1st XI - Saturday
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Sat 04 Aug 2018  ·  Lincolnshire Cricket Board Premier League
Boston CC - 1st XI
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1st XI - Saturday
1st XI Dispose of Boston

1st XI Dispose of Boston

Ollie Alford7 Aug 2018 - 13:12
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1st XI Match Report

A trip to Boston welcomed the First Team this weekend with a pre-match team meal at McDonalds to break the long trip up. Clothed in full Lindum attire the players were under strict orders from the Team Management to watch their P’s and Q’s in a public surrounding. The players performed admirably but when reminded that the team was running late on his own military prepared schedule it was the ‘Team Manager’ who let slip a profanity. Oops.

We got to Boston early and it was looking as lovely as ever with a deck that looked to be a typical Boston affair. Boston won the toss and elected to bat with Troops and Holland opening up at the Mayflower. Troops soon snicked off to Aaron Onyon for four and the dangerous Cheer soon followed for seven, also caught behind off of Will Wright. Holland was nudging and nurdling around and batting four for the home side was Ishan Jayrathna from Sri Lanka. Big Ish is a very good player and he showed this early in his innings with an impressive back foot punch off of Onyon through the covers for four. Holland continued to rotate the strike but one attempt to rotate too many saw him ran out by a superb piece of fielding by Wright. Many a time his shies at the stumps are like a Kim Jong Un rocket test but this was far more accurate than Kim Jong’s rocket launch mechanisms and the stumps were splattered. 47-3 soon became 53-4 with Tom Poole clean bowled by Wrighty. At this point there was a danger of Boston collapsing, decisions needed to be made.

Big Ish (solely my nickname for him) began to open his shoulders, taking an over for both Wright and Joe Peatman downtown as the scoreboard began to accelerate. Within a blink of an eye the total had raced to the 100 mark. Skipper Charlie Tomlinson turned to his spin twins of Jake Benson and Ben Rolfs as the Lindum searched for a breakthrough. The brakes were slowly being applied but Big Ish was still on the hunt for more runs, preferably ones he didn’t have to move for, as he approached his 50. One big smack too many brought his downfall as Pierce Morley-Barnes tracked a deep ball to left centre field, diving full length and somehow managing to keep hold of the ball as his body crashed into the ground. Rumours of his fall being broken by his current large barnet are unconfirmed. 115-5 and basically that was it. The Boston middle to lower order crumbled, Onyon with 3-43 and Rolfs 4-22 were the wickets takers that did the late damage, and before you knew it we were heading in to enjoy our tea with the home side dismissed for 136.

The chase began live before the worlds eyes thanks to Boston CC broadcasting the game live via YouTube. In all seriousness it is a great idea and I sense within five or so years everything we do will be available in such a way. Boston were pinning their hopes on Big Ish (BI) running through us so it was very important that we made a solid start. Morely-Barnes and Wright did just that and although the scoreboard only registered 23 when Pierce was bowled by BI it left just 124 required by the remaining players. And it had sucked five overs out of their star man. Will Taylor came to the crease but the innings was brought to an abrupt halt due to an incident on the boundary which saw Boston stalwart Dave Morris leave the ground unwell. That break in play gave Boston a bit more time to regroup and BI steamed in to take the wicket of Will caught behind and leave us on 26-2. The skipper strode to the crease as once again our hopes were in the hands of Charlie and Wrighty. Once again they didn’t disappoint as Wrighty ground the runs out whilst Charlie played a more restrained innings than we have seen of late. They took the total to 83 before BI, returning for one final throw of the dice, nicked him off for 37 after a partnership of 61. Aussie Ben came to the crease and he was soon pushing the ball to all parts, taking advantage of the fast outfield to score seven boundaries in a swift 32. With just four runs needed Rolfs was clean bowled by Troops and Onyon came and went, also bowled by Troops, before Will scored the winning boundary to finish the chase. Wright finished on 47 not out to round off a truly great individual performance from the young all rounder.

It was very disappointing to lose two late wickets to chase the total down for the loss of five wickets. Not only did it give Boston an extra point but more importantly it gave a far more flattering reflection on the day for the hosts’ efforts. We were seven wickets better than them, maybe more, so for the winning margin to say ‘Lindum win by five wickets’ makes the game sound far closer to those who weren’t there than it was. Anyway, moan over! 20 points is 20 points. We welcome Alford to the LCG this Saturday and it gives us the opportunity to push further towards fourth spot. More than that though it presents a chance to erase those horrible memories of earlier this season when we were embarrassed by them. Revenge is in the air and revenge is sweet.

Report by James Kempton

Match details

Match date

Sat 04 Aug 2018

Kickoff

12:00

Competition

Lincolnshire Cricket Board Premier League

League position

5
Lindum CC - 1st XI
7
Boston CC - 1st XI
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