A Trip to A&E

The title says all it needs to today, so I'll dive straight in.

25 June 2006 

The earliest Sunday games I can find from this weekend are back from 2006, starting with the 1sts away at Eckington. It was an impressive batting performance as Hibbsy and Si put on an opening partnership of 159. Si was out for 66 and Liam joined Alex in the middle for another strong partnership before he was eventually caught out for 119. CACC went on to make a first innings score of 265/6. Eckington batted out their 40 overs in typical Sunday style, good 1 over spell in there for Rich though.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/788250

Meanwhile the 2nds were at home to Kirkby Portland. We won the toss and restricted Kirkby to 163/9 in their 40 overs, wickets were shared out and included some chaotic running towards the end by the looks of it! It was a solid run chase by CACC led by John at the top of the order with a half-century. The incorrectly spelled Chris Sanders also finished 56* in a rare appearance for the club as we knocked the runs off just 4 wickets down.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/786194

28 June 2009 

A lackluster performance for the 1sts at Stonelow having won the toss and batted first against Farnsfield. A sequence of single-figure scores only broken by Brett with 25, and then Locky managing to make 57 down at number 9 somehow, my guess is that Gramps was dead-batting it at the other end. We could only make 133/9 in the end, with Gramps and Shads ensuring we weren't bowled out. This was never going to be enough although we did take 5 Farnsfield wickets with us.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1113355

27 June 2010 

Another poor showing from the 1sts which I include solely because of Mark "Shads" Ashmore's performance. Again winning the toss and batting first we were bowled out for 86 by Spital at Eastwood Park. After we were both dismissed, I remember sitting by the boundary with Loz away from the pavilion, as Shads was batting. He took a ball to the helmet and hit the floor with an echoing shriek, we laughed as he retired "hurt" and was helped off the pitch by Spital players. Their team remained markedly more concerned about Shads' well-being than we were at tea and he was eventually taken to hospital. This meant that after Spital inevitably knocked off the winning runs, I had to drive his stupidly big people carrier car to Calow to pick him up, where he had been clip-clopping around the hospital in his spikes for the last couple of hours. Obviously there was nothing wrong with him and he stuck his head through the car window and said "there's some reyt birds in A&E".

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1417194

26 June 2011 

A thriller away at Handsworth although it will not have felt like it for those watching whilst we batted through our 40 overs for 128/3. For the crowd that did stay for the second half though, things started to look interesting as Handsworth immediately fell to 0/2 with quick wickets for El. After a couple of recoveries, more wickets for El and a key run out for big Chris Tye saw CACC looking good for the win with the score on 107/9, with ducks for numbers 7, 8 and 9, surely there can't be much left to come. El's figures of 6/19 ended up on the losing side however as a last wicket partnership of 22 saw Handsworth over the line with just 2 balls to spare.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1640091

30 June 2013

The Sunday 2nds were at home to Morton and did a decent job to bowl them out for 154 in the first innings. 3 wickets for Yanni or John (depending on whether he was Greek on that day or not) Mouzakis. Unfortunately CACC did not have much to offer in reply despite a one-man effort from Eliot who finished with 75. El completely let us down though by throwing his wicket away as we were just 12 runs short of victory, what a disappointment, especially after such strong efforts from the rest of his family that day.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/2010912


30 June 2019 

We'll finish with a game from just last year, as it provides a few entertaining moments, starting with Jack Hall who was cleaned up first ball of the match after CACC elected to bat first. There were plenty of runs to follow with young Rabbers making his first half-century with 66, and some late hitting from Dan who finished 74* in a first innings score of 245/8. Some expensive figures in amongst the 7 Whiston bowlers used, although it's nice to see a couple of wickets for Mr Struggles.

In the second innings CACC went with 8 bowling options and captain Vanders led the way with figures of 4/25 on the way to victory, Whiston bowled out for 178 to complete a good Sunday game.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/3920162

That's all for this weekend, back Wednesday with more memories from an ex-first team skipper.