Chigwell Cricket Club

French Cricket

Francois hit the winning run at the end of a dramatic chase in a low scoring match at Old Chigs against Woodford Green on Sunday. His skipper looks rather pleased too.

Earlier, Chigs had lost the toss on a hot Sunday afternoon but dismissed Woodford Green for 135 before enjoying a splendid Wiskin tea. After this feast, the top order batsmen failed, leaving the innings on the edge of the abyss, at 18-5.

Aqeel and Nick manage to scrimp runs at the modest pace required until the last hour. Richard and Gremlo contributed some solid biffing until Francois joined Nick with a handful of overs left and nine runs needed. A pressure-relieving boundary, a brace of twos and a final scramble over the finish line meant that Chigs next week begin their belated league campaign unbeaten.  Allez!

Scorecard

Switch of opposition this Sunday, 20th May

We are now playing Maylands Green this Sunday, 20th May, at Hylands Park, Hornchurch (not to be confused with the one in Chelmsford that hosts the V-Festival).

North Weald Went West

Chigwell 167-6
North Weald 65

Chigwell won by 102 runs Full Scorecard

Well, cricket, writes Nigel Barfoot. The waiting for mother earth to allow nuclear activity through the thin layer we call atmosphere lasted three weeks - it was sunny at last!

Chigwell were put into bat which with a hot-ish day and soggy pitch looked ominous for our openers. Robbie Allum and brother of Wayne, Tom Kerr, started off proceedings. Tom faced the first ball and hit a huge-ish shot from way outside leg which caught the wind and was caught out. 135 last year and golden duck this year. Ok. Ah yes, that's cricket. Unlucky mate.
 
Aqeel was next to the crease and was stumped by the lack of bounce as was Rob who found it very tricky to hit the ball off the square. At this point we all though 60/70 was a total that would be ok to get to.

The score crept up slowly and Aqeel lost his wicket to bring in Adamski. At this point I retired my umpire's jacket and went to pad up which meant I stopped paying attention to our game and now paid attention to the vile football scores. Rob scored 64. Arsenal got 3, which is poor in cricket terms. Adam scored, who knows, 3.4 billion or so? We scored a very respectable 167.

North Weald's tea was full of all the proteins and nutrients most people need to play sport, except for Gremlo who needs his hit of sugar to bowl. Gremlo opened the bowling with great gusto. Owen was at the other end for a legendary spell that lasted a few more balls than a traditional over.

Alex was to replace Evans above and bowled pretty well, grabbing a wicket. Gremlo straight bowled two batsmen and took a caught and bowled which was hit hard. Rob Orange bowled well but was unlucky not to nick one. Nick on the other hand didn't buy a jug so I won't mention his bowling. 5-for and 2 plane crashes.

North Weald were a good fun team to play, with plenty of quality banter to entertain us all. It was a good day.

More rain

Last week's league match against Pacific was cancelled and so is the one this Sunday against Hadley Wood Green. That is the news.

Rain

Our first match, away against Mayfield, was cancelled due to the wet weather. On the plus side, each side receives 8 points, under the new league regulations.

2012 Fixtures!

The fixture list for 2012 is now published. The first three matches are league skirmishes, beginning on 22nd April against Mayfield. So let's exhume those old spikes from the bottom of the wardrobe, oil up and get ready to perform. Oo-err missus....!

Winter Nets

Nets will begin at Forest School on Tuesday 3rd January from 9.00pm - 10.00pm. We have one lane, and sessions will continue each Tuesday until the end of April.

That's the only cricketing news at the moment, as we slide into bleak winter. More information on social events to come soon.

Guess Who's Back...

James's contribution to Chigwell's run tally continues... x

Chigwell's Batting Goes South (Loughton)

Chigwell vs South Loughton
Sunday 26th June

The sun had its hat on for sure, writes Nigel Barfoot. We started well with Rob Allum winning the toss and consulting the team on what we should do - bat/bowl? The vote was 7/4 to bowl first which we did, with SPF 0(Richard) to SPF 50(Rob O).

  Gremlo started with his usual panache of in-swing with Ricardo at the other end swinging the other way. Hedge took a catch at point which kicked off a McFlurry of wickets - we got them down to about 55-6. They scored 101 in the end which was kind of us having not finished them off with our bowlers for 70 odd. They scored 101 all out.

  Rob A and Dave opened up the batting and we all sat back in the glorious sun watching an imperious duo of batsmen pick off the runs. Well, they got 2 runs and Dave took his Mizuno loft wedge from his caddy, chipping in for a birdie. The Highway man came to crease and looked to stay out all day - we had hours to get a tonne. Accurate bowling brought an appeal for LBW which was turned down by Will but an over later, the same ball got stuck in Nige's LBW hole. The next wickets fell to the same bowler, mostly LBW apart from Aqeel who edged to slip. Uh-o - Romeo and Juliet, Money for Nothing - we were in Dire Straits with two drummers. Soon to be one drummer after Rallum got bowled.

  Rob Orange and Nick had to go out and stodge out about 3 hours of cricket. They did well but Nick flourished to gully. Rob joined the golf fraternity by chipping one straight to a fielder. Brad did well and was joined by our nuclear submarine from up north, Ricardo Hannanto, who was #11.

  First ball - 4 runs. We hadn't seen much of that and being about 35-9, it was something to cheer. Then something very strange happened - Richard blocked a ball at his stumps. Wait a minute, could he do this for a while? Could the super-boomer win it?  Quite sensible, then bonkers whacking of the ball put Chigs back in contention again. 20/20 stuff now. Rich hit the ball bloody hard and got us to 60 very quickly but he was caught out being sensible, boo.

  Well done in the field and for the guys who saw out the accurate bowling. We're 400% better than that though.

Full scorecard

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