Ashley vs Brooklands

Date:  30th August 2008

Venue: Dragons Leisure Centre

Toss won by: Ashley

Batted First:

 

Ashley scored enough points in this drawn game to secure their place in the league for next and bid good buy to champions Brooklands. Winning the toss Knight asked the home side to bat first and Woods had Hart smartly caught at mid on for a bargain 1. This brought (bought??) Sharma to the crease and he and Birchall made Ashley pay for some sloppy bowling with a 60 run partnership before Birchall feathered a catch to the keeper. Sharma cashed in as Ashley dropped him on 30 and 60, and he knocked up an unbeaten ton, adding a further 63 with diminutive home skipper Madden. AJ Hart then perished trying to score quickly, but not before hitting the runs to give them the championship; Garnett came and went, Singh then helped Sharma to his hundred before the home side declared after 43 overs.

 

Pinch hitter Tyms (25 off 17 balls) got off the mark first ball with a huge six and Singh was smartly removed from the attack to be replaced by the slow stuff of Roberts; with the field well spread Tyms was bowled, unable to work the ball into the many gaps. Sons and McKinstry both batted sensibly to take the score to 84 for 3 off 26 overs, but the introduction of another slowie paid off as Woodage took 4 for 10 off 4 overs. 112 for 8 soon became 112 for 9 as Woods chipped one up of Madden, who was heard to say “I’m buying wickets now”; Woods commented “that’s not all you’ve been buying this year.” Wilson and Power then batted for 7 overs and added 40 untroubled runs to give Ashley 8 points and another crack at life in the Meller Braggins top division.

 

The champagne was brought out after the match for the champs and their supporters, Ashley headed to The Brook for a few pints of Hydes.

  

FIRST INNINGS

 

Batting

 

Batsman

How Out

Bowler

Runs

1.

C Hart

Ct Sons

Woods

  1

2.

J Birchall

Ct Wilson

Tyms

 34

3.

V Sharma

Not out

 

104

4.

D Madden

Ct Sons

Power

 18

5.

A Hart

Ct Horn

Power

  7

6.

P Garnett

Bowled

Power

  0

7.

E Woodage

Bowled

Tyms

 11

8.

M Singh

Not out

 

  8

9.

M Roberts

 

 

 

10.

S Johnson

 

 

 

11.

R Wood

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

  3

 

 

 

Total

186

 

BOWLING

Name

O

M

R

W

D Woods

11

1

56

1

G Tyms

13

4

52

2

G Power

12

1

40

3

S Sons

7

0

35

0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECOND INNINGS

 

Batting

 

Batsman

How Out

Bowler

Runs

1.

C Knight

LBW

Hart

 4

2.

G Tyms

Bowled

Roberts

25

3.

J Griffiths

Ct Sharma

Singh

 9

4.

S Sons

Bowled

Woodage

29

5.

R McKinstry

Bowled

Woodage

25

6.

H Horsfall

Bowled

Woodage

 1

7.

Z Power

St Wood

Woodage

 8

8.

A Horn

Bowled

Madden

 5

9.

M Wilson

Not out

 

21

10.

D Woods

Ct Garnett

Madden

 0

11.

G Power

Not out

 

12

 

 

 

Extras

14

 

 

 

Total

153

 

BOWLING

Name

O

M

R

W

M Singh

8

1

37

1

A Hart

7

3

21

1

M Roberts

7

0

17

1

S Johnson

5

2

9

0

E Woodage

10

3

24

4

D Madden

5

2

14

2

V Sharma

4

1

9

0

J Birchall

1

0

8

0