Scorecard

Halstead Cricket Club Saturday 1st XI v East Bergholt CC 1st XI on Sat 12 Jun 2021 at 12:00
Halstead Cricket Club Won by 70 runs

Match report Halstead returned to winning ways with a hard-fought victory over East Bergholt at Star Stile on Saturday.

Ed Clark was forced into two late changes to his team, with Adam Morris and Lewis Brennan replacing Josh Wells and Josh King respectively. The skipper won the toss and chose to bat, a decision that looked in question when his side fell to 35-3.

Chris Rayner (18) hit 4 fours in his cameo before edging Ben McGrath (1-44) behind to Dan Loveless, before Kian Schwartz (2-32) bowled Adam Morris (5) and had Charlie Douglas-Hughes (5) caught by Alistair Wood at gully.

Harry Pritchard (56*) was the rock of the Halstead innings, anchoring himself as wickets fell around him. He found a willing partner in Joe Morris (24), the pair putting on 34 for the fourth wicket before Morris fell into Nathan Philpot's (2-33) trap and was caught at midwicket by Sam Foster.

Matt Cooper (10) was trapped LBW by Jamie McGrath (1-29), Ed Clark (1) caught and bowled by Philpot and Liam Jones (1) run out by George Foster as Halstead found themselves further in the mire at 87-7.

Lewis Brennan (21) - making an early return from injury - and Pritchard came together in the 21st over with a lot of work to do, but the pair were resolute and set to their task, batting out 16 overs for a partnership of 50 before Brennan hit Sam Foster (3-19) to Jamie McGrath at midwicket.

Shorn Bobb (0) didn't trouble the scorers as he was bowled by Foster, but Luke Robinson (11) helped marshall the scores past 150 and allow Pritchard to bring up a much-deserved half-century before Robinson too was bowled by Foster.

Halstead will have been disappointed with their total, whilst equally pleased with the grit and determination to get up to a defendable score of 168 all out. They needed to start well and opening bowlers Joe Morris (3-16) and Ed Clark (2-18) duly delivered in an outstanding opening spell.

The pair bowled with great discipline and consistently asked questions of the Bergholt batsmen as none of the visiting top six made double figures.

Richard Pickford (3) was the first to go, edging Morris behind to Matt Cooper before an outstanding caught and bowled from Clark accounted for Bergholt's South African pro Kian Schwartz (5).

17-2 soon became 28-4 as John Hambrook (6) was bowled by Morris and Sam Foster (4) edged Clark behind to Cooper, the opening pair finishing their first spells with combined figures of 14-2-32-4.

Chris Rayner (2-28) and Luke Robinson (1-13) then joined the party, with George Foster (3) hitting Robinson to Joe Morris at midwicket and both Alistair Wood (8) and Harry Parkes (3) being bowled by Rayner leaving the visitors at 60-7.

A partnership finally formed for the visitors as Dan Loveless (31) and Jamie McGrath (20) took the scores toward the 100 run mark, but the dismissal of McGrath - caught by Cooper off Liam Jones (2-23) sparked a collapse as the final three wickets fell with the score on 98. Nathan Philpot picked out Shorn Bobb at mid-off to give Jones his second wicket before Morris returned to clean up Loveless.

Halstead will look to keep the momentum going as they host Worlington on Saturday.

Halstead Cricket Club Saturday 1st XI Batting
Player Name RunsMB4s6sSRCtStRo
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TOTAL :
15w 1lb 
for 10 wickets
16
168		        
Chris Rayner ct D Loveless b B McGrath 18 16 4 112.50
Adam Morris b K Schwartz 5 17 1 29.41
Harry Pritchard Not Out  56 102 2 54.90
Charlie Douglas-Hughes ct A Wood b K Schwartz 5 8 1 62.50
Joe Morris ct S Foster b N Philpot 24 25 3 96.00 1
Matt Cooper lbw J McGrath 10 10 2 100 3
Ed Clark ct N Philpot b N Philpot 1 4 25.00 1
Liam Jones run out  (G Foster) 1 3 33.33
Lewis Brennan ct J McGrath b S Foster 21 55 3 38.18
Shorn Bobb b S Foster 0 4 0 1
Luke Robinson b S Foster 11 19 1 57.89

East Bergholt CC 1st XI Bowling

Player nameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Kian Schwartz10.0132216.003.20
Ben McGrath10.0044144.004.40
Jamie McGrath6.0029129.004.83
Nathan Philpot10.0133216.503.30
Sam Foster5.511936.333.26
Alistair Wood2.001000.005.00

East Bergholt CC 1st XI Batting
Player name RMB4s6sSR
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TOTAL :
15w  
for 10 wickets
15
98 (36.2 overs)		     
Richard Pickford ct M Cooper b J Morris 3 15 20.0
John Hambrook b J Morris 6 12 1 50.0
Kian Schwartz ct E Clark b E Clark 5 6 1 83.33
Sam Foster ct M Cooper b E Clark 4 11 36.36
Alistair Wood b C Rayner 8 57 1 14.04
George Foster ct J Morris b L Robinson 3 24 12.50
Daniel Loveless b J Morris 31 54 4 57.41
Harry Parkes b C Rayner 3 14 21.43
Jamie McGrath ct M Cooper b L Jones 20 22 3 90.91
Nathan Philpot ct S Bobb b L Jones 0 2 0
Ben McGrath Not Out  0

Halstead Cricket Club Saturday 1st XI Bowling

Player NameOversMaidensRunsWicketsAverageEconomy
Joe Morris8.221635.331.92
Ed Clark7.021829.002.57
Chris Rayner10.0328214.002.80
Luke Robinson6.0113113.002.17
Liam Jones5.0123211.504.60