Saturday 19th July
Thoresby Colliery II 164
– 6 [16 pts]
Whitwell II 93
– 8 [4 pts]
Thoresby lost the toss and were invited to bat on this
very slow and low track at the now very pleasant Whitwell ground. The new
pavilion really does do their members credit.
With Woody and Godders away on tour in the Whitby area
(playing cricket, you understand, I mean they haven’t gone together as a couple
or anything like that, goodness me no) Case and Halfpenny were restored to
opening duties. Things were moving on steadily in to the 20’s until Casey was
unfortunately bowled around his legs. Jeppo looked somewhat nervous against his
former club and was soon out caught behind to the experienced Ian Sadler.
Stuart Evans and Halfpenny grafted away, playing out the occasional maiden then
rattling off a flourish of boundaries. Evans was out for a solid 27 with a
dozen overs to go. Ben Marson struggled to adapt to the slow pitch and was
caught at mid off. Rossington and Halfpenny then took a series of singles to
the accurate Craig Sadler, Halfpenny eventually out for 88 with a couple of
overs left. Rossy went to a dubious run out as
Stand in stumper Tony Wheeler (“He must be good ‘cos
he’s a goalkeeper.” Quote N.Birkett) got the Whitwell reply off to a poor start
when he ran out the young opener with a direct hit from 12 yards – “How do you
throw with these b!”£$y gloves on?” he said! And just two runs later the other
opener perished similarly taking on Ben Marson’s arm for a misjudged second
run. After that it became increasingly obvious that Whitwell would struggle to
approach their target. Once again the bowling was swapped around but, if you
didn’t want to play shots and get yourself out, there was no assistance in the
pitch at all for the bowlers. Even though occasional wickets fell it wasn’t
until the surprise introduction of Walker himself, prolonging the game by
several minutes with some desperate wides and throat high no-balls, that
Whitwell lost their eighth wicket on the final delivery of the game.
Ah well, we’d have settled for 16 points at five
minutes to two.
Then it was back to Edwinstowe for the knees up that
was Nige’s birthday bash.
Rest of results for Division 6
At
Burmah Road: BLIDWORTH 2nd (20) 150 for 9, beat ANSTON 2nd
(4) 95 all out by 55 runs
At
Clumber Park: LEA PARK (20) 188 for 9, beat CLUMBER PARK (7) 167 all out by 21
runs
At
Staveley Lane: ECKINGTON 2nd (6) 172 for 7, lost to CUCKNEY 2nd
(173 for 8 by two wickets
At
The Rookery: THORESBY COLLIERY 2nd (16) 164 for 6, drew with
WHITWELL 2nd (4) 93 for 8
At
Oakfield Lane: WELBECK 3rd (17) 215 for 8 (Mark Sills 55, A Hall 5
for 77) drew with BILSTHORPE (8) 166 for 7 (A Lamb 30, N Sharpe 45, Mark Sills
6 for 11)
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Division 6 |
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Tie |
Draw |
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Bonus |
Pts. |
Total |
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P |
12 |
10 |
6 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
Bat |
Bowl |
Points |
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13 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
39 |
40 |
187 |
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Bilsthorpe |
12 |
8 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
38 |
43 |
185 |
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Cuckney II |
14 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
38 |
39 |
179 |
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12 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
38 |
33 |
171 |
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Blidworth II |
12 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
30 |
37 |
159 |
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Welbeck
Colliery III |
12 |
2 |
5 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
35 |
36 |
159 |
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Thoresby
Colliery II |
13 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
24 |
32 |
140 |
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Anston II |
12 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
18 |
34 |
94 |
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Thurcroft II |
13 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
9 |
15 |
31 |
88 |
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Whitwell II |
13 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
6 |
13 |
25 |
74 |
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Eckington II |
12 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
6 |
14 |
28 |
72 |
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