Sunday cricket is often very different to the Saturday leagues. You never know the strength of opposition until too late and in the past we have also mixed up the teams and batting orders a bit to get people well-practiced. In more recent years it has become more of a bat-first, upset the local residents-hack and slash affair, but I'm confident that there are some entertaining memories within the results pages.
23 April 2006
The first record of a Sunday game that I can find on Play Cricket does not fail to demonstrate the often random nature of these fixtures. Away at Blyth CC, CACC posted 171/9 in their 40 overs. The batting was opened by John Lawrence and Barry Eke in a world record attempt for oldest ever opening partnership (Sorry John!). Top score honours were shared by Beejal and Liam Johnson who both scored 43. The DNB down at number 11 was Locky. Worth noting that Rebecca Hetherington took 4 wickets for Blyth, all 4 already mentioned in fact, John, Barry, Liam and Beej.
In reply Blyth finished 100 for 9 off their 40 overs in typical Sunday grinding it out style. 5 wickets for Beej to complete a fine all-round performance, and an honorable mention for Joe Cooper who returned figures of 0-14 from 2 overs, one of which was a maiden!
18 April 2010
A strong looking Sunday 1st team post 223-6 batting first against Newstead Abbey. Opening up Brett got us off to a strong start, top scoring with 77. It's anyone's guess what colour his bat was 10 years ago! Loz also contributing 67 towards the end to boost the CACC total. Worth noting that Rachel Scholes took 3 wickets for Newstead, namely Liam Johnson (!), Loz and me.
The total was too much for Newstead and on this occasion they were bowled out in 38 overs, Gramps managing to steal 4 wickets.
On the same day the Sunday 2nd team played out a low scoring defeat against South Wingfield which was not a particularly notable game, but the scorecard is so all over the place it is worth a mention for entertainment value.
Despite taking 4 wickets for the firsts, Gramps apparently also opened the batting for the seconds, a proper all-rounder! All 4 Tyes appeared in this game which seems to have caused the scorers all kinds of difficulty as Andy kept wicket and bowled 2 overs, all this after big Chris steamed in bowling 6 overs opening the bowling. Questions have to be asked of the captain, who is down as Simmo but who knows if this is true!
17 April 2011
A peculiar looking game played out between the 2nds and Pheasant Hill CC, who I have never heard of before this morning, and which I would like to hear the story of from someone who was there. Things all looking good at tea with Pheasant Hill shot out for 127, 2 wickets each shared out by all 5 bowlers, good first half. In reply however, CACC batted out their 42 overs finishing 125-7, just 3 runs short of a victory. A hard earned draw I'm sure???
19 April 2015
Not much to report from the first team game except that Liam was dismissed by Rebecca King of Kirkby Portland.
I've mainly included this date to highlight the importance of winning the toss on a Sunday, as demonstrated by the 2nds. Having elected to bat, South Wingfield post a competitive 343-4 in their 40 overs. Congratulations to Freddie who brought up 100 runs conceded in his 10 over spell, according to Play Cricket he was captain which is the only explanation as to why he managed his full 10 overs. We made 188/6 in reply which would be respectable in usual circumstances, but not here. David Crabtree making 104 not out to save our complete embarrassment as not many were scored between the other 10.
That is all for this weekend, quite a lot of cancellations around this time. I hope you have enjoyed the two posts so far, think I will be continuing regardless of readers!
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