Junior Match Reports

U13s Cup Match vs Disley 02/05/2012

We finally did it, the rain stopped, the sun was shining and we actually managed to start our season. We were playing Disley and we won the toss and decided to bowl first. Our fielding was impressive, we were jumping and diving to catch the balls and stop the boundaries which was a huge difference to our last training session where we were shying away from the ball. Josh made a cracking catch jumping up and catching with one hand – brilliant. Improving already – I love it!

We lost the game by 8 runs, it was 73 to Disley and 65 to us it was an exciting end to the match, we were so close. George was our high scoring wicket taker with 3 wickets to his name, great start to the season, Ed and Adam both took 2 each and Joe Clarke bowled a maiden. We gave away 24 runs due to bowling wide but we have to have something to work on don’t we ;-) We had Reece as WK and there wasn’t much getting past him at all. Sean was our high scorer with 13 runs to his name. Our newest member of the team, Joe Carroll had the best bowling stats with only 3 runs given from 2 overs. Louis bowled a fantastic wicket after being unsure whether or not he wanted to bowl, I love the sound of the ball hitting the stumps. (Obviously, only when we’re bowling!) Callum Lambert went in last, was only in for 1 over but managed to score a boundary and give a very confident performance which definitely moves him up the batting order next time round.

Well Done Lads, it was a good start to the season, my aim was to give them abit of competition and enjoy ourselves. We certainly did that!

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U13s BSMCC vs Hyde 6th May 2012

Great performance from BSMCC U13s who beat Hyde by 129 runs to 84. Hyde won the toss and chose to bowl first.

I went to Hyde hoping to beat last years U13s score against Hyde which is probably one that should never be mentioned, that way we can pretend we weren't all out for 25 and home by 10.30am. What I got was an outstanding team performance!!!

I have to mention Reece Currie who retired on 30, Joe Clarke also had a brilliant batting innings, Joe Carroll and George Armitage put in strong performances aswell as other members of the team. There were a couple of ducks but we'll brush over those and we ended up scoring 129 runs before we ran out of overs.

Onto the next innings, we knew we were in with quite a good chance, 129 was a tough score to beat, higher than any of our scores last year, but we couldn't get complacent on the field.

Jordan was controlling the bowling line up from the field, he had an idea of who was going to bowl and who might not, he had told everyone in the changing room that the bowling line up would change throughout the innings depending on performance, we had to make sure we didn't throw the game away by bowling wides and no balls.

Josh Ireton took 2 brilliant wickets, George Armitage bowled his first ever maiden. Adam Wilkinson provided me with my moment of the match with the best catch I have ever seen him perform making me jump up from my seat and cheering like a mad woman. :-)

The team really worked well together on Sunday, they encouraged one another, they helped one another, they spoke to one another and they absolutely deserved to win that match.

Well Done I am so proud of all of you!