Tag Archive 'Eckington'

Jul 28 2007

Eckington v Long Itchington II (28-07-2007)

Published by Dave Buchholz under Match Reports, Saturday 2nd XI - 2007

Played Saturday, July 28th 2007

Itchington II’s returned to wining ways with an emphatic defeat of Eckington after the floods had cleared sufficiently to allow access to their ground.

Itchington’s skipper won only his 2nd toss of the season and had no hesitation inserting their hosts on a green and slightly damp wicket. Andy Wood (6-1-18-2) and Tom Perks (6-0-19-3) rewarded him with excellent opening bursts reducing Eckington to 38 - 5. Steve Chapman (6-1-9-1) and Dave Buchholz (5.2-1-10-3) then took over and runs became very hard to come by as N. Graham and C. Fincher dug in to try and salvage something from the innings but Steve Chapman removed them both Graham through an expert piece of fielding to produce a run out and Fincher caught at gully. Buchholz then mopped up the tail to finish the innings on 60.

Itchington had an early scare as they lost two quick wickets to leave them at 14-2 but Buchholz and debutant Zach Aulakh calmed the nerves with a stand of 44 before Buchholz fell for 23 with only 3 runs needed for victory which duly completed 2 balls later as Michael Parsons despatched the last ball of the over for 4, Aulakh finishing with an accomplished 19 n.o.

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May 26 2007

L.I.C.C. II v Eckington (26-05-2007)

Published by Dave Buchholz under Match Reports, Saturday 2nd XI - 2007

Played Saturday, May 26th 2007

Skipper Dave Buchholz won his first toss of the season and decided to bat, steady progress was made and 51 was taken off the first 15 overs for the loss of two wickets.

This brought Will Grindal into join opener Tom Perks and when Perks was out for an excellent 85 28 overs later they had put on an entertaining 199 for the 3rd wicket. Grindal carried on to take the innings to an imposing 263 just missing out on his century finishing on 98 not out. Crowley was the pick of the bowling with 1-37 off his ten overs.

Eckington’s reply was based around openers Rushin’s 64 but he had little support from his team mates with only Crowley (15) and Fallows (17) reaching double figures as Elkerton (10-2-22-3) and Buchholz (5.1-1-17-3) demolised the middle and lower order batting to finish the innings off in the 39th over for 166.

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