Charlton Down Cricket Club
Charlton Down versus Abbotsbury
Tuesday 2 June 2009
So for the 4th match of the season, and off to Abbotsbury. Another beautiful evening at one of the most picturesque grounds in Dorset.
Skip lost the toss again, and unsurprisingly Abbotsbury chose to bat on a very flat wicket. In spite of very tidy bowling from Rich F, backed up by an improved performance from Mark, the first wicket did not fall until the 15th over with 105 runs already scored. Steve Marsh enjoyed a 3 wicket haul on his debut and when it seemed that we were looking at chasing around 140, some big hitting from Abbotsbury pushed that to 166, with 24 coming off the final over.
CDCC were never really in the hunt. Skip and Smithy could not get a quick enough start with some very tight bowling; both perishing when trying to move the score along. Vain attempts by Mark (37), and Doyley (32*) saw us come up 44 runs short.
A disappointing evening and the performance a little jaded, but at least the sun shone, even if it meant you couldn’t see anything!