Little Baddow Cricket Club Sunday NECL XI v Cressing on Sun 30 Jul 2006 at 2.00pm
Little Baddow Cricket Club Won 10 wickets
The pitch, the outfield and a strong batting line up promised us a 300+ score so yet again the toss was lost and into the field we went. Unfortunately, Cressing's own confidence in batting first soon disintegrated when Stuart Robinson and Nick Beardall despatched the first three wickets in their opening spells.
Our standard double change to Chris Harmer and Alex Franklin soon exposed the weakness in the Cressing line up and with Mickey chipping in with his first delivery we skittled them for 61 in the 30th over. Chris returned 2 for 5 in 6 overs and Alex 4 for 7 in 7.5 overs.
Some tweaking of the order was considered and Michael Wood accepted the opportunity to get some practise in but the skipper felt guilty that Chris Salmon had made the teas so let him keep his opening slot. The latter then proceeded to bludgeon the Cressing openers to all corners of the ground in racing to an unbeaten 50 in 6.1 overs! Job done including tea by 4.30.
Little Baddow Cricket Club Sunday NECL XI Batting
62 for 0
Cressing Bowling
Cressing Batting
61 for 10
Little Baddow Cricket Club Sunday NECL XI Bowling