ECB County Championship Division Winners - Semi Final

Huntingdonshire U15s V Wiltshire U15s

Nassington CC 14^th August 2009

Huntingdonshire lost the toss and were put in to bat on what looked like a green wicket. Having played most of my cricket at Nassington you get to know the wicket, if it looks green you think about bowling then you think again and bat!! Obviously the opposition thought the wicket was going to do all sorts. At 50 for no loss after 15 overs Hunts looked like they were on for a big score but the loss of both the openers Rob Lowin (21) and Dan Robinson (24) in consecutive overs slowed proceedings. All the batsmen seemed to get starts but again no one capitalised, at 136 for 6 and with only 10 overs left it looked like Hunts would not even get to 200. But a match winning 7^th wicket stand of 58 between Joe Dawborn (34) and Dan Malem (21) and some poor Wiltshire fielding and bowling (37 extras) put Hunts back on track. Hunts finishing on 201 for 10, loosing the last wicket on the last ball of the 50^th over.

Wiltshire got off to a slow start 28 for 1 after 10 overs, but with a asking rate of only 4 runs per over wickets in hand would be the key. At 100 for 2 in the 24^th over Wiltshire were cruising but the introduction of Jack Skidmore to the attack changed the game. The Wiltshire batsmen seemed to want to hit Jack’s big leggies against the spin towards the short boundary. C Miles Wiltshire’s England player being a prime culprit lobbing the ball to Joe Dawborn at short extra. With Wiltshire wanting to throw their wickets away Hunts were on the up! suddenly Wiltshire were 142 for 9 Jack Skidmor picking up 2 wickets in his last over to finish with figures of 5 for 38 in his 10 overs. With Dan Malem picking up the last wicket with a simple c&b the game was over in the 41^st over.

What a fantastic day, what a fantastic win!! well done to the boys!

Final here we come!!

The Final will be played at Langtons CC Leicestershire on the 25^th August - again a 50 over-a-side game!!

Huntingdonshire Batting

D Robinson lbw b B Dawson 24

R Lowin b B Gardner 21

J Bowers ct J Haines b C Miles 16

D Bandaranaike ct J Haines b T Merriman 8

J Stimson st T Weaver b J Everton-Wallach 18

C Hale ct C Turrell b J Everton-Wallach 17

D Malem b C Miles 21

J Dawborn ct M Reynolds b J Lavis 34

J Trafford ct G Brotherwood b J Lavis

J Prime not out 5

J Skidmore ct C Miles b J Lavis 0

Extras 37

Total 201 for 10 in 50 Overs

Wiltshire Bowling

C Miles 10O 1M 32R 2W

J Lavis 10O 0M 58R 3W

B Dawson 10O 3M 35R 1W

B Gardner 5O 2M 11R 1W

T Merriman 5O 0M 20R 1W

J Everton-Wallach 7O 1M 23R 2W

C Turrell 3O 0M 9R 0W

Wiltshire Batting

G Brotherwood ct D Robinson b J Skidmore 33

M Reynolds ct J Prime b J Skidmore 25

J Haines b J Dawborn 0

C Miles ct J Dawborn b J Skidmore 35

B Dawson run out (D Bandaranaike/ J Bowers) 24

J Dymoke c&b J Skidmore 8

J Everton-Wallach b J Trafford 1

B Gardner lbw J Trafford 0

T Merriman st J Bowers b J Skidmore 1

J Lavis c&b D Malem 9

T Weaver not out 6

Extras 12

Total 154 for 10 in 40.3 overs

Huntingdonshire Bowling

J Dawborn 3O 0M 17R 1W

J Trafford 10O 4M 19R 2W

O Ahmedzai 3O 0M 13R 0W

J Prime 2O 0M 20R 0W

R Lowin 3O 0M 15R 0W

D Malem 9.3O 2M 31R 1W

J Skidmore 10O 1M 38R 5W