Women and Girls' Cricket
Under 13s win again against Middlesex
The U-13 Essex team continued their winning
ways by beating local rivals Middlesex at Billericay Cricket
Club on Sunday 17th July.
Middlesex won the toss and put Essex into bat on what looked
like a perfect batting wicket. The Essex openers took full
advantage of the playing conditions and proceeded to put
on a significant opening stand of 150 runs in 22 overs,
with a magnificent display of batting, which included some
excellent stroke-play, from both players. The heat took
its toll on both players with Beth MacGregor being caught
behind the wicket for a magnificent 84 in the 23rd over
and Lauren Onojaife finally ending her occupation of the
crease in the 28th over being bowled for 73 runs. Beth Langston
and Catherine Dalton completed the allotted 30 overs with
Essex’s final score a very respectable and hard to
beat target of 196 for 2 wickets.
Middlesex were quickly on the back foot with Catherine
Dalton taking a wicket in her second over although Middlesex’s
next 3 batters batted sensibly and took advantage of some
early and rare fielding errors from the Essex side to make
59 from the first 10 overs. Essex tightening up its bowling
and fielding and Tia Moore took a wicket shortly after drinks.
Middlesex managed to bat sensibly on this batters paradise
although never looked like reaching the substantial Essex
total. Essex restricted Middlesex to 155 for 4 wickets off
its allotted 30 overs. Catherine Dalton was the pick of
the bowlers with 2 for 22 from her 4 overs.
Essex U11 v Kent U11
Sunday 17th July 2005 Wye Cricket Club Kent
Essex girls had the long journey into the heart of the |Kent
country side for the return match against Kent. After the
previous weeks heavy defeat against Sussex the girls went
into the match determined to put up a good performance.
Essex lost the toss and Kent elected to bat first. Essex
started well with two quick run out, but as the match went
on Essex tired in the heat, the bowling became a little
ragged and the fielding lost its earlier spark. Kent ended
their innings on 116 for 6 from their allotted 25 overs.
In reply Essex started slowly losing a wicket in the eight
over one more wicket fell soon after but the Essex captain
held her side together until she had to retire at a very
tense part of the game as Essex were getting close to the
Kent score. The lose of this influential batter slowed the
Essex scoring down a little for a couple of overs and the
Essex girls seemed to loose their way but some hard hitting
in the 21st to the 23rd overs brought Essex back into the
match. With the final over Essex needed 7 runs to win with
the Kent opening bowler back on. Essex managed to scramble
3 runs during the first 5 balls leaving themselves 4 to
win off the last ball. The girls unfortunately could not
quite do it scoring 2 runs and therefore loosing the match
by just 1 run.
A great improvement on last weeks batting performance.
Dave Letch
