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11) THE STORY OF THE 1999 SEASON, OUR FIRST
IN THE BURTON AND DISTRICT CRICKET LEAGUE;

MATCHES PLAYED 17
MATCHES WON 15
MATCHES LOST 1
MATCHES DRAWN 1
MATCHES ABANDONED 2

 

CAPTAINS REPORT:
I WOULD LIKE TO START BY THANKING A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WEEK IN WEEK OUT GAVE UP HOURS OF THEIR SPARE TIME SO THAT ALL OF US COULD ENJOY A TROUBLE FREE GAME OF CRICKET. THE PITCH HAS PLAYED EXCELLENT ALL YEAR ROUND AS OUR PERFORMANCES HAVE REFLECTED, THIS IS A GREAT TRIBUTE TO CHRIS, ANDY, JON LUND, GILES AND ONE OR TWO OTHERS. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MONICA, KAREN AND SARAH WHO ALL COMBINED TO LAY ON SOME GREAT TEAS THROUGHOUT THE SEASON AND TO DOT WHO CONTINUES TO GIVE UP HER SATURDAY AFTERNOONS TO ENSURE WE HAVE THE NEATEST SCOREBOOK IN THE LEAGUE. I WILL ALSO MENTION GEOFF FOR HIS HARD WORK WITH THE ACCOUNTS AND ROY WITH THE STATISTICS.

THE SEASON ITSELF WAS A SUCESS AS WE ACHIVED OUR TARGET OF PROMOTION TO DIVISION THREE AT THE FIRST ATTEMPT. OUR REASON FOR MOVING LEAGUES WAS TO FIND IMPROVEMENT IN THE STANDARD OF PITCHES WE PLAYED ON AND APART FROM THE ODD EXCEPTION THIS WAS ACHIVED.

THE STANDARD AT TIMES WAS NOT GREAT AND AS A RESULT OF THIS TWO CLUB RECORDS WERE SET, AS WE HOPE TO CLIMB THE LEAGUES THESE MAY REMAIN FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. FIRSTLY WE SCORED 320 RUNS AGAINST TRENTSIDE IN JUNE FOLLOWED BY JON LUND'S FINE 170 NOT OUT AGAINST HILTON IN AUGUST. THERE WERE ALSO MANY OTHER FINE INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES ESPCIALLY BY ASHLEY AND JON WITH THE BAT AND BY JOHN, JEM, GILES AND ANDY WITH THE BALL.

UNFORTUANTLY, THE POINTS SYSTEM OF THE LEAGUE MEANT THAT TO WIN THE LEAGUE (WHICH WE NARROLLY FAILED TO DO), WE HAD TO GO ALL OUT IN EVERY GAME, THUS CERTAIN PLAYERS WERE NOT GIVEN THE CHANCES THEY FULLY DESERVED, BUT HOPEFULLY THIS CAN BE PUT RIGHT NEXT SEASON WITH OUR PROMOTION CAMPAIN GATHERING PACE.

ROBERT SANSOM (retiring captain)
AVERAGES;

THESE ARE THE BATTING AND BOWLING AVERAGES FOR THE SEASON COMPLETED;


BATTING;

(MINIMUM OF 8 COMPLETED ININGS).
NAME ININGS COMPLETED NOT- OUTS HIGHEST SCORE TOTAL RUNS AVERAGE FOURS SIX'S
JOHN LUND 14 4 170* 637 63.70 97 2
JOHN JONES 9 5 75 219 54.75 26 1
ASHLEY KIRK 16 2 112 536 38.29 65 4
ROB SANSOM 13 2 81 398 36.18 53 10

 

 

BOWLING AVERAGES;

(MINIMUM OF 40 OVERS).
NAME OVERS RUNS WICKETS MADIENS AVERAGE
JOHN LUND 42.1 133 17 8 7.82
ROB SANSOM 116.5 257 25 35 10.28
ANDY SMITH 138.2 296 28 41 10.57
JEM PARRY 72.3 198 18 17 11.00

 

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