Sunday 4th May
PCCC 221-6 (4 POINTS)
THORESBY COLLIERY 196-9 (0 POINTS)
On a glorious afternoon the game was played in an excellent spirit by two evenly
matched teams. On losing the toss Thoresby were forced to field first and Marson broke through in the eighth over having the opener
very well caught by Willis at third man.
Thoresby set off poorly after there challenging target losing Winslade early, but a superb century stand between Hughes and Nash put Thoresby in with a chance. They then both fell in quick succession leaving the middle order a difficult task to pull off the win. Despite a useful 20 not out from Wheeler, Thoresby fell 25 runs short of their target.
Nash 64 Hughes 59 Wheeler 20no Willis 3-55
Sunday 11th May
THORESBY 267-3 (0 POINTS)
CAYTHORPE LINCS 268-5 (4 POINTS)
This was another runfest, with Caythorpe taking the unusual step of winning the toss and electing to field. The Caythorpe opening pair bowled very well on the very fast and bouncy pitch. The first wicket fell at thirty with Winslade caught and bowled for nine. This brought Hughes to the wicket, who played shots all round the wicket and dominated a partnership of one hundred and ninety two with Birkett. Hughes brought up his century and was then bowled by Miles who was the pick of the Caythorpe attack. Birkett then brought up his century and played some lusty blows before being out to the penultimate ball of the innings.
In reply Caythorpe attacked the bowling and were mostly up with the rate due to an opening stand of one hundred and eighty four. Nash returned to the attack and got two wickets in two balls to give Thoresby some hope. When he then got another wicket in his next over to get rid of Roberts, who had top scored with ninety, things looked good for Thoresby. The arrival of Caythorp’s captain following a smart run out was to be final twist of an excellent game. He played some very good shots to finish thirty-two not out and secure victory for Caythorpe.
As the previous Sunday, this was an excellent high scoring game of cricket that we narrowly lost. Special mention must go to Nicole who made her debut and fielded excellently.
Sunday 18th May
Thoresby Colliery 185-6 (0 points)
Yet again rain threatened the game being played. As we were about to set off
the heavens opened but a phone call to our opponents confirmed that
Edgar, making his debut, opened the bowling and was very unlucky as several
times he beat the bat. At the other end Dancing Dave Evans was trying to bowl
his way out of poor form, caused largely by being very short of cricket due to
the appalling weather. Evans was unlucky when Flinton
put down a catch on the square leg boundary. Colliery’s misery was compounded
when Evans then dropped the other opener off the bowling of Nash. These two
then went on to post 143 for the first wicket before Birkett
took the first wicket with his even slower ball. The other opener was then run
out and Thoresby did well to restrict the opposition to 205.
In reply Winslade was run out very unsportingly
by the keeper when patting the pitch. In fact the game became very niggly from this point. The second wicket fell at 35 when
Hughes was run out. Flinton followed 4 runs later.
Nash and Birkett then put on 101 before Nash was bowled trying to up the run rate that was going up with
each over. Two more wickets were lost before the overs
ran out with Thoresby on 185-6, Birkett remaining
unbeaten on 71.
There were some reasonable performances in this game and the biggest plus was
seeing Winslade running in and bowling again following
his injury.
The game was only spoiled by
EVANS 1-38 EDGAR 1-32 BIRKETT
1-46 NASH 62 BIRKETT 71 not