Windsor Cricket Club

Windsor 4’s continue push for promotion
15-07-06

Thatcham Town 4’s 226 for 8, 52 Overs (Charters 5 for 49)
Windsor 4’s 229 for 7, 43.4 Overs (Charters 115)

Windsor IVs had another top of the table clash, this time against Thatcham Town. Thatcham lost the toss and Windsor decided to bowl first. Thatcham started well and were scoring quickly, but wickets started to fall and runs dried up. Lewis getting the first with a beauty of a delivery, clean bowling the opener. S. Martin struck next thanks to a quick catch by wicket keeper Houghton. R. Charters was brought into the attack and picked up a quick wicket with a catch in the deep from Martin. Thatcham started to pick up their run rate and scored heavily, but wickets also kept coming. Charters picking up a further four wickets, an LBW, another catch by Houghton, a stumping by Houghton and clean bowled. S. Martin took another as J. Holmes took a fantastic catch. Some big hitting at the end of the innings saw Thatcham to 226 – 8 from 52 overs. Charters ending with bowling figures of 5 – 49.

Windsor’s batting order had been altered to give Martin and Charters time to rest after the long bowling spells they had just bowled, so T. Houghton and C. Light opened the batting. Houghton (8) hit two devastating fours before being given out from a no-ball. Light (0) followed soon after, clean bowled. Charters came to the crease and batted superbly with Kabir Bhuller making his IVs debut playing well. Kabir Bhuller finally went for 36. Holmes scored a reasonably quick 29. Martin came to the crease and saw Windsor to within 4 runs of winning. Charters finally was out bowled having scored a hugely important 115. Martin was stumped going for the winning shot, then Vigi was stumped too and Windsor were starting to worry. M. Gegg (4*) and B. Lewis (0*) saw Windsor home as Gegg slipped the ball through the slips for four. Windsor ending up on 229 – 7 from 43.4 overs. Another much needed 20 points, making the gap between 2nd and 3rd larger.

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Hurricane Houghton Strikes Down Bagshot
Saturday 8th July

Bagshot III 232 for 7; 51.1 overs (Rice 63, Clark 60)
Windsor IV 233 for 6; 43.3 overs (Houghton 89*)

Windsor IVs went into this match with a full squad and were looking for a win against top of the table rivals Bagshot. Bagshot won the toss and decided to bat. They started well and it took some time for the wickets to come. Ben Lewis made the break through with an in-swinging Yorker and he soon picked up a second with the same delivery. Bristow took his first wicket as the Bagshot player dragged the ball back onto his stumps. Bagshot started to look shaky but N. Rice played well and steadied their innings. Ben Lewis struck again thanks to a catch from Ric Saunders. Richard Charters was denied a stumping and an LBW due to a couple of very poor decisions, but got a wicket bowling the batsmen off his legs. John Holmes came onto bowl with some terrific pace and bowled N. Rice (63) with a fast, seaming delivery. M. Clark (50) was run out by a direct hit from Ryan Doye and Bagshot declared on 232 – 7 from 51.1 overs.

Windsor openers Saunders (48) and Charters (30) started well and were starting to look comfortable when Charters was caught behind from the bowling of Sutherland. Ric Saunders followed soon after bowled by Sutherland. Dan Brown and Ryan Doye looked to solidify the innings but Doye (4) was given out LBW. Houghton the captain came to the crease knowing that a big innings was needed. Dan Brown tickled one to the keeper, again, off the bowling of Sutherland. Tom Carter hung about for a few overs with Houghton, until he chipped one up for an easy catch. Michael Gegg put in a big innings not scoring many, but defending his wickets valiantly and feeding the strike to Houghton. Gegg (8) finally was bowled after a partnership of 78, leaving Windsor needing only 15 runs to win. John Holmes (8*) and Tim Houghton (89*) saw Windsor home and to another 20 point win.

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Cove IV vs. Windsor IV

Windsor 4’s 184 all out (Houghton 91, Brown 60)
Cove 4’s 185 for 1 (Catchpole 83, Garfoot 53*)

World cup fever was with up again this week and the reverberations were felt throughout the club. Windsor set out to Cove with only 9 players. Windsor lost the toss and were put into bat. Opener Scott Martin was caught behind on 5 and the next ball Charles Light was stumped failing to return to his crease after leaving the ball. Windsor found themselves 5 – 2. Then, Tim Houghton and Dan Brown started to dig in. The run rate started to pick up and bowling became erratic. Some devastating strokes by Houghton saw the run rate speed up to almost 8 an over. Windsor were on 145 when the next wicket fell, Tim Houghton bowled by a ball that didn’t bounce after pitching on 91. Dan Brown pushed on and made a well deserved 60. Cove were into the tail and mopped up quickly. Windsor collapsing to 184 all out.

Cove came out attacking and picked the holes in the field and scored quickly. Kenny Lawrence had to stop bowling after three overs because of an injury. Colin Bristow and Scott Martin tried as hard as they could with no luck as Cove kept hitting balls through the gaps in the field. Eventually, Jespal Benawra got a wicket, Catchpole, stumped by Houghton. Windsor fought hard but no more wickets fell and Cove finished their innings with 185 – 1.

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