Sunday 27th May 2001 vs Cavendish Hatfield C.C.
 
So near, yet so far
 
Cavendish Hatfield C.C. 165 for 5
Washington C.C. 97 all out
 
Bank holidays once again hit Washington’s fixture with Cavendish. Yet with so many first team members away, a second string team so very nearly snatched a draw.

Cavendish won the toss and elected to bat and soon showed why. T Hurst was the main stay of the Cavendish innings scoring 63 runs with I Cooper expensively dropped twice in the same over while on 0, going on to make a quick 37.

James Wood (3-65) was the main wicket taker with Matt Hudson (2-6) geting his first wickets for Washington. Newcomer Rupert Pyrah bowled
economically without any luck, while both Tideys, Terry and Nick, kept things tight.

Washington were very pleased to keep Cavendish down to just 165 from 49 overs and were looking forward to a bat of a good wicket.

Pete Demetri (29) got Washington off to his customary great start, but some fine bowling from the Hertfordshire outfit kept the scoring rate down.

David Gluckman was his resolute self at the other end, nicking the singles where he could.

After Demetri fell to a brilliant leg-side stumping by Cooper, however, Washington were really only looking for the draw. Rod Smith looked
comfortable until being given out lbw for 10. Then T. Hurst rounded his great day off, bagging six Wash wickets for just five runs: Washington were holding on by their fingertips for a draw and all but looked to have secured it until, 4 balls from the end of the game,Bryceland bowled Wood.

David Gluckman, the skipper for the day, was in philosophical mood after the match. “I though we bowled and fielded well', he said: 'keeping Cavendish below 200 was a great effort, but we were lacking 2 or 3 key batsmen and it made all the difference. It was a case of so near yet so far'.

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Batting
Player Runs How out
Pete Demetri 29 Stumped
Luke Ridding 0 Bowled
David Gluckman 23* 
Rod Smith 10 LBW
Taran Persaud 1 Bowled
Terry Tidey 0 Bowled
John Roche 0 Bowled
Matt Hudson 1 Bowled
Nick Tidey 5 Bowled
Rupert Pyrah 0 Bowled
James Wood 2 Bowled
Partnerships
Wkt Runs Batsmen
1 1 Pete Demetri  &  Luke Ridding
2 48 Pete Demetri  &  David Gluckman
3 22 David Gluckman  &  Rod Smith
4 1 David Gluckman  &  Taran Persaud
5 0 David Gluckman  &  Terry Tidey
6 0 David Gluckman  &  John Roche
7 6 David Gluckman  &  Matt Hudson
8 8 David Gluckman  &  Nick Tidey
9 0 David Gluckman  &  Richard Minion
10 9 David Gluckman  &  James Wood


Fielding
Player Cts Wkt Cts Stmps
James Wood 1 - -
Bowling
Player Overs Mdns Runs Wkts
James Wood 16.0 2 65 3
Pete Demetri 4.0 1 5 0
Terry Tidey 4.0 1 12 0
Nick Tidey 5.0 0 21 0
Matt Hudson 5.0 1 16 2
Rupert Pyrah 15.0 7 36 0
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