Scorecard

Great Waltham Cricket Club 1st XI v Tillingham 1st XI on Sat 04 May 2024 at 1pm
Great Waltham Cricket Club Won by 69 runs

Match report Losing the toss, visitors Tillingham elected to bowl on a wicket that was a little bit damp and sticky. The visitors elected to open with a spin and seam combination in C. Hylton and J. Grant and kept things very tight. With the wicket doing a bit and good field placements, the opening pair of Wickes and Bloom struggled to get away. With a stacked batting lineup we knew that we just had to make a platform to allow the middle order to do what they do best. We plodded to 34-0 before a mini collapse saw Bloom, Elles, Wickes and O. Fitzwater fall in quick succession leaving us perilously at 53-4.

With only 1 other match on in our league, this presented a good chance for us to get ahead in the title race and this situation set the nerves jangling. Luckily, Dan Humphreys and Elham put on a masterclass 5th wicket partnership of 131 to rescue us. The top 4 were probably too passive against the Tillingham bowlers and let them settle. Dan was quite the opposite and despite the situation, immediately put the pressure back of the opposition bowlers. Seeing Dan take the attack to Tillingham brought out the best in Elham who started to play his strokes and free his arms. Both batters demonstrated brilliant power and stroke play hitting a combined 10 sixes between them in their partnership. We know of Dan’s six hitting prowess but it was nice to see Elham thrive in a new role hitting maximums with wristy flicks and fast hands. Dan was hitting it so hard that he managed to break yet another bat. To be honest, I think Dan could bat with a bit of hard wood flooring and still hit sixes. The confidence was sucked from the Tillingham side as the pair put them to the sword. The partnership eventually came to an end when Elham holed out to long off for a brilliant 76. A first Waltham 50 for Elham and I’m sure there’s more to come! Dan continued blast it to all parts as we raced over 200. He was selflessly caught in the deep off the penultimate ball for a wonderful 78 off just 64 balls, an impressive feat on a tricky wicket. From the situation we were in, anything north of 180 would have been a great result so to end up 219-6 was remarkable and put us in the driving seat.

Another new recruit Aaron Read put in an eye catching performance with the ball, steaming in off his new extended run up bowling with pace and control. He and Ollie tied the Tillingham openers down as they only managed to make 20 off the first ten overs. There was a particularly eye catching wicket as Aaron decked one back in to Charlie Hylton clipping his leg stump and breaking the bail in the progress, a brilliant delivery. Tillingham weren’t moving anywhere in a hurry but one man certainly was, Shafi. He led the counter attack for the visitors fantastically finding the boundary regularly. It can’t all be positives, I have to say our catching was terrible dropping at least 5 chances. Shafi was the lucky recipient of two of these drops as her raced to 53 off 45 balls. Luckily for us, he went one time too many and chopped on off the bowling of Josh Fitzwater. Amidst the Shafi chaos, Ollie took a very smart caught and bowled to dismiss Harry Hylton with a cunning slower ball. The next passage of play was the Josh Fitzwater show. With their slow start, the middle to lower order felt the need to attack and Josh cashed in. While he bowled very well, there were a couple of gifts in there as he picked up the first five-for of the season. A spell of 9 overs 5-46 put the game to bed and it was just a case of tidying up the tail. Proving his diversity, Aaron returned at the death to prise out the last two Tillingham batters who had been hanging around for while. He ended up with figures of 9 overs 4 for 15 which represents a remarkable return on his full league debut. Tillingham were bowled out for 149 and we picked up 25 points in the process.

I’d also like to shout out Jake De’ath. After starting loosely and going for 17 in his first over at the hands of Shafi, he bowled 8 straight overs up the hill none for 17. He bowled with amazing skill again and definitely deserved a wicket or two.

Hard to pick a player of the match after 4 incredible performances for Elham, Humpo, Josh and Aaron but a winning start to the season is all that matters!

Great Waltham Cricket Club 1st XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
1nb 12w  
for 6 wickets
13
218		        
Graham Wickes b H Hylton 22 48 4 45.83
Daniel Bloom b A Shafi 11 33 1 33.33 1
Harrison Elles b H Hylton 5 8 62.50
Ollie Fitzwater ct Unsure b R Howes 5 23 21.74 1
Elham Jabarkhail ct A Ahmed b J Grant 76 85 7 4 89.41
Dan Humphreys ct H Hylton b A Shafi 78 64 4 6 121.88
Lewis Chapman Not Out  8 8 100 1
Aaron Read Not Out  0 1 0
James Taylor  
Joshua Fitzwater  
Jacob De'ath  

Tillingham 1st XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Charlie Hylton7.024000.005.71
Joe Grant9.0143143.004.78
Harry Hylton9.0325212.502.78
Adnan Shafi9.0344222.004.89
Richard Howes5.0136136.007.20
Bhavin Patel2.00700.003.50
Nirav Parekh3.001200.004.00
Ravindarth Patibandla1.001100.0011.00

Tillingham 1st XI Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
3nb 15w 5b 1lb 
for 10 wickets
24
149 (39.0 overs)		     
David Cummins ct L Chapman b A Read 12 34 1 35.29
Charlie Hylton b A Read 2 23 8.70
Adnan Shafi b J Fitzwater 53 45 4 3 117.78
Harry Hylton ct O Fitzwater b O Fitzwater 9 16 56.25
Bhavin Patel ct D Bloom b J Fitzwater 12 19 1 63.16
Arslan Ahmed b J Fitzwater 16 20 2 1 80.0
Nirav Parekh lbw J Fitzwater 1 10 10.0
Ravindarth Patibandla b J Fitzwater 0 3 0
Richard Howes Not Out  11 38 28.95
Paresh Patel b A Read 9 25 36.00
Joe Grant lbw A Read 0 4 0

Great Waltham Cricket Club 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Aaron Read9.041543.751.67
Ollie Fitzwater9.0038138.004.22
Joshua Fitzwater9.004659.205.11
Jacob De'ath9.003400.003.78
James Taylor2.00900.004.50
Lewis Chapman1.00100.001.00

  • Umpire :
    Paddy O'Riordan & Neil Kennedy
  • Scorer :
    Players (Tays)