Unfortunately the 1st team miss out on a trip to Wickersley on this glorious Saturday afternoon, and there is definitely no cricket to be played until 1st July at least, sad news indeed. But let's look back at what happened in the second week of the season in years gone by....
24 April 2004
A tricky wicket awaited the 2nd team at Doncaster Town and after Liam and Simmo got off to a steady start, 40-1 became 44-4, 56-7, 71-9......the term Coal Aston Collapse is as much a part of cricket these days as the knock of leather on willow! A last wicket partnership between a young Si Mintoft (10) and Tom Moxon (7*) took the final score to 90 all out. The middle order collapse saw ducks for batsmen number 4,5,6 and 7 - solid.
However this turned out to be a formidable total as Donny were rolled out for just 50 in reply. Fine opening spells from Liam picking up 3-9 from 10 overs, and the veteran seamer Matty Roe taking 3-12 from 12 overs at the end securing full points for CACC on the road.
23 April 2005
A game of note for the 1st team as it features future CACC all-rounder Nick Horsfield captaining Outokumpo Stainless CC against us. The wicket must have been awful as Locky won the toss and did NOT elect to bat first, and despite a captain's knock of 53 from Nick, Outokumpo were bowled out for 127. Nick eventually fell LBW to Matt "The Chunky Lover" Johnson on his way to figures of 4-23.
The second innings brought another captain's knock with Locky scoring 67 on CACC's way to victory, 42-0 did become 66-5 at one stage though as we stumbled over the line. Nick ended wicketless and doubts crept in as to whether Outokumpo was really the club for him.......
26 April 2008
Another game involving a future CACC player as the 1sts traveled to Sheffield United. Batting first United were bowled out for 155 with soon to be CACC opening batsman Dave Rodgers dismissed cleaned bowled stumps cartwheeling all over the place by Coal Aston paceman Chris Timms, who finished with 4/29. Matt "The Buffalo" Johnson picking up the key scalp of Tom Knight for a duck. Unfortunately CACC never really got going in reply and finished 127/6 in their 47 overs, Knighty getting his revenge by taking 4-31 including Matt "The Oompa Loompa" Johnson and Dan.
As a side note, on the same day in the 2nd team, Liam "my Dad's the captain" Smith took 4-11 in a loss against Whiston.
24 April 2010
10 years ago and Brett scored a big 128 opening up against Thorpe Hesley, in an innings that included 13 fours and 3 sixes. Backed up nicely by Dan who fell just 1 run short of a half -century, with CACC ending up 241-6. A score that you would usually be confident to defend but Stonelow must have been a cracking batting track that day, as despite 4 wickets for birthday boy Eliot Tye, Thorpe Hesley knocked off the runs with 2 overs to spare.
27 April 2013
A great game for the 1sts away at local rivals Norton Oakes, and Oakes got off to a good start after winning the toss and batting first. Andy Firth scored 72 in an opening partnership with Alex Hibbert but there were no significant contributions from Alex Hughes and the others, as Liam took 6-48 to reduce Oakes to 208.
In reply, and now batting for the right team after our initial suspicions, Dave Rodgers scored a commanding 119 in a 100 run partnership with Locky. As Locky only scored 13 I guess he stood and watched as Dave hit 16 fours and 3 sixes. CACC ended up winning with 11 overs to spare, skipper Liam finished 33* to see us home with ease.
25 April 2015
We end today's edition with a high scoring and curious game for the 3rds at Stonelow against another local opposition, Dronfield Woodhouse. Batting first DW made 249/6 with a century for Ben Lambon and 4 well-deserved wickets for Grant.
In reply CACC fell just 2 runs short on 247/8, Harry Denton top scoring with 66 batting at number 8. With the next top scorer only getting 34 (Cookie) there did not appear to be enough runs scored for the close run chase to make sense, so I scrolled down to see that DW had conceded 75 (Seventy five) extras, which I am not sure I have ever seen before! My thoughts go out to Ash Findlow on what was evidently a tough day for wicket-keepers!
Right I've just received delivery of some beer from The Beerhouse to keep me going over the weekend, hope you've enjoyed reading - Sunday's edition coming tomorrow.
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