Barnards Green cricket Club Match Reports.
June 4th 2005 |
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BGCC 3rds vs Brintons |
BGCC 2nd XI vs Coombs Wood
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The Green 3rds entertained a strong Brintons
team on a cool and showery afternoon on an excellent track at Newland. Opting
to bat first, Brintons were a shade fortunate to have opener Maiden still at
the wicket after the first over, after Phil Harris found the outside edge to
be well taken by keeper Bob Rogers, but the batsman remained at the
creese. The Brintons openers then took the score past the 60 mark,
before Simon Cooke took an excellent low catch to remove Maiden for 39 off
Rob Tyler. Parker (24) soon latched on to anything short regularly finding
the unprotected boundaries, before being bowled by Jamie Longmore.
Jones grafted away at the other end, before finally being well caught by Dave
Bayliss and providing just rewards for Phil Harris, who bowled far better
than his figures suggested. Dave Price tempted I. Waldron down the
track and Rogers whipped off the bails for a stumping and Harris produced a
top drawer ball to bowl Reece. Brintons finished on 210, somewhat more
than they should have had, but for some inept fielding from certain
fielders. In reply, the Green looked comfortable early
on with Simon Cooke and the inform Rob Tyler having few problems and keeping
the scoreboard ticking over, however both succumbed to short deliveries
outside offstump only to be caught behind. Dick Brown failed to trouble
the scorers, being undone by a yorker and the runs soon dried up as the Green
failed to punish the bad balls and turned twos into singles. Nick
Rogers skied one and Dave Bayliss having played some nice drives, returned a
simple catch to N.Waldron to depart for 13. Bob Rogers then sought to
increase the run rate, but was run out in the process and next ball Rob Lewis
was bowled for a patient 41. Phil Harris and Dave Price soon
departed and at 103 for 9, the game looked all but over with Jamie Longmore
and Tom Clack at the creese. However, these two showed how it should be
done and Longmore crashed the ball to all parts of the ground for an
excellent 38 being well supported by Clack, who finished on 7no after
Longmore was caught going for another six. Brintons finished with 24
points, the Green with 6 points. Many thanks to match day sponsor
Stephen Watkins School of Pianoforte. Coombs Wood vs BGCC 1st XI on Saturday bgcc 1st 11 travelled to fellow newly-promoted
coombs wood in the wcl 2nd division for what was expected to be a close and
tough fought game. again green skipper chris smedley lost the toss and as was
expected asked to bat first.after the early loss of rich williams due to mix
up and the consequential run out. dan flynn(80) and gary lewis(63) set about
coomb woods bowling to such an extent that after 11 overs 4 bowlers had
already been used and 7 men were already fielding on the boundary.the
partnership was finally broken in the 27th over with the total at 144.there
then followed small partnerships in the middle order that failed to capitalise
on their promising starts and again at 226 for 6 in the 44th over all the
early work might have been wasted.tim clarke (48) was then joined
by gilly binks (36 not out) in a partnership of 67 that destroyed the
coombs woods bowling and flagging spirits with an array of shots off sublime
quality.throughout smith bowled well if a little negatively for the home side
with 4 for 106 off 20 overs of off spin bowled from around the
wicket. coombs woods reply got off to a bad start with harold harrison (9-3-10-2) finally finding some form and swing and, aided by a run out, were reduced to 39 for 3. the dour saundry (49 off 49 overs) was then joined by the spirited griffiths (64) who took the score to 125 for 3 after 25 overs, exactly the same total as bgcc at the same stage but having lost 2 more wickets.coombs wood thought process and game plan then became very confusing as they never attempted to go for the 75 % of the greens total to get the losing draw points or even 6 off the last over to get their final batting point. the green did not help themselves by dropping 4 catches of varying degrees of difficulty and failing to capitalise on oppurtunities created by the bowlers. in the end neither team could be happy with the outcome of this game except saundry who fell one run short of dogged half century. things should be a lot livelier this weekend as the green take on local rivals the malvern ramblers at north end lane |
Barnardsgreen seconds entertained Coombswood
in the WCL saturday league, the visitors won the toss and asked the
home side to take first use on a good batting wicket. Coombswoods policy of
bowling very expierienced bowlers who took the pace off the ball had the
homeside struggling to time the ball,first to go was Jason Brewer who failed
to go through with his shot and was caught at cover,Mark Hooper looked in
fine form until he also miss timed a slower ball by Banks.Liam Paddock was
just begining to get into his stride when for the second time this season the
bowler deflected a drive onto the stumps running out the unfortuate
Paddock.Spencer joined the patient Jon Lewis,he took a liking to the bowling
but after hitting two sixes and three fours he also perished to fine catch in
the outfield.Lewis Hooper was caught behind first ball and the green were in
trouble at 102 for 5 and twenty overs still remaining.Jon Lewis was
eventuatley out trying to up the scoring rate after a patient 39.It was left
to Matt Brookes 22no to guide the green to reasonable total with the aid of
Scullion 10 and Sam Spencer 10.Allout for 172 in the 49th over.John Banks
bowled 19 overs taking 5 for 40,and R.Turner also bowled 19 overs taking 1
for 69 although they did a good job for thier side ,the useful teenagers in
coombswood side did not look impressed with spending the afternoon in the
field watching players old enough to be in the fossils hog all the bowling. The green took to the field knowing they were
probably 30 runs short. All seven bowlers used by the green bowled well
backed up by spirited fielding it took coombswood 49 overs to reach thier
target.Opening bowlers Duncan Bell and Sam Spencer bowled with pace and were
unlucky to only pickup a wicket apiece Scullion and Lewis Hooper forced many
false shots but were unlucky not to take wickets. In the end Coombswood
reached their target with the loss of 4 wickets in the 49th over with
J.Cannon making 46 and M.Colwell 59. The greens young side will have to learn
how to produce a defendable total so that their
promising bowling attack stand a chance of gaining points. Many thanks go to the matchday sponsors
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