Brixworth U11 Vs Overstone Park

Sunday 3rd July saw Brixworth u11s as hosts to Overstone U11s

On a bright sunny morning Overstone won the toss and elected to field.

Usual rules with team starting on 200 with 5 runs lost per wicket

Brixworth - 239 for 5 (net 214)

1st pair of William Barritt (3) and Tom Moxon (2) found the bowling accurate and although scoring some runs lost 3 wickets.

2nd pair of James Henry (6no) and Julius Sha (1no) had an unbroken partnership of 15, the highlight being a boundary for James.

3rd pair of William Clarke (4no) and John Magson (0no) also had an unbroken partnership of 12 with William scoring a boundary.

Final pair of Toby Haxby (1) and Owen Mitchell (0) found scoring tough and lost wickets when bowled.

Overstone - 298-7 (net 263)

The first 2 pairs were kept in check by Brixworth and although scoring 34 runs, Brixworth took 3 wickets with 2 run outs by James Henry and John Magson with William Barritt bowling a batsmen out.

The 3rd pair took the game away from Brixworth, although losing 2 wickets to William Barritt and Owen Mitchell both bowled they scored 39 runs with 7 boundaries.

Brixworth took 2 more wickets from the final pair, Julius Sha with a wicket thanks to a fantastic diving catch by Toby Haxby, finally John Magson taking a smart catch off the last ball of the innings bowled by Toby.

RESULT : Overstone won by 49 runs

Positives

- Only 1 wide/No ball bowled, fantastic effort

- Taking more wickets than the opposition

- Excellent fielding performance with 2 catches and 2 run outs. Good energy shown by all with good stops and chasing done by all.

- Only 5 byes conceded by Tom behind the stumps, excellent work.

Areas to work on

- Apologies for sounding like a scratched record but we must score on the offside if a team is bowling outside off stump, too many time I saw batsmen trying to hit balls bowled wide of off stump to the square leg fence.

- Running between wickets and non striker backing up. The opposition although losing a wicket through backing up too far scored in excess of 20 runs through quick singles due to positive backing up and calling. Many times I saw our batsmen still standing in the crease watching.

- Bowling on the batsmens legs or outside leg stump gives the batsmen an easy opportunity to score and we saw this with the opposition scoring 13 boundaries of which 12 were in the arc behind square on the leg side. We must be disciplined and bowl an off stump line.

Thanks

Paul Moxon for supplying beverages and bacon rolls, much appreciated.

Kat and Sandra for helping put things away and tidying up, many thanks.

Special thanks to Arthur Mitchell who ran the game and helped the team with warm up, umpring during the game and debrief at the end.  

And as always many thanks to everyone who attended and cheered the team on.

Next match is AWAY v St Crispins on Sunday 10th, team has been selected and notifications sent out.

kind regards

Martin Batchelor