Ashley vs Runcorn

Date:  Sunday 14th June 2009

Venue: Runcorn

Toss won by: Ashley

Batted First: Ashley

 

Runcorn topped the table before last Sundays game and their all round side proved too good for Ashley despite the 4ths posting another 170 score. With 3 batsmen bowled we were 17 for 3 after only 6 overs but old stagers Ferris and Horn added 80 in less than 20 overs; on the big Runcorn ground there were plenty of singles but Ferris found the boundary ten times and he was eventually caught and bowled having batted 42 overs. Horn survived a ball in the face shen he tried his trademark stood up sweep to hit 6 fours. Birtles promoted himself to number 7 and added a further 57 with Ferris before he was caught at 3rd man when trying to push the score along. Berryman hit his first ball to the cover boundary and the Ashley lads tucked into the excellent tea fairly happy.

 

Beech was dropped on naught and Ashley paid dearly for this as in front of all his family he hot his maiden senior ton, hitting the last two balls of the match for four. Ashley picked up 4 wickets thanks to some smart catching but once Beech was reprieved there was no way back.

 

The 4ths picked up ten points from this game and sit 5th in the 9 team table with 72 points; they have a bye week coming up as Brooklands have pulled out of the division.

 

FIRST INNINGS

 

Batting

 

Batsman

How Out

Bowler

Runs

1.

J Semple

Bowled

Whitfield

 0

2.

G Aspden

Bowled

Wignall

 2

3.

S Ferris

Ct & B

Whitfield

80

4.

D Griffiths

Bowled

Wignall

 0

5.

I Horn

Bowled

Duke

35

6.

R Oldbury

Run out

 

 1

7.

B Birtles

Ct Drury

Wigfield

23

8.

A Berryman

Not out

 

 7

9.

L Cusack

Not out

 

 5

10.

M Howe

 

 

 

11.

D Eadie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

17

 

 

 

Total

170

 

BOWLING

Name

O

M

R

W

J Whitfield

9

2

36

2

Wignall

8

0

37

3

Kelleher

9

0

39

0

R Beech

5

2

10

0

J Duke

5

0

15

1

Drury

5

1

7

0

S Chapman

4

0

17

0

 

 

SECOND INNINGS

 

Batting

 

Batsman

How Out

Bowler

Runs

1.

Beech

Not out

 

101

2.

Drury

Ct Ferris

Cusack

 17

3.

Foster

Ct Ferris

Cusack

  3

4.

Keenan

Ct Oldbury

Eadie

 26

5.

Bury

Ct Aspden

Horn

 17

6.

Whitfield

Not out

 

  0

7.

Chapman

 

 

 

8.

Duke

 

 

 

9.

Wignall

 

 

 

10.

Drury

 

 

 

11.

Kelleher

 

 

 

 

 

 

Extras

 10

 

 

 

Total

174

 

BOWLING

Name

O

M

R

W

Cusack

9

1

41

2

Birtles

7

0

35

0

Eadie

4

0

33

1

Semple

4.2

0

32

0

Oldbury

1

0

26

0

Horn

1

0

1

1

 

 

Result: Runcorn won by 6 wickets