Northleach Sunday Rams V Northleach FC  - 4th September 2005

This match had it all, 572 runs, two hundreds, a nasty beamer and a blonde wig which was mainly worn by Stuart Goodall to hide his thinning thatch.

The football club put out a very strong team with five Northleach cc first team players including master blaster G Crompton, Chris Mooney and J Robson from Great Rissington. The Sunday Rams had the return of the silver fox dad Gardner to bolster the ranks.

After winning the toss the football club put the Rams bowling to the sword piling up 300 runs for 6 wickets with C Mooney making a undefeated 101 and G Crompton making 77 not out with 5 huge sixes. This looked like a daunting task but after a good start (D Hall 31) TGardner came to the Crease and with G Harris (27) they put on a 100 Run partnership. With help from the tail J Stevens ( 10 no) T Gardner passed 100 Runs. Needing 36 from 3 overs a win was in sight, but after a head high beamer from G Brett Lee Hulcup Which took Gardner's head nearly of, Gardner was out next over to the bowling of L Smith for 119 which finished the rams chance of winning finishing up on 272-9.Next season T Gardner steps down from first team duty to lead his Sunday troops on a tour of the Cirencester division 3 for the first time.