THORESBY COLLIERY II (20) 211
for 3
BLIDWORTH II (1) 73
all out
In many ways the result of this game
was irrelevant. Yes, 20 points was good for Thoresby. But this was only one
game in one season……………..
After another wet week it was not
surprising that, on arrival, the square was damp. This wasn’t helped by a heavy
shower at about
Halfpenny and Bunting were
circumspect on the slow surface, Sam Wood proving especially difficult to get
away with his inevitably low trajectory. And it was the 11 year-old who was to
take the first wicket when Bunting, having pulled him away for four, tried to
repeat the shot in his next over and was adjudged LBW as the ball kept even
lower. Youngster Boulton, strolling in from mid on
with a huge grin on his face, was heard to comment “That were a silly shot to
play, weren’t it?” [ed’s
comment – ‘ave a word, Stevie,
‘ave a word!]
This brought Chatterton
to the wicket. Having watched him bat many times, one can almost instinctively
tell when he is going to have a good day [ed’s
comment - it’s not easy to tell in the warm-up ‘cos
he’s never there for it!] and, if he gets away with those first couple of
swipes outside off stump and then connects, the omens are even better. This is
just what happened. Almost immediately he was into his stride and middling the
ball with aplomb.
This was useful for Thoresby since
Halfpenny, having not scored a run for a month, was scratching around with the
odd single here and there. However, the two gradually began to progress more
favourably as home skipper Mason changed the bowling attack around. The hundred
came up in the 27th over and things began to accelerate as
confidence in the drying surface grew. Only after the batting pair had put on
127 together did the returning Dan Willcock first tie
Chatterton down then induce a false shot, caught
comfortably at cover by Mason.
Halfpenny found a little more
fluency and struck Russell for three sixes before being bowled by the excellent
Willcock. Woods and Rossington
scored 17 off the last three overs to take Thoresby
to 211, not a bad score at all considering the early slowness of the wicket.
It must be said that, throughout the
innings, the Blidworth youngsters gave absolutely
everything, both when given the chance to bowl and when chasing the ball in the
field.
After a splendid tea Thoresby were
looking for an early breakthrough but had to wait as long as
Paul Swain, making his debut for
Thoresby, bowled two very long hops then a third-ball beauty to bowl Russell. In
his third over he induced Barry Donaldson, who had batted staunchly, to play
on. But it was Hutch who was doing the main damage, his dismissal of the pugnacious
Boulton brought about by a fabulous instinctive catch
at slip by Chatterton. Huggy
took two wickets in his seventh over and one in each of his 10th, 11th
and 12th to finish with fine figures of 7 for 25.
So Thoresby were victorious and so
they should have been, with such an experienced team against the youth of Blidworth. But there was much more to this game than that…………
The very fact that Blidworth turned out a side with 7 players
age16 or under, and that their whole team played with enthusiasm for their
task, bodes well for the future of the club and the game as a whole. All
credit, too, to Andy Mason and Barry Donaldson who didn’t hide these junior
players, but admirably thrust them to the forefront and gave them their chance
to perform.
After last week’s sour affair at Killamarsh it was refreshing to play in such a
good-humoured and friendly game. Much of this, of course, is a result of old
friendships. I hope that Dan, Tom, Sam and the rest of those youngsters will
retain their togetherness as their
cricketing careers unfold, for it is this, and not the
result of one match in one season, that is the real satisfaction in playing the
game. Well done lads – you were a pleasure to play against and a credit to your
club.
BLIDWORTH II |
v THORESBY COLLIERY II |
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TCCC |
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BATSMAN |
HOW OUT |
SCORE |
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BOWLING |
O |
M |
R |
W |
Halfpenny |
b Dan Willcock |
68 |
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Dan Willcock |
12 |
2 |
60 |
2 |
Bunting |
LBW b Wood |
7 |
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S Wood |
8 |
1 |
28 |
1 |
Chatterton |
c Mason b Dan Willcock |
68 |
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Saxby |
7 |
1 |
29 |
0 |
Woods |
Not Out |
30 |
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Sharma |
5 |
0 |
20 |
0 |
Rossington |
Not Out |
11 |
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J Wood |
3 |
0 |
16 |
0 |
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DNB |
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T Russell |
8 |
0 |
46 |
0 |
Case |
DNB |
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Godfrey |
DNB |
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FoW |
1-16 |
2-143 |
3-194 |
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Swain |
DNB |
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L Willis |
DNB |
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P |
DNB |
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EXTRAS |
27 |
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TOTAL |
211 |
For 3 |
WKTS |
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BATSMAN |
HOW OUT |
SCORE |
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BOWLING |
O |
M |
R |
W |
Wass |
b |
0 |
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12.1 |
6 |
25 |
7 |
Dan Willcock |
c&b |
17 |
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L Willis |
2 |
0 |
18 |
0 |
Sharma |
b Woods |
12 |
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Woods |
6 |
3 |
10 |
1 |
S Wood |
c Halfpenny b |
6 |
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Swain |
3 |
1 |
14 |
2 |
B Donaldson |
b Swain |
14 |
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Chatterton |
1 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
P Donaldson |
b |
0 |
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Russell |
b Swain |
8 |
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T Boulton |
c Chatterton b |
9 |
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FoW |
1-0 |
2-30 |
3-30 |
4-39 |
Mason |
b |
0 |
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5-39 |
6-52 |
7-67 |
8-67 |
J Wood |
Not Out |
6 |
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9-67 |
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Saxby |
b |
0 |
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EXTRAS |
1 |
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TOTAL |
73 |
for 10 |
WKTS in 24.1 overs |
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Wthr |
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Division 6 |
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Tie |
Draw |
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Bonus |
Pts. |
Total |
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P |
12 |
10 |
6 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
Bat |
Bowl |
Points |
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13 |
7 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
42 |
38 |
200 |
Thoresby Colliery II |
13 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
33 |
33 |
168 |
Bilsthorpe |
12 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
30 |
37 |
163 |
Marshalls II |
12 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
25 |
38 |
159 |
Eckington II |
13 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
29 |
34 |
151 |
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12 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
28 |
30 |
146 |
Killamarsh II |
12 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
31 |
31 |
144 |
Anston II |
13 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
26 |
23 |
113 |
Rose Leisure |
13 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
16 |
41 |
111 |
Thurcroft II |
13 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
6 |
18 |
27 |
89 |
Blidworth II |
12 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
7 |
11 |
28 |
77 |
Ashover II |
12 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
8 |
8 |
18 |
54 |