Scorecard

Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Two Counties 1st XI (Saturday) v Brockley on Sat 18 Jun 2022 at 12 noon
Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Lost by 3 wickets

Match report After last week’s poor showing the Green were hoping to bounce back against Brockley. Having lost the toss & Green were asked to bat. The innings got off to a dreadful start with Ollie Mewis being run out at the non-strikers end second over of the day and Joe Young soon joined him back in the pavilion edging to slip for 7. That left the Green wobbling at 12-2. Deepak Rajpal & the returning Will Spicer steadied the ship adding 84 for the 3rd wicket. Unfortunately after a brief rain delay Deepak fell just short of his half century. That brought the skipper to the crease with him & Will plundering 141 off just 19 overs. Will was finally caught at long on for a very well made 92. After that the Green regularly lost wickets as we looked to end the innings strong. Cameos from Tom Lee & Calum McD pushed the score to what looked like an excellent 292.

Once upon a time on the wicket at Fordham Heath, that total would be a guaranteed victory but not anymore. When the 3rd ball of Brockley reply was pulled for a massive 6, it was evident that the Green were still very much in a game and despite some decent bowling, the Brockley openers smashed 110 off the first 16 overs. Matt Parker finally got the breakthrough with Jeffery miscuing a short ball & Tom Lee taking a smart catch at square leg. However, the Green were still unable to control the flow of runs. A Nunn slower ball dismissed Fisher for a sparkling 97 but at that point Brockley were well in control of the chase. As the rain started to lash down, the Green were offered a lifeline as Spicer picked up two wickets 5 balls including the set McCaffrey but a few big blows by Lucas ensured that Brockley reached the target with 9 balls to spare.

So, another disappointing day for the Green despite the many positives. Next week doesn’t get any easier as we travel to league leaders Coggeshall.

Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Two Counties 1st XI (Saturday) Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
9w 19b 6lb 
for 8 wickets
34
289		        
Deepak Rajpal ct D Boreham b S Lucas 45 7 1 1
Oliver Mewis run out  (D Sykes) 1
Joe Young ct T Huffer b M Geeves 7 1 1
Will Spicer ct M Geeves b B Jeffrey 92 9 1
Steve Nunn ct H Whiley b A McCaffrey 74 10 1 2 1
Tom Lee run out  (A McCaffrey) 21 1 1
Jens Wair run out  (S Fenner) 4 1
Calum McDonald ct T Huffer b A McCaffrey 11 1 1
Jonathan Purser Not Out  0
Matt Parker  
Joseph Munson  

Brockley Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Dean Sykes8.032400.003.00
Mark Geeves10.0051151.005.10
Henry Whiley12.008200.006.83
Sean Lucas4.0025125.006.25
Ben Jeffrey8.0056156.007.00
Alex McCaffrey3.0026213.008.67

Brockley Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
8w 4b 6lb 
for 7 wickets
18
292 (43.1 overs)		     
Ben Jeffrey ct D Rajpal b M Parker 38 5 1
Stuart Fisher b S Nunn 97 12 2
Alex McCaffrey ct S Nunn b W Spicer 60 8
Tim Huffer ct S Nunn b W Spicer 27 4
Henry Whiley ct J Young b S Nunn 12 1
Paul Webb Not Out  19 1
Sean Lucas run out McDonald 2
Steve Fenner run out S Nunn 14 1 1
Mark Geeves Not Out  5
Daniel Boreham  
Dean Sykes  

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

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Calum McDonald7.003300.004.71
Jonathan Purser6.004000.006.67
Matt Parker8.0077177.009.63
Steve Nunn9.1060230.006.55
Jens Wair7.004400.006.29
Oliver Mewis2.00800.004.00
Will Spicer4.0020210.005.00