Milton II vs Sutton I
Sutton I 193 for 7 from 40.0 overs (M. Vincent 105, R. Braybrooke 39, J. Nayar 10-1-19-3, T. deFreston 10-1-50-2)
Milton 89 all out from 33.5 overs (J. Amphlett 22, G. Cambell 6-2-9-3)
Sutton I win by 104 runs
Milton’s batting crumbles away chasing a large target at home
After many weeks of rainy weather, clear skies greeted the cricketers turning up to the sycamores. Sutton won the toss and chose to bat first. The Vincent brothers got off to a flyer with M. Vincent driving several balls from opening bowlers Tom de Freston and Rob Jervis straight over their heads. However, Rob bowled A. Vincent with an excellent Yorker and it was left up to R. Braybrook to support M. Vincent up to 20 overs. At drinks, Sutton were 86 for 1; Jack and Simon Coston finally getting the run rate under control. Soon afterwards, Jack caught and bowled R. Braybrook and soon took 2 more wickets. However, Milton couldn’t remove Vincent and he went on to get 105 before Simon Coston eventually bowled him. Tom got two late wickets to restrict Sutton to under 200, but the damage was largely done. Sutton had 193 for 7 off their 40 overs; a good score on a pitch that looked good but produced a lot of ‘shooters’.
Milton’s reply got off to a shaky start with Ben going LBW in the 4th over. However, Graeme and Jon looked comfortable enough and they got the score to 51 off 17 overs before Graeme was unluckily bowled by a ball keeping low. Ian Jackson joined Jon and at drinks Milton were 56 for 2. The rapidly raising run rate put some extra pressure on the Milton batsmen and when Jon got bowled shortly after drinks, Ian soon followed. With some good bowling from G. Cambell and J. Nuttall, the rest of the middle order fell away somewhat, with Pete Welton the only one to look comfortable for a while. Milton collapsed to 89 all out, with an incredible 7 batsmen getting bowled.
It was then off to the White Horse for some fish finger sandwiches and to discuss next week’s trek up to March.