the 1st XI got back to winning ways with an excellent 6 wicket win over local rivals Newcastle, however a much weakend 2nd XI took a hammering in the reverse fixture, in the NTCL a very young 3rd XII were inspired by returning Hill stalwart and Ex Newcastle Falcons and England rugby man Dave Walder, as they beat Gosforth Strikers, read on for all the info.
NEPL Premier Division - 1st XI v Newcastle (h) - Won by 6 wickets - Match Report by Phil Haves
Another sunny day at NBMS Denton Bank saw us line up against Newcastle CC with 3 changes to our line up from the previous week including Aaryan Wagh making his First Team League debut behind the stumps.
Newcastle won the toss and rather surprisingly to both the home and away followers decided to have a bat. Harpo (Mark Watson) and Ben quickly reduced the away side to 20/3 before Fletch took an absolute worldy off Ben to dismiss the visitors overseas Cahlin for an aggressive 26 with the score on 49. Following a miserly 9 over spell from Ben who took 3-18 Woody then took centre stage taking 3 wickets in quick succession as the visiting skippers decision to bat first completely back fired as they slipped to 77/7.
After Lunch Lumsden and Doig batted determinedly adding 53 before the former was caught by Harpo off Max. A further 18 runs were added by the tail which was cleaned up by Max as the visitors were bowled out for 148 which was very much under par. Ben, Woody Wilson and Max finished with 3 wickets each whilst Harpo also chipped in with 1.
Dave and the returning Adam opened up and although Dave was dropped at slip early on the pair added 55 when Dave was out for 42 to running diving catch at long on. Adam and Ayush continued their business in a composed manner adding a further 48 passing 100 until Ayush was dismissed for 21. During his innings of 39 Adam reached an outstanding achievement of reaching 10000 Premier League runs joining Messrs Birtwisle, Worthy, Smith, Graham, Hughes and Shurben in the illustrious list. Back to the game and Max batting at 4 hit a quick fire 27 before Belly (16no) and Ben (4no) took us to a comfortable victory by 6 wickets keeping alive our slim hopes of avoiding the drop.
Saturday sees our next test with a visit to Felling.
NEPL 1st XI Scorecard v Newcastle (h)
NEPL Division 2 - 2nd XI v Newcastle (a) - Lost by 233 runs
A much weakened 2nd XI took a hell of a beating at Jesmond. The home team won the toss and chose to bat and posted a mamoth 316 for 3 in 50 overs, thanks to an unbeaten 4th wicket stand of 236 runs between Levi Oliver (114) and Kieran Trevaskis (111).
In reply only Navi Safi (15), James Walder (14) and Nazif Habibi (14) made double figures as we were dismissed for only 83 in the 44th over.
Next week we host Felling as we return to Win/Lose games (colour clothing), and hopefully a few returning senior players will see a more competitive game.
NEPL 2nd XI Scorecard v Newcastle (a)
NTCL Division 5 South - 3rd XI v Gosforth Strikers (h @ Newbrough) - Won by 3 wickets - Captains Report by Chris Pounder
Match report to follow,
NTCL 3rd XI Scorecard v Gosforth Strikers
NEPL Sunday DIvision 1 - 3rd XI v Chester le Street - Match Conceded
Unfortunately we had to concede the fixture to league champions Chester le Street on Sunday, as we only had 7 players available due to a combination of unavailability, holidays, injuries and ineligibility.
