Toss won by: Brooklands

Batted First: Brooklands

Match Ball Sponsor – Peter Roberts, Former Ashley Player (TOG)

After the usual First Team cry off on the morning of the game, strategies were hurriedly re-thought for the visit of high flying Brooklands.

On a warm day a 10 / 10 Twinney belter begged for a toss win by Stand in Skip Ricey, but alas his day of woe started as Brooklands Skipper Platt elected for first use on the Ashley Motorway.

Rish and Nick opened up well, with Nick having the aggressive Bowden dropped on 0 then Rish suffering when the Skipper put him down when on 20. With the batsmen going for their shots this was obviously going to be a day of damage limitation. Ashley thought they had the breakthrough when Martin ‘The Mascot’ Blain appeared to all to have caught the normally Old School Clowes at the wicket, he didn’t walk and wasn’t given so the Blue Caps started again with the spin twins Jimmy D and Jacko taking the pace off and bowling with discipline to one side of the wicket thus reducing the batsmen’s scoring options.

With the score on around 140 Jimmy D broke through with a front foot LBW, Clowes didn’t like the decision – hey we know how you feel !!, this brought the hard hitting Holloway to the wicket who proceeded to run out the century bound Bowden. Wickets started to fall at a trickle but points were being accrued as the total ran towards the expected 210 and declaration, this was not to be as Holloway blazed away and presented the Skipper with a skier at Mid On which was again dropped forcing him to leave the field with a broken finger and calls of split ends ringing in his ears. Brooklands batted on perhaps mindful of the following days 20 / 20 final, the innings ended on a mammoth 247.

Dave Royle and Wardy opened up confidently, with ‘Lerkio’ especially severe of anything driveable or short, whilst John batted with great technique and style accumulating all around the wicket. With the score on 57 Dave drove one back at former Ashley favourite Nadeem Alam who took the catch low down. Dodger 2 - Mike Burgess came in at three keen to show his promotion from the 3^rd XI was justified, which he did especially after John’s departure for an excellent 24. Mike stood back, supported and enjoyed an excellent partnership of 75 with Jimmy Felix who took on the bowling with shots all around the park included two crowd pleasing maximums. These two departed within twenty runs of each other leaving Holt & ‘Bolt’ to see Ashley to the 170 mark and maximum batting points.

With Brooklands due to face relegation rivals Old Parks and Davenham in the next two weeks this was a good result for Ashley who go into the final two weeks of the season with more confidence.

FIRST INNINGS

Batting
	Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs
1.	A Clowes	LBW	C Pendlebury	56
2.	O Bowden	Run Out		86
3.	T Holloway	C & B	N Holt	50
4.	A Clifton	Run Out		4
5.	J Pearson	Ct Blain	D Royle	27
6.	A Platt	LBW	N Holt	3
7.	D Clifton	Not Out		11
8.	N Alam	Not Out		3
9.
10.
11.
			Extras
			Total	247

BOWLING
Name	O	M	R	W
N Holt	12	2	60	2
R Agrawal	6	0	30	0
C Pendlebury	14	0	70	1
D Jackson	11	1	68	0
D Royle	2	0	12	1

SECOND INNINGS

Batting
	Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs
1.	D Royle	C & B	N Alam	33
2.	J Ward	Ct A Clifton	N Alam	24
3.	M Burgess	St A Clifton	A Platt	18
4.	J Felix	Bowled	P Vessey	60
5.	P Burgess	Not Out		13
6.	N Holt	Not Out		7
7.	D Jackson
8.	C Pendlebury
9.	D Rice
10.	M Blain
11.	R Agrawal
			Extras	13
			Total	171

BOWLING
Name	O	M	R	W
N Alam	14	3	43	2
O Bristowe	6	1	19	0
T Mitchell	11	2	29	0
D Clifton	3	0	18	0
P Vessey	8	1	20	1
J Pearson	1	0	15	0
A Platt	1	0	14	1

Result: Draw Ashley 10 Brooklands 14

Toss won by: Brooklands

FIRST INNINGS

N Holt

C Pendlebury

D Jackson