It was a vintage year for Wick batsmen. Three scored 500 runs or thereabouts. Charlie High just smashed it all over Surrey this year and if he hadn't been run out by Zo at one point might have set some sort of Wick record. 2 tons, 3 fifties. If he didn't have a marked tendency to get big runs or no runs he would have been a shoe in this year.
Hibby displayed his sacks full of natural talent in the 2s this year. His 151* has been eulogised on this blog and in bars up and down the county. He also smashed another 50 against the Woodies. In between he almost eradicated the sweep off middle stump to the straight ball.
Once again Matt Davies displayed this season why he is still the undisputed best player in the club. Despite perhaps not notching up the big scored he was due, he still assembled close to 500 runs at more than 30 and was the stand out performer in a year when no 1s bat notched a ton. If it wasn't for the winner he would have been a shoe in.
Boney batted beautifully, as Boney is wont to do. Annoyingly for his many fans the absolute storm of a season that he threatens to deliver at some point did not quite materialise this year. Nevertheless he top scored for the 1s with a late 87 and delivered some lightening contributions at other times.
But the winner was a nailed on certainty from the moment the season kicked off. Fudgey just never looked like getting out. At times his treatment of opposition bowlers reminded your correspondent of Ronnie O'Sullivan playing left handed so contemptuous was it. Despite him getting a ton at Kingstonian's his best innings that Wickman witnessed was at Weybridge Vandals. Set 180 from 43 someone needed to inject pace into the chase. Fudgey looked at five or six balls and then scored off the next 30 consecutively to destroy the opposition attack and reduce the one Vandals spectator to deep depression. The opposition skipper held some sort of group psychological huddle after the game to restore the confidence of his shattered team. 533 at 44. Nice.
[Here Fudgey picks up the trophy for Bat of 2008 from Nips who scored almost 470 runs less - Clarky was going to ask Charlie B to present the award but screwed up]
Hampton Wick Royal Cricket Club * 1863 - 2013 * 150 Glorious Seasons
Sunday, 5 October 2008
Club Dinner 5 - Batting Prize
It was a vintage year for Wick batsmen. Three scored 500 runs or thereabouts. Charlie High just smashed it all over Surrey this year and if he hadn't been run out by Zo at one point might have set some sort of Wick record. 2 tons, 3 fifties. If he didn't have a marked tendency to get big runs or no runs he would have been a shoe in this year.
Hibby displayed his sacks full of natural talent in the 2s this year. His 151* has been eulogised on this blog and in bars up and down the county. He also smashed another 50 against the Woodies. In between he almost eradicated the sweep off middle stump to the straight ball.
Once again Matt Davies displayed this season why he is still the undisputed best player in the club. Despite perhaps not notching up the big scored he was due, he still assembled close to 500 runs at more than 30 and was the stand out performer in a year when no 1s bat notched a ton. If it wasn't for the winner he would have been a shoe in.
Boney batted beautifully, as Boney is wont to do. Annoyingly for his many fans the absolute storm of a season that he threatens to deliver at some point did not quite materialise this year. Nevertheless he top scored for the 1s with a late 87 and delivered some lightening contributions at other times.
But the winner was a nailed on certainty from the moment the season kicked off. Fudgey just never looked like getting out. At times his treatment of opposition bowlers reminded your correspondent of Ronnie O'Sullivan playing left handed so contemptuous was it. Despite him getting a ton at Kingstonian's his best innings that Wickman witnessed was at Weybridge Vandals. Set 180 from 43 someone needed to inject pace into the chase. Fudgey looked at five or six balls and then scored off the next 30 consecutively to destroy the opposition attack and reduce the one Vandals spectator to deep depression. The opposition skipper held some sort of group psychological huddle after the game to restore the confidence of his shattered team. 533 at 44. Nice.
[Here Fudgey picks up the trophy for Bat of 2008 from Nips who scored almost 470 runs less - Clarky was going to ask Charlie B to present the award but screwed up]
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