Charlton Down Cricket Club
Charlton Down versus Bournemouth 2nds
Sunday 21 June 2009
Nick Blasts Bournemouth as they lose 100% record
Charlton Down were on a roll with a few good performances and moved p to 2nd in the table. Bournemouth 2nds were the visitors themselves lying 3rd in the table owing to a 30 point clerical penalty and keen to make amends after amassing 6 wins from 6 so far in the season. So both teams wanted the win and only one could prevail.
Sid won the toss and chose to bat. Snail and Nick took guard and from ball 1 Nick was attacking the visiting bowlers. CCD played a short lived but defensive role before falling and Bradshaw took on the supporting role as Nick kept the innings momentum moving. Bradshaw did his job very well before falling for 13. During this period Nick Roe had passed his 50 and was making his 2nd run at a ton this year , falling 4 short 6 weeks previous. Doyle was next in and held firm until Nick became the first to get his name on the honours board this year. After that was done both pushed on, Doylie too much so going for 19, JB came and went for 0. Next up Sid scratched around but kept the score moving. Nicks excellent innings ended with him on 112. Just what CD needed. Sid kept pushing the score towards and past 200. In the final over the visiting captain bagged himself a hatrick with Kev(4), Mark H (0) and Sid (32) the victims . Rudo and Rich B left the not out batsmen. For the first time in a few weeks CD had batted through the 45 overs and in the process pushed the score to 218.
Tea was up to its normal excellent standards and CD took to the field in a confident mood. Mark and Zarak started the CD defence, both were moving the ball in the air and both looked good. It was Mark(8-1-22-1) making the early breakthrough but both were beating the bat and unlucky that the ball wasn’t going to hand. Rich B and Jon B took over and JB (7-0-34-2) took the next 2 wkts as Rich (5-0-32-0) kept it tight at the other end. CD were keeping Bournemouth behind the run rate but the visitors were starting to catch up. Snail played his part by limping off as Wormgoor took aim at the visitors stumps and made an immediate impact. The technically gifted Bournemouth bats struggled with Rudo’s (4-0-19-3) variation 2 of them holing out pulling to cow corner with JB taking the catches, and excellent stump work from Nick taking the opening bat. With the fielders backing up the bowlers Jesus earned a great run out and it was left to Zarak (8.4-0-33-2) to come back on and clean up the tail.
From a Sunday skip's point of view CD were much better in the field than recent weeks really backing up the bowlers and a superb team effort with both bat and ball led us to a 51 run victory. Sunday Skip was also a little disappointed with the reaction of the away team. Everyone loses sometime and the art of doing so gracefully rather than whining is one maybe the young talented Bournemouth team need to take on board. Sometimes you gotta get ugly to win boys. Well done CD top stuff.