The 1st team travelled away to newly promoted Great Brickhill looking to rewrite the wrongs of the previous week. Skipper King won the toss and made the decision to bowl bearing in mind the weather which was forecast and anticipating D/L would be brought into play.
The first ball of the match initially sent a few shivers down the side of both teams as the ball barely got through to the keeper on the second bounce. Great Brickhill raced to 30 off there first 4 overs, but with over half of these coming through extras, the Hares were giving the opposition a real helping hand. However once Mcleod and King started to control the swing, pressure started to build and Mcleod got the breakthrough with a well-directed short ball caught down the legside. With the introduction of Crick from the pavilion end following King, things started to happen. Crick found great bounce from this end and this produced the wickets of 3 & 4 including the highly regarded and dangerous batsmen Davson which left Great Brickhill 50-3 after 11. The introduction of spin in the middle overs didn’t make things easier from Great Brickhill, with M.Ogden producing a big spinning delivery turning straight through the defences of Brickhills number 5. He was soon to add another to the wicket column with number 6 chipping one straight back. An unpicked googly from Croft left their number 7 utterly bemused as he shouldered arms to this delivery, and he was on his way leg before leaving Brickhill 6 for 114. The Hares continued to chip away picking up regular wickets before rain set in at 158/8 of 36, this was not before Olly Stalder got his first run out for the 1s and Tom Marshall his first 1st team wicket. This bowling performance was much improved from last weeks efforts and on another small ground the bowlers all adapted well, however the extras are something that will need to be reduced in the big games that we have coming up in the next few weeks. We look forward to taking on local rivals Amersham next week who are unbeaten after their 2 games.
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