Tuesday 1 September 2009

Bowerchalke CC Season 1969: The Knapman Cup

INTRODUCTION
In a previous blog entry we made reference to The Knapman Cup. This was a local cricket knockout competition in the Salisbury and District Area, twenty overs per side, played in midweek evenings. We believe it was organised by Farley CC as that is where The Semi-Finals and The Final were played (nice place to play). We'll need to find out a bit more about the history, we assume that it is still played for today but will try and confirm that somehow. Interestingly, both our Dad (for Bowerchalke and Bishopstone) and KeithG (for South Wilts) have actually played in winning teams! And that leads us nicely on to the 1969 season...

BUT WHAT HAPPENED IN 1968?
As already referenced in this blog, Bowerchalke was knocked out of The Knapman Cup in 1968 by South Wilts. We assume this was in the first round of the competition. The first attempt to play the game on the 14th June 1968 was abandoned because of rain after 9 overs with South Wilts 74-1. On the 24th June 1968 South Wilts made 121 for 6 and beat Bowerchalke (90-5) by 31 runs.

KNAPMAN CUP 1969
Interestingly in the 1968-69 scorebook the scorer highlighted the 1969 first round match as The Knapman Cup along the top of the page, presumably to draw a distinction between this game and the normal fixtures. However, s/he mistakenly started to write in Morrison Cup...and then scribbled it out. We know that our Dad also has a Morrison Cup winners trophy at home...so was The Knapman Cup its successor? All references we can find to The Morrison Cup on the Internet seem to relate to football not cricket. If you know anymore about this let us know, send an e-mail to bowerccmem@btinternet.com

First Round: Bowerchalke Versus Great Durnford played at Bowerchalke on 4th June 1969
Weather: sunny
Toss Won By: Great Durnford
Bowerchalke 112 for 9, C Down 31, D Gulliver 27, G Prince 10-0-53-7-7.57
Great Durnford 94 for 7, R Phillips 28 not out, B Stevens 10-1-49-5-9.8
Bowerchalke won by 18 runs
Bowerchalke team: C Down, T Barter, B Stevens, G Lampert, D Gulliver, A Syrett, R Clough, B Gulliver, D Petch, J Lord, M Lampert

Second Round: Bowerchalke Versus Farley played at Bowerchalke on DATE NOT SPECIFIED IN SCOREBOOK (between 28th June and 5th July 1968 the games before and after in the book)
Weather:
sunny
Toss Won By: Bowerchalke
Bowerchalke 124-6, C Down 54 not out, D Gulliver 31, A Syrett 19 not out, C Fletcher 9-0-53-3-17.6
Farley 69-8, S Edwards 27, D Gulliver 10-0-33-4-8.25, B Stevens 9-1-24-3-8, C Down 1-0-9-1-9
Bowerchalke won by 55 runs
Bowerchalke team: P Salisbury, C Down, T Barter, G Lampert, B Stevens, D Gulliver, R Clough, A Syrett, B Gulliver, D Petch, M Lampert

Semi-Final: Bowerchalke Versus Whiteparish played at Farley on 14th July 1969
Weather:
sunny / hazy
Toss Won By: NOT SPECIFIED
Whiteparish 106-6, J Rushton 19, C Cobern 22, P Cobern 22, B Ling 22 (there were four Coberns in the Whiteparish team!), D Gulliver 7-0-36-2-18, B Stevens 9-0-45-2-22.5, C Down 4-0-16-1-16
Bowerchalke 108-2 off 17 overs, P Salisbury 47 not out, C Down 20, G Lampert 38 not out, W Alford 6-0-29-1-29
Bowerchalke won by 8 wickets
Bowerchalke team: P Salisbury, C Down, T Barter, G Lampert, B Stevens, D Gulliver, A Syrett, R Clough, D Petch, J Lord, M Lampert
Bowerchalke

Final: Bowerchalke Versus South Wilts II played at Farley on 18th July 1969
Weather:
fine
Toss Won By: South Wilts II
South Wilts II 95-9, M Heather 22, D Gulliver 10-0-32-7-4.57, B Stevens 10-0-51-2-25.5
Bowerchalke 99-1, P Salisbury 46 not out, C Down 23, T Barter 24 not out
Bowerchalke won by 9 wickets and win The Knapman Cup! Sweet revenge for defeat against South Wilts a year earlier.
Bowerchalke team: P Salisbury, C Down, T Barter, G Lampert, B Stevens, D Gulliver, A Syrett, R Clough, B Gulliver, D Petch, J Lord

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