SM Cricket UK Lincoln Indoor League Report - Week 11

First of all before I talk results I just need to inform you that Bracebridge Heath Cricket Club have withdrawn from the league and cup for the rest of this season.  Reepham will play a friendly v Nettleham or Cherry Willingham 2nds (whoever looses their first round cup match) on Thursday 3rd March at 7.00pm.

7.00pm  Hartsholme beat Bracebridge Heath by default.

A 3 point win and 6 opposition wickets to Hartsholme.

7.00pm  - Friendly - Hartsholme beat Broughton by 6 wickets.

Broughton 61-3 from 10 overs.   Jamie Robinson 25 not out, (2x6 and 2x4), Neil Simpson 16 (1x6).   Joe Gilbert 1-15.

Hartsholme 62-0 from 5 overs.   James Favill 26 - Retired (1x6 and 2x4), Ed Bosworth 23 not out (2x6)

My thanks to Broughton for playing this match.

8.00pm   Reepham beat Broughton by 4 wickets.

Broughton 87-1 from 10 overs.  Jamie Robinson 27 - Retired (1x4 and 1x6),  Paul Mitchell 25 - Retired (1x6 and 3x4),  Russ Blackburn 22 not out (1x6 and 2x4).   Rick Bell 1-23 from 3 overs.

Reepham 89-2 from 9.2 overs.  Rick Bell 25 - Retired, Jon Mackinder 16 not out.

1st win of the season for Reepham, with Jack Dent hitting a 6 to win the match with 4 balls remaining.

9.00pm   Nettleham beat Cherry Willingham 2nds by 16 runs.

Nettleham 66-5 from 10 overs.  Jordan McCardell 37 not out (2x4), 22 extras.  Tom Hunt 2-11 from 3 overs including a smart stumping from James Welbourn, George Hunt 2-22 from 3 overs.

Cherry Willingham 2nds 50 all out from 8.4 overs.   David Eyre 19 (1x6), Caleb Pipes-Goulsbra 10 (1x4).  Dan McCardell 3-10 from 2.4 overs, Haydn Bromfield 3-13 from 3 overs and he also took 3 catches including an outstanding one handed catch.

Nettleham had been 34-5 but sensible batting from 22 year old Jordan McCardell with an unbeaten 37 and a few wides gave a total that Nettleham could defend.

SM CRICKET UK LINCOLN INDOOR LEAGUE 2021/2022 FINAL TABLE.

 

1st -   Cherry Willingham 1sts      P8,    W8,    L0,    24 points,    34 wickets taken   -   Champions

2nd -  Old Lincolnians                  P8,    W7,    L1,    21 points,    28 wickets taken   -   Runners Up

3rd -   Hartsholme                       P8,    W6,    L2,    18 points,    31 wickets taken

4th -   Revesby                            P8,    W4,    L4,    12 points,    32 wickets taken

5th -   Nettleham                         P8,    W4,    L4,    12 points,    33 wickets taken

6th -   Broughton                         P8,    W3,    L5,    9 points,      24 wickets taken

7th -   Bracebridge Heath             P8,     W2,   L6,     6 points,      9 wickets taken

8th -   Cherry Willingham 2nds     P8,     W1,   L7,     3 points,      28 wickets taken

9th -   Reepham                          P8,     W1,   L7,     3 points,      25 wickets taken 

NOTE:

3 points for a win

Revesby ahead of Nettleham on head to head win earlier in the season.

Cherry Willingham 2nds ahead of Reepham on head to head win earlier in the season.

 LEAGUE INFORMATION:

I realise that we have 3 weeks of cup matches ahead of us, but a few thank you's to all teams and Darren for umpiring, Sam the caretaker and Steve and Mike for their work behind the scenes on the committee.  We have managed to complete the season after an incredibly difficult 2 years while a number of leagues around the UK have not happenned for the 2nd year running.  

