Barnards Green cricket Club Match
Reports.
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5th July 2003 Barnards Green 1st XI vs Alveley |
5th July 2003 Alveley vs Barnards Green 2nd
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Last Saturday
Barnards Green 1st XI welcomed Alveley to North End Lane for the
Malvern side. Rich Williams won the
toss and asked the visitors to bat first.
With conditions perfect for swing and seam bowling the Green bowlers
immediately looked like making a break through. Despite 3 dropped catches in the first 13 balls, including the
dangerous Rodenhurst, twice, the Green did make early in roads into the
Alveley batting. T.Williams had
Rodenhurst caught by a juggling Churchill at mid off and then added the key
wicket of Hughes just 2 balls later, clean bowled. Ian Scullion continued his good form by adding 2 wickets, both
clean bowled, and Williams bowled Twigg to leave Alveley in a critical
position of 16 for 5. The
introduction of Clive Churchill saw three further wickets tumble in quick
succession with some excellent fast bowling, including a superb leg side
stumping by Glendinning. Tim Williams
returned to the attack to finish the innings with 2 wickets in an over to end
with 5 for 14, with Scullion 2 for 10 and Churchill 3 for 11 also returning
excellent figures. Alveley’s innings
closed on 37 all out. Despite some
early lapses this was an excellent performance from the Green with some
accurate and penetrative bowling blowing away the Alveley line up. Faced with a less than challenging target,
Green openers Rich Williams and Dan Flynn wasted no time in completing a 10
wicket victory. Rich Williams
finished the game in a flourish with 4 successive fours. The game was completed by 10 minutes to 4,
and the Green players were faced with an unusual afternoon, with no
cricket. The Green secured 20 points
from the game but still managed to drop one place in the table and will be
looking to continue the good form tomorrow when they travel to Martley. Barnards
Green 3rd XI vs Belbroughton |
On Saturday the 5th of July BGCC
2nd's traveled to bottom
of the table alveley. On winning the toss Skipper Dick Brown asked the
opposition to bat, confident that his healthy bowling attack would make early
inroads in the alveley line up. He was right to be confident as Chris Hill
( 13 overs 4 for 8) continued where he had finished off the week before
dismissing opener Taylor in his first over. Yet again Bell was consistent in
his 6 over spell ( 1for 18) bowling with extra pace he managed to send the
other opener back for an early shower. This brought the introduction of Stu
Fletcher to the bowling attack, with himself and hill taking a wicket
virtually every other over the showers in the alveley dressing room were
being constantly frequented! It was only the 27th over when Stu Fletcher
bowled number 11 batsman Higgins with his second, wicket taking middle stump
Yorker of the game, too good for most top order batsmen let alone a tail
ender, Fletcher finished ( 7.1 0vers 4 for 21 ) This ended alveley's innings
on just 49, the only real highlight being Brian Hancock's outstanding diving
one handed slip catch to dismiss Copland off the bowling of Fletcher. This
Gave The Green the best chance they would get of completing two ten wicket
victories in a row as Hancock and Clarke skipped out to the middle. Clarke
however was soon skipping back as he was bowled second ball for 4. This
brought James Curtis to the crease. With nothing to lose Alveley got behind
their bowlers and swapped them round looking for any break through they could
this did come in the 13th over when Hancock was caught off the bowling of
Higgins for 13 but green were already just 7 short of the total required
these came in the next over as Curtis hit the winning runs to finish on an
unbeaten 27. |
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On saturday Barnards Green
3rds entertained old rivals Belbroughton on a dry but overcast
afternoon. Skipper Bob Rogers asked Belbroughton to take first knock
and openers Doolittle and Pardoe pounced on any loose deliveries and quickly
took the score to 34 before rob Lewis was introduced to the attack and he had
an immediate effect having Doolittle smartly stumped by Nick Rogers.
Further wickets then fell at regular intervals as Lewis found a good line and
length to finish with 5 for 17. Father and son Mick and Nick Ross then
set about rebuilding the innings before Dave Price took a smart catch to
dismiss Nick off the bowling of Jamie Longmore. Field then took the
bowling on and regularly found the boundary before Liam Paddock returned and
picked up two wickets with jamie Longmore taking a skier and Emily Price
pouching one in the covers. Mick Ross finished unbeaten on 51 and
Belbroughton scrambled to 181. |
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