U18s CUP FINALS 2011 

Semi Finals:

 CBH v Elworth

Elworth won the toss and chose to bowl

CBH 142-3

M.Treen 50 Ret. G.Dumbavand 36*

Elworth 112AO

K.Coppack 3-14

CBH win by 30 runs and progress to the final.

Christleton v Runcorn:

Runcorn won the toss and batted first.

Runcorn 116-9 in 20 overs

C Wright 22    D McNamara 23

E Peel 1-13      M Astbury 3-9                        B Paterson 3-28

Christleton 119-4 in 19.3 overs

J Morgan Jones 36 NO           M Astbury 30

Christleton won by 6 wickets: and progress to the final

Runcorn compliment:

The match was played in a good competitive spirit, and the chip barms after the match were greatly appreciated.

FINAL             SUNDAY 4^th. SEPTEMBER 2011

Christleton vs Chester Boughton Hall

Christleton won the toss and batted. 

• 178-7 off 20 overs
• M Astbury 40 - 31 balls
• H Killoran 2-34
• Thompson 2-38

Chester Boughton Hall 108 AO

• J Williams top scored for CBH with 14
• M Jones 3-24

Matt Astbury - Man of the Match

Details of the game:

On a beautiful sunny afternoon Ben Paterson, Christleton captain, won the toss and elected to bat first.  Paterson opened along with Harry Peel and they got off to a flying start scoring 57 from the first 6 overs before Paterson went for 29. Peel was joined by Man of the Match Matt Astbury with the score on 62.
Two overs later Peel went for 24 and Josh Morgan-Jones came to the crease. Josh did what Josh does and hit a rapid 22 from 13 balls before being stumped by Adam  Dumbavand.

Rob Marks joined Astbury and they contineud to score at over 8 runs an over.
Astbury moved on to 40 before he was bowled by O Thompson with the score on 150.
This brought Greg Russell to the crease who didn't intend hanging around with Christleton in an excellent position with wickets in hand. Greg fell to a good catch on the boundary by J Killoran for 7 from 4.

Ed Peel next man in at the end of the 19th over didn't get to face very much when Marks fell 1st ball of the last over and Mike Jones came in and hit a blistering 14 from the last 5 balls before being run out from the final ball of the innings. Christleton ended their innings with 178 from 20 overs.

When Chester BH took the field they faced the task of scoring at 8.9 an over which wasn't helped when they lost M Treen in the 2nd over with only 1 on the board.

Thompson joined Mike Robinson and they started to put on a partnership when Thompson was run out with the score on 30. J Williams was the next man in for CBH but they continued to struggle against some good bowling from Christleton. Tom Allen bowled out his 4 overs with 1-17. Wickets fell regularly as CBH fell further and further behind the required rate. When Robinson was bowled he was joined by A Dumbavand.
J Williams was next to fall to another excellent catch on the boundary by Nick Mumford for 14.

After 10 overs, CBH were struggling with 57 on the board and 4 wickets down, this meant that the required rate had gone up to 12 an over.  After a quick drink A Dumbavand was soon joined by his brother G Dumbavand who in turn was soon to depart.

Matt Robinson came in and stayed long enough to see the wickets of G Dumbavand (7), M Williams (0) and J Killoran (8) fallat the other end.  This left H Killoran and S Treen to see out the final overs, but Killoran was going to enjoy himself with the game gone when Astbury took the last catch off the bowling of Jones, leaving Christleton the winners by 71 runs.

Presentations:

Mr. Bob Milne, the Cheshire Cricket’s Development Officer, presented the trophies. 

Bob paid credit to:-

·         Chrisleton CC for hosting the final

·         The Christleton CC groundsman for the work in preparation of the wicket

·         The two umpires for the good job they did.

·         The two teams for the entertainment provided

·         Brian Coyne – who could not attend today but organized the competition throughout the season.

Individual winners and runners-up medals were issued to the players.

Chester BH were presented with the George Wardle shield for winning the West league.

Christleton were presented with the George Wardle trophy as overall competition winners.