Harpsden Vs Crazies Hill & Cockpole Green

Harpsden Sun Vs Crazies Hill
Played At Harpsden, 18-Jun-2007, Time

Harpsden Sun Win by 111 runs


Harpsden Sun 1st Innings 224/4 Closed (Overs 43)

S Imlay c Bowden b Rechner 41
J Bradley c Bowden b Rechner 87
A Imlay c Jagger b Searle 27
A Norton* Not Out 52
M Hodgkiss c Rechner b Simpson 7
O Heath Not Out 4

Extras (b1 lb2 w3 nb0) 6
TOTAL 4 wickets for 224

Crazies Hill 1st Innings 113/10 All Out (Overs 35)

Noyes+ c T Hancock b T Ham 11
Steward Not Out 50
Hopkins lbw b T Ham 0
Emerson b T Ham 0
Simpson b T Hancock 10
Bowden* b T Hancock 5
Maccoystal b T Hancock 1
Scholfield b T Hancock 4
Rechner c A Norton b M Hodgkiss 1
Searle b W Stevens 8
Jagger b W Stevens 0

Extras (b16 lb3 w2 nb2) 23
TOTAL 10 wickets for 113

Bowler O M R W
O Heath 6 2 19 0
T Ham 6 1 16 3
T Hancock 10 2 28 4
W Stevens 9 3 14 2
M Hodgkiss 4 0 17 1


On a humid day Crazies Hill won a good toss and asked Harpsden to strap the pads on first. This appeared a good decision as the Harpsden openers Sam Imlay and Justin Bradley struggled with the early movement. Rechner bowled especially well and can feel hard done by to only return figures of 15-3-56-2. As the ball softened and batting became easier Imlay and Bradley set about increasing the run rate. When Sam finally fell for 41 he was replaced by his father Andrew, who with typical aggression raced along to 27. Meanwhile Bradley now seeing the ball well hit it to all corners of the ground, finally departing for 87 {his highest score for Harpsden in a 20 year career!}. Captain Andrew Norton smashed a quick fifty to leave his team with a commanding total of 223 at tea.

In response Crazies were restricted in their reply by Heath and Ham. The initial breakthrough was made by Ham, who went on to have a hat-trick attempt unfortunately despite the numerous men crowding the bat Simpson survived. Hancock was the next man to take centre stage, bowling a beautiful line and with a huge amount of movement he ripped through the heart of the Crazies batting line up ending with 4-27. As the game entered the last three overs Harpsden still required 2 wickets and with Steward still at the crease Crazies looked in with a chance of saving a draw. This was until Will Stevens, having earlier bowled off-breaks for the team, reverted to his more usual medium pacers, and managed to take both wickets in his final over. This left Harpsden convincing winners by over one hundred runs.