Welcome to Wizzy News for this week – our weekly roundup of news and events at Wisborough Green Cricket Club.
Lots of great games to report on this week with our First X1 in a final ball thriller …
Friday evening training
End of Season
Some of our age groups are finishing their training sessions this Friday. Please check end of season arrangements with your age group coaches
Parking
Just a quick reminder to park away from the village playground, Wyatt Close and Butts Meadow . Car parking spaces are available at the Village Hall car park where there are 10 spaces and Songhurst Meadow car park where there are 14 spaces.
If it is possible to walk or share lifts to the Green then please do.
The Hundred is back …
The Hundred is back in August. For those who aren’t familiar with the Hundred – its a fantastic new format of the game which has gained in popularity over the last few years :
- International players
- 100 balls per innings
- The fielding side change ends after 10 balls
- Bowlers deliver either five or 10 consecutive balls – the captain decides
- Each bowler can deliver a maximum of 20 balls per match
For more info Please click here
Tickets for under 16’s are only £5 and adults from £21 .
Summer camps
The very popular Mavrix Summer camps for children age 4-12 will be taking place at West Chiltington Cricket Club in August – see below for details.
See also details of the Billingshurst Summer camp being held in August
Honours Boards
Congratulations to all those who have made it onto the club’s Honours Boards this week
Upcoming Fixtures
Hard copies of the Fixture Card are available in the Pavilion – please click here for an electronic version of the fixture card
All of our age group fixtures are available on the ECB’s Playcricket website – please click here
Another busy week on fixtures ahead :
- First X1 are home to West Chiltington at 1pm on Saturday
- Second X1 are at away to Crawley at 1 pm on Saturday
- Sunday X1 are at home to Kenya Kongonis on Sunday afternoon
- Women’s Hardball Team are against Southwater at Slinfold on Sunday afternoon
- Under 18’s are at home to Andover Under 17’s on Sunday morning
- Under 14’s are at away to Roffey on Sunday morning
- Under 12’s are at home to Steyning on Saturday morning
- Under 11’s have a training game on Tuesday evening
- Under 10’s have a friendly against Fernhurst on Saturday morning
- Under 9’s are at home to Storrington on Monday evening at 6pm
Please come along and support our players if you can – they really do appreciate seeing familiar faces
Team selections
Team selections for this week:
Match reports
First X1 vs West Wittering
WHAT….. A…… WIN!!
- Vickery wins the toss and puts West Witt into bat
- Early inroads are made with West Witt 2 down early
- Wisborough bowl tightly and share wickets to limit scoring opportunities well
- Decent third wicket stand broken by Oscar with tommy catching Small
- Nice slip catch sees Willbo remove Fecher as he approaches half century
- Trimmer adds quick runs (largely off the edge) for West Witt
- Ritchie removes Trimmer after some awful monotone fielding chatter
- Vickery get Finch as he mis-cues to Hugo for the catch
- Dave completes team wicket taking being the 7th bowler to take one wicket a piece
- A further wicket for Dave (the only bowler to not take 1 wicket) see Witt run out of overs with 202 on the board
- Delightful coronation chicken wraps and lemon drizzle was enjoyed
- Willbo promoted up the order to open starts strong, with Vickery struggling with the new ball moving around
- Vickery, joined by Tommy, picks up where Willbo left off to build the total
- Hoppo hits sumptuous on drive before getting a ball that he was unlucky getting anywhere near, with Trimmer returning the favour with both keepers catching each other
- Vickery bowled with the score at 93-4
- Hunter and Oscar continue to build nicely before Hunter pops one up off a leading edge
- Jack and Ritchie, after some lusty blows, suffer from umpire Staight’s quick finger
- 176 for 7 and West Witt think they are through us with 28 still needed and 29 balls remaining
- They did not know we still has Jr and Hugo (the finishers of Chi) still to come
- Jr departs in the 37th over with Small bowling quick and tight
- Hugo and Oscar take 10 from the 38th over leaving Wisborough needing 12 off 12
- Hugo departs first ball of Smalls last over to bring Griffiths to the crease – 9 down and still 12 needed
- A wide and single and a two bring 4 from the over
- 8 needed from the last other with Grittiths on strike – a tense situation
- Dave guides a single off the first ball to bring Oscar on strike – 7 needed from 5 balls
- Dot ball – 7 needed from 4 balls
- Single – 6 needed from 3 balls
- Single – 5 needed from 2 balls
- Oscar hits two – leaving Green needing 3 for victory from the last ball
- Smash – four runs, WISBOROUGH WIN…….the visiting crowd go wild!!!!
- Wisborough celebrate an amazing victory and great all round team performance
- Showers and beers were had before we returned to a hero’s welcome at the pav!!!!
Please click here for the full scorecard
Dan Vickery – Captain
Second X1 vs Horley
The seconds made it three 60 pointers on the bounce, as they moved into third in the table with a comprehensive victory over Horley 3s, who had beaten us earlier in the season. Extremely pleasing outcome all round as we fielded, bowled, batted and caught really well, delivering a classy result continuing the momentum gained in the last few games.
