Old Chelmsfordians v BENFLEET CRICKET CLUB Benfleet U16 on Sun 15 Jun 2008 at 13.00
BENFLEET CRICKET CLUB Won by 5 wickets
After the previous weeks game being called of due to the english summer weather the mood was confident going into the game against Old Chelmsfordians at a place so hard to find it took over 45 minutes to get there. Oh well..
Getting onto the cricket Benfleet won the toss and elected to field first on what turned out to be the slowest pitch ever played on. The decision was quickly justified with an excellent wicket maiden in the first over of the match by DAFO and then a wicket from jamie in the second over leaving Old C's in some trouble at 4-2. However a bit of a partnership helped them to 40-2 when reevie beat their batsman with an excellent slower ball sparking the batting collapse. Chris came on a got a wicket in each of his first 2 overs leaving them 53-5. Adam came on and with his first ball got a wicket with one that turned a mile, batsman didnt have a clue. Good cathces from Dave helped bowl them out for 94 with chris finishing with 3-12 and alex with 2-9 as Benfleet capped of an excellent team fielding display with only one dropped catch and one mis-field.
With 95 to win surely this would be an easy victory for the team and with the scores at 51-0 the middle order began to think they wouldn't be needed. However in true Benfleet style we made hard work of it with wickets falling at 51, 57-2, 73-3, 74-4 and 85-5 making it a nervous finish to the game for the captain and many of the team!! An excellent team performance
A great win to get our season back on track and hopefully we will go on from here and finish the season strongly!
Old Chelmsfordians Batting
94 for 10
BENFLEET CRICKET CLUB Benfleet U16 Bowling
BENFLEET CRICKET CLUB Benfleet U16 Batting
96 for 5
Old Chelmsfordians Bowling