4 matches, 4 wins
All four senior teams won their league matches at the weekend
The 1s were at home to Minster CC and elected to bat. Matt Lewis (27) and James Weller got the side off to a strong start. James nearly carried his bat through the inning falling and scoring his first century of the season but was caught while on 94. During his superb knock he was support by Newly appointed 1st team captain Tom Carey (40). The team ended their 45 overs on a respectable 215 for 6.
An excellent opening spell from Ben Wiebe-Williams (3 for 20) supported equally by Tyler Wassell (0 for 5 off 5 overs) put the visitors under pressure from the start. Harry Mantle (1 for 25) and Ricky Dale (1 for 24) kept the pressure on but it was Tom taking 5 for 25 that ripped out any chance of Minster recovering as the opposition were bowled out for 103 in the 29th over giving the home team a 112 run victory
The 2s traveled to the island to play Sheppey and was put into bat. Yuvraj Rajgor (22) and Paul Surridge (6) until Paul was run out. On a slow pitch and some tight bowling from the opposition it was difficult to get going. Alan Hampton (17) and Aaryan Rajgor (9) pushed the score along but wickets fell regularly and only a 30 odd run partnership between Tom Gunner (15) and Amith Lokesh (14) towards the tail end of innings saw the team reach only 107 before being bowled out in the 38th over.
Sheppey looked confident after tea but an excellent opening spell from Ethan Collier taking 2 early wickets put the pressure at 10 for 2. Ethan was well supported by Tom Gunner (0 for 11) on supported. Adam Rayner (3 for 17) removed the other opener with the score on 31 which started a collapse of 5 wickets for just 12 runs as Adam and Ethan run riot. Ethan finished with 6 wickets for just 20 runs in his 9 over spell with all of his victims getting a duck. Alan Hampton (1 for 8) completed a superb bowling performance for the team as Sheppey found themselves bowled out for 66 in the 25th over 41 runs short of the target.
The 3s were back to their normal home ground this week and entertained GNG CC GRFC and elected to field. The opposition started out of the gates quickly as reaching 32 for 0 off the first 5 overs. Captain Linc Bryden took on the responsibility of bringing himself on to quieten the aggressive batting. This proved to be the right thing as he got one to move back and remove the danger man who had scored 37 out of the 45 runs scored. Linc (2 for 9) removed the other opener and the game changed. Changing to bowling Jay Sharma (2 for 13) and Joshua Rose (2 for 8) both picked up a brace and Isaac Gregory-Bourne (1 for 8) on debut picked up his first senior wicket. Henry Louden (2 for 27) returned to also pick up a brace and Phil Danbury ended with a respectable 18 for 0 off his 7 overs. Ella Hadler (1 for 0) came on and finished the home team’s innings with a wicket maiden. GNG CC GRFC lost their 10 wickets for just 42 runs finishing on 87 at the end of the 31st over.
Kev Miles (10) and Chris Wood (11) started steadily until Kev received a seed and was bowled with Chris following shortly afterwards being caught. This brought the batting duo of Simon Rose (17 no) and Linc (40 no) together for the second week in a row and they did not disappoint as they crossed the line with 18 overs to spare.
The Sunday team were at home to a weakened Bearsted CC on a very cold Sunday afternoon. Bapchild elected to bat with a superb innings from James Weller, who had just missed out on a century the day before, scoring 136 no. he was well supported by Yuvraj Rajgor (36), Amith Lokesh (37) and Tom Carey (45 not) as the team reached an impressive 289 for 2 from their 40 overs.
An excellent opening spell from Ethan Collier (1 for 9) and captain Ben Wiebe-Williams (0 for 16) set the tone and Ella Hadler (2 for 25 off 9 overs) and Amith (1 for 15 of 7 overs) as well as some great fielding and catches continued the good work as the visitors found themselves 94 for 5. Celebrating his birthday, Ben Gregory-Bourne (2 for 18) picked up his first wickets for the club with some very tidy bowling only to be matched by his son Isaac (2 for 18) from the other end. It took the master of spin Brian Carey (1 for 4) just two balls to finish the match as Bearsted found themselves all out for 117 in the 34th over.
An excellent weekend of cricket from all four teams and may to continue
On the junior side
The newly reformed U12 Bees lost their opening match to Sheppey
The U12 Broncos game was conceded by the Upchurch
The U14s lost by 9 wickets against a strong Faversham team
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