Saturday 21st August and Sunday 22nd
August 2004
Bexleyheath v New Ash Green
Saturday 21st August 2004
Kent League
Match - 100 Overs
Bexleyheath
(20 points) 127 all out (46.4 overs)
New Ash Green (4 points) 102 all out (35.5 overs)
New Ash Green lost by 25 runs.
Good
form in the last couple of weeks had given New Ash Green hope for their
important game against fellow strugglers Bexleyheath. The wicket was green and
damp after heavy rain during the week, and on winning the toss Andy Stuart had
no intention in inserting Bexleyheath. He and Andy Cox caused dome problems for
the batsmen, but the difficult bounce was mostly physically dangerous to the
batsmen rather than threatening in wicket taking terms. The difficulty in scoring, though, was
probably responsible for the first wicket. The batsmen tried to take a third
run to Vic Mayers arm at fine leg, but a smart piece
of work by Elvis Murrey, intercepting the throw and
swivelling to throw down the stumps at the bowler’s end caught the batsman by
surprise, having assumed he was running to the ‘safe’ end. Murrey
also took a catch at slip as Andy Stuart got one to lift and balloon off the
glove, and after 11 overs Bexleyheath were struggling
at 10-2. Opener Chris Hobbs looked very uncomfortable against short bowling,
but he grafted away for 17 overs to make 12, and
Chris Bell played the most accomplished innings of the match, playing the short
balls particularly well as he made 39. Two good catches behind the stumps by
Matthew Quantrill off Vic Mayers’
bowling brought the game back New Ash green’s way, but
Although
the pitch was by now much dryer the new ball was always likely to cause problems,
and Dave Meeking turned out to be the bowler best
able to exploit the conditions. Although both Marc Klus
and Matthew Quantrill despatched him for boundaries
he was able to get occasional balls to lift sharply, and both openers fell to
such balls when looking in good touch. Rob Boss also hit a couple of good shots
but then got carried away and swung and missed one on centre stump from Dai
Locke, a bowler with a Dominic Adolphe style run up,
but rather more pace and accuracy. Andy Cox and Elvis Murrey
led a fight back, and with the new ball seen off and Meeking
looking the only real threat the game seemed to be swinging back towards New
Ash green. When Murrey hit a huge six onto the roof
of the Welling United football stand and followed it up with a our in the same
over things were looking good, but Cox fell to one which kept low, Simon Duke
chipped one to mid on and Vic Mayers managed to glove
one onto the stumps. Murrey still looked very capable
of winning the game, but was then given out LBW for 27 when advancing a long
way down the track, a decision that he was not best pleased with. At 76-7 the game seemed up, but Andy Stuart
and Andy Mayers batted sensibly, picking up ones and
twos and the occasional boundary and added 26 for the 8th wicket
before the returning Meeking induced Stuart to flash
at one and edge behind. Andy Mayers then repeated
Simon Duke’s mistake of chipping the ball to mid off rather than going through
with the shot and Kieran Hoddinott gave Meeking his 5th wicket, caught at short leg. The
last three wickets fell on the same score and New Ash Green ended up
disappointingly short. The league table still suggests that it will take
something of a mathematical freak for New Ash Green to go down, particularly if
the weather forecasts are correct for this week, but it was a poor effort after
much stronger showings in the last few weeks.
Click HERE for full scorecard from KCL site
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New Ash Green II v
Saturday 21st August 2004
Kent League
Match - 100 Overs
Barbados
Overseas II (20 points) 225-9 (50 overs)
New Ash Green II (4 points) 57 all out (34.4 overs)
New Ash Green lost by 168 runs.
I have heard nothing about this game, but going
from the KCL scorecard it seems to have been a thorough thrashing. The only
redeeming feature seems to be that no opposition batsman got a big score, plenty of wickets were taken so at least 4 bonus
points were earned!
Click HERE for full scorecard from KCL site.
Click HERE for latest league table.
Southfleet v New Ash Green
Sunday 22nd August 2004
Southfleet (0 pts) 127 all out
New Ash Green (6 pts) 131-2
New Ash Green won by 8 wickets
At last a Sunday win! Will someone please, please write a report
for this match. I gather from the message board that Marc Klus and Ben Cooke may have had a hand….but that is all I
know!
Click HERE for scorecard from KCL site
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league table