Great Missendens Pelicans 2016

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Sunday October 2nd vs Nomads

Great Missenden Pelicans 225 (Josh Bailey 112, Jamie Litherland 59)   Nomads 81-8 (Adam Fairweather 3-18)

Match DRAWN

Man of the Match: Josh

“We must have taken a wrong turn somewhere.” ‘Where, Purgatory?’ said Dozy. “We’re in Hell.” Author John Connolly once wrote.

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Sunday September 25th vs Kensington

Kensington 204-4   Great Missenden Pelicans 171-9 (Harry Manisty 46, Hasan Arif 36*)

Match DRAWN

Man of the Match: Harry

Some say he was forged from rare exotic metals and was fed as a child weasel dust. All we know him as is TONY

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Sunday September 18th vs Bovingdon

Great Missenden Pelicans 184 for 8 (Alex Livie 39, Josh Bailey 36*)    Bovingdon 157 all out (Josh Bailey 3-10, Asad Rehman 3-35)

WON by 27 runs

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Sunday September 11th vs Golden Age

Great Missenden Pelicans 237 for 7 (Clive Nicholls 77, Josh Bailey 36*)   Golden Age 104 all out (Josh Bailey 3-7, Hasan Arif 3-25)

WON by 133 runs

Man of the Match: Mrs Duck

Another Sunday, another W in the results column as the Pelicans proved much too good for Golden Age.

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Sunday September 4th vs Ley Hill

Great Missenden Pelicans 283 for 4 (Kunaal Kankate 110*, Asad Rehman 90)    Ley Hill 113 all out (Raghu Kankate 3-3, Josh Bailey 3-21)

WON by 170 runs

Man of the Match: Kunaal

Runs. Two hundred and eighty three of them to be precise as the Pelicans cantered to victory over Ley Hill.

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Sunday August 28th vs Bledlow Ridge

Match CANCELLED

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Sunday August 21st vs Widmer End

Widmer End 124 all out (Raghu Kankate 4-17)   Great Missenden Pelicans 112 for 7 (Josh Bailey 41*, Alex Livie 40*)

Match DRAWN

Man of the Match: Rags

The Pelicans survived a truly epic batting collapse to get to the brink of an unlikely victory when rain intervened to force a draw with Widmer End.

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Sunday August 14th vs Hit or Miss

Match Cancelled

No match report, but an image of the alternative activity for the day…

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Sunday August 7th vs Middleton Stoney

Middleton Stoney 154 for 7   Great Missenden Pelicans 156 for 2 (Asad Rehman 55, Clive Nicholls 35)

WON by 8 wickets

The Pelicans etched another W in the results column with victory at Middleton Stoney.

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Sunday July 31st vs Hyde Heath

Hyde Heath 135 all out (Josh Bailey 3-13, Adam Fairweather 3-43)   Great Missenden Pelicans 139 for 1 (Asad Rehman 70* Alex Livie 56*)

WON by 9 wickets

Man of the Match: VDP

And here is Sunday’s match report from our Kiwi superstar. It’s quite possible the power has gone to his head:

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Sunday July 24th vs Rickmansworth

Rickmansworth 87 (Josh Bailey 4-27, Nic Vanderpeet 3-2)    Great Missenden Pelicans 90-7

WON by 3 wickets

Man of the Match: Josh

This Sunday we enjoyed the company of Rickmansworth CC at HQ with a day dawning bright and sunny (only slightly marred later on by the finest of fine rain*)

The Pelicans took to the field with their expected 10 men; unfortunately their expected 1 woman was a late withdrawal – something about a sore arm from exuberant Softball – so we were a Pelican adrift of optimum. Thankfully we weren’t disadvantaged for a long time as the Jeffrey count doubled with Brother Julian taking to the hallowed turf for his second outing of the year.

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Sunday July 17th vs Wendover

Wendover 159 (Niron Jeffrey 3-28, Raghu Kankate 3-38)   Great Missenden Pelicans 162-5 (Raghu Kankate 37*, Asad Rehman 35)

WON by 5 wickets

Man of the Match: Rags

As that old cricket saying goes ‘ One gets two’, and the case was well proven as Wendover stood in for Bushey and were beaten again.

