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Saltwood CC v Newenden Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI on Sun 08 Aug 2021 at 1:30pm
Newenden Cricket Club Won by 10 wickets

Match report Date : 08/08/2021

Venue : Saltwood CC

Result : Newenden won by ten wickets ( Saltwood 117 All Out, Smith 3-11, F Piper 3-22, Newenden 118-0 Edwards 77*, Patel 20*)

Man of the Match : Garry Smith

In the immortal words of U2, Sunday, bloody Sunday. We now know that each week as soon as we are about to set off to to play cricket you can guarantee that the heavens will open.

If we were to ever put together a soundtrack for this season it would start with Travis's 'Why does it always rain on me?', followed by Eurythmics's 'Here come the rain again', a quick burst of Rihanna ' Umbrella' and then finished off with a medley from Wet, Wet, Wet.

We have now lost more games to the weather this season than we did to COVID last year. It is getting beyond a joke.

The start of yesterday followed the now standard pattern but the meteorological gods finally shone on us as we managed to actually play a game.

Having driven down to Hythe in torrential rain, we didn't hold out much hope of getting in any play.Upon arrival, it was decided that we would go to the local pub for a pre-match briefing and then return at 2pm for a ground inspection.

On returning to the ground,by some kind of miracle, the rain had stopped and we decided to play a 30 over match. Having lost the toss we were put into the field. The opposition set out their intentions early on, with their opener striking both Finn Piper and Chirag Patel for straight sixes in the opening couple of overs. We then knew we were in a game.

Finn Piper had other ideas and after having a stonewall LBW decision turned down, combined with Patel to have their danger man caught at square leg off the very next ball. This kicked us into action. Patel then had their number three caught behind in the next over, following some superb glove work from Gibbs. Their number four had to retire hurt following a slip attempting a run.

Piper was settling into a cracking spell and picked up two more wickets for his efforts, finishing up with 3-22 from his seven overs. Bradney replaced Piper and was soon into his rhythm, beating the bat on a regular basis. The opposition captain came in and started to hit some big shots, but Bradney got his man just as things were starting to get away from us. Smith had joined the fray at the other end and picked up three wickets in no time, including a lightening fast stumping by Gibbs, who was having a great game. Smith bowled a beautiful spell finishing up with 3-11. Bellhouse came on for the penultimate over and picked up the final wicket with his second ball following a great catch by Finn Piper running back over his shoulder. This left Saltwood all out for 117.

Our response started well and only got better. Newenden's answer to Gilchirst and Sehwag wandered out to the middle and starting smashing some pretty decent bowling to all parts. Edwards was certainly in the mood, depositing their opening quick for consecutive sixes in his second over, he was not to be seen again. The pair had chased down the target in just ten overs to complete another emphatic victory for NCC.

It is now very much a two horse race for the title (click here to see the table https://kvcl.play-cricket.com/website/division/87332 ) and it still smarts that Kingsnorth managed to avoid us due to the rain, but all we can do is win our last two games and hope that they drop points in one of theirs.

Next up we have Rolvenden in our local derby. Always fun.


Saltwood CC Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
extras
TOTAL :
5w 5b 2lb 
for 10 wickets
12
117 (28.2 overs)		     
Barry Wire ct  C Patel b F Piper 20
Jamie Stephens b  F Piper 11
Ken Gainsford ct  B Gibbs b C Patel 2
Jeremy Russell  
Chris Fox ct  F Piper b H Bradney 27
Miles Clayton lbw  F Piper 1
Jack Gooding ct  F Piper b H Bradney 17
William Hadler st  B Gibbs b G Smith 26
James Osbourne b  G Smith 0
Olly Hadler ct  J Piper b G Smith 0
Fin Osborne ct  F Piper b M Bellhouse 1

Newenden Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Finn Piper7.002237.333.14
Chirag Patel7.0031131.004.43
Harry Bradney7.0040220.005.71
Dan Edwards2.00600.003.00
Garry Smith5.001133.672.20
Mike Bellhouse0.20010.000.00

Newenden Cricket Club Sunday 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
1nb 16w 3b 1lb 
for 0 wickets
21
118		        
Chirag Patel Not Out  20 1
Dan Edwards Not Out  77
Jonathan Bourne  
Mike Bellhouse  
Jasper Piper   1
Philip Morris  
Ben Gibbs   1
Kelvin Hills  
Finn Piper   3
Harry Bradney  
Garry Smith  

Saltwood CC Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Olly Hadler4.003100.007.75
Ken Gainsford2.002200.0011.00
Miles Clayton3.004300.0014.33
Fin Osborne1.501800.009.82