Notable performances from:
- Harry Maggs – again doing Harry Maggs things – 5 overs, 1 for 7 (SEVEN). Astonishing.
- Juan Vorster – a brace of catches, a run out, and 4-16 to close the Horley innings.
- Tarni Dixon – back in the runs (44 not out) to guide the side home in style and a belting catch in the in field to remove their dangerous opener.
- SCS – fluent and powerful with the bat and a scorching catch in the deep
- Skipper continued his good form with bat to get 64 letting himself down with a loose shot to get caught on the boundary.
WE talked at the start of the game about the standards we expect from ourselves and each other. These are being realised and improved week in week out. 6 games to go. It’s hotting up…
Please click here for the full scorecard
Tim Palmer – Captain
Sunday X1 vs Twickenham
A closely fought contest decided in the final over of the game ..
Please click here for the full scorecard
Under 14 vs Rudgwick
A fantastic result for the under 14’s to win the League with a game to spare .
Well done to all the players
Please click here for the full scorecard
Under 12 Horsham
Congratulations to the Horsham Under 12 girls team who beat our under 12 team rather convincingly.
Some very familiar faces in the Horsham lineup
Please click here for the full scorecard
Under 11 intra club match
The under 11’s had a closely fought intra- club game on Tuesday evening that went right to the wire ..
Match Report from Oliver Johnson (age 11) – Captain of ‘Ollie’s’ team
We batted first, starting with Leo and Freddie, with Leo hitting a four. Following their great start, Quinn and I were up next. After us was Archie and Arnau, with Archie hitting another four. Finally, Bobby and Arthur were up and Bobby smashed an impressive three fours. Their efforts earned us a total of 261 runs.
With a good score on the board, it was time to put our bowling and fielding skills to the test. Freddie took the ball, not only bowling someone out but also catching someone out. I managed to run someone out, adding to our team’s defensive efforts. One of the highlights of the evening came from Bobby, who delivered an incredible hat trick of bowling players out.
As we entered the final pair of batters, the score was very close. Arnau finished his bowling, scoring us another wicket. Leo took the ball last and bowled two out and delivered another run-out.
We fell just short, losing the match by 3 runs. But it was a fantastic evening and everyone played very well!
Oliver Johnson – Captain
Match report by Jack Brazier (age 11) – Captain of ‘Jack’s ‘ team
It was a nice evening for our friendly on Tuesday and I was really pleased to be captain against Ollie’s team.
Ollie won the toss and decided to bat first.
James and Freddie F were bowling first for us and both were really close to getting a wicket.
Theuns and Henry went next, both did really well. One ball resulted in a run out by Buddy.
Eddie and Reuben next who each bowled someone out!
Me and Buddy were last to bowl and we both got wickets. There was also a run out taken by James.
Then we were batting and needed 262 for the win. Me and Reuben were first in and got 3 fours in our pair.
James and Freddie F batting next both hit amazing fours.
Eddie and Theuns also both scored great boundaries with brilliant fours from Theuns in his first match.
Last in were Buddy and Henry with the pressure on. Despite losing some wickets to great bowling, they did really well to score runs and get us to 264 to win on the last bowl.
It was a really close and exciting game. Well done to everyone – especially Buddy who got our player of the match.
Jack Brazier – Captain
Under 10 vs Under 9
Match report by Charlie Baxter (age 10)
On Monday evening the under 10s played a practice match against the 9s. We had a large squad and everyone was excited to play. After winning the toss we decided to bowl first.
Barnaby opened and bowled and caught his own ball off the 1st. Followed by a run out 2nd ball. What a start!
Jack made a lovely catch of Henry’s bowling.
Charlie bowled the 3rd over. Seth made a great catch on the boundary.
Finlay took another wicket in his over which was followed by a great 6 from Edward in the under 9s.
Finlay took another wicket of some excellent bowling.
Alex has a great over too. One catch from George then Barnaby made another catch the very next ball
Charlie made a good catch on the boundary too to stop a definite 4 runs.
The under 9s didn’t lose heart and made a boundary on the last ball.
It was a long session and we took a much needed water break with some yummy biscuits and cup cakes. Thank you parents.
Barnaby and Charlie opened our batting and both hit boundarys including a 6 each to start us off.
All of the pairs batted well and got a great amount of runs with only a few wickets.
There were too many boundarys to mention everyone but I was really impressed with how we have improved.
Thomas and George batted very well getting decent runs. The training is clearly paying off.
Henry and Finlay were the stand out pair for me. Cooper and Gus were the last pair our and finished strong.
I’m not sure what the final score was but the 10s might just have won it 😉.
Well done to the under 9s for showing spirit to the end.
We finished off with another trademark sausage roll across the field.
Charlie Baxter – Captain
And finally – spotted out and about …
That’s it for this week.
If there is anything we need to know you know where to find us
Have a great cricketing week 🏏😊
Cheers
Wizzy