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Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Two Counties 1st XI (Saturday) v Nacton on Sat 14 Jul 2018 at 13:00
Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Won by 6 wickets

Match report The Green produced another highly efficient performance this afternoon, with contributions from all players in what was ultimately a comfortable 6 wicket win with more than 10 overs to spare.
Nacton chose to bat but came up against an inspired Sam Pace who was a constant threat in his two spells as he grabbed a four-for, while the ever-reliable Oli Firmin took three of his own. Wicket-taking support came from Troy and Joe, the latter's brace achieved during an economical but threatening spell - I think it's safe to say that Joe can leave his 'keeping gloves at the bottom of his bag. The outfield was extremely dry and hard, which at times made fielding a real challenge for both sides, though a couple of the catches that went down could hardly be blamed on that.
Having recovered from 51-5, our visitors may have thought that they had given themselves a total to defend in reaching 193 and although Porky set off in the same form he showed last Sunday in his glorious unbeaten 155, for once Stuart went early and then Porky's cameo stalled on 46, right after some numpty had tweeted that he was going well! In came Ollie to play an un-Ollie-like innings as he followed Porky's example in trying to score most of his runs in boundaries. Ollie fell for 32, which then allowed a third cameo as Will hit 35 including one on-drive that was simply sumptuous. Meanwhile Keith calmly accumulated yet another unbeaten half-century - it may not have been the skipper at his free-scoring best, but he assessed the situation perfectly and batted around the rest of the team to lead us home to maximum points once again.

Nacton Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
7nb 2w 4b 1lb 
for 10 wickets
14
193 (41.5 overs)		     
B Connelly ct  M Parker b Firmin 6 23 19 1 31.58
C Stockwell ct  Spicer b Pace 7 27 19 1 36.84
A Brunt ct  Spicer b Firmin 11 22 15 2 73.33
B Glading b  Pace 4 3 3 1 133.33
J Coomber b  Pace 10 27 9 2 111.11
M Robinson ct  M Parker b Pace 61 122 79 8 1 77.22
J Doig ct  Spicer b Collins 33 53 49 5 67.35
D Mandepanda ct  Firmin b Young 11 15 18 2 61.11
G Songer ct  Collins b Young 2 27 16 12.50
P Simmons ct  J Parker b Firmin 12 25 19 2 63.16
O Butcher Not Out  22 12 11 5 200

Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Two Counties 1st XI (Saturday) Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Sam Pace12.0248412.004.00
Oli Firmin8.5040313.334.53
Matt Parker5.002900.005.80
Troy Collins5.0028128.005.60
Joe Young7.0027213.503.86
Keith-Henry Hammond4.001600.004.00

Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Two Counties 1st XI (Saturday) Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
8w 8b 1lb 
for 4 wickets
17
197		        
James Parker ct  Songer b Brunt 46 45 32 8 143.75 1
Stuart Hammond ct  Butcher b Stockwell 9 22 13 2 69.23
Keith-Henry Hammond Not Out  50 123 89 4 56.18
Ollie Stovell b  Brunt 32 36 25 7 128.00
Will Spicer b  Mandepanda 35 60 46 5 76.09 3
Sam Pace Not Out  8 2 3 2 266.67
Joe Young  
Troy Collins   1
Jack Smith  
Oli Firmin   1
Matt Parker   2

Nacton Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
C Stockwell7.0052152.007.43
O Butcher2.001500.007.50
A Brunt12.0146223.003.83
M Robinson4.002500.006.25
J Coomber4.002600.006.50
J Doig3.001100.003.67
D Mandepanda2.4013113.004.88