Uppingham Town Cricket Club
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Uppingham Town Cricket Club
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Border Counties Youth Cricket Association
Under 13s Cup Final
Played at Oakham CC
Saturday 30th August 2008
Bourne CC v Uppingham Town CC
Match Sponsors – TMSB Exiles Cricket Club
Teams:
Uppingham Town CC
– Harry Robertson (Capt.), Callum O'Berg, Tom Roberts, Ben Harford, Jacob
Norton, Max Collins, George Scott, Oliver Carrick, Edward Wignall, Luke
Hopper & Rachel Richardson. Manager Mark Norton – assistant Coaches Brian
Robertson &
Bourne CC
– J Vale (Captain), J Bentley, G Hartley, H Charlton, G Cowman, G Binns, B
Hay, C Fawcett, L Duckworth, C Venables & J Craig.
Result
– Uppingham Town Win by 54 runs
0A
Bourne Under 13s won
the toss and elected to field in front of a sizeable crowd at Oakham CC in
an eagerly anticipated clash of two strong performing sides.
Town openers O'Berg
and Roberts looked assured as they quickly started to pick off early
boundaries taking the score to 21 off the first three overs. O'Berg was the
first wicket to fall in the fourth over when he was bowled for 13 runs by H
Charlton after making a promising start. Pressure further mounted when Harry
Robertson lasted two balls and became Vales first wicket and in successive
balls saw Ben Harford depart bowled by Vale too. The very next over Charlton
took his second wicket by removing Tom Roberts to leave Town reeling on 34
for 4 wickets.
Jacob Norton was
joined in the middle order by Max Collins who both looked assured very
quickly. They steadied the Town innings and began to pick up the run rate,
Norton in particular making a high impact start with three quick boundaries
whilst Collins took singles at every opportunity. Collins and Norton shared
an unbroken partnership of 63 until Norton retired on 28 not out having
rescued Town from a perilous position. Collins was joined by George Scott
who added to Bournes growing misery when he despatched two huge sixes to
take the score past the hundred mark. Collins retired on 28 and finished in
emphatic style with two glorious boundaries. He was shortly followed by
Scott on 25 not out. Town failed to use up all their overs as the last few
wickets fell as the tail-enders tried to push the total higher – they were
all out for 123, a formidable target given their earlier loss of wickets.
Bourne started their
innings in nervy fashion with George Scott taking Bentley's wicket with his
third ball when Harry Robertson held on to a great catch. Max Collins struck
too in his first over trapping Charlton leg before leaving Bourne two down
with just 9 runs on the board. Scott and Collins were proving difficult to
score off and by the close of the sixth over the score only amounted to 12,
during that over Collins further dinted Bourne confidence by taking two more
wickets. He bowled Cowman for two runs and then Bourne skipper Vale lasted
just 3 balls when he trapped him leg before.
Bourne never
recovered from this early onslaught and headed into the tenth over 4 wickets
down for just 21 runs. Rachel Richardson bowled took up the challenge too
and produced a wicket in her third over and only conceded 10 runs from her 4
over spell. Oliver Carrick and Jacob Norton picked up wickets too and
conceded few runs. Only Fawcett for Bourne looked like troubling the bowlers
as he picked up a deserved 22 runs before being caught behind by Ben Harford
off Tom Roberts. Bourne reached a commendable 69 runs off 20 overs when it
looked like they may score far less, this was partially helped by extras
totalling 24 by Town.
Uppingham ran out
clear winners by a margin of 54 runs – Harry Robertson collected the Under
13s Druce Shield from Ian Howes the match sponsor. Max Collins was named Man
of the Match for his 28 runs not out and magnificent 4 overs, 3 wickets for
3 runs.
Thanks to Oakham CC
for their hosting of this event.
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