Results - Week 11

Week 11 saw both East Keswick teams win in convincing fashion.

The 1st team bowled out second place rivals Leeds Police for just 190, before knocking the runs off for the loss of just four wickets. The win takes them 12 points clear of Leeds Police at the half way point in the season.

The 2nd team travelled to bottom of the table Wighill Park where they won the toss and chose to bat first. A good start by Andrew Hirst (35), Farid Hussain (30) and Imran Hussain (45) took Keswick to 137-3, but the loss of four quick wickets put some pressure on the middle and lower order. However Steven Marsh (25), Steve Skerrett (9) and Tony Goodwin (8) put on some vital runs to set an under par but defendable total of 196.

Keswick got off to a great start when Mohammed Ashfaq claimed the first victim in the last ball of his first over with the score on just two runs. From there on Keswick were always on top thanks to some excellent bowling by all the bowlers, especially Farid Hussain who consistently beat the bat with little luck.

When the last wicket fell Wighill were all out for 101 runs leaving Keswick fourth in the table, just 5 points behind third place, and 7 points behind second. The 2nd team have now won six out of their last seven games.

2nd Team - Team Selection vs. Wighill Park 'A'

The team to play away at Wighill Park on Saturday, 27th June 2009 is as follows:

1. Andrew Hirst (Capt.)
2. Neil Chapman
3. Ashley Richardson
4. Mohammed Ashfaq
5. Gareth Meredith
6. Farid Hussain
7. Tony Goodwin
8. Matt Bishop
9. Steve Skerrett (Wkt.)
10. Steven March
11. Imran Hussain

1.30pm start time. Batting order to be confirmed.

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Directions - Wighill village is 2 miles north of Tadcaster. Enter the village from the south, go past the church and when the road turns sharp right keep straight on through the gate into Wighill Park. Stay on this road for ¾ of a mile to a “T” junction. Turn left on to an unmade road, then right in front of farm. Ground is on the right.

Whixley Evening League - Week 8

On Thursday evening East Keswick take on Green Hammerton at home in the Whixley Evening League. Any team news will appear on here.

2nd Team Statistics - Week 10

Dismissals – 49 out of 81 (60%) of East Keswick’s dismissals this season have been caught out. Neil Chapman extended his streak of being caught out to 8 on Saturday! Other batsmen being caught out often include, Andrew Hirst (6 out of 10), Ashley Richardson (7 out of 9) and James Cosgrove (6 out of 10) The top batsman for being bowled out is Gareth, with 5 out of 6 dismissals resulting in the feared death rattle.

Result - Betty Chadderton Cup

On Sunday afternoon East Keswick went out of the Betty Chadderton Cup semi-final after a poor all round display against a strong St Chads team.

Batting first East Keswick got to sixty-plus for the loss of just one wicket before being bowled out for just 106 with only three Keswick players made it into double figures. Some poor shot selection and running between the wickets was then compounded by a bowling and fielding display that saw 21 wides and four dropped catches, three of which could well have left Chads struggling at 45-5. Instead they cruised to victory with plenty of overs in hand.

Week 10 - Results

Week 10 again saw good victories for both the first and second teams.

The first team bowled South Milford out for 145 and easily knocked the runs off for the loss of just two wickets. This keeps them top of division 2.

The second team made it six wins out of the last seven with a convincing win over South Milford A. Batting first East Keswick made 202-9 in their 45 overs, with Farid Hussain (45) and Ashley Richardson (44*), and Sohail Mohammed (24) leading the run scoring.

In reply Keswick's bowlers reduced South Milford to 139 all out, with Andy Barber producing an excellent spell of bowling with figures of 12-1-33-4 and Mohammed Ashfaq with 7.3-1-24-2. The win took East Keswick to 5th place in the table.

Whixley Evening League Results

East Keswick pulled off a fine (and first!) victory in the Whixley Evening League last night, despite only having 10 players. Batting first Whixley scored 152 off their 16 eight ball overs, racing to 95 off their first ten overs with plenty of wickets in hand. Keswick’s bowling attack, backed up by some good catching and fielding, then produced an excellent effort to limit them to just 57 more runs off the last 48 balls.

In reply Keswick suffered an early setback when Kevin Newlove was bowled for a duck in the first over, but Sohail Mohammed (26) and Andrew Hirst (18) then put on a half century partnership to keep Keswick in the game, albeit it facing a stiff run rate. The real damage was done when a superb knock by Mark Abram (67*) and a quick fire Neil Chapman (21) effort took the Whixley bowling apart. Two big hitting overs went for 43 runs, with the ball disappearing out of the ground on several occasions for huge sixes. The winning runs came in the last over with six balls to spare as Keswick coasted to victory.

Team Selection - Thursday Evening League

The team to play away at Whixley this evening is as follows:

Neil Chapman (Capt.)
Mark Abram (Wkt.)
Andrew Hirst
Adrian Hirst
Kevin Newlove
Mohammed Ashfaq
Sohail Mohammed
Gareth Meredith
Steven March
Andy Barber
TBC

2nd Team - Team Selection vs. South Milford 'A'

The team to take on South Milford 'A' at home on Saturday 20th June is as follows:

1. James Cosgrove (Capt.)
2. Andrew Hirst (Wkt.)
3. Ashley Richardson
4. Neil Chapman
5. Gareth Meredith
6. Mohammed Ashfaq
7. Sajid Ali
8. Andy Barber
9. Steven March
10. Matt Bishop
11. Matt Couchman

Batting line-up to be confirmed. Please meet at the ground for 12.45pm

Week 9 - 2nd Team Statistics

Here are the 2nd team 'Team Stats' for up to week 9.

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Other miscellaneous stats....

Neil Chapman has been dismissed 7 times this season - all caught out.

James Cosgrove has the best catching record in the team, taking 6 out of 7 catches.

Steven March has the worst catching record in the team dropping all 3 of the catches coming his way.

Ashley Richardson has the best batting average, scoring 579 runs at an average of 61.00, whilst hitting 63 fours and 19 sixes (67% of all his runs are in boundaries).

Steve Skerrett has the lowest batting average, scoring 10 runs in 5 innings and averaging 3.33.

Matt Bishop has no batting average due to two not out's!