U13 d’Overbroeck’s Cricket v Kingham Hill Match Result

Tuesday, 29th May 2012

d’Overbroeck’s U13 won by 6 wickets.

d’Overbroeck’s lost the toss and fielded first. All the boys were eager to impress and as a result of excellent skills shown in the field, especially by Townsend’s ‘backing up’, they had restricted the opposition to only 23 runs for 1 wicket after the first 10 overs. All bowlers used were on excellent form, bowling accurately throughout the innings. Ball, Crook, Rose, Turner and Bailey all played a significant part in keeping the opposition’s score to only 58 runs for the innings. However, special mention must be made for Wells who took 2 wickets for 9 runs and Townsend who took 3 wickets for 10 runs.

d'Overbroeck's U13s in action against Kingham Hill

With an excellent fielding display already achieved the batsmen now needed to step forward to secure the victory. Stuart and Kamal opened the batting and it didn’t take long for Stuart to show everyone his flair after playing 2 glorious shots to the fine leg boundary one of which went for 4 runs. Unfortunately Stuart’s star only shone for one more over where he was out caught and bowled; this left Kamal to anchor the batting in a ‘Chanderpaulesque’ manner. This allowed the new batsman, Bailey, to play some exquisite shots after a short cameo by Chipper who was bowled.

D’Overbroeck’s were now starting to dominate the game and with the entrance of Naranjo to the proceedings the crowd were about to witness cricketing fireworks US-Mexican style. Truly this team had an international flavour with the current batsmen having never picked up a cricket bat prior to 4 weeks ago. Fine shots as well as excellent calling and running between the wickets ensured a high run rate for this period of the match. Bailey subsequently was caught out at point having scored 9 runs, which left Naranjo and new batsman Ball to continue to score well. Naranjo was finally caught out at short mid-wicket having scored a very entertaining 19 runs.

d’Overbroeck’s now required 2 runs for victory; this heralded the entrance of Godley accompanied by enthusiastic chanting from the crowd. First ball Godley hit a sweet shot straight from the middle of his bat past the fielder at mid-wicket and the batsmen managed to run 2 and in so doing secured a very good win for the U13s team.

Congratulations to all players on your well-deserved victory.

Martin Procter
Head of PE