Ashley vs Nantwich

Date:  13th July 2008

Venue: Whitehouse Lane, Nantwich

Toss won by: Nantwich

Batted First:

 

A much improved performance compared to last week saw Ashley return home from their second trip to Nantwich with 10 points. Nantwich were positive from the start as McKeown looked to hit hard and straight from the off. He was dropped a couple of times, including twice in two balls by Jacko off his own bowling, and reached his 50 with a big 6. Gibson’s flighted pies were introduced after his mid-week 5 for and he got McKeown to play on. Eadie bowled superbly to reduced the run rate, his 6 for 36 the best figures of his long and enthusiastic career. Champagne moment was Rick Shelmerdine’s one handed catch as he ran from long on to wide mid-wicket to catch Robinson, “I wasn’t going to dive” his explanation for the stunning catch.

 

Ashley’s reply was built around patience and crease occupation, Gibson batted for over an hour, Griffiths for almost 2 hours and Matt Furness added 39 with the latter as he remained not out having faced 42 balls in 39 minutes. Griffiths was his usual chatty self out in the middle, when one ball caught the young keeper in the orchestra stalls he quipped  “I didn’t think his b***s had dropped yet” to the umpire, who happened to be the vicar of the local church. His eminence declined to offer an opinion.

 

Jackson (6 fours and 3 singles) was going well until he got the best ball of the match from Nantwich skipper McTiernan, it bounced, turned and caught the shoulder of the bat.

 

The 4ths are still in search of their 1st win of the season and host the title chasing Bollington next week.

 

 

FIRST INNINGS

 

Batting

 

Batsman

How Out

Bowler

Runs

1.

McKeown

Bowled

Gibson

68

2.

Harvey

Bowled

Birtles

22

3.

Robinson

Ct Shel’dne

Eadie

43

4.

Foster

Ct Blain

Eadie

17

5.

Lloyd

Ct Blain

Eadie

21

6.

Simpson

Bowled

Eadie

 0

7.

Lloyd

St Blain

Eadie

 1

8.

Madden

Bowled

Birtles

 8

9.

Buckle

Bowled

Eadie

10

10.

Hackney

Not out

 

 8

11.

McTiernan

DNB

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

15

 

 

 

Total

213

 

BOWLING

Name

O

M

R

W

Furness

4

0

24

0

Woolley

4

0

20

0

Birtles

14

1

72

2

Jackson

6

2

30

0

Eadie

11.2

2

36

6

Gibson

2

0

21

1

 

 

SECOND INNINGS

 

Batting

 

Batsman

How Out

Bowler

Runs

1.

Gibson

Bowled

Robinson

 6

2.

Blain

Bowled

Hackney

 0

3.

Jackson

Caught

McTiernan

27

4.

Coleman

Caught

Robinson

 1

5.

Griffiths

Not out

 

61

6.

Howe

Bowled

Simpson

 6

7.

Shelmerdine

Bowled

Simpson

16

8.

Furness

Not out

 

 2

9.

Woolley

 

 

 

10.

Birtles

 

 

 

11.

Eadie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

23

 

 

 

Total

145

 

BOWLING

Name

O

M

R

W

Robinson

10

3

24

2

Hackney

6

3

16

1

McTiernan

7

3

15

1

Simpson

10

1

37

2

Buckle

5

1

14

0

Harvey

6

1

13

0

Foster

5

1

14

0

 

 

Result: Draw, Nantwich 15 points, Ashley 10 points