Stand Cricket Club - League Win but Cup KO

League Win but Cup KO

Monday, 21 June 2010

Pro 58 JR 5 for 40 Saturday saw us take on Woodhouses at the SCG, a side which we hadn’t beaten on our own patch since our return to the LCL.

We lost the toss and were asked to bat first and made excellent use of the conditions, despite some quicker than usual bowling served up by visitors. Dave Taylor and Chris Holt put on 51 for the first wicket inside 16 overs with Sam Sweeney being taken out of the attack after bowling three overs for 23. Holt became Ellahi’s first victim. Never the less Weththasinghe came in continued to move the score along with him and Taylor taking the score past the hundred mark. Taylor fell for 33 as he played on a delivery from Prescott with the score on 109/2 at the halfway stage. Amila brought up a textbook half century in 47 balls, but was removed for 58 lbw to Hardman at 144/4. Useful lower order contributions followed inside the last twenty over from Matt Holt (24), Yahathugoda (20) and an unbeaten 22 from captain Penchion, gave us a fighting chance at tea having posted a spirited 230.

The visitors lost two early wicket in reply as Phil Sutcliffe was bowled by his namesake Carl for 17 (who fell over after the delivery in Steven Finn fashion) and then dangerman Josh Tolley (0) was caught behind by a beauty from Weththasinghe. However, youngster Nick Doyle was still in and holding the innings together and with the help of Luke Swards the pair put on 73 as Woodhouses reached 100/2 at the halfway stage. Swards (33), captain Tusson (5) and Doyle who hit a patient 52 all fell in quick succession to give us the upper hand with the visitors 123/5 with 15 left, with Matt Curphey and Jack Ritchie bowling exceptionally well in tandem together.

The Woodhouses lower order continued to fight - Hardman 12, Reeves 11, Sweeney 12 and Keogh 13 - but our two bowlers continued to take wickets and bowled economically throughout. Proceedings were wrapped up with three balls remaining as Curphey yorked Ellahi after setting the tail ender up with a short one the ball before. Woodhouses finished 181 all out with Jack Ritchie claiming 5 for 40, three of which were caught by Weththasinghe and Matt Curphey finished with 3 for 62, to claim all 5 points as it proved to be a good toss to lose.

Stand v Woodhouses
Sat 19th June
Lancs County League

Stand won by
49 runs

1st innings:
Stand

Batsmen	How Out	Score
D.Taylor	b Prescott	33
C.Holt	b Ellahi	30
A.Weththasinghe	lbw b Hardman	58
M.Curphey	b Prescott	3
M.Holt	ct Doyle b Ellahi	24
I.Yahathugoda	b Ellahi	20
C.Sutcliffe	b Hardman	0
G.Penchion	Not Out	22
J.Bond	ct Prescott b Ellahi	8
O.Beirne	ct Doyle b Sweeney	1
J.Ritchie	Run Out (Ellahi)	4
	Extras	27
	all out, from 49.5 overs	230


L.Swards	9 - 1 - 24 - 0
S.Sweeney	5 - 0 - 34 - 1
M.Ellahi	11.5 - 1 - 65 - 4
N.Hardman	14 - 4 - 46 - 2
A.Prescott	10 - 1 - 45 - 2


2nd Innings:
Woodhouses

Batsmen	How Out	Score
P.Sutcliffe	b Sutcliffe	17
N.Doyle	b Curphey	52
J.Tolley	ct Bond b Weththasinghe	0
L.Swards	b Ritchie	33
G.Tusson	ct Weththasinghe b Ritchie	5
N.Hardman	ct Weththasinghe b Ritchie	12
C.Reeves	lbw b Ritchie	11
S.Sweeney	ct Weththasinghe b Ritchie	12
D.Keogh	b Curphey	13
M.Ellahi	b Curphey	3
A.Prescott	Not Out	0
	Extras	23
	all out, from 49.3 overs	181


A.Weththasinghe	11 - 1 - 40 - 1
C.Sutcliffe	5 - 1 - 26 - 1
J.Ritchie	19.3 - 3 - 62 - 3
M.Curphey	14 - 2 - 40 - 5