Congratulations to Cherry Willingham 1sts on an unprecedented 10th consecutive league win.  I am putting a write up together for the Lincoln League handbook and from looking at history this competition has seen 4 teams dominate.  The 1980's and early 1990's saw Claytons Cricket Club win everything in sight, before Bracebridge Heath took over the mantle dominating the 1990's and early naughties.  Nettleham CC than had a 5 or 6 year spell where they hardly lost a match before Cherry Willingham started an incredibly last decade.

Lincolnshire County Cricket Double Dozen U11/13 Week 5 & 6

 

Round 5 and 6 of U11 & U13 (North) Winter Indoor League results from Wednesday evenings, proudly sponsored by Clixby Active Pro Sports Ltd.

Another 2 really close games - seems to be the norm most weeks.

U11 Broughton Cricket Club (255 for 1) beat U11 Alkborough Cricket Club (249 for 2) by 6 runs. Broughton Cricket Club still unbeaten.

U13 hybrid Haxey Cricket Club Newsfeed & Normanby Park Cricket Club (242 for 1) beat U13 Broughton Cricket Club (233 for 5) by 9 runs.

Special mention to Ben Clixby of Broughton Cricket Club who top scored with 24*, which included a straight 12 shot (scoring zones).

Haxey Cricket Club Newsfeed & Normanby Park Cricket Club go to the top of the table, having played an extra game.

Week 6, and the half way stage saw 2 further matches played.

U11 Broughton Cricket Club - Lincs (276/1) put on a strong performance to beat U11 hybrid Haxey Cricket Club Newsfeed & Normanby Park Cricket Club (226/3), by 50 runs.

U13 Outcasts  Cricket  Club (238/3) put in another solid performance to beat U13 Alkborough Cricket Club (201/7) by 37 runs.

This places U11 Broughton Cricket Club - Lincs 4 wins from 4 & U13 Outcasts  Cricket  Club 3 wins from 3.

Competition definitely hotting up❤️🏏

Here is the Under-11 table at the half way stage.

Perfect 10!

The Holy Grail for a footballer might be to score the perfect hattrick, for a golfer, to shoot a 59, for a cricketer, the Holy Grail must be to take all ten wickets in the innings.

Now, its not impossible for cricketers who havent or didn’t play the game for very long to pick up, say, a nine wicket haul. Stuart Neal picked up 9 wickets for 18 runs in a Humberside Alliance game for Broughton Second XI against White Swann in May 1989. It proved to mark almost two thirds of his entire senior wicket haul. Great Bowlers like Andy Ellis (Appfrod) never picked up a 9 wicket haul in league cricket. Others did three times each in local league cricket like Gig Smith (Brigg Town) and Dave Atkinson (Broughton). Dave Atkinson’s third league 9 wicket haul, 9 for 41 against Hartsholme in May 1991 came close to a ten wicket haul but Steve Rayner, despite bowling wide of the stumps to aid Dave’s quest, still managed to encourage the Hartsholme last man to nick behind.

These were some nearly men. Here are six instances of the real deal.

 

Firstly, Richard Brown of Electricity Sports managed to achieve the feat in a Scunthorpe League Division Three match way back in May 1952. He collected all ten of the Broughton Second XI wickets to fall for just 18 runs as he bowled his side to one of the largest victories in terms of runs you would be likley to see in the Scunthorpe League. He had previously added 31 with the bat as his side ran up the significant (by 1952 standards) 176 for 5 and his magnificent haul of wickets bowled the Broughton Second XI out for 57.

 

Not many people will take 10 in an innings and finish on the losing side but Barry Firth did in June 1978. Opening the innings he bowled 17.5-4-51-10 for Normanby Park Works Third XI against Keadby Power Station to bowl them out for 99 whilst playing in the first round of the North Lindsey League Knock Out Cup. His side could only manage 61 runs in response. ‘Wily Old Barry’ to coin a phrase used by local journalist Nigel Fisher delivered the ball occasionally from beyond the return crease, with plenty of loop. He was an assistant manager at the Ore Preperation Plant on the Normanby Park Works.

