The U9s completed their season on Monday with a home game against Ouseburn. With an outside chance of making the play-offs we knew that we had to play well against an Ouseburn that had been consistent all season.
Losing the toss, Ouseburn asked us to bat and on a slow wicket and outfield we struggled against an accurate bowling with only 4 wides bowled all innings. Ed (13) and Jack (9) were our best batsman, but our 234-6 never really like a winning total.
William with 2-8, Joe and Harry Tribe all took early wickets and at 191 Ouseburn looked like they might struggle to recover. However, our bowling attack was not as consistent and we bowled 17 wides, this being the main difference between the sides with Ouseburn posting a winning total of 258-4.
Two outstanding bits of fielding worth mentioning, a one handed “reflex” catch by wicket-keeper Herbie and a superb “diving forward” catch by Jack, similar to Jamie’s a few weeks ago…
So ends a really enjoyable season which has seen great improvement in the team.
It was a shame we didn’t make the play-offs, but that gives us something to aim for next season!
Thanks to all the players and parents for your support this year!
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Showing posts with label U9s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U9s. Show all posts
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Saturday, 5 July 2008
Match reports: Knaresborough & Whixley U9s
Two match reports again. Firstly Knaresborough on the 23rd June. Knaresborough are probably the strongest team in the league, although I was hopeful that with a good performance we could push them close. Unfortunately this wasn’t our finest hour of the season and we came well second by 44 runs.
There were some real positives though, firstly probably the best catch I’ve seen at U9s level by Jamie Halsall. Diving forward to catch a fast travelling ball that would not have carried to him, he took the catch inches, sorry centimetres, above the ground. Super effort that …. Richie!
Secondly, Harvey’s bowling was excellent taking 2 wickets both bowled!
Moving on to Whixley on the 4th July, Whixley elected to bat scoring 233-5. All the bowling and fielding was truly excellent, but worthy of special mention are Harry Tribe with 2-10 and Jack Stabler-Langan with 2-1 including a wicket maiden!
The batting was back to a more positive approach and we ended up running out winners at 290-4, with excellent batting by George Fordy (16), Ed Challis (11), Herb (16) and Jack (10) securing victory.
Unfortunately our old friend the run out was back in play, these being two of our 4 dismissals, although the understanding of backing up as non-striker is definitely improving.
Let’s take this forward to our match against Cundall on Monday!
There were some real positives though, firstly probably the best catch I’ve seen at U9s level by Jamie Halsall. Diving forward to catch a fast travelling ball that would not have carried to him, he took the catch inches, sorry centimetres, above the ground. Super effort that …. Richie!
Secondly, Harvey’s bowling was excellent taking 2 wickets both bowled!
Moving on to Whixley on the 4th July, Whixley elected to bat scoring 233-5. All the bowling and fielding was truly excellent, but worthy of special mention are Harry Tribe with 2-10 and Jack Stabler-Langan with 2-1 including a wicket maiden!
The batting was back to a more positive approach and we ended up running out winners at 290-4, with excellent batting by George Fordy (16), Ed Challis (11), Herb (16) and Jack (10) securing victory.
Unfortunately our old friend the run out was back in play, these being two of our 4 dismissals, although the understanding of backing up as non-striker is definitely improving.
Let’s take this forward to our match against Cundall on Monday!
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
9th June Helperby vs Studley Royal
Another brilliant team performance secured a comprehensive 66 run victory yesterday evening.
Studley won the toss and elected to field, William (12) and Harry Tribe (20) then put an excellent unbroken opening stand of 34.
Ed (6), Jamie (9), Herbie (16) and Jack (14) all contributed valuable runs to our 303 for 5 total.
Our fielding and bowling was too good for the Studley batters. A great improvement in the wide count and wickets for Harry Nuttal and Harvey, Jack, Harry T and Ed restricted Studley to 237 for 6.
Pick of the bowlers was Jamie though, who bowled 2 overs for 1 run and was very unlucky not to take a wicket.
One learning point for Friday, not getting run out backing up!
The team is really coming together, time we returned the compliment against Ouseburn!
Studley won the toss and elected to field, William (12) and Harry Tribe (20) then put an excellent unbroken opening stand of 34.
Ed (6), Jamie (9), Herbie (16) and Jack (14) all contributed valuable runs to our 303 for 5 total.
Our fielding and bowling was too good for the Studley batters. A great improvement in the wide count and wickets for Harry Nuttal and Harvey, Jack, Harry T and Ed restricted Studley to 237 for 6.
Pick of the bowlers was Jamie though, who bowled 2 overs for 1 run and was very unlucky not to take a wicket.
One learning point for Friday, not getting run out backing up!
The team is really coming together, time we returned the compliment against Ouseburn!
Thursday, 5 June 2008
U9s vs Whixley (30th May) and Cundall Manor (2nd June)
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!
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!
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
19th May vs Knaresborough
Great game with a close, exciting finish.
Herb lost the toss and they put us in, although we would have batted anyway as it looked like rain!
A great start by James (8) and George (6) was ably supported by William (5) with some really nice off-drives.
