Northern’s strongest side this season went up against tough opposition. Northern fielded its strongest side of the season on a sunny but windy day at Pontcanna. It was great to see the number of squad members turning up to support the side.
H&T’s opening strike-force bowled accurately and a good length not giving Northern’s top order much opportunity to score. Steve was out to a good ball which kept low and Russ followed shortly after top edging a pull shot. Ben looked solid at the crease and did not give away many chances. The run rate after 12 overs was low but with plenty of batting available Ben and Charles started to open up to give Northern a target to defend. Charles, after scoring 28, was stumped and Ben was bowled on 25. Ashley carried on his impressive batting performace and milked the poor H&T bowling to rack up a quick-fire 18 before being run out.
Gaz batted very well, including hitting a monster 6 back over the bowlers head and was bowled by the last ball of the innings. Baz did sterling work as a runner but did not face a ball! Northern had set an achievable target of 113.
H&T had a strong top order and started the innings positively. Steve was one of the opening bowlers and ended with the impressive figures of 2 wickets for 9 runs from his 4 overs. Unusually, Gaz, the other opening bowler, was hit around the ground and conceded 25 runs off his two overs. Stand-in captain Russ decided to best option was to take the pace off the ball and elected to bowl Ben who slowed the run rate. Northern were sharp in the field. Baz, fielding close to the bat cut off some well struck shots. Dan Perkins did some great work in the deep including a fine pick up and long accurate throw which led to the run out of Mitchell. Northern were in the ascendency with H&T’s target creeping to over 10 an over. However, H&T still had their quality opening batsman at the crease until Russ bowled him with a great ball that came in off the seam and hit the top of the off stump. Russ ended with 2 for 6 off 2 overs. At this stage the game was all but over for H&T but Northern continued to apply the pressure and Dave took his second stumping of the match.
It was a good all round team performance and great to get the first league win of the season.
S Hood Bowled Mitchell 3
R Palmer Caught Mitchell 3
B Horlock Bowled Viner 25
C Brain Stumped Rees 28
A Chedzoy Run Out 18
G Jones Bowled Mitchell 19
B Willacott Not Out 0
D Jones
D Perkins
D Manley
B Clarke
Extras 16
Total 112-5
O M R W
Mitchell 5 1 20 3
Viner 5 0 26 1
Rees 3 0 16 1
Williams 3 0 22 0
Webb 2 0 28 0
R Lawrence Bowled Palmer 20
B Ahar Bowled Hood 27
T Burns Bowled Horlock 1
N Viner Bowled Hood 2
E Williams St (Manley) Brain 16
I Mitchell R/O (Perkins/Manley) 9
C Davies St (Manley) Palmer 3
M Prist Not Out 0
R Jones Not Out 1
Webb
Rees
Extras 9
Total 88-7
O M R W
G Jones 2 0 25 0
S Hood 4 0 9 2
B Horlock 5 0 22 1
C Brain 3 0 15 1
A Chedzoy 2 0 9 0
R Palmer 2 0 6 2
bat bowl catch runout stumping play TOTAL
B Horlock 40 25 10 75
C Brain 43 19 10 72
S Hood 3 44 10 57
R Palmer 3 32 10 45
A Chedzoy 23 6 10 39
D Manley 5 20 10 35
G Jones 24 0 10 34
D Perkins 5 10 15
B Willacott 0 10 10
D Jones 10 10
B Clarke 10 10
A Brewer 10 10
J Vaile 10 10
A Chatap 10 10
A Gill 10 10
Man of Match - B Horlock
May 30th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Great performance by everyone and a pleasure to captain.Please can we have the return of Martin & Adam to the team as im not liking being top of the duck list.
May 31st, 2010 at 8:30 pm
May 31st, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Nice written charles……..
cheers guys……….