Tom hits his 3rd century to help 1s win
This weekend was a repeat of the previous weekend where the 1s and 3s won and the 2s had another low scoring game.
The 1s were away to Ashford Town CC and elected to bat first and proved to be the right decision as the opening pair Tom Carey (100) and James Weller (67) put on a 144 run partnership. Mike Willis (22), William Cosstick (15), Tony Carollo (15) and E.Xtras (38) all chipped in with double figure as the team cruised to 270 for 7 in their 45 overs.
In reply Ashford Town made a good effort with nine of their batsman making double figures but no partnership reaching 50 as they found themselves all out for 222 on the second to last ball of their innings. Wickets coming from Ricky Dale (3 for 42), Kesha Rajadurai (2 for 40), Haris Khan (1 for 44), Harry Mante (1 for 24), Tom Carey (1 for 35) and Tony Carollo (1 for 20).
The 2nd XI played Sheppey 1st XI at home and elected to bat. Good bowling kept the opener pinned down from the outset but Nick Page (41), Alan Hampton (36) and Charlie Wash (22) pushed the score along. Unfortunately the team were unable to capitalise as the last six batsman were dismissed for just 15 runs off the bat with Ben Wiebe-Williams scoring 11 of them.
Sheppey managed to cross the line with four overs and six wickets to spare. Tony Hadfield (2 for 17), Adam Rayner (1 for 7), Alan Hampton (1 for 37) getting the wickets
The 3rd XI on a boiling hot day looked forward to an entertaining and enjoyable game against Sheppey 2nd XI, who have always played the game in the right spirit.
Sheppey won the toss and opted to field. Caleb Deveson (8) and Glen Kennett (33) opened and started promisingly, with Caleb crunching a couple of glorious boundaries before giving the home team their first wicket flashing at a wide one.
Glen continued in his usual calm manner, dispatching the bad ball to the boundary and was going well until he was given out LBW.
Other contributions with the bat was Toby Heather (30), skipper Lincoln Bryden (29) Ben Gunner (12) and Thiyagarajan Shanmugam smashing a late order 15
Bapchild was all out for 155 one ball short of their allotted overs which was a good total on an interesting pitch.
In reply Sheppey started steadily despite tight bowling from Jay Sharma (0 for 13 from 5 overs), and Anthony Burbury (2 for 18 off 9 overs). It was Anthony who made the key breakthroughs, first with an absolute seed to dismiss the opener, and then with his last delivery of his spell, bouncing out the second opener who was starting to look dangerous.
With Sheppey edging towards the total, it was down to the spin twins of Player of the Day Glen (4-2-13-2) and the legend that is Sophie Hogben (5-0-19-4) to put the game beyond doubt.
It was then left to Archie Hadfield to mop up the tail to give himself his first senior wicket as the team produced a 60 run win.
The Sunday XI had no scheduled game at the weekend but were asked by Harvel CC for a friendly match. Bapchild batted first hitting 239 for 8 off 40 overs. James Weller (75) Will Cosstick (35), Tom Carey (18) and Toby Heather who hit his maiden 50 at senior level for the Club.
In return Harvel were bowled out for 95 with Ella Hadler, Toby, Tom Gunner and Will Surridge picking up braces and Brian Carey and Caleb Deveson one wicket a piece.
U12 had a close game losing by 4 net runs to Upchurch
U16 bowled Minster out for 74 in 12.3 overs and won by ten wickets in just 6 overs.
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