Scorecard

Springfield Cricket Club Saturday III v Great Waltham II on Sat 09 Jun 2012 at 13:30
Springfield Cricket Club Won 8 Wickets

Match report On a miserable rainy day at the Corra, the 3s arrived in a surprisingly upbeat mood. After winning the toss and choosing to field on a soft pitch, captain Nice never looked back as he watched his opening partnership of Butt and Mean tear through the Waltham top order with variations of pace and movement. When Mean had to take his compulsory break after a 7 over spell, it was left to Riddett, called up at the last minute, to repeat his previous performances from the 2s last year, despite not having bowled a ball in 9 months. In spite of an erratic start, he soon found his line taking 2 wickets in his spell of 11 overs. Then the emerging colts of the team took over, with Mean returning to pick up his first 5for of the season, and Hitchen and Hartley each returning a single wicket. A mention should also be made of Howarth, who bowled a very economical spell, of 3 overs with 2 maidens, with batsman struggling to get him off the square.
With such an inspired bowling performance, captain Nice took the decision to drop down the order, leaving the rest of the team disappointed not to see a singles-a-plenty opening partnership between him and Howarth. He called on young unexpectant Hartley to share the opening with Howarth. The Springfield innings got off to a solid start, however looked to be rolling downhill with the sudden losses of Hartley and Grant. Despite this, Howarth took the attack to the Waltham bowlers, leaving them scratching their heads as to why their batsman could not repeat this dynamism. He rushed to his 50 from 42 balls, then shared a quick fire partnership with Goldsmith, who produced a very technically correct 6 to win the game in a 17th over that was hit for 21.

Report by Tom mean

Great Waltham II Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
8w 5b 2lb 
for 10 wickets
15
91 (42.5 overs)		     
A Kendrick b  Tom Mean 0
B Welch ct  Neil Kennedy b Tom Mean 2
M Elgar ct  Oliver Goldsmith b Darren Butt 6
N Harman ct  Neil Kennedy b Tom Mean 8
D Kemp b  Cameron Riddett 12
R Kearney Not Out  21
S Harman ct  & b Ben Hitchen 5
M Kendrick b  Cameron Riddett 4
N Home ct  Troy Nice b Tom Mean 1
B Collar ct  Ben Hitchen b Tom Mean 6
L Tucker b  Matt Hartley 11

Springfield Cricket Club Saturday III Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Darren Butt12.0513113.001.08
Tom Mean10.022154.202.10
Cameron Riddett11.0226213.002.36
Ben Hitchen6.0017117.002.83
James Howarth3.02300.001.00
Matt Hartley0.50414.004.80

Springfield Cricket Club Saturday III Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
1nb  
for 2 wickets
1
93		        
Matt Hartley b  M Kendrick 3 15 20.0
James Howarth Not Out  70 56 10 1 125.00
Courtney Grant ct  b M Kendrick 6 10 1 60.0
Oliver Goldsmith Not Out  13 22 1 59.09 1
Matt Cook  
Neil Kennedy   2
Troy Nice   1
Cameron Riddett  
Ben Hitchen   2
Darren Butt  
Tom Mean  

Great Waltham II Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
B Collar4.002100.005.25
M Kendrick8.0123211.502.88
L Tucker4.002800.007.00
R Kearney1.002100.0021.00