|
Ashley 3rd XI vs Tattenhall Date: 6th July 2008 Venue: Tattenhall Toss won by:Tattenhall
Batted First:Ashley |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
An eventful trip
down to Tattenhall started as the skipper set his satnav forgetting that 2
years previous the satnav was utterly confused as how to get to Tattenhall
and sent them on a merry trip round the delights of Cheshire passing four
different signs for Candle works shops.
After a journey of over 1 hr Skip turned up with Burt, Cusack and
Shelston and the toss could be made. Tattenhall was
surrounded by threatening cloud and the rain started however by 2pm had
stopped and the Tattenhall skipper put Ashley into bat. Brownhill edged one
to gully in the second over and Ashley were not off to a good start and in
the 3rd over Smith was
caught behind off his first ball and Ashley were 3 for 2. Burgess M and Shelston batted well in
difficult conditions got Ashley past 50 until Shelston was unluckily adjudged
LBW to a ball that hit the top of his pads which brought Burt to the crease
who was looking to build on the big hitting 71 he had made at Middlewich a
couple of weeks before. Burgess M was
still there on 25 until Tattenhalls skipper had him trapped LBW, it was a
good battling innings from a batsman who had been struggling for runs and one
for him to build on. Burt was joined by Matt Wardle and only a few runs were
added before Atkinson took an outstanding one handed catch at first slip of
Sandland and Burt was gone for a quick hitting 17. Atkinson had not got down
so quickly since and episode out side a pub somewhere in After a very good
tea the tennis section of Tattenhall Sports club devoured the rest of
Cricketers tea even though the cricketers themselves were given stern looks
even if they even so look at the tea the tennis section had. Federer was also
looking to fight back against Nadal as Ashley stepped out to do something
similar against Tattenhall. Cusack had O’Neil
trapped in his first over and Ashley had the start that was required. Spann and Huxley obviously had an early
dart in mind and flashed hard at everything.
Spann should have gone in Cusack’s third over as he skied a chance to
Burgess P who got underneath it and dropped it. Huxley and Spann continued
the onslaught with un-othodox shots all over the park. Huxley was then dropped by Smith off the
bowling of P Burgess however listened to the call of ‘Keepers end !’ and
threw right over the stumps and Huxley was run out for 27. Spann soon joined
Huxley as he tried to hit over mid on off Smith and P Burgess did not drop
him a second time. There was now a
glimmer of hope as Tattenhall were 70 for 3 the same position Ashley had been
in earlier. Wilcox and Worley hit the ball in the air and opportunities were
given but it was not to be Ashley’s day.
Matt Wardle was given his first bowl of the season and looks to be a
promising off spinner and had Wilcox beaten all ends up as he danced down the
wicket and was bowled middle stump. Birch and Worley batted sensibly and hit
the winning runs off Shelston who having taken a wicket during the week in a
friendly was given his first bowl in competitive cricket for 20 years. A poor batting
performance by most of the Ashley team and an average bowling display saw the
second defeat in two games. Hopefully a more battling display would be put on
against Alsager 3rds the following week in order to get Ashley 3rds back on
track. Good luck to
Tattenhall for the rest of the season; a fixture that is always played in
good spirits whatever the situation however it was a long drive back for
Ashley but not quite as long as it was on the way there for some. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIRST INNINGS
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
SECOND
INNINGS |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Result: Tattenhall won by 6 wkts |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||