OT CRICKET 2010 SEASON
Other OT cricket
Unfortunately the Rugby Meteors had to cancel their match with us, due to be played on Sunday 12th July, but we did play our normal two matches against the Charterhouse Friars, at Charterhouse this year, and then the final match against the Old Cranleighans.
The scores in these games were as follows:
First day
Old Tonbridgians 263 - 7
James Hodgson 62, Ant Shales 38, Alex Howeson 31
Charterhouse Friars 236
Ali Owen- Browne 4- 55, Ed Bugge 3-83
Second day
Charterhouse Friars 209
Ed Bugge 5-53
Old Tonbridgians 200
Charlie Munton 41, Alex Howeson 31, Charlie Young 53
Old Cranleighans 247
Tom Bugge 3-40, Olly Howick 2-43
Old Tonbridgians 250-4
Bill Gunyon 61, Justin Ayward 42, Matt Shales 45, Ant Shales 78*
Uppingham Rovers v Old Tonbridgians Cricketer Cup: First round. Sunday 13th June
Further details of these matches will not be included in the forthcoming edition of OT News, which has already gone to press, but in the subsequent edition.
John Gibbs 19.07.2010
Cricketer Cup Second Round
Old Brightonians 145
Old Tonbridgians 148-3 (29 overs)
We forfeited the match when we discovered we had played an ineligible player. Further details of this match will be included in the next issue of the OT News to be published shortly.
John Gibbs 19.07.2010
There were several enforced changes from the team that had won the Cricketer Cup last August at Richmond CC. Chris Walsh, Matt Barham, Jamie Ford and Charlie Hill were all unavailable, which meant that Jono Arscott once again took on the captaincy and had some difficult holes to fill. This he managed to do successfully , as can be seen from the team below, which combined both youth and experience. Winning the toss, we elected to bat, and Ed Smith and James Pyemont opened for us. Runs did not come that easily, and with Pyemont, Hammond, Banes and Howick back in the pavilion after 33 overs with only 127 runs on the board, the outlook was not that encouraging. However, Ed Smith and Jamie Rowe began to accelerate, scoring thirty runs in the next six overs until the dismissal for 85 of Ed Smith, who for thirty nine overs had been playing an anchor role in the innings. Ant Shales then came to the crease, and a match winning partnership of 101 between Rowe and Shales was now to follow. Shales, undefeated, scored 66 off 31 deliveries, while Rowe contributed an invaluable 46 runs, and at the end of our fifty overs our total of 265 - 6 was higher than had been anticipated for much of our innings. The Rovers opened steadily and for much of their innings were shadowing the pattern of the run rate during our innings. For a moment, when Aspell and Fowler were batting together in a sixth wicket partnership of 58, an Uppingham Rovers victory did not appear to be inconceivable. However, when Ben Aspell’s wicket fell with the score on 186, the Rovers’ innings faltered, despite potentially useful contributions of 26 by Wood and 20 by Kennedy, and when rain held up play with 3.4 overs still to go, 54 runs were still required. A Tonbridge victory by then had become the almost inevitable outcome, and so it proved; and the decisive factor had been the partnership between Ant Shales and Jamie Rowe. The wickets were shared between all six bowlers, but with Oly Howick claiming two and James Pyemont three victims. Team: Ed Smith, James Pyemont, Chris Hammond, Matt Banes, Olly Howick, Jamie Rowe, Ant Shales, Olly Durell, Jono Arscott (Captain), Ali Owen- Browne, Maurice Holmes.
24.6.10Old Tonbridgians 265 - 6 Ed Smith 82, Jamie Rowe 46, Anthony Shales 66
Uppingham Rovers 239
Next round on Sunday 4 July away against either Old Brightonians or Old Westminsters.
Report to follow.
Details of the other OT matches have been sent to all members and details will be on the website shortly. Further information available from John Gibbs jdg@tonbridge-school.org