DCCL DIVISION 3 N/N AT MILKEN LANE
22 AUGUST 2020 --- 1PM
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| JACOB ROCHE WITH THE BAT FOR ASHOVER |
Ashover secured a convincing win against league leaders Clowne Town with a victory margin of ninety runs thanks to a sterling effort with the bat from Alex Flint [42] and after a late flurry from Ben and Jacob Roche to get the score above two hundred they each then swept through the visitors with four wickets apiece.
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| SOME PEOPLE JUST DO CRICKET SPECTATING RIGHT AS CLOWNE FANS PROVED GUARDING AGAINST ALL WEATHERS |
With an indifferent weather forecast and the enticing pre-season friendly between Tibshelf Fc and Bakewell Town in the diary for a few weeks the plodding along to Shetland Way was in the diary. However thankfully on the morning a quick check revealed the disappointing news that Tibshelf had pulled out of the fixture that would have pitted MRA against CMFL, so once again a home fixture will have to wait but a wasted journey was avoided. There was another football game but with the end of this short cricket season close by the enticing encounter between in form Ashover and league leaders from Clowne the only danger would be the heavy showers and blustery wind on the three mile walk along country roads to Milken Lane. As previous blog readers will vouch for this walk to Ashover, although steep in places, is a breath of fresh air and with just one very brief downpour arrival at the ground was just short of an hour after setting off. Of note today though was the alpacas seem to have gone on holiday nowhere in sight on the descent into the village.
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| ALEX FLINT TOP SCORING BATSMAN FOR ASHOVER BARBARIANS |
With a football match taking place on the overlapping pitch all was moved away by start time and the umpires were well on time before the 1pm start to give any stragglers in the watching crowd the hint to move along. As ever a convincing start from Jack Fletcher [19] and the ever big hitting of Russell Cooke [36] got the home side away to a good opening the latter was looking to move it along and as he went through the gears this time he fell before he could do any more damage to the visitors caught by captain Adam White off the bowling of Harry Wilson. The score at this stage had reached 80 and in the thirteenth over the visitors needed to slow the run rate down and limit the extras total. The latter was something they would not be able to do and ended up with 63 of which 54 comprised of non fielding extras and so that column top scored in the end for Ashover and resulted in Clowne probably bowling around seven extra overs something that was reflected in their overs taking just ten minutes short of three hours to complete.
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| JOSEPH KINSEY CLOWNE TOWN CC |
When Elliot Dickens and Jack Fletcher departed within close proximity it brought Flint and Darren Parkin [37] to the crease for a stand of 90 before the former was run out by the latter who seemed uninterested in what looked a comfortable second. One wicket brought a second again and at 198 for 5 with two with just over two overs left the score was looking a little shy of a fair total against the league leaders. Ian Miller went for a single and this brought brothers Ben [15] and Jacob Roche [5] to the crease with a late bit of hitting from the former secured Ashover a total nicely into the two hundreds.
It looked a little short of what I thought they would defend against Clowne but after the obligatory walk around the lovely village the arrival back must have been a little early as even after seeing Mr Bown the butcher packing away the players were still not out to see the reply.
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| THE CLASH OF THE SEASONS BEGINS |
The visitors lost Oliver Turnbull early on bowled by Roche [J] but it was skipper Adam White [31] who was getting into the mood to take the attack to the home side before he edged to second slip and the grateful hands of John Green again of Roche [J] and with batsman number 3 keeper Ben Lodge falling caught and bowled to Roche [B] shortly before with the score also on 51 the visitors needed a solid middle order to try to rescue proceedings.
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| CLOWNE CAPTAIN ADAM WHITE DEFENDS HIS WICKET |
The pressure mounted as wickets fell at regular intervals although there was a smart little knock from Joseph Kinsey [40] who tried to galvanise the response to the Roche brothers however when he fell off the bowling of Ian Miller it was no surprise to find the taker of the catch was a Roche, Jacob, adding three catches this afternoon to a superb performance. The final total for Town saw the last three wickets all fall on it and when Curtis Botham was bowled just short of a quarter to seven the final accolade would be taken by Roche [J] with Ashover collecting 27 points and second place in the division with a superb effort against a Clowne side who will be determined to put this result behind them next week at Holmesfield.
Added to their cameo with the bat for the home side the Roche's finished with impressive bowling figures Ben 4 for 27 and Jacob 4 for 26.
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| BLOWN OVER SIGHT SCREEN REPLACEMENT MAY NOT BE AS EASY AS FIRST THOUGHT |
For the second week running like at Pilsley and Clay Cross in last weeks game the league leaders suffered defeat to sides whose pedigree appears to be rising every week its just a shame that this shortened season is soon to close. Once again though today the game of cricket was the winner as both sides gave of their best with the weather holding out apart from a very brief stoppage in the Ashover innings and a sharp downpour taking out around ten minutes in the Clowne reply. Although the erratic blustery wind did amazingly blew over a sight screen something that was not as easy to immediately put back in place as a the slats would drop out of their guides as the structure was put back into its upright position.
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| JONATHAN TAYLOUR EIGHT OVERS FOR ASHOVER |
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