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Sunday B Team Away At Wootton Bassett

The sun shone, the toss was lost and a few hours of sunbathing in the field was ordered for the young men of Sunday B. The 6 bowlers used shared the 6 wickets taken, but could not prevent a late flourish by the WB batsmen to take the score to a very respectable 193 for 6. The Bs fielding was generally good against a very experienced batting line up. Henry also managed that rare achievement of running out a batsman off a wide.   The reply didn't start well when debutant opener Roberts P went in the first. Louis had to make an earlier than planned entrance but some wonderful straight hitting saw him to a personal top score of 35. There were then solid knocks from Josh (39), Alex C (25) and Henry (23) and the middle order had almost put the Bs back in with a chance. However, the WB captain turned to his "secret weapon" who produced a dazzling 4 over spell of 4 for 8 to take the game away. The final over saw Alex H and skip needing 4 runs to secure a final batting point and this was achieved with one ball to spare. The Bs finished on 175 for 8, losing by a mere 18 runs.

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1st XI match report 19/5/12

Biddestone 1st Xl vs Trowbridge 1st Xl After one of the wettest starts to a season for many years, our thanks must go to the Biddestone ground staff whose sterling work enabled the 1st Xl game to proceed. Biddestone won the toss and asked Trowbridge to bat. Opener Mike Reynolds was bowled by Naeem Khan in his first over, but Sufian Munir 30, Chris Thompson 29, Adeel Malik 24 plus 25 extras all helped Trowbridge reach 162 all out in the 45th over. Biddestone Bowlers: 3 wkts each for Naeem Khan and Imraj Heer, making his debut plus 2 wkts for Dwaine Perry, Rudi Second with one wkt for 11 runs in 5.5 overs restricted Trowbridge to 162 ao. Lawrence Roots behind the stumps, only allowed one ball to pass his gloves for 4 byes, but took two smart catches to make up. After tea Biddestone opened with James Mitchell (Captain) and new player, Rudi Second but with the score on 32 Rudi was caught for 4, Dwaine Perry (6), Rhys Merriman (28), Naeem Kham (32) and with minor contributions from the rest of the batsmen, Biddestone could only manage 146 off 40.3 over to lose by 16 runs. Main wicket-takers for Trowbridge: Dan Tallentire with 3 wkts for 37 runs and two wkts each for Adeel Malik , Marcus Brown and Toby Dorgan. Two magnificent catches by Marcus Brown and two for Tom Weaver (wkt-keeper) stopped the Biddestone run-chase in its stride.. Lack of batting practice obviously affected all the sides. Regards Donald

Sunday Teams Selection 27/5/12

 A Team v Bradley Stoke at Home

Meet 1.15pm with teas

Match fee £3

L Boulton

R Merriman

L Roots

A Boswell

C Baker

P Lochab

I Heer

T Sorsby

K Gash

S Smith

B Fielding

B Team v Royal W-B Away

Meet 1pm at BCC

Match Fee £3

J Panes

P Roberts

H Roberts

A Horn

J Boulton

Matt Unwin

H Entwistle

R Foston

L Stringer

C Chrystal

B Evans

Selection Saturday 26th May 2012

Meet 10.45am

Leave 11am

Meet 12.30pm

Meet 12.00pm

Meet 1.15pm

2nd XI @ Bredon 19/5/12

Saturday saw Biddestone 2nds travel to Bredon on the Worcestershire border, with a very late cry off and no one available to step in the appointed club umpire had to don his whites (actually they were Roots spare pair), another toss lost and we batted Matt and H didn’t get us off to the greatest start cheers Tom and not a great decision for one! Phil and Pav pulled it back a bit before Phil went, Pav continued to bat and looks a really good prospect, Boults snr joined him and they put on some runs and actually looked to be taking the game away from Bredon, however a good slower ball or two later and the tail was in, Munners again proving to be the best no 11 around not out again rumour is he was last out in 2010…and we only mustered 166…

A nice tea and off we went to bowl them out! Tom S got an early and only straight one to get one of there openers, but after that we did not look like getting many more, one dropped catch (sorry guys) apart, the young left handed opener certainly new were to hit it in the air… and the experienced ex 1^st XI no 3 looked very solid, some Munners banter couldn’t even unnerve him…regular boundaries and an odd misfield saw Bredon secure a 9 wkt win with comfort… still could have been worse we might have had to travel a long way………..

Highlights were Pavel’s knock and the chocolate cake at tea says it all really….

K

Meeting times for 19/5/12

2^nd XI Meet BCC 11.00am

3^rd XI Meet BCC 1.00pm

1st XI 19 May 2012 v Trowbridge

Meet 12.00

2nd XI and 3rd XI 19th May 2012

2^nd XI

3^rd XI

Wednesday 16th May vs Marshfield - CANCELLED

The game on Wednesday 16th May vs Marshfield is cancelled.

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Biddestone Under 9's Calne Festival - Sunday 13th May

We played 3 matches:-

Devizes    243
Biddestone 267   
Great batting from Callum Leighton and the very young Tom Smith (6 yrs old) saw Biddestone control the game from the first ball they faced when batting. There was sensible batting from the middle order, but it was some good bowling earlier on from Alex De Beer, Ben Wootten and Alby Davies which slowed down Devizes' run rate and gave us an easy total to chase. One highlight of the game was the mid-wicket catch taken by Harry Shore.

Malmesbury   238
Biddestone    283     (biggest total in festival, the scorers did ask if we had mis-counted)
We were worried when the Malmesbury team took the field as one of their bowlers was measuring up his extra long run up, but after restricting Malmesbury to a very low total we knew we could win this one. Keeping Malmesbury to a most total was due in part to a great over from Harry Shore who took 2 wickets in one over and Ollie Gooding who was getting the kwik cricket ball to swing past the outside of the bat. Next match i think we might need to bring in 3 slips for him!!! We then went out to bat and the opening partnership went well again and so did every other partnership with Ollie smashing some big sixes near the end of the innings and Alex De Beer and Alby Davies avoiding full tosses from their quick bowler. When he did get it right Alex and Alby were good enough to find the gap and score boundaries off him.

Wilcott         244
Biddestone    247
Ben Wootten sat this game out so our coach went on a recruiting drive and picked up a handy Devizes player so we could field as a full team.  A very young Wilcott team played us next so we rotated our bowling attack. With this chance Steffan Young, brought the Garry Young spin school with him and was on a hattrick after his first 2 deliveries! He later took 3 wickets in that over. But our batting let us down in this game as we couldnt get the under arm bowling away and with a silly run out in the 2nd from last over we knew it was going to be tight. But not as tight as it was!!! We were winning with the last ball to face and off it both are batsman decided to run, then stop, then run back and then run again but then decide not to as the ball just missed the stumps meaning we won by 3 runs, if that fielder had hit we would have lost by 2 runs. Thats how close that game was.
 
Great fun was had by all who played and every player did something amazing during the festival. We were far advanced in running quick singles and calling and that was one major factor in why we did so well, in our first games of 2012.

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