Tough Defeats

Thanks to Locky for his piece in the week about the Butcher Cup from way back in 95, it was very well received. Unfortunately for you all it's back to me again, to recap on some Saturday games gone by.

25 June 2005 

Starting with a closely fought victory for the 2nds away at Maltby. CACC chose to field having won the toss and did a good job to bowl Maltby out for 133 in the final over of their inning. Wickets were shared around with Buzzer's 3/26 being the stand out figures. In reply, apart from Dill the top order collapsed all around except Liam Smith, who showed why he went on to be nicknamed The Pump, as he never let us down. Liam finished 42* to guide us to victory in the penultimate over, ably support at the end by Ash Fern with 19*.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/620636

27 June 2009 

Another game for the 2nds, this time a thriller at home to Whiston. The away team got off to a steady start and an innings of 82 from their number 3 helped get them to a decent score of 188/8. Most of the bowlers chipped in with a wicket, Bob Buckle's 3/23 were the best figures. In reply batsmen kept getting in then getting out and at 124/7 things were not looking too promising for us. A timely 50 partnership between Bob and Jack took CACC towards victory though,  but there were still 11 runs required when Bob was dismissed and the always reliable Freddie came to the crease. It was a nervy end to the game which I remember well, the winning runs were scored off the last ball of the match.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1122468

It was a much less tense match for the 3rds at home (Carr Lane at the time) to Stocksbridge. A 50 opening partnership between John and Barry set the platform for a strong first innings score of 193/8 with good contributions Eliot and Rexy. In reply both openers were ran out, then Buzzer and Woody made light work of the rest of them, as Stocksbridge were bowled out for 75 to complete a big win.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1134750

25 June 2011 

If I ever publish my own cricketing memories then this game for the 2nds away at Rotherham Phoenix may go down as my worst moment. We had been out for Johnno's birthday the night before so many of the team turned up hungover, including Roey who had woken up on his living room floor and turned up with leftover pizza.

We chose to bowl first and Si put in a good spell of 5/59 as we restricted Phoenix to 166/8 in their 46 overs. In reply, an opening partnership of 74 between Si and Simmo got us off to the perfect start, but this was followed by a collapse that took us from 107/1 to 146/9. This left Roey and I as the last wicket partnership, and we had put on 18 going into the last over, needing 3 to win. I faced the first ball of the final over and I thought I had hit one back past the bowler so I set off running straight away, what had actually happened is that I had hit it straight back to the bowler, who picked the ball up and threw my stumps down for the run out. It's a moment that I relive often!

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1713835

30 June 2012 

I don't know if this is right because I definitely cannot remember it but look at this scorecard, I got 60 and nobody else got double figures! Game was rained off anyway to probably save us a defeat.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1781276

29 June 2013 

Another memorable game for the 2nd team on their travels to Finningley to face Donny Town. We were asked to bat first and at 13/7 we were discussing whether we would have to stay for tea. A great partnership between Roey and Andy Tye saved our blushes though, Andy ended 54* as we finished up 117 all out to restore a bit of pride.

Doncaster were cruising in reply at 56/1, but a flurry of wickets shared between the bowlers got us back in to it. At 109/8 and in the last over of Johnno's spell, he had an absolutely stone dead LBW shout turned down, with their waiting number 11 batsman not looking like a world-beater. I remain convinced that John would have been banned for life if the umpire had been able to understand what was said next, luckily English wasn't his first language. The umpire called me over as captain and asked me to have a word with the bowler as he was "saying bad things to him", I claimed not to have picked up on it and had a quiet word with John. Unfortunately that turned out to be our last chance of victory, as Donny's number 9 and 10 held on for the win in the overs that we have given them.

https://coalaston.play-cricket.com/website/results/1977096

To end on an honourable mention this time for Liam, who 10 years ago bowled a spell of 11.2 overs 7/20 to bowl Rotherham out for 128 in response to CACC's 203/7 - well bowled Sir!

Back tomorrow for some Sunday matches.