The Gentlemen of West London Cricket Club

Decade

Gents' bowling records

hirteen Gents members and two guests have cracked this list by taking four or more wickets in an innings. The list is dominated by seam, with Dhruv Patel being the only spinner to have taken five wickets. Even then memory recalls he was bowling seamers for three of his wickets v. Rotherham SC. There is much Ashtonian dominance (even his Hat-Trick had to be a smarty trousers affair off the first three balls of the innings), but Snarler Snelling’s pure pace has brought rich recent reward, including possibly the most bizarre analysis in a Gents game of 8 for 77. Mark’s derring-do against The Cheetahs in 1989 was the best bowling in a Gents game until September 1991 and a club record until June 1994, until he broke it again. What a bowlers’ summer 1996 was can be seen from the dating of three of the top four spells from that year, although the best year yet for the men with the ball in their hand was 1997, in which oppo were skittled on average for 99 miserly runs. Mr Hill’s amazing analysis in 1996 included four wickets in an over, though no Hat-Trick, but did not contain a maiden.

Four wickets or more in an innings (G = guest player, H = including Hat-Trick)
1	11.4-2-77-8 H	Stuart Snelling	4 Aug 96	EH Cheetahs	Beverley Park
2	11.2-1-44-7	Mark Ashton	5 May 96	Enterprise	Victoria Rec
3	16-3-55-7	Mark Ashton	18 June 94	NB Weasels	Berrylands
4	4-0-8-6	Phil Hill G	25 Aug 96	FC Chad	Berrylands
5	7-1-15-6	Mark Ashton	27 May 89	EH Cheetahs	Cranford Park
6	11.4-1-25-6	Mark Ashton	30 Apr 95	Urban Associates	Victoria Rec
7	9.3-2-35-6	Stuart Snelling	13 Aug 95	Urban Associates	Wimbledon Park
8	13-1-53-6	Mark Ashton	13 July 96	London Saints	Town Park, Enfield
9	3.1-2-4-5 H	Mark Ashton	8 Sept 91	Enterprise	Gunnersbury Park
10	4-1-7-5 H	Daniel Todd	1 Aug 93	Old Cubbonians	Victoria Rec
11	5-1-10-5	Mark Ashton	9 May 93	Old Cubbonians	Wandsworth Park
12	8-2-14-5	Stuart Snelling	17 Aug 97	London Saints	Alexandra Rec
13	14.4-3-16-5	Mark Ashton	5 May 91	London Owls	Gunnersbury Park
14	9-3-16-5 H	Nick Hubbocks	13 Aug 88	West XI	Windsor Boys School
15	10-2-17-5	Mark Ashton	18 July 93	London Owls	Wandsworth Common
16	6.5-1-19-5	Daniel Todd	31 July 94	London Owls	Victoria Rec
17	5.1-1-20-5	Dhruv Patel	1 June 97	Wandham	Victoria Rec
18	5.3-0-21-5	Simon Alderman	3 June 90	Enterprise	Cranford Park
19	9-0-21-5	Dhruv Patel	10 Aug 97	Urban Associates	Nursery Road
20	15-7-22-5	Phil Hill G	25 June 94	London Saints	Town Park
21	7-3-22-5	Jim Wright	2 July 95	Virgin Casuals	Victoria Rec
22	8-2-24-5	Stuart Snelling	11 Aug 96	Urban Associates	Nursery Road
23	10.5-3-25-5	Mark Ashton	3 Aug 96	Sunderland SC	Arnos Park
24	6-0-26-5	Jim Wright	19 May 96	West XI	Beverley Park
25	16-4-28-5	Stuart Snelling	11 May 97	Urban Associates	Victoria Rec
26	7.5-0-29-5	Dhruv Patel	4 Sept 94	Rotherham SC	Victoria Rec
27	6-0-33-5	Dave Thornicroft	31 July 94	London Owls	Victoria Rec
28	13.5-4-33-5	Stuart Snelling	26 May 96	12 Angry Men	British Gas, Acton
29	5.1-3-5-4	Dhruv Patel	7 Sept 97	FC Chad	Victoria Rec
30	6.2-2-10-4	Dhruv Patel	2 June 96	Wandham	King George’s Field, Tolworth
31	6-1-11-4	Rich Wilman	28 June 92	NB Weasels	Peel Centre
32	6-3-12-4	Nick Boddington	7 July 91	NB Weasels	Gunnersbury Park
33	6-1-12-4	Daniel Todd	22 May 94	Enterprise	Victoria Rec
34	7-1-12-4	Dhruv Patel	3 Sept 95	London Owls	Beverley Park
35	7-1-12-4	Nick Boddington	1 Sept 96	Rotherham SC	Beverley Park
36	7-2-13-4	Stuart Snelling	9 July 95	London Owls	Battersea Park
37	7-1-14-4	John Black	27 June 93	NELPS	Victoria Park
38	9-2-15-4	Stuart Snelling	25 June 95	London Saints	Battersea Park
39	9.2-2-16-4	Mark Ashton	21 Aug 94	Enterprise	Victoria Rec
40	6.4-1-19-4	Mark Ashton	7 Aug 94	12 Angry Men	Overton Road
41	13-6-20-4	Mark Ashton	8 May 94	Urban Associates	Wimbledon Park
42	7-0-22-4	Des Dolan	30 June 91	EH Cheetahs	Gunnersbury Park
43	6-1-22-4	Milton Jolin G	26 May 91	West XI	Gunnersbury Park
44	8-1-27-4	Des Dolan	12 Aug 90	West XI	Boston Manor Park
45	5-0-27-4	Mark Ashton	23 Apr 95	Lager Louts	Victoria Rec
46	7-0-28-4	Rich Wilman	13 June 93	NELPS	Victoria Rec
47	8-0-28-4	Nick Boddington	20 July 97	West XI	Boston Manor
48	8-2-29-4	Dhruv Patel	25 May 97	12 Angry Men	British Gas, Acton
49	7-0-30-4	Daniel Todd	12 July 92	West XI	King George's Field
50	10-2-30-4	Dave Thornicroft	19 Sept 93	Urban Associates	Wimbledon Park
51	5-1-34-4	Mark Ashton	10 May 92	Enterprise	Victoria Rec
52	13-3-38-4	Mark Ashton	5 June 93	London Saints	Town Park
53	13.5-2-39-4	Mark Ashton	31 May 92	London Owls	Wandsworth Common
54	8-0-39-4	Simon Alderman	17 June 90	EH Cheetahs	Warren Farm
55	7-0-40-4	Rich Wilman	4 July 93	West XI	Victoria Rec
56	14.2-2-44-4	Dhruv Patel	9 June 96	FC Chad	Alexandra Rec
57	7-0-47-4	Ian Maughan	17 June 90	EH Cheetahs	Warren Farm
58	15.1-3-56-4	Mark Ashton	10 July 94	Urban Associates	Victoria Rec

