Monday, September 2, 2013

Match Report

White City All Stars vs Leprechauns
July 28, 2013
The Leprechauns went into bat first, George Oborne and William Sitwell opened the bowling for the All Stars. Fortunately the opening batsmen fell for as little as 11 runs. However, with skill from numbers three and five batsmen, M. Kerr (57) and J. White (32), the Leps had some control over the match. Bill Coales finally
got the breakthrough for the All Stars by taking White for an LBW, and Tom Davenport bowled Kerr, after which the others fell quickly, only for the All Stars to be held up once again by Tim Kavanagh, who scored 29 without loss of his wicket. The Leprechauns declared on 169 for 7 after 43 overs. The All Stars had not as much time as we would have liked, as we were playing 20 overs after 6:30pm. As it turned out the All stars only managed 33 overs till the game was stopped, however there were some good batting performances and some lamentable LBW decisions against Peter Oborne, Davenport, Tubby Shenfield. However good batting from Davenport to make his 39 before being dismissed in questionable circumstances. The All Stars held firm to salvage the draw with a last stand from Sitwell and Kit McCrystal which consisted of 6 runs from 40 deliveries. There was great stamina shown by Leps bowler A.Chisholm, who bowled 16 overs straight and took 4 wickets for 34 runs.

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BATTING
 INNINGS OF:
No Batsman How Out Fielder Bowler Runs 6s 4s
1 N. Wilkinson bowled N/A G. Oborne 6
2 P.Coffey caught Davenport G. Oborne 5
3 M. Kerr bowled N/A Davenport 57
4 D. Buras caught Shenfield Sitwell 3
5 J. White LBW N/A Coals 32
6 C. Lysaght bowled N/A Davenport 4
7 A. Kerr bowled N/A McCrystal 3
8 A. Chishlom retired N/A N/A 3
9 T. Kavenagh NOT OUT N/A N/A 29
10 R. White NOT OUT N/A N/A 12
11
Byes___ Noballs_ Wides____
Legbyes____ Total Extras____
Overs__ Total Runs________












BOWLING
Bowler Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Nb W
1 G. Oborne 4 0 18 2 1 1
2 W. Sitwell 9 0 36 1 2 0
3 T. Shipman 9 1 26 0 0 1
4 Coals 8 0 30 1 1 0
5 Davenport 7 1 24 2 0 0
6 K. McCrystal 4 0 17 1 0 1
7 S. Hussain 2 0 16 0 0 0

BATTING
 INNINGS OF:
No Batsman How Out Fielder Bowler Runs 6s 4s
1 S. Hussain bowled N/A M. Kerr 15 0 3
2 B. Coals bowled N/A Chisholm 3 0 0
3 G. Oborne bowled N/A Chisholm 15 0 2
4 P. Oborne LBW N/A Chisholm 0 0 0
5 T. Shipman caught Chisholm R. White 12 0 1
6 T. Davenport LBW N/A A. Kerr 39 0 6
7 M. Shenfield LBW N/A Chisholm 18 0 2
8 K. McCrystal NOT OUT N/A N/A 4 0 0
9 W. Sitwell NOT OUT N/A N/A 2 0 0
10 D. McCrystal DNB
11
Byes___ Noballs___ Wides____
Legbyes____ Total Extras____
Overs____ Total Runs_________
BOWLING
Bowler Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Nb W
1 M. Kerr 7 2 31 1 1 5
2 A. Chisholm 16 5 34 4 0 2
3 R. White 3 0 23 1 0 1
4 A. Kerr 5 0 31 1 0 0
5 P. Coffey 2 0 3 0 0 0









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(L to R) Stephen Frears, Andy Harries, Sir Ronald Harwood, and Peter Oborne having lunch at The Groucho Club in August 2011 to discuss the proposed feature film about Basil D'Oliveira. Photo by Paul Yule.

Tarry, Tarry Night

A fascinating debate amongst some members has emerged about the digestive effects of Guinness. It is an important discussion, given the increasing old age and Guinness consumption of many members, especially on Tour. It began when one All Star belatedly complained about the captioning of a picture of a tray of Guinness as "7 pints of spastic colon" on the grounds that it is "offensive to disabled people" and "generally unpleasant and disgusting". The blogmaster disputed the complaint, arguing that far from being an offensive term, Spastic Colon is one of the accepted medical terms for Irritable Bowel Syndrome and generally refers to erratic bowel movements – “such as one is pretty well certain to suffer after drinking large quantities of Guinness”. This assertion was based on his own experience and anecdotal evidence, particularly on the Irish Tour. He also argued, perhaps rashly, that this is understood by Guinness drinkers all over the world. Another member, asked for support by the complainant, could not comply and instead wrote: "I can confirm (both from experience and consulting with my surgeon uncle) that [blogmaster] is correct regarding the relationship between irritable bowel sydrome, a spastic colon and 7 pints of the black stuff. Hence the fact that I only drink lager on tour." The complaint appears to have been based on the irrational and fundamentally ignorant fear that other forces might use the term "spastic colon" against the mildly famous complainant.

