Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club

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Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club 1st XI v Great Witchingham on Sat 26 Apr 2014 at 11am
Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club Won by 3 wickets

Match report First XI Vs Great Witchingham

The first team were at home this week against Great Witchingham at Old London road.

Disappointingly neither of the Essex lads were available as Essex had a game in Bristol against Gloucestershire. Harry Cook and Hugo Douglas were also unavailable due to Uni and School games. Tom Jenkin moved to the Second team to get in some batting and bowling ahead of a long season.

James East won the Toss and after some incredible work from Martin Taylor and his team the game was to start after an early lunch at 1pm. Copdock would bowl first. Tom Rash and James East opening the bowling and looked threatening from the off. Tom Rash struck first and removed last season's leading EAPL run scorer Sam Artherton early for a duck. Tom continued to strike at regular intervals and James nipped in with 3 wickets. Really The " Witches " should have been bowled out for around the 100 mark, but with two poor dropped catches they snuck up to 132. Tom Rash ended up with Six wickets and James East 3. Special mention should also go to Hugh Thomas who enable the captain to give Tom by bowling a tight 6 over spell mid innings. Chris Swallow picked up the other wicket in what was a fine team performance. Albeit with the odd mistake.

What should have been a fairly comfortable chase became difficult as Copdock continued to lose wickets. Again the top 5 all made double figures and got out when set. Also last week's main contributors of Jed and James managed 1 between them and things became tense. Hugh Thomas, batting at nine of all places showed what a master stroke this was by combining with Tom Rash to put on the 60 needed for victory. A good win against a decent side.

What we can take from this game is that Copdock look a decent side themselves, especially when you add one of the Essex staff and increased availability, there is strong competition for places, definitely when you add into the mix a couple of the fringe players performing for the second team.

Tom Rash had an excellent game and getting a decent bowl each week is really coming to the for. His 6 wickets this week take him to the head of the EAPL. Hugh Thomas had a great game and although disappointed with batting down the order put this aside and played a match winning innings.

As Captain I couldn't be happier with the fight the side showed again. If the batting fires slightly more, I'll be delighted.

The future's bright, the future's Copdock.


Great Witchingham Batting
Player name RunsMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
5nb 5w 2lb 
for 10 wickets
12
132 (41.1 overs)		     
James Spelman ct  C Warn b J East 25 75 59 3 42.37
Sam Arthurton ct  C Warn b T Rash 0 10 4 0
James Hale ct  J Cawkwell b J East 23 55 37 4 62.16
Carl Rogers b  T Rash 10 41 26 1 38.46
Tom Collishaw lbw  T Rash 22 44 39 2 1 56.41
Brenton McDonald ct  J Cawkwell b T Rash 7 25 17 1 41.18
Troy Allan b  T Rash 0 2 0
Jonathon Spellman b  T Rash 2 33 20 10.0
Sam Graves ct  A Gravell b J East 4 15 18 22.22
Kieran Bunting ct  C Kyangungu b C Swallow 21 22 22 2 1 95.45
Joe Wright Not Out  6 10 8 75.00

Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Tom Rash16.024868.003.00
James East15.0658319.333.87
Hugh Thomas5.011800.003.60
Chris Swallow5.12616.001.16

Copdock & Old Ipswichian Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
Player Name RMB4s6sSRCatchesStumpingsRun outs
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TOTAL :
6nb 3w 2b 2lb 
for 7 wickets
13
134		        
Reuben Sharpe lbw  B McDonald 15 48 45 1 33.33
Chris Swallow lbw  K Bunting 12 23 15 3 80.0
Martyn Cull ct  S Graves b K Bunting 19 60 48 1 39.58
Archie Gravell run out  (K Bunting) 10 21 24 1 41.67 1
Tom Rash Not Out  32 84 64 1 1 50.0
Chris Warn ct  S Arthurton b K Bunting 0 2 2 0 2
Jed Cawkwell lbw  K Bunting 0 13 8 0 2
James East ct  K Bunting b K Bunting 1 8 4 25.00
Hugh Thomas Not Out  32 44 48 5 66.67
Clive Kyangungu   1
Sam Webb-Snowling  

Great Witchingham Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Kieran Bunting16.0450510.003.12
James Spelman11.022700.002.45
Brenton McDonald11.0144144.004.00
Carl Rogers4.00900.002.25

  • Umpire :
  • Scorer :
    Paul wright