Horsley Comes good but sports only manage Winning Draw !!

Sports v Massey Ferguson/Jag Daimler @ Bannerbrook Lane Coventry

Opening stand of 109 by Harry and Ricey before Ricey goes for 44 26th over, New signing Steve French hits a well made 34, Harry Runs imself out for a brilliantly made 92 “muppett”, Irfan smashes 40 from 21 balls “please work on the reverse slog” Immy hits 16 at a run a ball leaving sports on 242 from 50 overs

early wickets for Ibby and Ash Harrison have Massey’s down to 63-7 before a solid 53 from number 9 Ireland holds up the innings along with opener Davies 34 from 118 balls, Harry Removes both and sports need the final wickets, many bowling changes and a great effort sports fall short and take home 18 points, leaving Massey’s on 170-9 batting out the last 10 overs for a losing draw

Umpire’s Man of the Match: Harry “Houdini” Horsley “still another yard of pace required

sports stay 5th in the league

Harry in Action

Rain Affected draw v Nether Whitacre drops Sports to 5th in Division 2

21st June 2008 2008 LEAGUE TABLE	Go back
Team P W24 W20 TD WD LD4 LD2 L A BtP BwP Pts
CIVIL SERVICE 9 3 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 14 10 149 WALSALL YMF 9 0 7 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 143 STREETLY 9 1 3 0 1 0 0 3 1 9 10 112 MASSEY FURGUSON 9 2 2 0 0 1 1 2 1 10 9 112 ATTLEBOROUGH 9 1 3 0 0 1 0 2 2 7 8 106 NETHER WHITACRE 9 2 0 0 1 1 0 3 2 16 15 101 FOUR OAKS SAINTS 9 1 1 0 2 1 0 4 0 18 13 99 SPHINX COVENTRY 9 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 2 6 10 96 LYNDWORTH 9 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 3 14 14 93 MARSTON GREEN 9 0 1 0 3 0 0 3 2 13 22 93 RUGBY 9 0 1 0 0 2 1 3 2 11 18 67 AMBLESIDE 9 0 1 0 0 1 0 7 0 17 18 59 Sports 151-5 in 30 overs before rain ended the game 21st june 2008, Runs shared around with Ashley harrison stranded on 48 Not Out

Thursday league 1sts beat Hinckley Amateurs (Bradshaws Bulldogs)

Batting 1st Sports score 116 ex Amateurs Players Ricey 61*, Frenchy 20 and Horlsley 18* did the damage, Lee Rastall collecting 3-26 for Hinckley

In reply Steady bowling from Daz “Da Blade” Slade 2-20 from 5 and Jakey 2-15 kept the rate down, yorkie picked up the other wicket 1-17 from 4 – fine bowling perforance from all only Hinckley Batsmen to get into double figures Jack Horlskley 15, Lee Martin 35* and James Lester 25 Ammies only managed 87-5

4 points gainined for Sports should see us move into mid table of the NIC Nuneaton Thursday ngiht league division 1

Sports suffer 2nd lose of the season

Away to Streetly – Ricey won the toss and elected to field on a small very pretty looking ground

having decided to bowl, 4 players then get stuck in traffic and we start with 7 players “the joys of being a captain” seeing as im writing this my mood was’nt at its best pretty much through the 1st 25 overs

Anyway after dropping Finlay on 0 with 7 players he then smashes a fine 125 “Bourts didnt see it”  3rd over we finally had 11 there Captain Yeend supported him well with 53, opening stand 140 from 30 overs sports had some work to do, Irfan in his 2nd game bowled well taking 4-87 from 17 overs, Yorkie, Barnett and Ash Harrison all tried hard but the scoreboard never quiet got under control, streetly finishing with 286-9 from 50 overs, Stimpy collecting 2 wickets mainly due to the great work behind the stumps from the evergreen Gary Loveridge

Chasing down the total, Mo And Harry opened up, Harry had a life early but failed to capitalise on this going for 14, Mo looked good and again got himself out, Ibby and Irfan went cheaply bringing Ricey to the crease 84-4, Both Him and Immy built and strong partnership both pasing half centuries before Ricey is caught behind by Keeper Curtis standing up trying to guide one down !! ERROR CAPTAIN

Immy passes a well made 100, but then the collapse, Sports needing 69 to win from 10 overs with 5 wickets left somehow chucked it away in kamakazi fashion, Ash, Yorkie, Gaz and Bourts all went within 5 overs leaving Immy stranded needing 41 to win with Stimpy Barnett, a massive 6 and then next ball its game over for Attleborough, a mixed effort allround !!!