Internet research demonstrates that "spastic colon" is a perfectly acceptable phrase, but what of the "Guinness effect"? How widespread is it? A fascinating blog site called "IBS Tales. Personal experiences of irritable bowel syndrome" (http://www.ibstales.com/men_and_diarrhea_3.htm) gives a clue, albeit implicitly: "I started a new job in the September of that year meaning I could move back to an area we knew. Things did seem to get a bit better (slowly) and I was not in as much pain. Slowly but surely I started to go to the pub with my team at lunch time, I even dared myself to try a Guinness! Heaven for 15 minutes, hell for three days! But by the November I was OK again, almost back to my pre-IBS days."

On the other hand, the equally captivating fartygirl.blogspot.com (http://fartygirl.blogspot.com/2011/04/ive-been-bad-bad-gluten-free-vegan.html) contains the testimony: “The thought of living a life without Guinness killed me. Then I read somewhere that some touchy stomachs can handle Guinness. This is because Guinness is wheat free, made from barley. I drank Guinness and I continue to drink Guinness. It gives me NO problems.”

(Incidentally, if you are doing your own internet research do not be diverted by a website called www.doodlekisses.com as that is about a dog called Guinness which happens to suffer from IBS.)

One member of the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Self Help and Support Group(http://www.ibsgroup.org/forums/topic/74144-alcohol-and-ibs/page__p__121147__hl__guinness__fromsearch__1#entry121147) says: “Guinness can give the most regular drinkers problems the next day also.” And in the website MedHelp (http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Gastroenterology/Re-black-and-tarry-stools--guinness/show/440172), under the heading “Black and tarry stools” a contributor writes: “I have found that drinking guinness causes me to have these foul things. Is this a universal effect of guinness or a possible indicator of something wrong with my insides?” There was no satisfactory response.

Members may also find limited further general insight into the subject on the Poopreport website (http://www.poopreport.com/Doctor/Knowledgebase/beer_and_poop.html). The man who had to shave his buttocks tells a particularly enchanting tale.

All Stars should email the blogmaster with their own experiences (whitecityallstar@aol.com). Their identities will be kept strictly confidential, if that is their wish. This topic could run and run.

Tarry, Tarry Night - addendum

- Mark Jones, whose wife used to be a nurse so knows her stuff, says that the link between Guinness and the gastrocolic reflux is proven.

- The original complainant is sticking to his guns (and perhaps other things) and feels that blogmaster must change the caption - to "7 pints of erectile dysfunction". Well, he should know...



Suitably arty pic of the Tate's dep director Alex Beard - 2011 tour

Athlone again, naturally - 2011 tour

Zoltan the Driver - 2011 tour

Nigel Whittaker 1948 - 2011

Nigel Whittaker 1948 - 2011
Nigel batting at a Victor Blank charity cricket day

Nigel Whittaker meeting Shane Warne, a cricketing idol

The Ruddock Cup

The Ruddock Cup
Purchased at auction Weds 9 June by Bill Coales, to be engraved and then fought over in an annual memorial match between the All Stars and Halverstown CC. Not to be confused with The Alan Ruddock Trophy (see All Stars news). This came from an inspired idea by Jesh Rajasingham and was quickly approved by all others, with much research put in by Alex Beard and Bill Coales.

Flying the Flag

Flying the Flag
Iinauguration of the White City flag, v Kerry CCC, August 2007: b row - J Rajasingham, W Oborne, H Snook, M Shenfield, G Dudley, Local Ringer; f row - T Razzall, W Coales, P Oborne, J Oborne, P Yule.

One from the photo archives

One from the photo archives
The Irish Tour line-up 1988 - (back) Shwab C, Beard T, Oborne P, Ruddock A, Shwab P, Coyle J (front) McCrystal D, Beard A, Stevenson P, Kiely J, Pressley C

More from the archives

More from the archives
Beautiful Mount Juliet

Cricket Tea

Titch: "This rhubarb tastes funny..."

Tim Kavanagh and Oborne P

Stevenson and Beard A in the tour bus

Rathmore

Rathmore
Ruddock (centre) with Stevenson and Beard, Rathmore 2008

Rathmore

Rathmore
Ruddock (left) with Coales, McCrystal, Stevenson and Yule, Rathmore 2008

Drenagh

Drenagh
Drenagh, Co Derry, 2009. Back row - Roger Alton, Martin Shenfield, James Jones, Bill Coales, Joe Saumarez Smith, Paul Yule; middle row - Danny Alexander, Conolly McCausland, Peter Oborne (capt); front row - William Sitwell, Will Middleton, Alex Kelly