Saturday 23rd June 2001 vs Mayfield C.C.
 
Mayfield mauling
 
Washington C.C. 86 all out
Mayfield C.C. 87 for 2
 
Washington took a terrible thrashing at the hands of Palmer’s Green outfit Mayfield on Saturday. Dismissed for just 86 on a blameless pitch, they were then forced to watch as their total was overhauled in just 12 overs.

Yet skipper for the day David Gluckman, refused to be down-beat. ‘Sure; it was a heavy defeat, but we were fielding seven players who had never played for Washington before, and a total of nine for whom this was a first game this season. There was a lot of rustiness. But, boy, there were some good prospects out there today’.

Opening batsman Phil Coleman certainly struck the ball sweetly on his way to a stylish 22, and two overs from Paul Irons suggested that Washington may have unearthed another really quick opening bowler – Pacific take note! And Steve Brown is a natural wicket-taker, as his haul of 2-27 proved.

Yet for all the pluses, this was a comprehensive defeat. Asked to bat first, Wash lost early wickets, and enjoyed only two partnerships of note: Coleman and Tony O’Connor (17) added 26 for the third wicket, and, after a disastrous passage of play when four wickets fell while the score remained on 46, Gluckman (16) and Peter Kloss (15) put on 33 for the ninth wicket. Copus (4-29) and Shaw (3-28) were the principal architects of Washington’s misfortunes.

Good fielding was a priority if Wash were to have any chance: unfortunately, the one opportunity, a catch to gully off Ray Victor, went to ground, denying Kloss what would have been a fitting reward for a tidy opening spell. It proved an expensive miss. Victor (63) went on to pound a 35-ball fifty, despite a searching examination from Gary Malcolm’s chinamen, and Brown’s two wickets came too late to do more than moderate a pretty awful score-line.

So, a bad day for the Wash: but there was plenty here to suggest a substantial silver lining.

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Batting
Player Runs How out
Matthew Cragoe 1 Other
Phil Coleman 22 Other
Chris Roger 6 Other
Tony Connor 17 Other
Jim Keys 0 Other
Steve Brown 0 Other
Paul Irons 0 Other
Nick Taylor 2 Other
David Gluckman 16 Other
Peter Kloss 15 Other
Gary Malcolm 0* 
Partnerships
Wkt Runs Batsmen
1 7 Matthew Cragoe  &  Phil Coleman
2 13 Phil Coleman  &  Chris Roger
3 26 Phil Coleman  &  Tony Connor
4 0 Phil Coleman  &  Jim Keys
5 0 Phil Coleman  &  Steve Brown
6 0 Steve Brown  &  Paul Irons
7 10 Paul Irons  &  Nick Taylor
8 0 Nick Taylor  &  David Gluckman
9 33 David Gluckman  &  Peter Kloss
10 0 Peter Kloss  &  Gary Malcolm


Fielding
Player Cts Wkt Cts Stmps
Matthew Cragoe 1 - -
Bowling
Player Overs Mdns Runs Wkts
David Gluckman 2.0 0 12 0
Steve Brown 2.0 0 27 2
Peter Kloss 3.0 0 17 0
Gary Malcolm 5.0 0 24 0
Paul Irons 2.0 1 8 0
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