U8 And U9 Cricket v Bilton Grange
Crescent finished off their first season with a tricky but highly competitive game away at Bilton Grange. Fielding first, Crescent bowled superbly, with very tight spells from Harry, Remi and the eventual player of the match, Alice. Backed up with some good fielding from Edward and Maggie, this kept the BG score down to 270 runs. In reply, despite a fantastic performance with the bat from Hattie, Crescent struggled to find the big shots they needed against the accurate BG bowling, posting a final score of 230. Special mentions to the whole team for the fantastic effort, spirit and progression they showed throughout the game, particularly captain Remi who was incredibly supportive.
Mrs Everitt
We knew that we had to keep our bowling and fielding tight and started well with Lewis making some excellent diving stops behind the stumps. Ed W was busy throughout the innings, preventing some quick singles and Samuel bowled a fabulous last over getting our only wicket. Bilton Grange had some big hitters coming in as their last pair and just took the game away from Crescent with a final score of 260 runs. It was a lovely competitive match to finish our term and the improvements were clear for all to see. Well done.
Crescent won the toss and put BG in to bat first. Herbie opened the bowling superbly with 1 run scored of his over followed by an excellent over from Akaal gaining 2 wickets. Aryan kept it going with a wicket and Patrick kept the runs low with 12 runs scored off 4 overs. The bowling was closed by Alex who gained another wicket with BG gaining 46 runs in total.
Aryan and Akaal opened the batting with some fantastic shots with Akaal hitting a superb 6 and Aryan also finding the boundary. Patrick and Herbie went in next adding a steady count to take Crescent to 30 runs off 4 overs. Henry and Max both found the boundary in their 12 balls taking the total to 44 leaving Roisin and Alex needing 3 runs to win the game. They did not let the pressure get to them and held their heads with both finding the boundary a number of times to add another 22 runs to the total score and winning the match. Crescent 266 for 2 and Bilton Grange 246 for 4. Awesome work by all, a great team effort.