Under 14 Tuesday 17th June Cambourne V Cottenham

CAMBOURNE WIN BY 34 RUNS

This game had a serious 'pendulum' feel to it most of the evening. Cambourne won the toss and decided to bat. Before we knew it Cambourne were 2 wickets down for 24 runs, then 3 wickets for 30. Dan Threadgold ,before the game, had discussed his recent poor batting form with his co-captain and decided he should drop down to five in the batting order. Dan came in and let Nik Patel play his strokes to keep the score ticking along, but it was too long that Nik also went, but for a creative 20. The scoring slowed considerably, but Dan had stopped the 'rot', by sneaking the odd one here and there, as he was assisted by Sean Herbert and Lewis Miller. Dan, finally went for a sensible 23. Abhi Sharma came in for the last two overs and hit an additional 9 vital runs to push the overall score to 89.

Cambourne knew they had very little to give away, but Cottenham's opening pair started like a rocket, and escalated their score to 24 without loss in three overs. George Haworth finally spreadeagled his stumps, but Cottenham kept up the pace. Patel gave some hope as Cottenham went to 41 for 2 in 6 overs.

Enter Abhi Sharma. REMEMBER THE WARNE TO GATTING BALL-where the ball ripped almost two yards? Well, not quite but I have never seen a colts player leg spin a ball with so much 'rip'-and this was his second wicket in an over. With 4 wickets down, Cambourne smelt the fear, and Patel and Sharma ripped the heart out of the remaining Cottenham batting with the help of Tyrrell and Blackburn, and finished with 55 runs, and 3 overs short of their alloted 20. Patel and Sharma finished with 4 for 18, and 3 for 15 respectively.

Report by Chris Threadgold