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Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 3rd XI v Emmbrook & Bearwood 3 on Sat 06 May 2017 at 1:00 pm
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club Won by 76 Runs

Match report Crows 3's Complete Clean Sweep

Crows 3rd XI defeated Emmbrook by 76 runs at Great Hollands.

Summer arrived at Great Hollands Recreations ground – the scene of many a conquest over the years as Crows 3’s opened their Division 4 campaign with a home game against the enthusiastic ranks of Emmbrook & Bearwood 3’s

New permanent skipper John Cartledge had a decent team of charges, of whom you would say bowling was their stronger suit.

Losing the toss on a warm and almost cloudless day, the Crows were asked to have a bat first on what looked like a decent Great Hollands deck.
Out to the middle strode the new-look opening pair of McQuitty and Foxon to face the new ball pairing of the veteran Swindley and the youthful looking Bendall. Their brief – to see off the new ball and lay the platform to build a match-winning total.

A steady, if unspectacular start meant the scoreboard moved slowly but importantly the new ball pairing were blunted – until Foxon was adjudged to had under-edged one to the keeper and he departed for a watchful 10.
McQuitty, however has playing the anchor role to perfection. He scored a dogged 31 before departing leg before.

At the other end, a couple of quick wickets had bought Chris Emes to the crease. He played an innings that belied his years and put 50 on for the 4th wicket with McQuitty, before adding another 40 with Partridge. Emes finally perished for 34 as Crows looked to push the score on in the final 3rd of the overs.

Partridge took a liking to the veteran off-spinner who was bowling from the Crowthorne End of Great Hollands, with a flurry of leg-side boundaries accelerating the score past 150. He was aided and abetted by Krishna Addada who scored a quick-fire 23.

Partridge was unbeaten on 36 at the end of 45 overs and Crows had amassed a very handy 167/7.

A hearty tea was taken at the interval before Cartledge rallied his troops to the failed to finish the job. The Old ball was retained to begin with in a hope that the skipper and Partridge could claim some early scalps before the new ball was unleashed.

This strategy paid immediate dividends with Chris Kingston missing a straight one on just the 2nd ball of the innings. Partridge had struck early and the Crows were on their way. Two balls later the agricultural Robertson offered a difficult caught and bowled chance, which was grassed but the sense was the Crows were in with a great chance of victory.

Cartledge took himself out of the attack after 2 overs at the Pavilion end and threw the ball to the tricky McQuitty. This paid immediate dividends as McQuitty’s pace fooled the opener who played about 10 minutes too early and lost his off-bail.

Roberston played a mini cameo, of mainly leg-side heaves. The policy reaped him 21 runs before one huge heave too many left him in a crumpled heap on the wicket, complaining of severe pain in his ribs. He’d actually hurt himself trying to slog it so hard…

With his departure came a couple of other wickets. One for Partridge with the fast ball, claiming the Emmbrook skipper’s wicket, much to the batsman’s audible displeasure. McQuitty was up to his tricks again at the other end luring Sean Bendall into a miscued shot and the4 catch was gleefully taken by Ven Shashank at mid-off. Emmbrook were reeling and seemingly set on salvaging a draw from the precarious position they now found themselves in..

Cue the new ball….. Cue Pete Clarke.. Cue Wickets…

Clarke took the new ball from the Crowthorne End and Jordan Cartledge from the Pavilion End. Clarke, still smarting from his duck earlier, was fired up and claimed 2 LBW’s to further add to Emmbrook’s misery. Emes replaced Jordan and bowled a very tight line and length as Emmbrook shut up shop.

The skipper mixed it up with both Shashank and Krishna sending down a few overs and even the veteran Taylor having a solitary over of swing and guile.
With 1 wicket left and even the draw seeming a long way off, Partridge was bought back into the attack to finish the job.

Crows won by a healthy margin and put a stake in the ground for the season ahead. Jubilant skipper John Cartledge addressed the assembled press corps from the pavilion balcony: “Our plan worked perfectly. I said a few times before the game if we bat our 45 overs we will win – and we did. Get me. I thank all my team for their efforts and would like to single out Chris Emes for particular praise as his mature innings really set this win up. We were then ruthless with the ball and gave Emmbrook no hope. It’s a long season ahead and as we know it’s a marathon, not a sprint.”

Crows visit Binfield next with the pool of players strengthened by the return of 499-wicket Aran Long and 3rd team stalwart Marshall Miller




Captain: John Cartledge
Keeper: C Foxon
Ducks: P Clarke, Sashank,
Catches: John Cartledge, Sashank
Baggy Green: n/a

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 3rd XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
5nb 12w 6b 1lb 
for 7 wickets
24
167		        
Dave McQuitty lbw Hunt 31 1
Christopher Foxon ct May b. Howarth 10 1
Venkata RNS Adapa b Howarth 0 1
Nikhil Pande b Howarth 3
Chris Emes b Hunt 34 5
Dan Partridge Not Out  36 7
Peter Clarke b Hunt 0 2 0
Lakshmi Krishna Kishore Addada b Hunt 23 4
Jordan Cartledge Not Out  6 1
Andrew Taylor  
John Cartledge   1

Emmbrook & Bearwood 3 Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Swindley9.031900.002.11
Bendall6.011600.002.67
Howarth6.01933.001.50
Marston8.004700.005.88
Kingston7.012800.004.00
Hunt9.0041410.254.56

Emmbrook & Bearwood 3 Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
12w 1b 1lb 
for 9 wickets
14
91 (36.3 overs)		     
Kingston b Partridge 0
Robertson b McQuitty 10
Robertson Retired Out  27
Hunt b Partridge 5
Bendall ct Shashank b. McQuitty 2
Kingston lbw Clarke 11
Howarth ct J Carledge Snr b. Shashank 4
May Not Out  12
Swindley lbw Clarke 2
Marston b Partridge 4
Absent  

Crowthorne & Crown Wood Cricket Club League 3rd XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Dan Partridge6.311836.002.77
John Cartledge4.011800.004.50
Dave McQuitty7.031326.501.86
Andrew Taylor1.00700.007.00
Peter Clarke5.001025.002.00
Jordan Cartledge1.00400.004.00
Venkata RNS Adapa3.00919.003.00
Chris Emes3.00600.002.00
Lakshmi Krishna Kishore Addada3.00400.001.33