Tadworth Cricket Club
Young Cricketers (COLTS)

Tadworth Tigers
Our Under 10 Squad

 

Match Report:-

Sunday 6th May 2007
 Purley v Tadworth U10’s
North East Central Surrey Colts League

Despite bowling really well and getting off to a solid start when batting, we lost wickets at crucial times and fell too far behind the required run rate to ever threaten a solid Purley side. On an overcast morning we won the toss and chose to field. We felt that even without MJ in the team our strength was in our bowling attack and had we batted first and not set a decent total Purley would have cruised to an easy victory. Also to know what you have to beat can be to your advantage.

The start we made was better than could have been hoped for. Alex & Adam opened the bowling and took a number of wickets throughout their two over spells which left Purley in the negative as the first pair trudged off. Their fast and accurate bowling was far too good for the Purley openers to deal with. Leon bowling his medium pacers and Eddy bowling spin took over and despite being hit for a couple of fours continued to take wickets and after eight overs Purley were still struggling to break through the 200 mark (where they had begun).

We continued to bowl well, Leon bowled straight through his four overs and despite carrying a slight injury (side strain) managed to take a couple of wickets. At the half way point in the Purley innings there looked to be only one team in it.

From here though the wickets dried up and the Purley batsmen began to turn up the heat. Henry had to leave the field with an injury to his knee and for a while we were down to only six outfielders. The boys did really well and covered the ground well but inevitably there were gaps and the Purley batsmen were beginning to find them. What we weren't expecting was as the last pair of batsmen walked to the wicket with their team on 30-40 runs was what happened next.

Alex and Adam who bowled so well at the beginning of the innings both struggled with their line and length and facing two in form and destructive Purley batsmen were truly taken to the sword and hit all over the park. In a few short minutes we went from a great position to a pretty bad one. Purley finished on 84 and we knew we were going to have to bat really well to have any chances of overhauling their total.

As it turned out we didn't bat well enough despite Eddy and Leon getting us off to the perfect start putting on 14 runs and not losing any wickets. Alex and Finlay had a flourish in the middle of the innings and William batted very well towards the end, but we lost too many wickets bowled by straight deliveries, something we will be working very hard on this Friday.

Man of the Match
 It was a good all round bowling performance but the player who stood out and is this week’s man of the match is William. His wicket keeping was faultless, he took a great catch and he batted really well.

My thanks to the Under 10 Squad and Nick Abear for the above match report.

Photo courtesy of Robbo Robinson