CROWS WOMEN EARN FIRST T20 WIN
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Women (93-6) beat Steventon (88-8)
Crowthorne & Crown Wood Women took their first ever T20 victory away at Steventon.
Sent in to bat having lost the toss, Lily Mansfield stepped up to score a respectable 13 runs taking second place to top run scorer Gabi Jones with 16.
Seetal Bhatti in her debut ran two and with partner Jo Lee (seven) both retired at over 16.
Katie Finucane and Gillian Finucane then saw off the innings with a partnership of 10 runs, not out, taking runs off the bat to 67 and completing the the innings at 93-6.
After tea, the fielding started very strong with bowler Katie Finucane stifling the run rate to three off 18 balls.
Gillian Finucane and Gabi Jones then bowled 36 deliveries allowing only 10 runs to accrue on the hosts’ scoresheet.
Wickets were taken by Sophie O’Loughlin on her first delivery;
Helena Jones whose delivery was forced into the air off the bat to be caught by Gabi Jones; Gillian Finucane, Katie Finucane, Anita Applin who bowled out their opponents with clean deliveries and Lily Mansfield with two well executed run outs.
Victory came in the last over of the game with the Crowthorne team maintaining energy and poise to the very end to take their five run win.
The Crocodiles won the toss and elected to bowl. After a chaotic four overs the match restarted on the correct size pitch.
The restart seemed to reinvigorate the Crocodiles who bowled a tidy line overall and reduced the opposition to 237.
With his consistent line and length, Ollie was bowler of the match after taking two wickets for just six runs from two overs.
Openers Ollie (8) and Jackson (12) started well.
Nysha and Jacob maintained the score without losing any wickets. Tav (10) and Annabelle
(22) added 32 to take the total to 295. Charlotte (21) and Kai (16) took Crows over the 300 mark comfortably.
Trish (13) and Chloe (22) took Crows to a season best total of 386 for the loss of only four wickets.
Not surprisingly choosing batter of the match was extremely difficult to some high scoring from Annabelle, Charlotte, Trish and Chloe and some classy shots from Tav, Jackson and Ollie.
However, for his persistence, hard work and return to form, batter of the match went to Kai.
Skipper, Chloe, chose Tav as fielder of the match for his hard work running on the boundary and positive attacking of the ball.
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