 

Perhaps the best known instance occurred in 1988 when Dave Newton picked up 10 wickets for 5 runs, a record haul in the Humberside Cricket Alliance. His achievement came for Alkborough 2nds against Caistor 2^nd XI. Neil Gray remembers the game well. “He took about 8 wickets for just 2 runs before a young lad batting at 9 or 10 for Caistor hit him for a 3”. Neil went on to say that “ Dave always bowled up the hill, moved it both ways, rarely bowled a bad ball and was the nicest bloke you could wish to meet”. These are still the best bowling figures in competative cricket in the Scunthorpe and District area. Dave was later presented with ball he used to take the record haul by Chris Old (Yorkshire and England) when he was Cricket Development Officer for Humberside.

 

The second best bowling figures locally came in a North Lindsey League game for Ian Fletcher of Outcasts against Brigg Town’s Sunday side in 1990. Brigg had chased leather during the afternoon whilst Outcasts racked up 205 for 4. In response Brigg Town lost 5 wickets without scoring a run. Nigel Fisher, at the time clearing up the pots from tea, with Brigg short of a tea lady, came out to spectate proceedings realising he was next man in with Brigg side 8 down and all the wickets to Ian’s name. When Nigel went to the wicket as the last man he helped to double the score before being Ian Fletcher’s 10^th wicket, Brigg, all out 45. His final analysis being 12 – 7 – 8 – 10, Fletch won a national award from one of the cricket magazines of which Whyte and Mackay were the sponsors. Later in the summer, Dave Grundy of Morton, also playing in the North Lindsey League, took 10 for 54 against Scunthorpe Town and finished on the losing side.

 

 

 

Two years later, in April 1992, Appleby Frodingham’s stalwart bowler picked up 10 for 17 against Nettleton Mines in the second teams first match of the season in the Lincolnshire League Division One. Dave also received some recognition in the nationals for collecting the second best innings figures in Lincolnshire County League history. Appleby Frodingham had stuttered to 92 for 9 in their 45 overs. Dave got to work with his away swingers to collect all ten for 17 runs to bowl Nettleton Mines out for 27 in 26 overs.

 

Finally in 2004, Brigg Town, batting first against App Frod 3rds on a Sunday, made 133 having first use of the Brigg Recreation Ground wicket. In the second innings Paul Taylor, a former App Frod cricketer, pictured below, produced a “one man blitz with the ball”. He took 10 wickets for just 37 runs and was twice denied wickets with no-balls. Frod were skittled out for just 71.

 

Another honorary mention is the unique occurance of Luddington’s Buzz o’Brien who took all 9 wickets to fall in an innings vs Haxey in 2008, but Haxey only had 10 men so he couldnt complete a clean sweep.

 

There will be others we have missed im sure, and plenty not in Competiton cricket. This was not intended to be definitive and we will probably look into those in the future but it gives a small insight into those remarkable perfect 10’s

 

SM Cricket UK Lincoln Indoor League Report - Week 10

Week 10 Results - Thursday 27th January 2022 - Moved from Thursday 20th January 2022.

7.00pm   Nettleham beat Reepham by 6 runs.

Nettleham 73-4 from 10 overs.   Jordan McCardell 27 not out, Robin Curtis 27 not out.  Peter Watson 1-16 from 3 overs.

Reepham 67 all out from 10 overs.  Adam Zarain 15, Jon Mackinder 14, Ben Shapcott 14.  Two wickets for Dan McCardell.

8.00pm   Broughton beat Bracebridge Heath by default.

 A 3 point win for Broughton who also gain 6 opposition wickets.

 9.00pm   Cherry Willingham 1sts beat Broughton by 6 wickets.

Broughton 69-1 from 10 overs.  Jamie Robinson 30 not out (3x6 and 1x4), Rich Green 23 not out (1x4).  Fin Keal 1-12 from 3 overs.

