These games were played in rapid succession last Friday and Monday respectively so I decided its buy one get one free time…..!
Against Whixley Jack won the toss and put Whixley into bat. Tight early bowling supported by excellent fielding restricted Whixley to 265-4. Herbie 2-4, Joe 1-13, Ed 1-10 and William 0-5 were the pick of the bowlers.
In reply we comfortably pushed past the required total (Ed 9) and with the game already won Herbie took the bowling apart, top scoring with 33! We finished up with 317-1 to build lots of confidence for our trip to Cundall.
On Monday we had the pleasure of facing up against Herbie, who in last minute shift was playing for Cundall against us. Jack again won the toss and he put Cundall in. Their innings started disastrously with Jack claiming 2 wickets in the first over which also included a run out. Cundall’s innings never fully recovered finishing on 251-9 (Ed 2-8 and Harvey 1-8). We also managed to claim 4 run outs including Herbie twice!!
The run chase stuttered a bit at times with run outs and wickets falling regularly, but I always thought it was going to be a close finish and so it proved. Ed was very unlucky to be caught and bowled, but he made amends by hitting his last two balls for four. This left the last pair (Jack and Harry Tribe) needing 23 to win. In a true partnership and with good running between the wickets ,Jack (15) and Harry (3) saw us home (252-9) with Jack blocking the last ball for victory.
Indeed Jack batted superbly throughout and showed great maturity in doing just enough to secure the victory!
Well done to everybody in both teams, now bring on Studley on Monday!
