Leeds win Clubbie Cup
Cricket Athletics
Leeds & Broomfield are the inaugural Clubbie Cup champions.
The competition was started up to provide clubs with some competitive action following the delay to the start of the campaign and the scrapping of the 2020 Kent League season. 1st XI champions Leeds enjoyed a convincing win over Gravesend at the Bat & Ball, winning by 116 runs.
Opener George Davis (87) and Max Aitken (88) were Leeds’ big-hitters, leaving Gravesend chasing 242 for victory. They were bowled out for 125.
Mohit Abbi (22) and Usman Pervaiz (26) showed some resistance early on, putting on 49 for the first wicket, but only two other batsmen made double figures.
The Mote, who sit second in the five-team table, beat Dartford by six wickets at Hesketh Park. Dartford were restricted to 135-7 and the The Mote knocked the runs off in the 30th over, set on their way by a 71-run opening partnership from Phillip Apps (39) and Chris Back (44). Matthew White also contributed 33.
Craig England hit 82 and Joe Reynolds (57) scored a halfcentury for Dartford 2nds in their narrow six-wicket defeat to The Mote 2nds.
Chasing 216, an unbeaten 113 from The Mote opener James Hodgson ensured they got home, winning with just two balls remaining.
Tunbridge Wells booked themselves a spot in the Kent League Twenty 20 Cup semifinals after an eight-wicket victory over Holmesdale on Sunday.
Wells, chasing 147, won with three overs remaining as Christopher Williams hit 54 off 39 balls and Alexander Williams finished 63 unbeaten off 46 deliveries. Viraj Bhatia had also smashed a quickfire 25. They are away to Broadstairs in the semi-final this Sunday, at 2pm. Old Wilsonians meet
Bexley in the other tie.
Minster 3rds suffered a onewicket defeat to Oakfield Warriors in their Kent Regional League fixture.
Riccardo Di Cicco (46) and Cameron Bruce (106) put on 101 for the second wicket as Minster set a total of 243 to chase.
The Warriors had opener Smibin Kannamphuzha to thank for guiding them home in the 34th over, hitting 113 off 72 balls before Todd Russon (3-51) had him caught by Josh Buesden.
Bruce had another good day with the bat on Sunday, top scoring for Minster (210-9) with an unbeaten 62 in a one-wicket friendly win over Headcorn 1sts. Kings Hill won by one wicket against Offham in their Tonbridge & Malling Invicta League Division 1 meeting. Ben Gittings scored a halfcentury for Offham as they posted 154-9 but Kings Hill knocked the runs off with two overs remaining, Jack Doyle (35) and Shaun McMurray (47) their leading run scorers.
Staplehurst (250-8) beat leaders Cowdrey (235-8) by 15 runs. Gregor Paterson (46) and Tom Davey (74) top scored for Staplehurst but the runs from lower order men Sam McConnel (34 not out) and George Perry (33) proved vital.
Xavier Yeats-Brown (55) top scored for Cowdrey, putting on 90 runs with Jake McGroarty (26) for the first wicket, but they fell just short of the target. Tonbridge bowled Addington Village out for 88 as they successfully defended their total of 187-7, Khurram Shehzad starring with the ball as he took 6-25 from his eight overs.
In the Medway Post-Covid League, Frindsbury (230-8) beat High Halstow (217-8) by 13 runs. Jamie Maguire hit 84 but was on the losing team.
Sam Pepper bagged a fivewicket haul for leaders Borstal as they bowled Sherwood out for 83 to claim an 88-run victory. Bapchild 2nds beat Milstead 2nds by just five runs in a friendly at Radfield Hill.
After being asked to bat,
Bapchild posted 227-6, opener James Sutton hitting 49. In reply, Milstead were all out for 222, Tom Miller starring for them as he scored 86. William Cosstick returned figures of 4-23 for Bapchild.
Westerham (221-4) took the honours in a high-scoring county border derby at Limpsfield Chart (185-5) on Sunday.
A 74-run partnership between Nad Durrany (105 retired) and Karl Sayers (29) for the second wicket put the visitors in control. They reached 221-4 in their 35 overs.
In reply, Limpsfield Chart’s openers made a steady start putting on 41 for the first wicket until Jason Cummings (32) was well caught off the bowling of Karl Sayers by veteran skipper Chris Bechervaise. The hosts got within 35 runs of victory when they ran out of overs and Westerham claimed the win. Westerham return to Limpsfield Chart next weekend for their final match of the season.
The first road race returned to the Medway Towns since the start of Covid 19 pandemic last week.
Plenty of work went into staging the Chatham Maritime 10k with Daniel Bradley of Tonbridge AC taking first place in a time of 32.16, only a few seconds off his PB.
Roger Vilardell (Petts Wood) recorded a big pb to take second place (33.30), closely followed by Mark Wilkins of Medway & Maidstone AC with his best run at this distance in three years (33.59).
M&M also took two other high places in the race, with Richard Tomlinson in sixth (1st M50 36.26) and Darren Wright 41.20. Unfortunately, because of the restricted presentations there was no team prize, which otherwise would have been claimed by the home club.
Medway & Maidstone AC athletes came away with seven personal bests at the Folkestone Coastal 10k.
The club finished second place overall with a win for the men’s team and four age category wins.
Ben Tyler was second overall, crossing the line in 32.09 for a 29-second PB, followed home by Chris Rampling in fifth, his 33.59 beating his previous best by 54 seconds.
Daniel St Martin took 10th in 35.59, Daniel Longhurst was 12th in 36.06.
Alun Rodgers was first in the M50 with his time of 38.43 improving his best set in 2011 by 51 seconds.