Diamond Jubilee Celebrations at the club—Huge success! Thanks

Issue no.
24
July 6th 2012
RAIN HALTS FIRSTS AND SECONDS WEEKEND GAMES
A SEVERE THUNDER STORM PUT PAID TO THE WEEKEND’S SATURDAY FIXTURES.
Both senior sides fell foul to a huge storm on Saturday. The firsts had lost the toss (again)
and were batting at Sedgefield when the storm arrived at drinks(25overs) A slow start had
us at 59 for 2 with Morgans (1) and Lee (22) back in the pavilion. Lower (19*) and Hutton
(15*) were at the crease at the time. 6 points only for the abandoned
match gave Richmondshire chance with their victory over Barnard
Castle to close the gap to 6 points at the top of the league.
The 2nd XI welcomed Steven Lister for his seasonal debut and he
looked classy for his 43 runs before being stumped just before the
rain put paid to any more play. The seconds were stuck on 115 for 5
after 41.2 overs. The rain affected game would have left Saltburn
just 25 overs to chase down any total Darlington could have posted.
The seconds achieved one batting point plus 6 for the abandoned
game.
Steven Lister
Diamond Jubilee Celebrations at the club—Huge success! Thanks to Gloria and
the team for their hard work in putting on such a spectacular family event.
FINALLY!....Under 13’s manage to get a game played!
Darlington 284 for 1 (net 276 )
Newton Aycliffe 268 for 8 (net 204)
After 4 weeks without a game we had a comfortable win against Newton Aycliffe at
Feethams. We were asked to bat first and a low score looked on the cards as the first pairs struggled to take advantage of some average bowling until fourth pair Lloyd Horner 20 and
Will Hamilton 13 ensured we set a reasonable total with some good running that others could learn from and hitting the bad ball to the boundary.
Our bowling was much better, special mention to under 11 Leo Giacomelli (see picture) who stepped in at the last moment and bowled well for figures of 2 for 2 off his 2
overs. 2 wickets for Tom Horniman and wickets for Jake Charlton, Matthew Moss,
Lloyd Horner and Danny Brown ensured we had an easy win.
The biggest hitter ever in cricket?
Albert Trott (Australia)
As we are now in 15/15 campaigns where
big hitting is the necessity we have included the following pieces in this newsletter
The biggest of all big hitters. You may not
have heard of him and you may be wondering why he is mentioned in a Darlington CC programme but the great Albert Trott (above left)
in 1899, is the only man in the history of the game to have hit a six back over the pavilion at
Lords.
As staggering a feat as this is, it isn't Trott's only claim to fame as he once averaged 102.5 on
a tour of England in 1896. In 1914, Trott wrote his will on the back of a laundryticket,
leaving his wardrobe and £4 to his landlady. Shortly afterwards, he shot himself
in Willesden Green,Middlesex.[7]Rumour has it that he never came to terms with a
failure to ever repeat the timing he used for that great six. Hence his suicide.
What was the biggest six you ever saw? There
have been some big ones at Feethams. Clearing
the tin shed without touching the roof is a good
one that a few have managed, The supermarket
car park is another biggy. Many players manage
the straight hit into South Terrace and a few
even manage the pavilion roof or balcony. The
BIG hit is over the top of the pavilion. The biggest hit I ever saw at Feethams was by Stuart
Young in the sixties. The all rounder professional
batting left handed at the football end slog swept
a quick bowler, clearing the tops of the trees lining the embankment and clearing the roofs of the
house in Victoria Embankment...enormous! That
was before the big bats of today too! What have
been the biggest sixes you have seen at other
grounds?
FEETHAMS DISTANCES– A six hit straight to South
Terrace will be over 65 yards, to the football end it is
75 yards, the score box would be 60 as would the
pavilion and the longest six hit being square of the
wicket. The river side is 80 yards from the middle and
Sainsbury’s side is 75 yards from the middle. That will
give you a clue as to how far any hits go tonight. The
IPL regularly sees hits of between 90 and 120 yards!
Doug Mulholland currently leads the way for
Darlington as the big
hitter. He has four
sixes this season and
is closely followed by,
Matty Wheeler with
three and then Dobson, Biglin and.....Peter
Armstrong!
A rare event occurred on Sunday last, our third team lost a game! Playing away
from home they narrowly lost to Marton by three runs in an exciting encounter.
