The 1st XI defeated Failand & Portbury by 61 runs tonight to continue their winning run. We batted first and scored a competitive 96 all out with Boardy top scoring with 38 and Wessy (11) and Huddy (10) also making useful contributions. Failand were then dismissed for just 35 in the ninth over with Huddy (2-10) and Byo (1-3) doing the damage.
Congratulations and best wishes go to Sagey and his wife Lisa who gave birth to a baby boy named William Mark in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The 2nd XI won their first game of the season against Twyford House tonight by a comfortable margin of 39 runs. We batted first and scored a competitive 103-5 with Dave Pople (20) and Tippo (16*) scoring the bulk of the runs. Dave Pople then took 2-1 in five balls to end the Twyford run chase on 64 in the ninth over. Robbo (2-22) and Witho (1-18) also bowled well.
The 1st XI defeated Crusaders by a massive 106 runs tonight to record their first win of the season. We batted first and scored a mammoth 142-2 in our allotted 12 overs with Boardy (42*), Smallers (30*) and Byo (30*) doing the damage. Crusaders were never in with a shout after great opening spells of 2-6 by Huddy and 1-5 by Smallers. Byo also bowled well to record figures of 1-8.
I have updated most of the records in the statistics section to incorporate the 2003 season and have added player profiles for new recruits Tim Smallridge and Gary Paramore. There are still about 40 pictures taken during the 2003 season to be uploaded and I should get round to that in the next couple of weeks.
Buckers has provided me with a spreadsheet detailing all of the scores for the golf day held on 11 October.
The indoor season got off to a bad start tonight as the 1st XI lost by 44 runs to Keynsham. Keynsham batted first and scored an impressive 106-1 in their allotted 12 overs with Butchy (1-23) and Tim Smallridge (0-18) being the pick of the bowlers. The run chase started badly as Wessy (1) was run out off the first ball and things didn't get any better as we were eventually dismissed for just 62 in the 11th over with Butchy top scoring with 11.
The club is much indebted to Fid, Caddy, Dave Pople, Pete Rooney, Wessy and Buffy for turning up at the Bartons today to do the necessary end of season maintenance work. All of the ball stop netting was taken down, the sight screens were dismantled and packed away, the square was fenced off to keep the sheep out over the winter and the club house was given a good spring clean.
The annual golf day was held at Thornbury today with eight club members playing. The individual competition was won by Byo and the pairs competition was won by Wessy and Graham Withers. Pictures taken during the day will be posted on the web site in the next week or so.
The annual dinner was held tonight at the Burrington Inn and was enjoyed by all those who attended. A big thank you goes to Paul Murphy for organising the evening. Pictures taken at this and the B&D league dinner held last night will be posted on the web site in the next week or so.
The work party was cancelled today as not enough people could make it so it has been postponed until next Sunday (12 Oct) at 10.30am. The work party will be taking down the sight screens and ball stop fencing etc. and generally tidying up the place in preparation for the winter months. Any volunteers are welcome to come along and lend a hand.
The fixtures for the first six weeks of the indoor league season have now been published. Although we have received very little information about the format of this years competition we have looked at the fixtures and concluded that there will be two leagues of 12 teams meaning that a total of 22 matches will be played by each team. Any further information received will be posted here as soon as we get it. |
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