On Sunday we made the trip to Windsor Park to take on Denton West in the quarter final of the Walkden Cup. After the hosts won the toss and elected to bat, we made an excellent start with pro Weththasinghe and Sutcliffe restricting West to 21/0 after 10 overs as we gained the upper hand over opners McAllister and Dale. Enforced bowling changes then aided the West cause as the openers upped the anti and moved the score along to 70 by the 20th over. We made our first breakthrough when Matt Holt removed Dale for 36, caught by Taylor in the deep. Professional Kirwin (8) followed soon after thanks to a splendid catch by Yahathugoda diving forward at mid-on. Mike Berry (27) and Paul Turner (41) hit useful contributions, with McAllister reaching a patiently constructed half century (62). John Foreman then smashed 35 from 20 balls as West amassed a competitive 260 in 50 overs. For us Chris Holt claimed 3 for 54 and Matt Holt took 2 for 54, but Weththasinghe was the pick of the bowlers conceding just 28 from his 10 overs.

Our reply got off to the worse possible start as Jordan Williams removed Taylor third ball. From that point things went from bad to worse as our innings stalled and failed to get going at all with Chris Holt the only top order batsmen to offer some resistance as he took on the role McAllister played in the West innings, but unfortunately without any support around him. Frustration got the better of Weththasinghe (8) and he resorted to dancing down the track and missing a Paul Turner lollypop, presenting Williams with an easy stumping. Wickets continued to tumble to Turner's 'flighted' deliveries and we soon found ourselves 54 for 6, with only Chris Holt (31) reaching double figures.

Skipper Penchion and Carl Sutcliffe took the score past 100 with a 48 run partnership in 20 minutes, with some hard hitting and excellent running between the wickets, which was exactly what was required with such a huge total to chase. Turner bore the brunt of the punishment as Sutcliffe (40) smashed a dent in his figures which read 5 for 15 upto that point, before being bowled by a ball that didn’t bounce as much as expected.

We lost our final 4 wickets for 7 runs to be bowled out for a dismal 109, with Turner finishing with figures of 6 for 42. Next weekend the first team travel to Denton on Saturday with the third team in action at Dukinfield on Sunday.

Denton West v Stand
Sun 20th June
Walkden Cup

Denton West won by
151 runs

1st innings:
Denton West

Batsmen	How Out	Score
J.McAllister	ct Curphey b M.Holt	62
L.Dale	ct Taylor b M.Holt	36
S.Kirwin	ct Yahathugoda b Ritchie	8
M.Berry	ct Sutcliffe b C.Holt	27
P.Turner	ct & b C.Holt	41
A.O'Brien	b C.Holt	2
J.Foreman	Run Out (C.Holt)	35
J.Garde	Not Out	15
L.Riley	Not Out	0
	Extras	34
	for 7, from 50 overs	260


A.Weththasinghe	10 - 4 - 28 - 0
C.Sutcliffe	7 - 2 - 21 - 0
M.Holt	10 - 0 - 54 - 2
M.Curphey	10 - 2 - 41 - 0
J.Ritchie	4 - 0 - 24 - 1
C.Holt	8 - 0 - 54 - 3
OJ.Beirne	1 - 0 - 10 - 0


2nd Innings:
Stand

Batsmen	How Out	Score
D.Taylor	b Williams	0
C.Holt	st Williams b Turner	31
A.Weththasinghe	st Williams b Turner	8
M.Curphey	ct O'Brien b Turner	0
M.Holt	ct Foreman b Turner	3
I.Yahathugoda	ct & b Turner	2
C.Sutcliffe	b Turner	40
G.Penchion	ct McAllister b Garde	12
J.Bond	lbw Williams	5
O.Beirne	Run Out (Foreman)	2
J.Ritchie	Not Out	0
	Extras	6
	all out, from 32.5 overs	109


Jordan Williams	6.5 - 1 - 10 - 2
J.Garde	8 - 3 - 24 - 1
P.Turner	10 - 1 - 42 - 6
A.O'Brien	4 - 0 - 8 - 0
L.Riley	4 - 0 - 22 - 0

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