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Canvey Island Cricket Club Results
Weekend 29th September 2002
Sunday
Canvey Island 215-6
Langdon Hills
78 all out
Canvey won by 137 runs
Dave
Shroder has waited a long time to hit his first ton of the season,
until the last game in fact, but in his last opportunity of the year
he didn’t disappoint his many fans. Shroder’s 114 also enabled him
to pass the 500-run mark for the season for the first time, and their
weren’t many happier faces than his at the end of the Canvey
innings. After an initial blaze of boundaries, including two towering
sixes on his way to his first fifty Shroder slowed down markedly,
hitting the last 20 runs in singles and twos. The last game of the
season always provides the opportunity for some “joke” play, and
this game proved no exception. Seasoned no.11 Gary Snowdon opened the
batting, but could only make 4, and Paul Ward, fresh from scoring over
2000 runs right-handed switched to batting left-handed, and still
scored a crisp 5 not out at the end of the innings. But it didn’t
stop there. Paul Synnott was brought on to bowl is leggies and
surprised everyone, including himself, by bowling one of the best
spells of the year being unlucky not to take more than 1 for 9 in his
five overs. However, the main interest centred around the battle
between John Gunn and Darren Wainer to claim the bowling runners-up
trophy. Wainer entered the game one wicket behind Gunn, but full of
confidence after his five-wicket haul the previous week. However, Gunn
had other ideas and put the whole competition to bed by claiming three
wickets in his first three overs, aided by a stunning one-handed slip
catch from Ward. Gunn finished with 4 for 8, Wainer 2 for 11, and the
game for Canvey by a 137 run margin.
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