Scorecard

Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Two Counties 1st XI (Saturday) v Mildenhall III on Sat 19 Jun 2021 at 1pm
Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Lost by 1 wicket

Match report For the second week running we were involved in an exciting finish that went right down to the wire. Unfortunately, this time we were on the wrong end of the result as a 20-run last wicket partnership saw Mildenhall home, the winning run coming off the last ball of the innings.
It was never an easy track to bat on and certainly didn't offer the consistent bounce of last week, but the wicket provided plenty of grip to keep the spinners interested. We were invited to bat first but none of the batsmen were able to go on and produce a big score, with Deepak (28) and Rob (28*) leading the way. Stuart and Will both threatened briefly to up the scoring rate, but couldn't hang around long enough to significantly impact on our total.
JP ended our innings striking a huge 6 and then struck with the first ball of Mildenhall's innings, so our hopes of victory were high, but our regular foe (aka spilled catches) came back to haunt us. The introduction of Jens broke the second wicket partnership and some filth from Ollie S helped make inroads into the middle order, but Mildenhall recovered and at 143-5 looked to be cruising towards victory. Out of the blue Keith and Will claimed two wickets apiece and suddenly we were strong favourites to win as Mildenhall slumped to 144-9. However, the last two batsmen clearly knew which end of the bat to hold and a couple of lusty blows were supported by scrambled singles that were eventually enough to see them home.
Huge disappointment for the team to lose in such fashion, but after a finish like that I can only sign-off with that favourite saying of so many that "cricket is the winner".

Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Two Counties 1st XI (Saturday) Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
2nb 5w 1b 5lb 
for 8 wickets
13
163		        
Steve Nunn ct J Taylor b K Renouf 13 25 24 1 54.17 1
Deepak Rajpal ct A Squire b M Taylor 28 67 47 4 59.57
Keith-Henry Hammond b M Ubaid 1 25 22 4.55 1
Ollie Stovell ct S Grinling b M Ubaid 17 56 40 2 42.50 2
Stuart Hammond b M Ubaid 23 31 20 5 115.00 1
Will Spicer b K Renouf 23 39 19 1 1 121.05
Rob Lewis Not Out  28 55 51 1 54.90 1
Jens Wair ct M Taylor b S Afzal 2 12 8 25.00 1
Ollie Licence b S Afzal 0 4 2 0
Jonathan Purser Not Out  15 8 8 1 1 187.50
Ethan Wyatt  

Mildenhall III Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Kiefer Renouf9.0123211.502.56
Martin Taylor11.0134134.003.09
Mo Ubaid11.0045315.004.09
Oakley Colby4.002900.007.25
Suroor Afzal5.0026213.005.20

Mildenhall III Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
6w 3b 6lb 
for 9 wickets
15
164 (40.0 overs)		     
James Taylor ct O Stovell b J Purser 0 1 0
Steve Grinling ct K Hammond b O Stovell 26 50 2 1 52.00
Andrew Squire ct J Wair b J Wair 38 50 5 1 76.00
Oakley Colby ct S Hammond b O Stovell 0 8 0
Kiefer Renouf lbw K Hammond 16 24 1 66.67
Ewan Kingdon ct R Lewis b W Spicer 31 37 2 1 83.78
Mark Thurston b W Spicer 17 36 47.22
Reuben Handy ct S Nunn b K Hammond 1 5 20.0
Martin Taylor ct O Stovell b K Hammond 0 5 0
Mo Ubaid Not Out  5 10 50.0
Suroor Afzal Not Out  15 12 1 1 125.00

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

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Jonathan Purser4.0025125.006.25
Ethan Wyatt6.002500.004.17
Steve Nunn4.001500.003.75
Jens Wair6.0218118.003.00
Ollie Stovell8.001929.502.37
Keith-Henry Hammond8.0134311.334.25
Will Spicer4.011929.504.75