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Crowthorne & Crown Wood Women (93-6) beat Steventon (88-8)
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Women took their first ever T20 victory away at Steventon.
Sent in to bat having lost the toss, Lily Mansfield stepped up to score a respectable 13 runs taking second place to top run scorer Gabi Jones with 16.
Seetal Bhatti in her debut ran two and with partner Jo Lee (seven) both retired at over 16.
Katie Finucane and Gillian Finucane then saw off the innings with a partnership of 10 runs, not out, taking runs off the bat to 67 and completing the the innings at 93-6.
After tea, the fielding started very strong with bowler Katie Finucane stifling the run rate to three off 18 balls.
Gillian Finucane and Gabi Jones then bowled 36 deliveries allowing only 10 runs to accrue on the hosts’ scoresheet.
Wickets were taken by Sophie O’Loughlin on her first delivery; Helena Jones whose delivery was forced into the air off the bat to be caught by Gabi Jones; Gillian Finucane, Katie Finucane, Anita Applin who bowled out their opponents with clean deliveries and Lily Mansfield with two well executed run outs.
Victory came in the last over of the game with the Crowthorne team maintaining energy and poise to the very end to take their five run win.
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Crocodiles beat Emmbrook & Bearwood U11’s
The Crocodiles won the toss and elected to bowl. After a chaotic four overs the match restarted on the correct size pitch.
The restart seemed to reinvigorate the Crocodiles who bowled a tidy line overall and reduced the opposition to 237.
With his consistent line and length, Ollie was bowler of the match after taking two wickets for just six runs from two overs.
Openers Ollie (8) and Jackson (12) started well.
Nysha and Jacob maintained the score without losing any wickets. Tav (10) and Annabelle (22) added 32 to take the total to 295.
Charlotte (21) and Kai (16) took Crows over the 300 mark comfortably.
Trish (13) and Chloe (22) took Crows to a season best total of 386 for the loss of only four wickets.
Not surprisingly choosing batter of the match was extremely difficult to some high scoring from Annabelle, Charlotte, Trish and Chloe and some classy shots from Tav, Jackson and Ollie.
However, for his persistence, hard work and return to form, batter of the match went to Kai.
Skipper, Chloe, chose Tav as fielder of the match for his hard work running on the boundary and positive attacking of the ball.
Crows third XI
The 3rd XI registered their first win of the season away to Yateley 3rd XI.
Having won the toss, Yateley elected to bat. Adam Mansfield (1-14) and Avinash Singh (1-16) bowled tidily, with Singh taking the first wicket.
Uttam Gajjar then bowled excellently to take 4-16. Shravan Sathiyan (2-14), Vijay Bhatti (1-8) and Ven Adapa (1-1) all chipped in with wickets, and keeper-captain Rich Hester took four catches. The hosts were all out for 86 from 39.1 overs.
The Crows set about chasing the total down in assured fashion. The in form Dan Finucane (31) fell to a good catch, but had already done enough damage. Dave McQuitty (20*) and Simon Sheppard (12*) then saw the Crows home in 19.3 overs for a nine wicket win.
Crows Midweek XI
The Midweek XI made it through to the semi final in flying fashion as they beat Eversley CC by 21 runs in the quarter final.
The batsman got the show on the road with stand out performances from Prakash Singh (33) and Matt Childs (18) and a final few overs well negotiated by the tail including Peter Emes (13*) and Luke Taylor (9) with strong contributions all the way down the crows posted 151 from their 20 overs, then it was over to the bowlers to get the job done.
A tight first spell from Omer Farooq (2-18) put the pressure back on the Eversley batting line up. Some fantastic bowling in the middle overs from Chris Emes (2-27) and Oliver Taylor (1-17) kept the pressure firmly placed on the batting side.
With wickets falling at regular intervals it was hard for the batsman to build partnerships that are so crucial for a successful run chase.
With tight fielding and some excellent death bowling from the skipper, Peter Emes (0-25) saw his side home defending 30 from the last over to make it a victory in the quarter final.
A true bowling masterclass was on display from the crows which helped them secure their spot in the semi final.
