Single Wicket Competition
The seniors
closed the season with the inaugural single wicket competition for the trophy
donated by chairman, Nick Blakstad. The competition is played as a knockout
between the 16 competitors with players bowling two eight ball overs at each
other with the winner who scores the most runs going through to the next round.
5 runs are deducted for each wicket lost. Each player has 6 fielders including
the wicket keeper to put into position.
Round 1: Alex Rennie
beat Tim Patten, Allan Brooks beat
Oscar Windebank, Barney Taylor beat Nick Blakstad,
Will Rice beat Matt
Salmon, Andy Barnes beat
Dave Muggeridge, Andy Salmon beat
Mark Holloway, Shaun Blanks beat
Chris Russell, Ash Spencer
beat Alex Rennie
Round 2: Allan Brooks
beat Barney Taylor, Andy Barnes
beat Will Rice, Shaun Blanks beat
Andy Salmon, Ash Spencer beat Alex
Rennie
This set up
two good semi finals. In the first U15 Allan Brooks batting first set up a good
total of 24 against Andy Barnes but
Brooks could not contain the hard hitting Barnes who made it through to the
final. In the other semi final Ash Spencer
set a stiff target of 29 for Shaun Blanks and then managed to dismiss Blanks
twice which meant that with 10 runs deducted, the total was too much to reach
and Spencer made it through to the final.
Ash Spencer batted first
in the final and again set a challenging total but Andy Barnes played some good shots and Spencer’s only
hope was to dismiss him to take 5 runs off the total. Barnes managed to hold on
to his wicket and passed the total with 2 balls to spare to deservedly win the
trophy which was presented by Barbara Blakstad.