Cherry Willingham 1sts 71-0 from 8.1 overs.  Dave Manby 26 not out (2x4), Tim Shooter 24 not out (1x6).

My thanks to both teams for moving this match forward 1 hour.

LEAGUE TABLE AFTER WEEK 10:

 1st -  Cherry Willingham 1sts       P6,     W6,    L0,     18 points,     23 wickets taken

2nd - Old Lincolnians                   P7,     W6,    L1,     18 points,    26 wickets taken

3rd -  Hartsholme                       P5,     W4,     L1,     12 points,    18 wickets taken

4th -  Nettleham                         P6,     W3,     L3,     9 points,     24 wickets taken

5th -  Broughton                         P7,     W3,     L4,     9 points,     22 wickets taken

6th -  Revesby                            P5,     W2,     L3,     6 points,     17 wickets taken

7th -  Bracebridge Heath             P5,      W2,     L3,     6 points,     9 wickets taken

8th -  Cherry Willingham 2nds     P6,      W1,     L5,     3 points,     20 wickets taken

9th -  Reepham                          P7,      W0,     L7,     0 points,    24 wickets taken

 NOTE:

 3 points for a win.

Cherry Willingham 1sts top due to head to head win over Old Lincolnians earlier on in the season.

Nettleham ahead of Broughton on head to head win earlier on in the season.

Revesby ahead of Bracebridge Heath on opposition wickets taken.  Both teams are still to play each other.

 The league is decided on points.  If points are level then it is the head to head performances against each other.  If positions are still level, then it is down to opposition wickets taken:

SM Cricket UK Lincoln Indoor League Report - Week 9

 Week 9 Results - Thursday 20th January 2022 - Moved from Thursday 13th January 2022.

 7.00pm  Hartsholme beat Reepham by 16 runs.

 Hartsholme 83-3 from 10 overs.  Ed Bosworth 25.  Rick Bell 2-17 from 2 overs.

 Reepham 67-4 from 10 overs.  Rick Bell 16.  Rob Thorpe 1-10 from 3 overs.

 8.00pm    Cherry Willingham 1sts beat Reepham by 48 runs.

Cherry Willingham 1sts 100-5 from 10 overs.  Joe Dobson 27 not out (3x6), Fin Keal 14 (1x4), Caleb Pipes-Goulsbra 13 (2x6), 22 extras.   Adam Zarian 2-29 from 2 overs.  Peter Watson and Richard Bell both 1-18 from 3 overs.

 Reepham 52-5 from 10 overs.  Jon Mackinder 21, Dan Lamming 11, Tim Shooter 1-5 from 2 overs.

 9.00pm Cherry Willingham 1sts beat Nettleham by 76 runs.

 Cherry Willingham 1sts 123-5 from 10 overs.  Fin Keal 25 not out (2x6 and 2x4), Dave Manby 25 (1x6), Tim Shooter 15 (1x4), 31 extras and 3 run outs.

 Nettleham 47-5 from 10 overs.   Martin Strawson 13 not out (1x4), Haydn Bromfield 12 (1x6 and 1x4), Fin Keal 3-10 from 3 overs.

 LEAGUE TABLE AFTER WEEK 9:

 1st - Old Lincolnians                  P7,       W6,     L1,     18 points,      26 wickets taken

2nd - Cherry Willingham 1sts     P5,       W5,     L0,     15 points,      22 wickets taken

3rd -  Hartsholme                     P5,       W4,      L1,     12 points      18 wickets taken

4th -  Broughton                       P5,       W2,     L3,      6 points,      16 wickets taken

5th -  Revesby                          P5,       W2,     L3,      6 points,      17 wickets taken

6th -  Nettleham                       P5,       W2,     L3,      6 points,      18 wickets taken

7th -  Bracebridge Heath            P4,      W2,     L2,      6 points,       9 wickets taken

8th - Cherry Willingham 2nds     P6,      W1,     L5,      3 points,      20 wickets taken

9th -  Reepham                         P6,      W0,     L6,      0 points,      20 wickets taken