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| Match Details |
| Round |
Round 7 |
| Opposition |
Bondi |
| Date |
24-Nov-2001 & 1-Dec-2001 |
| Ground |
Booralee 4 |
| Match Summary |
| Result |
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| Bondi 1st innings |
all out, 164 runs
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| Kurrajong Gypsies 1st innings |
9 wickets declared, 275 runs
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| Bondi 2nd innings |
5 wickets, 147 runs
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| Match Report |
Volume 9, Round 7
Glebe Gypsies v Bondi
Lady’s Day Goes Ahead After Hosts Agree to Stand Down Steve Barnett
There has been one question occupying the minds of the cricket fraternity ever since the Steve Barnett row erupted. How far towards the brink were the Gypsies prepared to go before pulling back?. The answer came Saturday evening in a statement from the International Cricket Council to the effect that Gypsies’ Captain Junior Gray had agreed that Steve Barnett, upper order batsman and bouncer at the ‘State Rail’ nightclub in Arncliffe, would be omitted from the Gypsies’ team to face Randwick the following Day. However, being Lady’s Day, it was unlikely Barnett would have been chosen in the first XI anyway, his top scoring during the Gypsies’ first innings demolition of the Bondi VII – X doing little to improve his foul mouthed and Michael Slater-like reputation amongst team-mates and the general public.
Having accused an opposition batsman of impersonating Michael Flatley, it was Barnett who copped the one-match ban from Match Detective Al Miller for excessive unoriginality, loose bowels, poor sideburns, and not possessing a Ferrari. After the spiteful match against Bondi at Booralee, other suspended sentences were handed out to Tim Barnett for tampering with his balls during a first innings five wicket haul (“How else can I stop having children?”), Kev Kahler for excessive lateness, and Lindsay Cohen for match fixing, a claim he vehemently denies. “I had no money at a million-to-one whatsoever on a park hat-trick” said Cohen by satellite phone from his Caribbean Island. Cameron Hamilton was also warned by Miller for excessive appealing, a strong wind being no excuse for appealing LBWs prior to delivery.
Gypsy authorities maintain that Steve Barnett served his ban during an impromptu ‘game’ with a little fat guy held in the Men’s Room of the Endeavour Hotel with the aid of a trough lolly and a toilet brush during uncontrolled and occasionally lewd victory celebrations. Despite Tony Masters offering his services in place of Miller during the Lady’s Day match, Randwick had made it clear they would not play in an unofficial match, and turned down the offer of a scrabble-off. The ICC moved quickly to avert a crisis, sending 17 Italian lingerie models to Gypsy HQ, resulting in full compliance with all demands of the international bodies and a restless night for all concerned.
“This is good news for the millions of Moore Park and South-East cricket followers worldwide,” ICC chairman Malcolm Speed announced. “We can now get on with the task of rebuilding Bondi cricket and tampering with the paperwork to ensure the Gypsies don’t make the finals”. |
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| Bondi 1st innings |
| Barnett, Tim |
15 overs, 5 for 54 |
| Hamilton, Cameron |
10 overs, 0 for 44 |
| Cohen, Lindsay |
2 overs, 0 for 12 |
| Barnett, Steve |
2 overs, 1 for 2 |
| Wawrzyniak, Andrew |
5 overs, 0 for 14 |
| Kahler, Kevin |
11 overs, 2 for 18 |
| Masters, Tony |
7 overs, 1 for 15 |
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| Kurrajong Gypsies 1st innings |
| Barnett, Steve |
64 |
| Gray, James |
49 |
| Hamilton, Cameron |
18 |
| Biboudis, John |
36 |
| Kahler, Kevin |
23 |
| Fenton-Smith, Will |
16 |
| Miller, Alan |
1 |
| Cohen, Lindsay |
9 |
| Wawrzyniak, Andrew |
4 |
| Barnett, Tim |
5* |
| Masters, Tony |
7* |
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| Bondi 2nd innings |
| Kahler, Kevin |
9 overs, 1 for 25 |
| Barnett, Tim |
7 overs, 1 for 36 |
| Wawrzyniak, Andrew |
6 overs, 2 for 18 |
| Hamilton, Cameron |
7 overs, 0 for 14 |
| Barnett, Steve |
2 overs, 0 for 4 |
| Cohen, Lindsay |
3 overs, 1 for 8 |
| Masters, Tony |
2 overs, 0 for 2 |
| Biboudis, John |
1 overs, 0 for 14 |
| Fenton-Smith, Will |
1 overs, 0 for 3 |
| Gray, James |
1 overs, 0 for 6 |
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