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Bledlow Village Cricket Club Saturday 1st v Cublington CC - 1st XI on Sat 28 May 2016 at 1.00pm
Match was Drawn

Match report After last week's washout everybody was raring to go on a thankfully dry Saturday afternoon. Tom won yet another toss and elected to bowl first against a Cublington side that had been struggling to score runs so far this season.

Things started well for Bledlow as James Hawkes picked up an early wicket on his return from university, clean bowling one of the openers with a sharp yorker. The bowlers continued to keep things tight but were unable to make another breakthrough until the skipper took an impressive one handed catch off his own bowling to make the score 90-2. A steady flow of wickets followed, Hawkesy even picking up 2 in 2 balls at one point, but unfortunately so did the runs, with a combination of sloppy fielding and good shot-making from Cublington's main batsman taking the away side to 284-9 from their 53 overs. A ridiculous 70+ runs were scored in the last 5 overs, including 7 of the last 11 balls faced by Cublington's no. 1 batsman going for 6 to leave him on 167 not out.
Bledlow went into the tea break disappointed with their fielding effort but determined to silence a Cublington side who seemed to think that the match was already over.

Olly and Tom started off the innings with aggression, putting bad balls to the boundary when they came about. However Olly didn't last long as he attempted one shot too many and was caught at mid-off with the score on 32. This brought Harry to the crease. He and Tom continued to score quickly until Tom was dismissed chasing a wide one for 33. The Bledlow innings then lost momentum as first Charlie and then Marcus were dismissed without reaching double figures. Victory looked a long way off when Sam came to the crease but his run-a-ball innings of 39 injected some much needed impetus back into the Bledlow chase. Bartlett then took control of the match as he smashed his way to his maiden 1st team century to quieten the previously cocky Cublington fielders. Unfortunately he was out not long after reaching 100 to leave Bledlow 223-8, still needing an unlikely 62 more runs for the win. However, a quickfire 43 run partnership between James Hawkes and Matt Pearce left all 3 results possible going into the last 3 overs. Kingy and Pearcey managed an unbeaten 11 run partnership from the final 18 balls meaning the match ended in a nail biting draw.

Skipper Tom Moore was once again impressed with the character shown by the team to nearly chase down such a big score and hopefully it is a sign of things to come with the bat this season.

Man of the match was Harry Bartlett for his outstanding 109 from 82 balls. We go to Didcot next weekend still top of the table and hoping to return to winning ways.

Cublington CC - 1st XI Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
8w 5lb 
for 9 wickets
13
284 (53.0 overs)		     
P.Webb Not Out  167
K.Sear b  J.Hawkes 1
S.Bridgen ct  & Bowled T.Moore 35
S.Carter ct  M.Goodchild Bowled M.Pearce 2
S.George run out  J.Basu 0
G.Coote b  J.Hawkes 29
K.Gordon-Stuart lbw  J.Hawkes 0
A.Inglis b  J.Hawkes 7
W.Rodnight ct  D.Walker Bowled M.Pearce 22
T.Darling ct  T.Moore Bowled M.King 0
O.Fairhurst Not Out  8

Bledlow Village Cricket Club Saturday 1st Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Matt Pearce14.0181240.505.79
James Hawkes17.0362415.503.65
Mark King12.0174174.006.17
Tommy Moore8.0049149.006.12
Marcus Goodchild2.001300.006.50

Bledlow Village Cricket Club Saturday 1st Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
1nb 17w 3lb 
for 9 wickets
21
277		        
Olly Woodward Caught  13 20 12 4 108.33
Tommy Moore Caught  33 48 33 7 100 2
Harry Bartlett Bowled  109 113 82 12 6 132.93
Charlie Downes Lbw  8 12 9 1 88.89
Marcus Goodchild Caught  5 14 23 21.74 1
Sam Mudie Bowled  39 33 39 8 100
Dan Walker Caught  0 9 6 0 1
James Basu Run out  1 13 10 10.0 1
James Hawkes Caught  30 19 20 6 150.0
Matt Pearce Not Out  14 34 28 2 50.0
Mark King Not Out  4 13 9 44.44

Cublington CC - 1st XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
O.Fairhurst5.012800.005.60
T.Darling14.0369417.254.93
W.Rodnight11.0161230.505.55
K.Sear12.0073236.506.08
G.Coote3.003300.0011.00
S.Carter2.001000.005.00

  • Umpire :
    Panel
  • Scorer :
    G.Bishop
 
Photos and video of Bledlow Village Cricket Club Saturday 1st v Cublington CC - 1st XI on Sat 28 May 2016 at 1.00pm

Mid run chase

During the 1s effort of chasing Cublingtons 284.

Handshakes

A drawn game chasing 284 finishing on 277 for 9 from 47 overs