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Goresbrook v Burnham Sports CC 1st XI on Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 1pm
Burnham Sports CC Lost by 5 wickets
Match report
Burnham Sports were left to reflect on what might have been after losing by five wickets away to Goresbrook.
Sports had given themselves an excellent chance to belatedly gain a first win of the season after reaching 108 for one on a pitch that umpires consistently mark as the worst in the league.
They slumped to 161 all out, though, a tally that Goresbrook always looked like achieving thanks to their prolific captain Kurt Whisker, who made 55.
“We got ourselves into an excellent position to win the match but then threw it away,” Jamie Hamilton, the Burnham captain said. “A total of at least 200 should have been a formality after the start that we got and that would have put Goresbrook under huge pressure.
“I still thought 162 would take some getting given the erratic nature of the pitch but we didn’t bowl well enough - we got our length wrong and there were too many leg-side wides. Overall, it was a flat performance by us.”
Despite the uneven bounce and two-paced nature of the wicket, Paul Green (48) and Fuad Ahmed (28) helped guide Sports past three figures before the halfway stage of their innings.
A testing tally of about 230 seemed on the cards but, instead, Burnham collapsed, losing nine wickets for 54 runs.
Once Green, who hit seven fours and a six, and the the battling Ahmed had departed in quick succession, the visiting team completely lost their way. Runs dried up and wickets fell at regular intervals.
It was the second and third-change bowlers, Messenger and Barwick, who combined to do the damage, combing to take seven for 63. They made up the absence of the Israel Ochwo, the fastest bowler in the league.
Burnham needed quick wickets when Goresbrook replied but a nine-ball opening over (three wides) by Robin Whittaker, their principal weapon, set the pattern.
Whittaker did hit back with two wickets but Whisker was given a relatively easy ride and his team were within sight of victory when he eventually perished, caught by Joel Whittaker off the bowling of Bridge.
Left-handed spinner Bridge (two for xx) extracted bounce and turn, creating plenty of danger. Had Sports played their cards again, then he would probably have bowled in tandem with Hamilton, another spinner, who didn’t bowl a ball.
This Saturday, Sports travel to Thurrock, having lost the reverse fixture by 79 runs in mid-May.
Thurrock, fourth in the table, began the campaign with six successive wins but have won only one of their past five fixtures.
Burnham Sports CC 1st XI Batting
Player Name
Runs
M
B
4s
6s
SR
Ct
St
Ro
extras
TOTAL :
1nb 17w 6b 10lb
for 10 wickets
34
161
Paul Green
lbw Messenger
48
63
7
1
76.19
Jack Silvester
lbw Smith
10
11
1
90.91
2
Fuad Ahmed
ct Messenger
28
68
4
41.18
Joel Whittaker
ct Messenger
12
30
1
40.0
2
Jamie Hamilton
ct Barwick
1
6
16.67
Robin Whittaker
ct Barwick
3
14
21.43
David Bridge
Run out
0
9
0
Andy Stephens
ct and b Barwick
13
17
3
76.47
Tom Silvester
ct Maund
9
11
1
81.82
Neil Saunders
ct Messenger
1
4
25.00
Dominic Whittaker
Not Out
2
13
15.38
Goresbrook Bowling
Player name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Smith
4.0
0
24
1
24.00
6.00
Forward
10.0
1
34
0
0.00
3.40
Maund
6.2
0
23
1
23.00
3.63
Messenger
10.0
1
28
4
7.00
2.80
Barwick
10.0
1
35
3
11.67
3.50
Atkins
1.0
0
1
0
0.00
1.00
Goresbrook Batting
Player name
R
M
B
4s
6s
SR
extras
TOTAL :
1nb 22w 2b 1lb
for 5 wickets
26
163 (26.5 overs)
Whisker
ct J.Whittaker b Bridge
55
Curley
lbw Whittaker
14
Maund
ct J.Silvester b Whittaker
9
Cleverley
ct J.Silvester b Ahmed
11
Barwick
ct J.Whittaker b Bridge
16
Williamson
Not Out 
32
Harris
Not Out 
0
 
 
 
 
Burnham Sports CC 1st XI Bowling
Player Name
Overs
Maidens
Runs
Wickets
Average
Economy
Robin Whittaker
6.0
1
41
2
20.50
6.83
Fuad Ahmed
6.0
0
35
1
35.00
5.83
Jack Silvester
3.0
0
23
0
0.00
7.67
Andy Stephens
4.0
1
23
0
0.00
5.75
David Bridge
4.5
2
20
2
10.00
4.14
Tom Silvester
3.0
0
18
0
0.00
6.00
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