Castlethorpe Cricket Club
Find us on Facebook:
  • Home
  • Our Teams
    • 2022 Season
  • Six-A-Side
  • Club News
  • Contact Us

Big win for strong Castlethorpe team

17/6/2017

0 Comments

 
With arguably their strongest side of the season so far, Castlethorpe were able to make the most of good batting conditions to set a total that Dunchurch weren't able to chase down.

Despite the loss of an unfortunate early wicket as the returning Martin Jones was run out backing up, the home side managed to work their way up to a solid total of 192 for nine thanks to solid contributions all the way down the batting order: after Syed Naqvi (39) and Garry Singh Maan (33) batted sensibly to lay a strong platform, the lower order then chipped in with a flurry of cameos, most notably Stuart Walding (22), Matt Lewis (22) and Jamie Crawford (15 not out).

After an innovative tea from Aaron Day (it included fish finger sandwiches, and everyone else should take note), the Castlethorpe bowlers were properly fuelled to defend their total. Incisive opening spells from Syed Naqvi (three for 10) and Sam Brightwell (one for 17) left the Dunchurch batting order reeling at 29 for five. The rest of the Castlethorpe bowlers also contributed well, with tidy spells from Martin Jones (10-4-22-2), Mark Currell (6-1-23-0), Atif Mushtaq (8-0-22-1) and Garry Singh Maan (5-2-11-1) making sure that the twenty points were never in doubt.

Those twenty points lifted us back out of the Division One drop zone, and there's no reason why we can't push on for promotion despite our rocky start to the season. We nearly did it last year after all.

Match report by Martin Jones
Click here for full scorecard
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Categories

    All
    2016 Season
    2017 Season
    Club News
    Fantasy League
    Match Reports
    Midweek XI
    Saturday XI
    Six A Side
    Six-A-Side
    Sunday XI


    Archives

    April 2022
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    April 2019
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    October 2016


    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.