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| Match Details |
| Round |
Round 1 |
| Opposition |
Rusty Shovel |
| Date |
1-Jan-2000 |
| Ground |
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| Match Summary |
| Result |
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| Kurrajong Gypsies 1st innings |
9 wickets, 206 runs
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| Rusty Shovel 1st innings |
5 wickets, 202 runs
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| Match Report |
Volume 8, Number 1
Glebe Gypsies v Rusty Shovel
The Gypsy KY2 clock, as everybody knows, ticks away in a small, piss-stained room in Palo Alto, California. When its furry hands tick over into the new millenium, according to the prophet Urinus of Clamyddia: “…a group of simpletons from the continent of Gu shall climb to great heights, all the while drinking strange frothy beverages and precipitating the rule of sloth…” He also predicted corduroy would make a comeback and Sheena Easton would marry into the Royal Family, but there you go.
Another consequence of the KY2 bug is is that the first match for the Gypsies this year was originally scheduled for June 14th, 1727 on a small island off Surinam. It was only after the Gypsies threatened to baste themselves with WD40 and set themselves afire that the match was rescheduled for the middle of the Round 3 in downtown Glebe under a Chinese sun and a watermelon sky, where blokes are blokes, small furry monkeys are small furry monkeys, and the opposition are called "Rusty Shovel."
The day was hot and new skipper Priscilla made no early friends by losing the toss. So the Gypsies were bowling on a pitch as dead as an East Timor village on market day. Wickets were few and far between, and the Oxidised Excavators XI had reached 2/172 before Priscilla played his trump card. Tony “Hollywood” Masters, in his 273rd season of park cricket, was introduced into the attack. After giving the umpire his four sweaters, helmet, headband, forearm guards, leg guards, hector, chest guard, abdomen protector, chain mail, groinal attachment, false chin and cranial support brace, he unleashed a verbal tirade at the hapless batsmen. He had an immediate impact, and the Diggers lost 3/9 under the fusillade of abuse. To see such outstanding sledging, the Ghost of Reg Mavin, the Gypsies’ late No 1 ticketholder must have opened one glaucomic eye and smiled.
The Gypsies began the chase in fine fashion, losing the Little Lebowski for the first duck of the season, and Lebler (10), who was showing the benefit of a dedicated off-season under the beady eye of the Gypsies’ drinking coach. John “Bo-Bo” Biboudis had threatened a big score in his two matches last year, and today he delivered, thrashing a tiring attack for an excellent 73. He was well supported by the Dazzler (23) and Priscilla (37). The victory target of 203 from 47 overs refused to go away, but wickets were falling. Mike Brown was playing an important sheet-anchor role, but when Vanstead went for the second duck of the innings, the equation was: 37 runs from 34 balls. Time and again the Gypsies had contrived to lose from better situations than this, but fortunately rookies, none of whom knew the script, populated the lower order. Gerber raised hopes before being run out for 12, and Brown (30) was dismissed trying to force the pace. Vikram Reddi, the first ever sub-continental Gypsy since the great Liaquat Ali, contributed a valuable 8 - despite refusing to wear a hector for religious reasons. When Tony Kemp, the last man, took guard the Gypsies needed 2 runs from 4 balls. Feeling like a Tooheys, he immediately clubbed the winning runs through mid on, giving the delighted Gypsies an important victory.
New Skipper Priscilla fronted the press conference in a jubilant mood. Asked about the team’s newfound determination, he invoked the memory of long-suffering and recently murdered Gypsy supporter, Reg Mavin; “If you had to watch the type of cricket he’d seen over the years, you’d need a drink, too!” And on the subject of the change of captaincy, he praised former skipper, Kitty Vanstead, for “getting off the Mogadons long enough to realise it was time for someone with at least half a brain to lead the team.”
Rusty Shovel 4/202 Glebe Gypsies 9/206
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| Kurrajong Gypsies 1st innings |
| Lebler, Jobie |
10 |
| Cohen, Nathan |
0 |
| Gerber, Matt |
12 |
| Biboudis, John |
73 |
| Masters, Tony |
4* |
| Fenton-Smith, Will |
0 |
| Bradley, Steve |
37 |
| Archer, Darrell |
23 |
| Brown, Michael |
30 |
| Reddi, Vikram |
8 |
| Kemp, Tony |
3* |
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| Rusty Shovel 1st innings |
| Bradley, Steve |
10 overs, 1 for 30 |
| Archer, Darrell |
10 overs, 1 for 54 |
| Cohen, Nathan |
7 overs, 1 for 7 |
| Brown, Michael |
9 overs, 0 for 44 |
| Lebler, Jobie |
6 overs, 0 for 21 |
| Masters, Tony |
3 overs, 2 for 19 |
| Biboudis, John |
2 overs, 0 for 9 |
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