Far From The MCC

~ Est. in 1998 ~

 

“Mr. Denner Achieves

New Levels of Self-Importance”

 

 

Sunday 31st August 2003

Result:  Won by 93 Runs

Venue:  Pembroke College Sports Ground

35 overs

FFTMCCC

195 - 6

M. Westmoreland  66,  S. Hebbes  33

Denner’s XI

102 ao

S. Hebbes  4 - 11,  B. Mander  2 - 27

 

 

 

The Mad registered their second win post-tour, as they clubbed an impressive 195-6 in their allotted overs against the self-styled Denner’s XI. Mr. Denner – you heard of him? No? Me neither. But apparently he’s famous enough to name a whole cricket team after himself. Gosh – this guy must be good! Anyway, enough of that. After a quick cameo by I. Howarth (28) at the start of the match, and a useful slog by T. Smith (18), this Mad innings was largely built around an impressive knock from M. Westmoreland (66) who finally registered his maiden half-century for the team. In partnership with an in-form S. Hebbes (33) he added 77 for the 4th wicket, and enjoyed a smaller partnership with S. Dobner (14) towards the end. When he finally holed out whilst upping the tempo, it was left to B. Mander (8*) and N. Hebbes (5*) to protect their averages.

 

Tea.

 

 

James would definitely have got a ton on this day if he’d batted.

 

When affirming a decision to name a team after yourself, the least you can do is back up your own self-importance and bring your “A” game to the party. Whether Mr. Denner had a “B” game or even a “C” game is debatable, but the game we were treated to was one of the latter letters of the alphabet. But let’s not be too critical here, after opting to open the batting for his team, our man scored a succinct 2 and was involved in two partnerships (1 and 6). Congratulations, sir – maybe name the England team after yourself as well, huh?

 

 

The nice graffiti-free sign at Pembroke.

 

After celebrating the (ahem) prize scalp of Mr. Denner, the Mad were held up for a while by R. King (23) and P. Sauter (27) who both eventually fell to the guile of Mad leggie, B. Mander (2-27). It was then left to S. Hebbes to run through the tail to return the quite excellent figures of 4 for 11. Denner’s boys had been skittled for a neat 102 and victory went to the pub that was a fair distance from an annoying crowd.

 

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Mr. Denner may well reflect on this defeat, by maybe imagining things may have been very different if there were more Denner’s in his team. A whole team of Denner’s? Geeeez – what a thought. He’d have to get busy with the wife or at least invest a fair sum of money in some genetic experimentation – but then Hitler started with ideas like this….

 

 

‘Spam’

 

 

 

 

 

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