Long Itchington Cricket Club

Played Saturday, April 26th 2008

Itchington collapsed to defeat to their old league rivals on Saturday in their first outing of the season. After deciding to bat first the home side found life difficult against the Itchington seam attack losing wickets at regular intervals with only Chris Cheslin (12) getting to double figures with the board reading 89-7. The visitors policy of given all their bowlers an opportunity with league action pending probably backfired as 2nd teamer Mark Davison showed his class particularly against the slower bowlers and he found a solid ally in youngster Nathan Credington. Together they added 77 before the returning Brian Phillips (7-1-26-2) bowled him for an excellent 92. Credington finished unbeaten on 27 as Leamington totalled 180-8 despite good spells from Neil Hudson, Craig White (9-0-39-2) and Stephen Rawbone.

Itchington were soon up against it with veteran Steve Montgomery only giving away three scoring shots in his first 7 overs. They lost their first wicket at 19 and were 55-4 in the 21st during a good spell from Cheslin, Graham Foster accumulating 28 of those. Brothers Martyn and Stephen Rawbone started to pull things round but the loss of the former for 29 after he played on to Billy Hallet (2-14) and the introduction of Mark Ryan (4-6) saw LI collapse bizarrely from 88-4 to 91 all out in just three overs and a disappointing defeat by 89 runs.

Saturday 26th April v Leamington III’s

Meet 1:00pm at the Pond

1. M. Rawbone
2. M. Clark
3. S. Chapman
4. G. Foster
5. N. Hudson
6. G. Insall
7. A. Jack
8. T. Perks
9. B. Phillips
10. S. Rawbone
11. C. White

Sunday 27th April v Hunningham

Meet 2:00pm at the Pond

1. D. Buchholz
2. N. Aldridge
3. T. Crosthwaite
4. L. Fogarty
5. S. Franks
6. S. Mitchell
7. M. Parsons
8. A. Smith
9. N. Smith
10. J. Rogers
11. A. Wood

For those not selected or not available this weekend if you could let Martyn, Dave or Tino have your availability for the following weekend ASAP.

Played Saturday, September 1st 2007

Itchington pushed perennial rivals, and already promoted, Leamington all the way in another good game of cricket on Saturday.

Having been put in the visitors lost a wicket at 15. Martyn Rawbone and Alex Jack added 88 in reasonable time before the latter was dismissed for 43 in the 28th over. Rawbone followed 5 runs later for 45. At 144-3 a base was there for acceleration but 3 quick wickets quashed these hopes. Nick Brooks (25) and Stephen Rawbone (15n.o.) added some late runs as the total reached 185-8 despite 4-44 from Ryan and 3-32 from Cheslin.

Leamington struggled early on following a fine spell from Neil Hudson (10-1-29-2), who dismissed both openers, and it was 30-3 when 15 year old Hugh Perks took a superb one handed diving catch to dismiss the dangerous Cheslin.

Skipper Dale survived chances but when Richard Cressey accounted for him for 25 the home side were in big trouble at 78-6. Youngster Zac Grant was joined by the experienced Damian Dixon and together they turned the game around aided by some poor ground fielding from LI.

Grant finally went for an excellent 44 at 142. Dixon was 8th out for 38 and it was left to another teenager Credgington to hit the winning runs finishing on 26 n.o. with 2 balls left despite all 5 bowlers sharing the wickets.