Opponents' bowling records

hereas there have been no seven-wicket hauls by oppo bowlers, their list is perhaps more one for the connoisseur, with Stig’s rain-assisted off-spin and Charles Arthur’s interesting leg-cutters well up there with the accurate seam of Ron High and the express pace of Adrian Gathercole and Derek Kirkwood. Charles heads the list with three entries, level with Weasel skipper Derek, who uniquely has taken three Michelles against The Gents.

The most brown-trousering spells of bowling v. GWLCC are possibly the 6 for 28 by Gathercole and the 5 for 35 by Hibbert. The former was an accurate and hostile performance on a deteriorating wicket, but in excellent light, in other words a classic fast bowler’s performance as he shot his side to victory, the latter a nerve-shredding mixture of yorkers, beamers and bouncers in the dark which caused the considerable wrath of Mike Hughes to be incurred, but which nevertheless was also a match-winner. Showing that spin can and does play a major part are not only such tweakers as Stig (being obliged to slow down by the muddy ground) and Mr Arthur but also the redoubtable off-breaks of Bill Flack, Richard Pugh and Pat Crotty, the slow left-armers of Alex Murray and the occasional, terrifyingly unpredictable leggies of Delesh Jeyadevan, whose direction finder is always on the blink but who always takes a pile of wickets. Expect to hear plenty more from FC Chad and Meopham seamer Master Collings, at fourteen the youngest name on the list. Kirky and Gathercole are 9/4 joint favourites to take that elusive seven-wicket haul against The Gents.

