YCC Highlights of the week (8th -14th July)
The sunshine brought out the best in Yateley’s cricketers this weekend with wins for all 4 Men’s teams.
1st XI are now second in TVL Div 2, after beating Bagshot by 98 runs with a five-fer for Ant Muir (Henry Wildey 53, Ryan Bone 44, Ant Muir 13-5-42-5). Click here for scorecard.
2nd XI beat Kew 3 by 5 wickets (Chris Petts 45no, John Howells 36, Mannu Rawat 33, 3 wickets each for Jacques Pienaar, Jacob Vincent & Tom Nichols). Click here for scorecard.
3rd XI beat Wokingham 4s in a tight game which saw YCC take the last wicket with 17 balls remaining and Wokingham needing 15 runs (Jim Henstock 38, John Garrett 25, Jason Soames 24, Tom Halson 23, George Boughton 21no, 3 wickets each for Haig Franklin & Andy Davies). Click here for scorecard and Andy’s report on the match (also below).
4th XI skippered by Brian Denston beat NPL Teddington 3 by 11 runs in another tight finish with a last wicket stand of 58 between Cameron Hughes (35no) and Robin Smith (22) & Hugh Squire (22). Liam Doran 8-4-27-3, Ryan Stentiford 9-2-25-3. See full match report below.
U13A – late report about an exciting win for the U13As against Hartley Wintney last week. Not absolutely sure what happened, but needing 3 runs to win Kamryn Rana and Joshua Balcombe managed to run all 3 with the ball never going more than 25 yds from the stumps. Sounds like the boys kept cool heads and made the most of some fielding mishaps by the opposition – well done boys!
Match Report 3rd XI
On a very, very hot day, finally a correct call on the toss!!!!!!
We decided to bat, with J Garrett (25) & J Soames (24) setting a good foundation with the 1st wkt falling @ 50. Enter Tom Halson (23) and after a quick fire innings he was next wkt down @ 79 (a little more patience Tom & a big score is on it's way). In strode Jim "Boom Boom" Henstock (38), quickly scattering the field with mid-on & off quickly finding themselves @ long-on & off (but what's this no deep cow shot corner!!!). The Innings was safely guided to it's close by G Boughton (21), despite a stuttering tail. Yateley finishing on a credible total of 188 off 45.4 overs.
Returning to the field after the refreshing shade of Wokingham's plush new pavilion, Yateley quickly set about the task of bowling Wokingham out with H Franklin picking up 2 early wickets to reduce the opposition to 7-2. A fortunate low bounce then put paid to the other opener leaving Wokingham @ 11-3. Haig continued to bowl well picking up his 3rd wkt in his 7th over. This saw the introduction of D Atkins, whose technique was bizarre to say the least standing well to the left of his crease and walking across to his stumps on delivery. After viewing this unusual technique from one end a plan was hatched in my mind which despite some poor execution actually worked!! much to my amazement leaving Wokingham @ 51-5. With the new ball taken Izzy & Harry quickly reduced Wokingham to 57-7, and when Matt Shakespeare picked up wkt no.8 with the score @ 82, a comfortable win seemed all but assured (hmmm.. Being Yateley never assume....). Wilting in the Heat (with both H Wheeler & M Shakespeare having to leave the field due to heat exhaustion), Yateley didn't account for an Agar'esque display from Wokingham no.9 D Rosam (50) who got Wokingham within touching distance before finally succumbing.
A good performance by Yateley with contributions throughout. A special mention to Harry Maxfield who despite the heat and having to wear a helmet throughout did a fantastic job behind the stumps, but M.O.M I think goes to G Boughton who stayed steady at the end of Yateley's innings while wickets fell around him and was full of running when many others were flagging during the 2nd half of Wokingham's innings.
Match Report 4th XI
Yateley batted first and scored 132 all out. Hugh Squire (22) and a last wicket stand of 58 between Cameron Hughes (35 not out) and Robin Smith (22). Teddington were all out for 121 with brilliant bowling all round, 3 wickets for Ryan Stentiford, 3 for Liam Doran. Great support from Joseph Grimmett and Cameron Hughes. Special mention for Sam Sugars who bowled absolutely brilliantly without success. Everyone played their part and a good win.
Thanks to stand-in skipper Brian Denston for doing such a fantastic job.
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