Charlton Down Cricket Club

And so to the final game of the season. A slim chance of 3rd place in the league was up for grabs after much maths from many people but the trip to Pokesdown wasn't going to be easy. The opposition needed a win to move themselves out of relegation and the pitch was.......well it was kings park. Sid back from his honeymoon sabbatical duely lost the toss and Cd were inserted. Zim went 4th ball and a damp pitch that looked like it was going to be hard graft needed to play on. A few heavy showers broke up the first hour of play but Doylie and Cuz battled to see of the opening tidy bowlers before cuz went. JB turned up just in time to smash 59 off the change bowlers and nick flicked a full bunger to the deep mid wicket boundary. Through all this Doylie played his normal accumulating roll and had cruised past 50 and in the last 7 overs ran and ran and ran and eventually didn't run a 2 quick enough being run out for another superb 89. Sid, Kim and Mark just flashed the bat and helped move the score along to 189-6 at tea. Nick was to be found under a bench still grumbling about his shot choice.
          JP and kim oppened the bowling and after a strong start the home side the wickets started to fall. JP took 2 in 2 balls and Kim picked up his wicket courtesy of a superb catch a close mid wicket by "magic" Matt Lowther.  Homewood came on at the change and took 1 but should have had 3 after 2 blatant LBW decisions were turned down. (These were both out, even the umpire later said so but he wasn't going to give them as he felt aggrieved over decisions off his own bowling.......Twat) The slow bowlers were brought on and finished up the rest of the batting , Doylie and Jones took 2 each and Cossens had the final batsman stumped leaving pokesdown all out for 93.
             Max points for Charlton Down again doing all they could but other results meant a solid 4th place in the league this year. The defeat however left pokesdowns hope of avoiding the bottom 2 much like the outfield, Patchy at best and basically nothing left.
 
 
Junior cricket correspondent