Scorecard

Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Two Counties 1st XI (Saturday) v Halstead II on Sat 18 May 2019 at 13:00
Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Won by 6 wickets

Match report That's better Green. Recent frustrations were put behind us as we overcame Halstead by 6 wickets with virtually 10 overs to spare, allowing a rare early finish, not long after 6pm. Good job too, because the early afternoon sunshine had given way to an early evening chill and, of course, everyone was in a rush to get home for Eurovision!
Prior to the toss the wicket looked like the batsmen might enjoy themselves, but it actually offered something for everyone and was perhaps a little two-paced to start with. The early Halstead batsmen certainly had their struggles against Oli Firmin allowing Oli to pick up three in his opening spell (a fourth followed later) and while new-ball partner Calum McDonald didn't manage a breakthrough himself, the redoubtable JP came steaming up the hill (or is that trundling with menace?) to remove obdurate opener Dakin. That allowed Ali Woodcock to take over doing, well, what Ali Woodcock always seems to do: keep it tight and take wickets, as his figures of 3-33 from 13 overs confirm. Captain Keith Hammond had sufficient confidence in his bowlers to allow himself a rare day off from turning over his arm, T-Roy Collins and Ollie Stovell offering control at the other end to Ali, with Ollie claiming a wicket of his own. Thus, Halstead were restricted to 155-9 from their 45 overs.
We lost Stephen Nunn early in our reply, but the brothers Hammond made serene progress in taking us to 70 in the 19th over. It was a major surprise that Keith fell on 31, having already stroked two splendid maximums. When JP followed in the same over nerves jangled for a while, but were then settled again by another partnership, this time between Alex Hammond and Ollie Mewis. Unfortunately, Alex fell on 49 with the scoreboard showing that number that we don't like to mention (or at least a variant of it), but Ollie Stovell joined namesake Mewis to see us home. It was another determined batting effort from Ollie M and for the second time this season he had the pleasure of securing victory with a boundary.

Halstead II Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
1nb 8w 2b 2lb 
for 9 wickets
13
155 (45.0 overs)		     
N Dakin ct  K Hammond b Purser 19 53 36 3 52.78
J Rose ct  Mewis b Firmin 4 15 16 1 25.00
M Cooper ct  K Hammond b Firmin 2 14 10 20.0
I Pont ct  Mewis b Firmin 16 15 14 1 2 114.29
L Robinson b  Woodcock 35 71 63 5 55.56
D Baalham b  Stovell 28 61 55 3 50.91
D Brooker Not Out  11 42 27 2 40.74
A Clark st  Parker b Woodcock 17 16 28 3 60.71
M Harris ct  K Hammond b Firmon 3 6 6 50.0
C Mallett b  Woodcock 7 3 5 140.0
C Hansey Not Out  0 11 11 0

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

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Oli Firmin12.0350412.504.17
Calum McDonald4.001800.004.50
Jonathan Purser5.0218118.003.60
Alastair Woodcock13.0433311.002.54
Troy Collins4.011200.003.00
Ollie Stovell7.0120120.002.86

Eight Ash Green Cricket Club Two Counties 1st XI (Saturday) Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
2nb 8w 4b 9lb 
for 4 wickets
23
156		        
Keith-Henry Hammond ct  Brooker b Robinson 31 61 47 1 2 65.96 3
Steve Nunn ct  Clark b Rose 6 16 18 1 33.33
Alex Hammond lbw  Hansey 49 85 82 6 59.76
Jonathan Purser b  Robinson 0 2 2 0
Oliver Mewis Not Out  32 60 47 5 68.09 2
Ollie Stovell Not Out  15 21 17 3 88.24
Troy Collins  
Oli Firmin  
Alastair Woodcock  
Calum McDonald  
Richard Parker   1

Halstead II Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
J Rose12.0143143.003.58
I Pont9.013200.003.56
M Harris4.101700.004.08
L Robinson5.0135217.507.00
C Hansey5.0016116.003.20