Four wickets or more in an innings against The Gents (H = including Hat-Trick)
1	7-3-10-6	Ron High	8 Sept 91	Enterprise	Gunnersbury Park
2	8-1-13-6	Stig	3 Aug 97	Virgin Casuals	Victoria Rec
3	7-2-25-6	Charles Arthur	17 June 89	West XI	Boston Manor Park
4	14-6-28-6	Adrian Gathercole	13 Aug 95	Urban Associates	Wimbledon Park
5	15-1-43-6	Derek Kirkwood	30 July 95	NB Weasels	Alexandra Rec
6	7-3-9-5	Derek Kirkwood	24 July 94	NB Weasels	Victoria Rec
7	7-1-10-5	Tony Hill	22 Aug 93	Enterprise	Victoria Rec
8	6-2-12-5	Bill Flack	28 June 92	NB Weasels	Peel Centre
9	7-0-17-5	Joydeep Chatterjee	11 July 93	Urban Associates	Victoria Rec
10	7-1-18-5	John Williams	8 Aug 93	West XI	Boston Manor Park
11	8.1-1-21-5	Derek Kirkwood	28 July 96	NB Weasels	Beverley Park
12	7.4-1-27-5	W Collings	7 Sept 97	FC Chad	Victoria Rec
13	9.5-1-32-5	Coad	5 July 97	Sunderland SC	Arnos Park
14	9-1-35-5	Horace Hibbert	26 May 96	12 Angry Men	British Gas, Acton
15	4-1-3-4	Mike Stefan	28 Apr 91	Enterprise	Gunnersbury Park
16	4.1-2-4-4	Jez Owen	19 July 92	NB Weasels	Victoria Rec
17	7-3-5-4	Chris Folley	15 May 94	West XI	Boston Manor Park
18	1.3-0-5-4 H	Delesh Jeyadevan	21 Aug 94	Enterprise	Victoria Rec
19	6-1-8-4	Pete Stanton	21 July 91	Old Cubbonians	Gunnersbury Park
20	6-1-9-4	Steve Tait	13 May 89	Enterprise	Wimbledon Park
21	4-0-10-4	Piper	25 Aug 96	FC Chad	Berrylands
22	7-2-11-4	Tremaine MacDonald	17 May 92	Old Cubbonians	Victoria Rec
23	7-3-11-4	Alex Murray	2 Aug 92	EH Cheetahs	Duke's Meadows
24	6-3-12-4	Ian Johnson	8 May 94	Urban Associates	Wimbledon Park
25	5-1-12-4	Dave Thomas	14 Aug 94	London Saints	Victoria Rec
26	4-0-12-4	Ernie Tattersdill	24 Aug 97	NB Weasels	Berrylands
27	5.1-2-13-4	Colin Hunter	22 May 88	West XI	Boston Manor Park
28	7-3-13-4	Dave Thomas	16 Aug 92	London Saints	Victoria Rec
29	6.1-1-13-4	Hobson	3 Aug 96	Sunderland SC	Arnos Park
30	6.1-2-14-4	Charles Arthur	26 May 91	West XI	Gunnersbury Park
31	9.5-1-32-5	Ben Bradshaw	5 July 97	Sunderland SC	Arnos Park
32	8-1-20-4	Tim Straw	30 June 91	EH Cheetahs	Gunnersbury Park
33	8-3-20-4	Richard Pugh	9 May 93	Old Cubbonians	Wandsworth Park
34	9-0-20-4	Scott Kirke	11 May 97	Urban Associates	Victoria Rec
35	5-0-24-4	Charles Arthur	12 Aug 90	West XI	Boston Manor Park
36	7-3-24-4	Paul Lambert	5 May 97	West XI	Teignmouth Gardens
37	6-1-25-4	Pat Crotty	9 June 91	Enterprise	Victoria Rec
38	8-0-25-4	Martin Glover	10 Aug 97	Urban Associates	Nursery Road
39	9.2-2-26-4	Dave Jepson	13 Aug 88	West XI	Windsor Boys School
40	4.3-0-27-4	Delesh Jeyadevan	28 Apr 91	Enterprise	Gunnersbury Park
41	11.5-3-27-4	Adrian Gathercole	30 Apr 95	Urban Associates	Victoria Rec
42	9.3-2-28-4	Darryl Cook	26 May 96	12 Angry Men	British Gas, Acton
43	7-1-29-4	Keith Dimond	5 May 96	Enterprise	Victoria Rec
44	7.1-1-29-4	Paul Preddy	1 June 97	Wandham	Victoria Rec
45	5-0-32-4	Steve Bignell	17 Sept 95	West XI	Wimbledon Park
46	7-0-34-4	D Parkinson	28 May 95	12 Angry Men	British Gas, Acton
47	9-1-35-4	Barry Russell	9 June 96	FC Chad	Alexandra Rec
48	13-3-37-4	Les Tinker	18 June 94	NB Weasels	Berrylands
49	15-4-41-4	Mark Webster	13 July 96	London Saints	Town Park, Enfield
50	7-0-41-4	Steve Bignell	21 July 96	West XI	Boston Manor Park
51	9-0-50-4	Geoff Burrell	25 June 95	London Saints	Battersea Park
52	12-1-54-4	Martin Glover	10 July 94	Urban Associates	Victoria Rec
53	12-2-53-4	Richard Heathcote	5 Sept 93	London Owls	Victoria Rec
54	15-0-80-4	Paul Pigott	31 July 94	London Owls	Victoria Rec

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