Audlem Cricket Reports

Audlem Sunday X1

Gorse Croft Pitch

Alsager v Audlem ( Saturday May 10 )

Alsager secured a comfortable victory on Saturday to get their season up and running and in the process ended Audlem's 100 % record in the league this season.
Half centuries from Hassan Haleem and Paul Pickford set the tone for Alsager to race to 266 for 6 from their 40 overs. Haleem hit 11 fours and one 6 in his 77 whilst Pickford's 76 contained 10 boundaries and one maximum.
Simon Swift took the bowling honors with 3 for 64. Dave Blatherwick replied with 22 but Audlem's hopes of extending their fine start were all-but over when they slumped to 94 for 8. Jake Topping ( 43 ), Abhijith Jayan ( 40 ) & Simon Swift ( 12 not out ) broke the shackles and added a further 89 runs for the visitors to finish with a respectable 183 all out in the 38th over. Audlem gained 10 points for their efforts on the day and next week welcome the visit of high flying Burslem to The Gorse Croft.

Audlem v Alvanley ( Sunday May 11 )

Audlem welcomed Alvanley to The Gorse Croft on Sunday and on a scorching day were very relieved that skipper Banfield won the toss to enable the hosts to take first strike.
Ben Salisbury ( 50 retired not out , Bertie Hardy ( 30 ) & Andy Jackson ( retired 50 not out ) got the team off to a great start and with Ollie Banfield ( 27 ) & Alfie Hardy ( 24 ) scoring valuable runs in the middle order were able to reach the imposing total of 257 for 5 at the tea interval.
Alvanley were always behind the asking rate but put up a valiant effort to reach 213 all out at the end of proceedings with the main contributions coming from Kevin Thorneysett ( 67 ) & Andrew Hayhurst ( 47 not out ). Connor Howard led from the front in claiming 3 scalps for 25 runs with assistance from Thomas Jackson with a brace & one each from Dave Parkinson, Jake Topping, Steve Neale, Richard Irvine & Alfie Hardy who also took two fine catches to round off a fine individual performance .

Next Sunday Audlem welcome Hodnet & Peplow with the game starting at 1.00pm

Sunday Cricket X1 Photo:
Back Row.
Andy Jackson. Steve Neale. Ollie Banfield ( Captain). John Wainwright ( Groundsman ). Ben Salisbury. Conor Howard. Bertie Hardy. Steve Ellsmore. Jake Topping.
Front Row
Tom Jackson. Richard Irvine. Dave Parkinson. Alfie Hardy.

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