2002
Season Results
June 22 2002
Date and place of Match: Saturday June 22 nd, at Home.
League: NSA Saturday Division 1.
Scoreboard: Swanage 211
( C.Wells 116, C.Matthews 30. J.Stoodley 3 - 27, R.Haddow 3
- 44, R.Sellars 4 - 53. )
Wayfarers 132
( P.Williams 25, P.Stacey 20. W.Jones 4 - 29, C.Matthews 3
- 16.)
Result: Swanage won by 79 runs.
Details:
J.Stoodley and M.Brannan bowled well to restrict Swanage to
only 16 runs of the first nine overs. Then Craig Wells
released the shackles by hitting three fours and a six off
Brannan’s fifth over. When Craig Matthews joined
Wells, both players defended well but attacked whenever
possible to produce an excellent 95 run partnership. R.Sellars
and R.Haddow bowled challenging spells before Haddow had
Matthews out Leg Before Wicket. Wells was now playing
fluently, hitting some glorious cut and pull shots to the top
and bottom boundaries. After Sellars disposed of the Swanage
middle order, Wells and Tony Bessant made sure that Wayfarers
were set a high total.
Wayfarers soon lost an early wicket but Phil Williams and
C.Wyatt started to play confidently against the bowling of
Ryan Norman and Guy Watson. Then an unusual incident occurred.
Williams advanced down the pitch to Watson but missed the
ball, which rebounded off his front pad some yards back
towards the bowler. Watson then ran towards the ball with the
intention of picking it up and running out Williams, who was
still well out of his crease. Instead of retreating back,
batsman Williams ran towards the ball, picked it up and threw
a catch to an astonished Watson. After some thought, Watson
appealed to the umpire, who consulted with his colleague and,
after further deliberation, gave Williams out
‘Obstructing the Field’ (rather than the
expected ‘Handled the Ball’). Norman soon
bowled Wyatt with a superb outswinger which just clipped the
off stump. Swanage now took charge of the game through the
medium pace of Craig Matthews and the spin of Bill Jones. Hard
though Wayfarers tried, they could not cope with the
combination of Matthews’ accuracy and
Jones’ clever flight. Taking the last seven wickets
for 47 runs, Swanage gained a convincing victory in the thirty
fourth over.
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Date and place of Match: Saturday June 22 nd, at Home.
League: NSA Saturday Division 1.
Scoreboard: Wareham Under Thirteen Eleven 107 - 1
( T.MacLoud 27, J.Hills 28*, J.Lee !8*. )
Swanage Under Thirteen Eleven 71
( C.Thomas 21.)
Result: Swanage lost by 36 runs.
Details:
MacLoud, Hills and Lee all batted well for Wareham. Had
Swanage not fielded like tigers, the total would have been
much higher. Chris Thomas batted well in Swanage’s
reply. Eventually he was well caught in the gully by MacLoud,
who also bowled four good overs to take two wickets for 1 run.
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Date and place of Match: Sunday June 23 rd, Away. League:
NSA Sunday Division 3.
Scoreboard: Broadstone 328 - 1
( M.Spraggs 183*, S.Brown 60*, J.Stone 45.)
Swanage 246 - 7
( T.Edgar 102, T.Buck 31. J.Stone 3 - 39.)
Result: Swanage lost by 82 runs.
Details:
Matthew Spraggs put Swanage to the sword on an excellent
batting pitch at the Delph. First he put on 101 in an opening
partnership with J.Stone, who also played a fine innings full
of straight aerial drives. Then he opened out into full attack
as he put on an unbroken 227 with S.Brown. Despite dropping
two catches, the Swanage bowlers and fielders stuck to their
task well but Spraggs was not to be denied, running short
singles and hitting huge straight and pulled sixes into the
trees. His innings contained thirteen fours and eight sixes.
In reply, Swanage looked to be in trouble when they lost
four cheap wickets but Tim Edgar and Terry Buck saved them
from further embarrassment in a partnership of 104. Edgar went
on in style, hitting a series of fine on drives and pull shots
to reach a deserved century and give Swanage a respectable
total.
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Date and place of Match: Sunday June 23 rd, at Home.
League: NSA Sunday Division 8.
Scoreboard: Boscombe Celtonians 154
( P.Dickenson 56, T.Sam 25, C.Harrison 20. T.Yeates 3 -
20.)
Swanage Second Eleven 83
( R. Dickenson 4 - 17.)
Result: Swanage lost by 71 runs.
Details:
Swanage bowled and caught well to dismiss the Celtonians
for 154. However, Celtonian opening bowlers opened with a
series of maidens and their overall bowling attack was very
strong for this division. Only Peter Dyer and John Hardy, who
both scored 17, were able to make any impression.
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