Today's Summers Past feature takes us to the Great Lawn of Blenheim Palace on 20th June 2010 where the Tigers faced the Duke's men, Blenheim Park CC.
On a day when batsman after batsman failed, there were some bright spots. Chris Tarratt and Omar Tariq steadied the Tigers floundering batting line up with 46 and 47 respectively whilst Shankar and Serge Eaton chipped in with a useful 20 and 14 at the tail end. Walker (7-2-17-3), Cox (7-0-39-2) and Stoddard (7-1-30-2) would have been forgiven for feeling they'd done enough to see off the Tigers.
But the Tigers bowlers had other ideas. Ash Kolamkar and Saurabh Mehrotra had both gone cheaply in the batting and set out to avenge themselves on the Blenheim Park batting line up. And avenge themselves they did. They tore through the Blenheim batting.
Correction. All but one of the Blenheim Park batting.
Blenheim Park's J. Stoddard took on the Tigers' bowling single-handed, hitting boundary after boundary as his team mates fell around him. Late in the afternoon, with the game balanced on a knife-edge, Stoddard tried hitting Ash Kolamkar high and long over long-on. The shot had too much height and not enough length, giving Floyd the time he needed to get under it and take the catch.
The wicket effectively ended the match. Stoddard's departure for 81 was ninth wicket down. A few balls later, Tigers' Greg Inge mopped up the last man. Ash Kolamkar finished with figures of 10-1-29-4 with Mehrotra coming in with an equally magnificent 6-1-11-4.
The Tigers' Ash Kolamkar 10-1-29-4
Blenheim finished their innings 126 all out, 27 runs short of Tigers' 153-7.
There would always be 2011 forthe Duke's men to exact their revenge on the Tigers. And what a revenge it was .. but that's for a later Summers Past feature.
For now, here's the scorecard for the 2010 game:
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