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Sunday July 10th vs Wendover

Wendover 140 all out   Great Missenden Pelicans 141 for 4

WON by 6 wickets

Man of the Match: Butch

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Wednesday July 6th vs Stowe Templars

Stowe Templars 135 all out   Great Missenden Templars 103 all out

LOST by 32 runs

Man of the Match: O Ross

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Tuesday July 5th vs Old Victorians

Old Victorians 161 for 8 (Lee Tyrrell 3-3)   Great Missenden Pelicans 164 for 3 (Asad Rehman 106*)

WON by 7 wickets

Man of the Match: Asad

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Monday July 4th vs Northwood

Great Missenden Pelicans 239 for 5 (J Litherland 96, Asad Rehman 43, Alex Livie 36*   Northwood 182 for 9 (Asad Rehman 4-35)

Match DRAWN

Man of the Match: James Litherland

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Sunday July 3rd vs The Lee

The Lee 175 for 9 (Raghu Kankate 6-33)   Great Missenden Pelicans 178 for 4 (Asad Rehman 122*)

WON by 6 wickets

Man of the Match: Asad

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Sunday June 26th vs Kensington CC

Kensington CC 139 all out   Great Missenden Pelicans 134 all out

LOST by 5 runs

Man of the Match: Josh

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Sunday June 19th vs The Bushmen

The Bushmen 26 all out (R Frank 5-4-1-4)   Great Missenden Pelicans 152 for 4 (J Greenwood 59, J Rehman 52)

WON by 10 wickets

Man of the Match: Toobes

Bizarre, strange, bewildering, downright odd. You could choose any number of similar adjectives to describe the Pelicans’ win over those Bushmen on Sunday.

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Sunday June 12th vs The Fiddlers

Match CANCELLED

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Sunday June 5th vs Old Mincheldenians

Old Mincheldenians 175 for 8   Great Missenden Pelicans 87 all out

LOST by 88 runs

Man of the Match: Josh

A miserable Pelis effort enlivened only by a run-out by Josh that would have done credit to a T20 international, and Toobes pushing his batting average through 50

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Sunday May 29th vs Lord Gnomes

Lord Gnomes 157 all out (R Kankate 4-53)   Great Missenden Pelicans 161-6 (K Kankate 84*, R Kankate 59*)

WON by 4 wickets

Man of the Match: Kunaal

Headingley 1981, Istanbul 2005, Nags Head Meadow 2016… In twenty years’ time they will still be speaking of this match, in the Kankate household at least.

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Sunday May 22nd vs Ley Hill

Ley Hill 141-9 (John Greenwood 4-27, Kunaal Kankate 3-40)   Great Missenden Pelicans 142-6 (Kunaal Kankate 47, John Greenwood 38*)

WON by 4 wickets

Man of the Match: JG

The Pelis’ early-season streak continued, unbeaten in the past 5, but this match will be notable for a new term entering the Pelis’ vernacular, the “guilty man’s shot”.

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Sunday May 15th vs Hyde Heath

Hyde Heath 172 for 9 (Raghu Kankate 3-9)   Great Missenden Pelicans 173-9 (Hasan Arif 42, Josh Bailey 36*)

WON by 1 wicket

Man of the Match: Hasan

Words. There are over 200,000 of them in the Oxford English Dictionary. More than that would be needed to do justice to an epic game of cricket at Hyde Heath, so we’ll go with the abridged version of the victory instead.

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Sunday May 8th vs Ibstone

Ibstone 148 all out (R Frank 3-14)   Great Missenden Pelicans 152-5 (Alex Livie 37*)

WON by 5 wickets

Man of the Match: Toobes

Under azure blue skies and temperatures soaring to levels higher than Ibiza a perfect day was finished off with a perfect result.

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Sunday May 1st vs Ballinger

Ballinger 162 all out (Hasan Arif 4-64, Raghu Kankate 3-39);   Great Missenden Pelicans 134 for 9 (Kunaal Kankate 63)

Match DRAWN

Man of the Match: Kunaal

Toobes and @bdcmassif dig in to guide the Pelicans to safety vs Ballinger pic.twitter.com/dKH9Jm2d1r — GM Pelicans CC (@PelisCricket) May 1, 2016

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Sunday April 24th vs Little Marlow

Little Marlow 162-7 (R Kankate 3-32, N Vanderpeet 2-8)   Great Missenden Pelicans 163-8 (A Livie 63*)

WON by 2 wickets

Man of the Match: Alex

After the mauling at the hands of those Fleet Street Strollers, the Pelicans jumped back into the saddle and put on a show of grit, determination and a little bit of skill to claim the win at Little Marlow.

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Sunday April 17th vs Fleet Street Strollers

Fleet Street Strollers 195 for 4   Great Missenden Pelicans 112 (D Bailey 42)

LOST by 83 runs

Man of the Match: Bails

The opening day of the season ended the Pelis’ 8-month unbeaten streak

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