Scorecard

Little Hadham v Aspenden Standon & Puckeridge Saturday League Team on Sat 17 Jun 2006 at 1.30pm
Aspenden Standon & Puckeridge Won 5 wickets

Match report A absolutely amazing game of cricket ended with the ASPS winning by 5 wickets with 1 ball to spare. John Yates won the toss and elected to field to see what he could limit Hadham to. The Hadham openers got off to a lively start with South crashing a couple of boundaries off Si Lindsay. Lindsay however got his revenge when South chipped him to Simon Groom at mid on for a simple catch. Oxborrow soon followed, holing out to Groom again at deep extra cover, this time off Mark Pankhurst, who finished with the tidy figures of 7-1-25-1. Unfortunately this only bought the prolific Keith Wheatley to the crease, but he struggled at first against the spin of Michael Strange and the slow seam of Martin Spencer. Miles Thompson had Mason Smith caught at square leg and Dixon fell to a smart slip catch by Yates for 0 and Hadham were tottering. David Wheatley kept Keith company for a while whilst he started to take toll on a tiring Spencer. D.Wheatley fell to a long hop and Pepper, after hitting a couple of boundaries was caught and bowled. This meant Wheatley took charge in the final 10 overs and Strange and Spencer were taken to the cleaners as he finished on 138* and Hadham finished on an imposing 288-6 off their 45 overs. In reply, ASP knew they had to get a decent start, and Thompson and Strange put on 128 for the first wicket in 20 overs before Strange was caught behind. Thompson soon followed, but Adam Carruthers hit a couple of big sixes to keep the score ticking over. Neil Oxborrow bought himself on and quickly picked up the wicket of Carruthers for 29 before dismissing Yates for 3. Clark Baxter perished going for a big hit and ASP were in a big hole. Si Lindsay then strode to the wicket and started to play a few shots, and coupled with electric running between the wickets with Groom, started to bring the run rate down. A couple of tight overs meant that ASP needed 60 off the last 4 overs and 26 from the last over itself. Groom hit the first ball for 6 to give ASP a sniff and then 2 no balls from Pepper that went for 3 and 5 runs respectively, meant that victory was in sight. A four from Lindsay and some frenzied running bought the target down to 3 runs from 2 balls. Pepper bowled the perfect ball, a leg stump yorker, which Lindsay could only dig out a yard in front of the wicket, the batsmen set off for a single but the bowler Pepper decided to kick the bal at the stumps and only succeeded in kicking the ball past his own players and away to fine leg. Lindsay and Groom completed the 2 overthrows needed to win an astounding game with a ball to spare. Lindsay was rightly voted MOM for his blistering 46* at the end, and Groom gave him magnificent support finishing on a very tired 58*. A truly remarkable result that neither team could believe the result of.

Aspenden Standon & Puckeridge Saturday League Team Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
 
for 5 wickets
0
289		        
John Yates Caught  3 2
Simon Groom Not Out  58 2
Simon Lindsay Not Out  46
Michael Strange Caught  67
Miles Thompson Lbw  63
Clark Baxter Caught  0
Adam Carruthers Bowled  29
Rob Devonshire   1
Martin Spencer   1
Rob Devonshire  
Martin Spencer  

Little Hadham Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
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Little Hadham Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
 
for 6 wickets
0
288 (0.0 overs)		     
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Aspenden Standon & Puckeridge Saturday League Team Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Simon Lindsay10.0145145.004.50
Mark Pankhurst7.0125125.003.57
Miles Thompson8.0136218.004.50
Michael Strange10.018500.008.50
Martin Spencer10.0092246.009.20