Old Parks v BENFLEET CRICKET CLUB Benfleet 3rd XI on Sat 24 Jun 2006 at 1:30pm
BENFLEET CRICKET CLUB Won 106 runs
24th June 2006
Hot : Benfleet won the toss and batted.
Benfleet : 269 for 6 dec P.Frensham 91, S.Brown 76 not out.
Old Parks : 163 all out.
With an unproven side (not a lot of batting on paper) and a difficult trip to Old Parks who usually
hand out a good beating to us the ploy was to win the toss and bat in the heavy heat.
If we got rolled then it would be an early finish to watch the football but 3 hours of fielding did not appeal.
Toss duly won, M.Willis and P.Frensham opened the batting.
The first objective was to stay at the crease - this was achieved and before long the pair had put 50 on the board.
Despite a bit of verbal from the OP's slips the pair knuckled down and soon after 100 was up without loss !
Willis then departed (30) and new recruit S.Brown came out.
Frensham carried on but fell agonisingly short on 91 holing out to mid on.
S.Brown however looked the part and batted through the alloted time ably supported at the end by
Amrish Joshi who put on an entertaining 33 not out to bring us to a great total of 276 for 6.
Old Parks scored ok, but wickets fell with S.Brown and P.Frensham working their way through the order.
With 20 overs to go Parks were effectively batting to stay in the game with 8 wickets down and 150 odd behind.
However, Bouquet and Campbell settled in and both looked set to see out the overs.
Frensham struck removing Campbell's off stump with 4 overs to go.
This brought out the number eleven (Groves) and Amrish was brought on to 'toss a couple up to the youngster'.
He couldn't resist the bait and soon swatted one straight up in the air.
Captain Willis remained calm, took the ball on the end of his finger but held on to it for the full 20 point win !
Great victory and a superb team effort - fielding was excellent and Frensham and Brown ended up with 4 apiece.
M.Willis
BENFLEET CRICKET CLUB Benfleet 3rd XI Batting
269 for 6
Old Parks Bowling
Old Parks Batting
163 for 10
BENFLEET CRICKET CLUB Benfleet 3rd XI Bowling