wickham park vs lamorbey park cc

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Sunday saw the squirrels travel to Wickham Park on a beautiful, steaming hot day. With the deck looking like a road, it seemed a good day to bat first and that’s exactly what Wickham park did when they won the toss.  

A lively Lamorbey Park cc opening attack started well with Wickham at one point being 2-2 and looking all at sea before they started to try their luck with Fraser (1-40) and used his pace to put the ball in places that Fraser has probably never seen the ball go to before and to say they rode their luck was an understatement.  

Harry Sampson (2-38) and Sam Murray (0-22) then came on with Harry bowing a nice mixture of full tosses, half trackers and decent deliveries to keep the batsman guessing and on another day could of had a couple of more wickets.  

Charles (0-34) bowled well although bowling with his cap back to front would of caused uproar among some of the village cricket community I’m sure. Jake (2-39) had another good day with the ball at the death picking up a stumping and a well planned caught at deep square leg by Fraser. Woodsy (3-24) also bowled well at the death and used the day in the field as a fitness workout, running back to his run up for no real reason and inexcusably wearing a jumper in 24 degree heat. He also got very, very excited when his last delivery didn’t go for four as he was desperate to tell anyone that wanted to listen that he bowled a whole weekend without going for a four. This was wonderful to hear over and over again during the break. 

Wickham park set the squirrels a challenging but achievable 207 to win. The boys started slowly with Charles going early and Neil giving a few early chances to the slips before going for 10.   

The mighty Ben Moore strolled to the crease and played himself in slowly ball by ball by ball by ball by ball but gradually started to time the ball nicely and get into his stride. He was supported by Vinnie Chodha who made a breezy 11 and Jake Kendall with a confident 16.  

At 90-5 off 23 overs the game looked done and dusted however we kept going. The game changing moment came when Ben ran for a quick single with woodsy only to bellow in an extremely posh voice “buzzers woodsy” as the ball flew past the stumps and surrounding fielders. The problem being Woodsy was already in a different post code but still decided to turn around and ran a good 45 metres back to be run out.  

Howesy (6) and Fraser (29) then assisted Ben in getting closer to the score. Both lads ran well together and hit some fine boundaries before Ben eventually fell for a fine knock of 65. 

 It was left to Sam (22*) and Harry (2*) to see the lads home and with 16 needed from the last over, it was still possible. It became even more possible when Sam smashed the first ball out of the park for a huge six. Unfortunately we did however fall 6 runs short but it was a superb effort and if we put in another performance like that again soon, the next win shouldn’t be far around the corner  

Man of the match Ben Moore 

Fine of the day Jack Woods