut high to Shaun Loubser at point, pedalling backwards.
Darren Bullivant then joined the party, bamboozling Karl Frigan as he skied to subsitute fielder Paul at extra cover.
Adam Sampson threatened to do damage, smiting 2 fours and a six into the forest. But the Australian was undone by his fellow countryman, Robin Brotchie, making his debut for the Pirates.
The wickets were shared around, Llewellyn-ap-Dafydd continuing his rich vein of form. He and Granville twice combined as bowler-catcher-I’ll-scratch-your-back-if-you-scratch-mine, ripping out the heart of the middle order.
Savage was again in the act, cleaning up Paul. Bell outdid Chef Hudson, bending two arm balls past the outside of his bat, before spinning one into the left-handers leg stump.
Ray Nowrang bowled O’Driscoll with his first ball, and Brodie with his third. Both batsmen returned for a second whack.
Meanwhile, at the other end, John Moody was playing the innings of his life. The ball beat the bat and stumps Gawd knows how many times, but the Canadian could not be moved. He struck three straight fours in an astonishing innings of 24. Finally, on the last ball of the game, he was bowled middle stump by Bell.
Westmount Ravens finished on a commendable 106 for 12 in 30 overs, handing the Pirates a 91-run victory.
Pirates of the St Lawrence versus Westmount Ravens
Sunday 30 August 2009
The Candy Fields, Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Match type: 30 overs per side
Weather conditions: Sunny and blustery
Result: Pirates of the St Lawrence won by 91 runs
Pirates of the St Lawrence Innings
Andrew Granville run out (O’Driscoll) 43 (5×4, 1×6)
Tom Schmidt run out (sub Loubser) 4
Angus Bell (c) b Edmeades 0
Robert Savage run out (Sampson) 46 (3×4)
Shaun Loubser ct Edmeades b O’Driscoll 16
Darren Bullivant (wk) b Brodie 10 (1×6)
Bhajooram Sukhdeo (wk) not out 6
Brian Llewellyn-ap-Dafydd not out 7 (1×4)
Ray Nowrang did not bat
Robin Brotchie did not bat
Extras 65 (Byes 4, Leg Byes 2, No Balls 2, Wides 57)
Total 197 for 6 in 31 overs
Fow (1-17, 2-18, 3-137, 4-154, 5-173, 6-184)
Bowling
Tony O’Driscoll 8 overs, 3 maidens, 1 wicket, 22 runs
Karl Frigan 3 overs, 0 wickets, 29 runs
Tom Edmeades 3 overs, 1 wicket, 20 runs
Mike Hogan 3 overs, 0 wickets, 24
Hugh Brodie 5 overs, 1 wicket, 20 runs
Robin Brotchie (sub) 1 over, 0 wickets, 13 runs
Don Hudson 2 overs, 0 wickets, 14 runs
Adam Sampson 4 overs, 0 wickets, 19 runs
John Moody 2 overs, 0 wickets, 22 runs
Westmount Ravens Innings
Ray Nowrang (sub) ct Bell b Schmidt 0
Adam Sampson (wk) b Brotchie 19 (2×4, 1×6)
Tom Edmeades ct Loubser b Schmidt 2
Karl Frigan ct (sub Paul) b Bullivant 0
Mike Hogan ct Granville b Llewellyn-ap-Dafydd 2
John Moody b Bell 24 (3×4)
J-S Paul b Savage 3
Hugh Brodie b Nowrang 1
Tony O’Driscoll (c) b Nowrang 0
Tony O’Driscoll b Bullivant 17 (2×4)
Robin Brotchie (sub) ct Llewellyn-ap-Dafydd b Granville 4
Don Hudson b Bell 1
Hugh Brodie not out 8
Extras 25 (Byes 4, Leg Byes 1, No Balls 0, Wides 20)
Total 106 for 12 in 30 overs
Bowling
Tom Schmidt 3 overs, 2 wickets, 9 runs
Darren Bullivant 4 overs, 2 wickets, 13 runs
Robin Brotchie 3 overs, 1 wicket, 19 runs
Andrew Granville 2 overs, 1 wicket, 4 runs
Brian Llewellyn-ap-Dafydd 3 overs, 1 wicket, 6 runs
Robert Savage 3 overs, 1 wicket, 9 runs
Angus Bell 6 overs, 1 maiden, 2 wickets, 9 runs
Ray Nowrang 2 overs, 1 maiden, 2 wickets, 10 runs
Shaun Loubser 2 overs, 0 wickets, 11 runs
Bhajooram Sukhdeo 2 overs, 1 maiden, 0 wickets, 4 runs