But before we get onto that, let's take a look at a few past Sunday games.
19 June 2005
Starting with the Sunday 1sts away at Olive Grove against SWD. CACC batted first and Rich led the way, top scoring with 85. Hilly chipped in with a good 45 before some late runs down the order from Dave Hughes finishing 20* took us up to a decent first innings score of 219/8. SWD didn't threaten victory at any stage but batted out their 40 overs, finishing 84/9. 3 wickets each for the young spin-twins Barry Eke and Locky.
https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1454272
21 June 2009
This game involves the Sunday 2nds versus Pheasant Hill CC and another fine performance for the Ekester. Pheasant Hill batted first and got off to a very strong start until Barry came on with figures of 6/20 from 6 overs, putting a quick end to the innings at 150 all out. In reply all 5 batsmen called upon contributed but Barry ensured that he was going to see us home, finishing on 54* to see us home to victory.
https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1132765
21 June 2015
A tough day out for the Sunday 2nd team on a day which we had to put 3 sides out. As Stephen Foster was getting 140* against the 1sts in a cup match, the Sunday 2nds were at Kirkby Portland where the home team racked up a first innings score of 417/1. Their opener finished on 273* and the only wicket taken was a stumping by Gramps, who I assume took shelter behind the stumps out of fear for his economy rate! Despite being faced with that ridiculous total, CACC weren't there to throw their wickets away, and batted out their 40 overs, finishing 135/3. Fair play to Matt Boreman with 74* making the 2nd highest score of the match.
https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/2438812
18 June 2017
The Saturday 1sts travelled to Whiston for the South Yorkshire T20s finals day. An enjoyable but daunting prospect for a Division 1 side in competition with 3 Championship sides, I think captain Dan had told his folks not to bother coming to watch as we would be home in a couple of hours. We were drawn against Rotherham Town in the semi and having won the toss, chose to bat first. There were decent partnerships all the way down forcing Rotherham to try 8 different bowling options. Huss ended with a late flourish to top score with 50* and lead CACC to a first innings score of 154.
In reply a couple of early wickets put Rotherham behind the rate and they struggled to catch up again at any stage. Wickets were shared out including 3 for the skipper as Rotherham were bowled out for 121 and CACC unexpectedly moved onto the final, probably to the delight of Wath who won the other semi. Hussnain's economy rate of 3.4 topped off an all round performance that was good enough for Rotherham to sign him for the 2018 season!
https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/3174471
Meanwhile at Stonelow the Sunday team batted first against Cutthorpe and would have been feeling happy at half time, with a first innings score of 247/4. Young Crabbers carrying his bat 127* and keeping the ball on the floor with 21 fours. The confidence will have been short-lived as Cutthorpe knocked the runs off just 1 wicket down within 27 overs, and CACC left glad that they won the toss at least.
https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/3019525
Back to Whiston where the 1sts were ready for the T20 final against Wath. They chose to stick us in and with 3 early wickets, at 21/3 they will have been feeling fairly confident. But what followed was one the great captain's innings that I've ever seen. Dan batted through all 20 overs and finished on 95* including 7 fours and 7 sixes. Wath's captain and premier leg spinner had left himself to bowl the last 4 overs from one end, but ended up taking himself off after 3 overs at Dan, with figures of 0/35. Along with support from Huss and Jack Hall, CACC finished 176/4 with the last partnership between Dan and Jack worth 104.
176 is a good T20 score but we were up against a strong side so I still don't think there was too much thought of winning as of yet, but an unbelievable first over from Loz knocked over Wath's top 3 and the scoreboard showed 3 for 3 at the end of the first over. Some people were celebrating as if we had already won (Chips!). Dan was slightly fatigued after his innings so was captaining from deep square leg, but opened the bowling from the other end and picked up a wicket to put Wath 7/4. They never recovered well enough to threaten victory as El also picked up 3 wickets to bowl them out for 131. Against the odds CACC were crowned the South Yorkshire T20 champions!
https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/3181312
There are many pictures knocking around from that day, so I will finish this weekend with a selection of my favourites.
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