Captains Comments: being a young side, we must improve are general confidence when under pressure teams dont come to be beat, we need to adapt more to chasing a total and build and innings, a flashy 20-30 here and there isn’t going to win a game EVER !!!  TAKE responsibility you score the runs don’t leave it to anyone else, when things are bad in the field we need to stick together as a unit. one mistake from myself was not bowling Harry more, but like i said not a great thinking day from me after the late arrival of Ibby, Immy Mo and Irfan !!!

Umpires man of the match: Streetly’s Sean Finlay (125) well played

on another point poor sportsman ship by streetly, we clapped 50’s,100’s they didnt very poor

Fine Win against Marston Green 1sts – 7th June 2008

Attleborough Sports v Marston Green 1sts

Having won the Toss Skipper Rice decides to bowl 1st on a drying wicket, good tight spells from Ibby Sadiq and Russell Rice and Marston were struggling on 34-3 from 20 overs, the next 30 overs Marston fought back some solid batting from Youngster Mo Kahn 86 not out supported by Eaton (29) MacDonough 24 and Marston Green finished there innings on 197-7 with 75 runs coming from the last 10 overs

key spells from Sadiq 10 overs 1-11, Rice 3-41 from 12, and Youngster Ashley Harrison 2-50 from 11

in reply Harry Horsley smashed a classy 39 including 9 fours, supported by Mo Patel 16, then Ibby Sadiq followed up with a whirlwind 57, new signing Irfan Kahn hit a solid 36 and Skipper Rice 19 Not Out gave Sports the 20 points in 39.3 for a loss of 5 wickets

Umpires Man of the match: Ibby Sadiq

Win Against Ambleside moves Sports to 4th

DIVISION 2 1st XI

2008 LEAGUE TABLE
Team P W24 W20 TD WD LD4 LD2 L A BtP BwP Pts
WALSALL YMF 6 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 99 CIVIL SERVICE 6 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 1 11 9 93 MASSEY FURGUSON 6 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 6 78 ATTLEBOROUGH 6 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 72 NETHER WHITACRE 6 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 16 13 67 LYNDWORTH 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 7 7 65 SPHINX COVENTRY 6 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 6 6 64 STREETLY 6 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 9 10 64 MARSTON GREEN 6 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 6 14 64 FOUR OAKS SAINTS 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 10 6 60 RUGBY 6 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 1 6 13 51 AMBLESIDE 6 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 0 9 11 44
Next Game v Marston Green @ Home 1.30pm start

Various Pics from the papers May 2008

Mr Harry “Boots” Horlsey in action @ Rugby CC

Ricey tickle’s one down through slip for four !! No slip ERROR

Ricey Opening up @ Rugby May 08 on way to 110 Not Out

Winning the Toss Vital and Produces Fine win for Sports V Ambleside 1sts

After persistant rain around Nuneaton through the week winning the toss proves vital for ASCC, Putting Ambleside in on a damp & uneven wicket  and also producing another fine fielding and catching display from Sports 1st team, bowling 1st ambleside shot out for 90 in 38.1 Overs

tight Spells from Ash Harrison and Ricey early on had Ambleside 23-4 from 11 overs, some fine catching from Bourton, Ricey, Harry Horsley before Yorkie not his normal self but still ripping 3 players out for 21, Bringing Leigh”Stimpy”Barnett on and golden arm took the last 3 wickets for 8 runs, fine team Performance , more good catches from Ash Harrison and Gazza Loveridge and Attleborough’s time to bat

Ibby opened up with Mo Patel and put on 57 before both went on the same score, Ibby 39 and mo Patient 15, Harry H arrived and went, leaving Skipper Ricey and Ash Harrison to wrap the game up in 24.5 overs for 3 wickets

fine 20 points achieved and moving Sports to 4th in the league

Umpires man of the match: Skipper Russell Rice – 19 overs 3-41 and 20 not out on not the best pitch

good spell from Ash Harrison

and steady batting from Mo Patel