YCC: Highlights 25th-31st Aug – 3s Division 8A Champions, 2s move to 3rd in Division 4A
Many thanks to Debbie & Rachel Hill who produced a delicious for the 1s and to Paula Sugars who prepared for the Sunday match.
Highlights
Guy Jewell Cup
1st XI retain the Guy Jewell Cup – congratulations to James Halson & Ryan Bone who were jointly named as Batsmen of the Tournament and Jon Dow who was named Man of the Match for the final. Click here for photos.
Sunday
2nd XI - beat Cookham Dean by 3 wickets – Cookham Dean 231 for 8, YCC 234 for 7. James Muir 62, Ryan Bone 47no, Mannu Rawat 47.
Saturday
1st XI - hold Marlow to a draw – Marlow 236 for 8, YCC 191 for 9. 5 wickets for Ant Muir, 3 for Harry Bartlett, Stuart Lipo 52no, Sadagopan Kumar 28, Oliver Soames 23, John Howells 22. 7 catches, 3 for Ollie Soames, 1 each for Ryan Bone, Dan Bone, John Howells and James Muir. Click here for the scorecard.
2nd XI – beat Finchampstead 3 by 64 runs – YCC 163ao, Finchampstead 3 119ao. Liam Roper 52, Devan Sharma 30, Oliver Dodd 28, Tom Nichols 24, 4 for 6 for Gerhard Pienaar, 3 for 15 for Jacques Pienaar and 1 wicket each for Tom Nichols and Jacob Vincent. Click here for scorecard.
3rd XI – promoted as Div 8A Champions after beating Newbury by 78 runs - YCC 231 for 3 dec (40 overs), Eversley 153ao. Paul Nichols 97, Paul Freeman , 4 wickets for Ryan Stentiford and 2 each for Andy Davies and Lee Cresswell and 1 for Wesley Day. Click here for the scorecard. See below for full match report.
4th XI – beat Wokingham 5 by 53 runs – YCC 153 for 9, Wokingham 82ao. Anthony McGowan 27, Ian Bailey 23, Andre Pienaar 22, 5 wickets for Anthony McGowan, 2 each for Robin Smith and Joseph McGowan and 1 for Andre Pienaar. 2 catches for Connor MacGregor, 1 each for Angad Mathews and John McGowan.
Andy’s Match Report on 3s game
Needing 24pts to guarantee the title, the day got off to a good start by winning the toss (3rd time this year)!!
Paul Nichols & Pete Mitchell (deputising for Peeble) got the team off to a great start before Pete was bowled for 21. The mighty squeak then added another 16 before deciding that square leg looked a little bored and chipping one down his throat. This brought 2 Paul's together, who took the 3rd's close to maximum batting points before Paul Nichols got out on 97. Paul Freeman (56*) & Upkar (22*) saw the 3's through to the declaration @ 231-3 off 40 overs. As for Lee, well he put his pads on and patiently waited, and waited, and waited (next week Lee).
With the spin twins of Liam & Haig missing, Ryan Stentiford boldly stepped forward and opened the bowling with Upkar (Who frankly looked as thou he was still in Siberia!) Ryan quickly made in roads into the Newbury reply taking both openers. I then replaced Upkar and tried to spin it, but after 2 overs of abuse from my team mates!!!! I decided to resort to seam up and promptly took the 3rd wicket. Newbury then built a steady 4th wicket partnership which added 50/60 runs to the total. At the drinks break a conference with the wicket-keepers union saw Lee (I can do anything Harry can do) Cresswell introduced into the attack, and he promptly broke up the partnership. Lee, Wes & myself took a further wicket each, and a run out by Wes & Harry saw Newbury 8 wickets down, but despite some tidy bowling we couldn't quite get the 9th wicket, so resorting to tried and tested methods Ryan (Slim Shady) Stentiford stepped in to clear up the tail.
Congratulations and thank-you to all who have contributed to making the 3rd's Division 8A Champions this year. I know this year has been difficult in terms of giving everybody the game of cricket\challenge they hoped for, but stick with it lads because hopefully next year will bring a few more competitive games for the 3rd's.
M.O.M Paul Nichols 97, with good contributions from Paul Freeman 56* & Ryan Stentiford 4-23
Next Week feature brings
The battle of Soames snr (190, Ave 63.33) Vs Nichols snr (252, Ave 63).
The battle of the wickies, currently standing @ Harry 3 Vs Lee 2
Lee 1st Jug for the club (when he gets his 50)!!
Upkar demonstrating to Harry & Lee how they should keep!!!
etc....