20-Aug-2003, Under 15's League vs Weston-Super-Mare played at Blagdon

Weston-Super-Mare Win by 8 wickets


Blagdon Innings (Overs 20)
    Batsman              Fieldsman                Bowler              Runs
    A.Stead                                       b T.Main               3
    A.Palmer             run out                                         0
    T.Bond                                      c&b B.Main               0
    R.Davies             c Sleeman                b T.Main               0
    A.Crooks             lbw                      b B.Freeman           33
    H.Lyons              lbw                      b T.Main               1
    T.Williams                                    b B.Freeman            1
    A.Burroughs                                   b B.Freeman            3
    J.Chastney           c A.Ford                 b T.Main               5
    S.Hill               not out                                         2
    G.Bond               not out                                         0
      extras                                      (b8 lb0 w21 nb1)      30
    TOTAL                                         9 wickets for         78

    Bowler             O     M    R    W   
    B.Main             5     0    9    1  
    T.Main             5     1    17   4  
    Zsalaam            1     0    14   0  
    Bissex             3     0    11   0  
    B.Freeman          4     0    13   3  
    C.Fawcett          2     0    8    0  

Weston-Super-Mare Innings (Overs 10.4)
    Batsman              Fieldsman                Bowler              Runs
    T.Main               not out                                        24
    B.Main                                        b T.Bond              42
    A.Ford               c A.Crooks               b T.Bond               0
    B.Freeman            not out                                         4
      extras                                      (b1 lb1 w6 nb1)        9
    TOTAL                                         2 wickets for         79

    Bowler             O     M    R    W   
    T.Bond             5     0    24   2  
    S.Hill             3     0    33   0  
    A.Stead            2     0    11   0  
    H.Lyons            .4    0    7    0

MATCH REPORT

Our visitors, for this twice postponed game, had last season walked away with the League Championship boasting an undefeated record and went on to compete in the County level stages of the Sun Life of Canada National competition. We would do well to give them a run for their money!

Put into bat first we were reduced to 9 for 5 inside of six overs with Ali Palmer, Tom Bond and Rhys Davies all consigned to the pavilion for ducks. Archie Stead (3) only fared a little better. We had no answer to the pace of T.Main (4-17). If it had not been for a heroic performance by captain Adam Crooks (33) we would probably have been blown away inside 10 overs. As it was batting at number 5 and arriving at the crease in the 5th over after our top order had been decimated he produced the only real resistance to Weston’s attack. Although B.Freeman (3-13) had threatened to run through our lower order, with help from Adam Burroughs (3) and Josh Chastney (5) and a few extras, Adam led an excellent recovery as we managed to bat out all our remaining overs to reach a respectable total of 78-9.

This was never going to be enough against the prolific W-S-M batting side for whom the Main brothers (Tom 24 no and Ben 42) opened. Despite a hostile bowling spell from Tom Bond (2-24), who took the only 2 wickets to fall and was on a hat-trick, the target was duly reached inside 11 overs as Weston cruised to 79-2 and an easy 8 wicket win.