Fillongley Cricket Club

With Bedworth needing nothing less than a win to tie the league ,rain intervened halfway through the game against Griff. The umpires were forced to call the game off, leaving Fillongley CC U16 as clear league champions.

A huge congratulation should go too all the players Matt Smith, Will Vines, Kyle Taylor, Jonny Brown, Mitch Lennon, Ryan Kent, Ashley Jones, Charlie Mulhall, Sam Brady, Luke Duggins, Ben Cooper, Mason Kerr, Harry Tregonning, Piers Binks.

Well done boys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday 1st XI: Streetly (A): 1.30pm start
Sunday 1st XI: Quatt in the NVC: 2 00pm start

1. S. Rose
2.M. Gales
3.D. Colkin
4. D. Smith
5.J. Cartwright
6. K.Taylor
7.A. Moore
8. S. Gardner
9. J. Kerr
10. M. Cashmore
11. L. Duggins

Be at the ground for 12:30ish. Head’s on! Massive Game.

Rose

A pretty comprehensive tonking from Solihull Blossomfield this afternoon. They are now third, ten behind Highway and in with a good chance of a return to the Birmingham League.

We won the toss and batted, which should have been OK given we had our strongest batting line up today. At the start we were scoring quickly due mostly to generous donations of extras, but a sequence of dismissals got us to a pretty catastrophic 120-7 at drinks. Only Pro and Barbs got in, and they both went to rash shots. Everybody else seemed to face a couple of overs then get bowled. To put it in context Junior and SB added 18 after tea, and both faced more balls than any of our front line bats, Pro excepted. JC had moved to plan B on the wicket after rain, and there was variable bounce, but we can’t use that as an excuse. For Solihull I thought Harvey Satterthwaite was impressive again. He is as quick as anyone in this league and has been a handful in both of our games against Solihull.

Thoughts were that if the wicket was playing up and we could get a couple of early wickets we might get ourselves back in it. The word was that they were batsmen short today. No chance though. Altaf and Bashir were got the score to 50 before tea with some sensible positive batting. When they were out the next two looked equally composed, and numbers 5 and 6 looked pretty good as well.

Seconds won at Corley. JK took 5-11, then 50s for Michael Gales and Dan Howells to land the 24 points. Congratulations to Michael on getting a first in Sports Journalism. Also a return from Africa for Binga. I’m told his first ball was pukka but the rest were pies!

Our U16′s have finished their season with an impressive record of played 10 won 9, this has left them sitting 5 points clear at the top of the league, with a guaranteed minimum share of the league title, depending on Bedworth’s result next week against Griff & Coton.

I am not going to single out any of the players, as throughout the season they have all stepped up to the plate and put in important performances to help win games, especially when we have taken the field with 8 or 9 players and still managed to win.

I am extremely proud of the way they have played, and at last after several seasons of frustration they have fulfilled the potential that I have always know was in them.

My thanks go the Geoff for all his help scoring, not only this year but over the past few seasons. Also thanks to all the supporters that turned out last night, the atmosphere was brilliant and I’m sure it helped to spur our lads on.