2nd's V Sandwich

Comments Posted by Muzzer

Again we lost the toss, and we were put into field. The conditions suited our bowlers and they started very well, sadly the fielding aspect let them down, dropped catches and missed run out that you would expect to have been taken by the juniors, let there opener who has hardly played all year go and score in the end a good 50. Until he holed out to a wonderful diving catch at mid off by me! lol, a few of there bats got starts and wickets continued to fall. Lodgey bowled superbly picking up 2 for 10 of 7, I picked up 2 as did shah and tuggers who in particular bowled extremley well in conditions that probably didnt really suit him. They finished on 213 for 9, too many considering the positions we got ourselves in, we must have gon on and off around 6 times due to rain and this I dont think helped much as it happened when we had our momentum going.

Our innings again started well, Lodgey in for payeny at the top looked good as did Osborne, but what has been the case all year people were getting themselves out. Wickest started to tumble and before we knew it we were 60 for 6 memories of early last year! Give Sandwich credit though, they were sharp in the field and I don't recall any missed chances or misfields, they bowled good areas and let us make the mistakes. Young Joey and tuggers then stayed around for some time, after again a couple of rain interuptions. Joe looked at ease showing us all how to bat and showed us again that he is going to be a huge asset to the club, he saw it through scoring a very well deserved 35* tuggers doing the job I wanted him to and boring them. Points are everything in this league, the game has finished incomplete they bowled 43 overs, we were 100-7.

We have come out of this very well indeed, Dartford slipped up and we are 2 points behind them and Sandwich are 2 behind us. They deserved to beat us due to the poor batting display on our home track that was a road even with the weather, I am sure they feel a little annoyed. By far the best side we have played all year.

This league is very close, only 20 points seperate us and 2nd from bottom, next week a very tough away game at Harvel who have beaten Hartley and are on a roll. We have to have a long hard think about what we want to acheive in this league, if we play like that again then we could be second from bottom easily before we know it. We have not (offically sorry Sandwich) lost since early last season away at Hythe! I do not want to see us lose either. Lets pick it up at training and next saturday and come back with a good win and get back on the track.

Congratulations Wrenny aswell, becoming a dad for the first time, it is a shame that he is going to be left handed but all the best bats are left handed ;) wetting the babies head sat night I suspect.

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1's V Sandwich

Comments Posted by Smudger

Like Bromley Common last season, this is the one to forget about, is this!!

Electing to bat first, an unusual bad start saw us struggling at 23 for 4. Once again Hobo steadied the ship and debutant Tom Payne kept things moving along. Unfortunately Hobo fell with the score on 85 for 5, bringing Hickers to the wicket. Payno played an excellent, confident and mature innings and quiet frankly showed some how it should be played in this instance. Reaching a well played & deseved 50, Payno fell for 52, giving the only chance of his innings which was taken. Where Payno finished, Hickers continued, once again, with a finely played 66 not out with good support at the end, once again, from Meersie. We finished on a decent 192 for 8, which is good from the position we were in, but you have to bear in mind Sandwich had already scored & comfortably chased down 240 & 250 this season.

In reply, an uncharacteristically niggled SPCC got some results but two crucial dropped catches left them to regret somewhat those chances as Sandwich raced at 6 an over, on 77 for 3 in the 15th over! From then on Sandwich's overseas Vishual Singh took charge and young Rob Gotham played a very good innings to take it away from us as we lost interest and flagged in the field for no apparent reason, again unusually and we ended up losing in the 38th over, after 3 or 4 other chances, deflated, out of sorts and ratted (for some reason)

Well played Sandwich, but really we weren't on it. (May be the rain interval flavoured 'ciggies' were the key for them!!)

Need to work hard now to get this back to where we were.

Harvel next week - tough again, we're going to have to really work together.

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Under 15 v Hythe

Comments Posted by Simon Gush

After a couple of match-free weeks Sibton's Under 15s were looking for a positive result against Hythe in the Saxon Shore League to build on their win against Betteshanger at the end of May. The Park pitch was looking flat and the weather was set fair as Hythe went in to bat first.

U13 v Folkestone Jones

Comments Posted by Pat Bergin

Folkestone Jones won by 33 runs.

There are plenty of plusses for the Sibton U13s to take away from this game – and a few lessons learned too. Sibton trounced Folkestone Tredwell a couple of weeks earlier, but this was always going to be a tougher game. Folkestone won the toss and elected to bat. Their openers looked confident and the Sibton bowling looked somewhat nervous, an unusual number of wides and no-balls symptomatic of this.

U13 v Hawkinge

Comments Posted by Pat Bergin

Sibton Park won by 39 runs.

In a game reduced to 16 overs per side (due to the groundsman needing time to prepare the wicket for an early match in the afternoon), Sibton batted first on a tricky wicket offering variable bounce. Credit to Hawkinge for bowling tightly and making scoring difficult. However with opener Charles Wilson batting solidly at one end, captain Sam Ansell was able to assert himself at the other, punishing anything short on his way to a very quick 32 before retiring.

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