We won the toss and inserted the home side. Marton set off with a good run rate
against young openers Olly King and George Heron before King removed both
openers before they got too many.
Luke Gettings who has played at a higher level looked dangerous but was dismissed by young spinner David Evans (see photo right) for 30 brilliantly caught
by Dan Baldwin.
Baldwin himself came into the attack and finished with 3 for 21. His brother Adam
donned the keeping gloves for the first
time in a while and did a grand job as
Marton were bowled out for 166 in 44 overs.
Our reply got off to a decent start with young and old pair, Alan Harwood
(41) and Alex Simpson (29) (see photo left) scoring 70 between them.
None of our other batsmen really took control although several got starts
but then got out. We were desperately chasing their total up to the end and
lost our final wicket with one ball left and three runs needed. Fez Hussein
return 5 for 26 to clinch the
game for Marton.
Under 17s stopped short
The under 17s had Stockton 22 for 2 when rain called a halt to proceedings on Monday night. The photograph shows the lads celebrating a
wicket.
In 1976, the club began the fastest 50 award. The first ten years it was only awarded to first team players....but a 50 is a fifty
and after 2nd and third team players kept achieving good quick scores of 50 it was decided to open the award up to the whole
club (senior teams).
Players who have won the award on more than one occasion are shown. Tom Chapman won it last year.
Neil Riddell - 7
John Lister 2
Garry Moody 4
Tim Haggie 2
Tim Dobson 3
Andrew Fothergill 2
Simon Gough 3
Danny Morgans 2
All fifties are good knocks but the big hitters try to do it in less than 35 balls some manage it in less than 30!
Runs
50 in Balls?
6s
4s
Player
Match
Venue
Year
76
17
5
8
ST Jayasuriya
Sri Lanka v Pakistan
Singapore
07/04/1996
74
18
6
4
SP O'Donnell
Australia v Sri Lanka
Sharjah
02/05/1990
102
18
11
6
Shahid Afridi
Pakistan v Sri Lanka
Nairobi
04/10/1996
55*
18
6
4
Shahid Afridi
Pakistan v Netherlands
Colombo
21/09/2002
51*
19
6
2
MV Boucher
South Africa v Kenya
Cape Town
22/10/2001
53*
19
5
2
JM Kemp
South Africa v Zimbabwe
Durban
27/02/2005
The international guys go
even better
and manage it
sometimes in
less than 20
balls!
POSITION MANAGER
1
Liam Coates
2
Jon Barnes
3
Rob Johnson
4
Dave Piper
5
Mel Dobson
6
Gloria Howells
7
Tim Dobson
8
James Dobson
9
Malcolm Dunstone
TEAM NAME
POINTS
atomic seal
8830
barnsestormers
8749
philli flyers
8626
Darlo for the league
7993
dsm XI
7631
glorious wonders
7622
Wilbert's winners
7485
we hate Gary Neville
7395
Henry’s hornets
7308
Ollie King bowls for U 17s
against Stockton CC
Jake Charlton bowls for the U
17s
Sam Hardy bowls with Alex Simpson prowling in the covers for the
Under 17s
(photos courtesy of J T D)
PLEASE SUPPORT THESE COMPANIES WHO SPONSOR OUR CLUB.
Fantasy Cricket Ratings
Name
J
Barnes
D
Mulholland
P
Armstrong
C
Lethbridge
O
King
LD Coates
JT Dobson
M Lower
S
Russell
M Stainsby
T
Chapman
K
Barker
D
Baldwin
A
Harwood
DJB Morgans
J
Vickerman
S
Lethbridge
L
Craggs
S
Lee
T
Sowerby
M Wheeler
D
Lee
A
Baldwin
C
Biglin
Points
2012
1746
1385
1289
996
949
766
750
740
656
643
587
586
550
514
503
443
423
420
407
402
346
314
307
D
N
M
A
Evans
Whaley
Lunn
Sturgeon
305
298
293
264
A
LJ
R
D
Simpson
Hutton
Briddock
Carr
216
208
196
167
G
S
G
S
P
J
J
N
Heron
Hardy
Sowerby
Lister
Raine
Watson
Atkinson
Fenwick
117
106
104
97
53
30
27
18
J
Hardy
6
T
Mason
2
G
Olney
2