Ashley vs Nantwich 4ths

Date:  Sunday 23^rd August

Venue: Ashley

Toss won by: Ashley

Batted First: Ashley

Another below par batting performance from the 4ths gifted Nantwich 25 points on Sunday. With the visitors missing the Penguin Ashley fancied their chances and batted first on the wicket used the day before to produce 430 runs in 85 overs.

There was no repeat performance as the home team were all out in 35 overs, young George Aspden showing the benefits of net practice and some advice from Ashley’s overseas player. He hit 4 fours all through the cover boundary when adding 33 for the 4^th wicket with Semple, another Under 15 who showed a good return to form with 19. The tail was blown away though before there was any chance of a slog and then Nantwich knocked the score off in 17 overs.

This was Ashley’s chance to stake a claim for 7^th place in the table, but with one game remaining, a trip to the talented Cheadle Hulme, they will be lucky to avoid last place again

FIRST INNINGS

Batting
	Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs
1.	R Brewster	Bowled	McTiernan	0
2.	T Smith	Ct & B	Buckle	0
3.	J Semple	Bowled	McTiernan	19
4.	S Coleman	LBW	Buckle	2
5.	G Aspden	Stumped	McTiernan	22
6.	I Horn	Bowled	Chesters	11
7.	B Birtles	Not out		14
8.	A Berryman	Bowled	McTiernan	0
9.	M Howe	Bowled	McTiernan	0
10.	M Coffey	Caught	Chesters	0
11.	D Eadie	LBW	Chesters	0
			Extras	14
			Total	68

BOWLING
Name	O	M	R	W
C Buckle	8	4	21	2
E McTiernan	14	6	16	5
A Livingstone	5	0	16	0
A Chesters	4.3	0	15	3
Cooke	3	0	12	0

SECOND INNINGS

Batting
	Batsman	How Out	Bowler	Runs
1.	Lloyd	Ct Berryman	Smith	13
2.	Simpson	LBW	Smith	9
3.	Madden	Not out		26
4.	Forster	Ct Aspden	Birtles	7
5.	Lloyd	Not out		18
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			Extras	10
			Total	83

BOWLING
Name	O	M	R	W
Smith	6	3	13	2
Birtles	8	0	43	1
Eadie	1	0	15	0
Horn	2	1	11	0

Result: Nantwich won by 7 wickets