Jack (18) hit the only two 4s of our innings and he took the bowling apart at the end with support from Herbie (9).
We posted 270 which the coach thought would be enough and our early fielding and bowling certainly backed this up with a run out and a great catch by Ed Challis pegging Knaresborough's reply back. The last pair needed an unlikely 28 off the last 4 overs to win, but some big hitting by James (17) and support by Willem got them home with 2 balls to spare.
A great team effort lads, particularly with the batting. There was only 1 run out this week and the calling/judgement of a run was definitely improved.
We bowled 8 more wides than they did (=16 runs!).
Bowling practice Friday then... !
Herb lost the toss and they put us in, although we would have batted anyway as it looked like rain!
A great start by James (8) and George (6) was ably supported by William (5) with some really nice off-drives.
Jack (18) hit the only two 4s of our innings and he took the bowling apart at the end with support from Herbie (9).
We posted 270 which the coach thought would be enough and our early fielding and bowling certainly backed this up with a run out and a great catch by Ed Challis pegging Knaresborough's reply back. The last pair needed an unlikely 28 off the last 4 overs to win, but some big hitting by James (17) and support by Willem got them home with 2 balls to spare.
A great team effort lads, particularly with the batting. There was only 1 run out this week and the calling/judgement of a run was definitely improved.
We bowled 8 more wides than they did (=16 runs!).
Bowling practice Friday then... !
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Helperby U9s vs Ouseburn 12th May
Another close game for the U9s, this time at Ouseburn.
Skipper Harvey won the toss (that's a 100% record so far!) and elected to field.
Good all round bowling was shown with 6 of our bowlers each taking a wicket.
Ouseburn ended up on 297-7, which was proabably a few runs too many, although the boundary on one side was very short. That's a lot of wickets to take and if the coach could set a field we could probably have knocked at least 10 runs off that!
In reply George and William opened and ran some really good quick singles, although their understanding was not always perfect and this did lead to a couple of run outs!
Although the batting in the middle overs was a bit slow Ed Challis, with a quickfire 10 runs including a lovely 6 over long on got us close with 31 runs needed by the final pair.
Herb (19) and Jack (4) tried their hardest and we finished 8 runs short (289-3) with some decent Ouseburn bowling and fielding seeing them home.
The encoraging thing is we are not losing many wickets and I'm sure that if we can tighten up on a few aspects like our ground fielding and running between the wickets, more wins will follow.
Another good team effort lads and I'm sure we'll repay the compliment in the return match .
Skipper Harvey won the toss (that's a 100% record so far!) and elected to field.
Good all round bowling was shown with 6 of our bowlers each taking a wicket.
Ouseburn ended up on 297-7, which was proabably a few runs too many, although the boundary on one side was very short. That's a lot of wickets to take and if the coach could set a field we could probably have knocked at least 10 runs off that!
In reply George and William opened and ran some really good quick singles, although their understanding was not always perfect and this did lead to a couple of run outs!
Although the batting in the middle overs was a bit slow Ed Challis, with a quickfire 10 runs including a lovely 6 over long on got us close with 31 runs needed by the final pair.
Herb (19) and Jack (4) tried their hardest and we finished 8 runs short (289-3) with some decent Ouseburn bowling and fielding seeing them home.
The encoraging thing is we are not losing many wickets and I'm sure that if we can tighten up on a few aspects like our ground fielding and running between the wickets, more wins will follow.
Another good team effort lads and I'm sure we'll repay the compliment in the return match .
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Helperby U9s vs Studley Royal
Last Monday the U9s season got off to an excellent start with a close win against Studley.
Winning the toss, Ed Challis elected to field and some excellent bowling and fielding restricted Studley to 262. Harry Nuttal took an excellent catch in his first game for Helperby and Harry Tribe got a run out on the last ball of the Studley innings.
In reply a slow, steady start got us close and left Herb and Freddie Turner to get us over the line with some emphatic hitting lifting Helperby to 279 and 2 points in the bag.
Crucially, we conceded far fewer wides than Studley, so we need to keep bowling straight and at the wickets and I'm sure more wins will come; keep practicing the bowling...
Overall it was a great team effort, well done lads on a great start!
Also, well done to Jack Stabler-Langan who, absent due to chess comittments, has won through to a chess "Gigafinal" in Manchester! Good luck with that Jack!
Winning the toss, Ed Challis elected to field and some excellent bowling and fielding restricted Studley to 262. Harry Nuttal took an excellent catch in his first game for Helperby and Harry Tribe got a run out on the last ball of the Studley innings.
In reply a slow, steady start got us close and left Herb and Freddie Turner to get us over the line with some emphatic hitting lifting Helperby to 279 and 2 points in the bag.
Crucially, we conceded far fewer wides than Studley, so we need to keep bowling straight and at the wickets and I'm sure more wins will come; keep practicing the bowling...
Overall it was a great team effort, well done lads on a great start!
Also, well done to Jack Stabler-Langan who, absent due to chess comittments, has won through to a chess "Gigafinal" in Manchester! Good luck with that Jack!
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