Once again we were back on The Senior for Round 2 of the 2024 Cricketer Cup. This time our opponents were Old Merchant Taylors CC who had a crushing win over Lancing in the previous round.
We had changes to our team with Freddie Wynn abroad on business and Rehaan called up late by Worcestershire. They were replaced by Myles Holland and Charles Williams and Tommy Boorman back in the team.
Josh Haynes won the toss and opened with Tommy Boorman.They gave us a great start putting on 91 before Tommy was out for an excellent 48.Olli Cox joined Josh before he was out for 14 bringing Alex Milton to the wicket . These 2 played really well with Alex back in form and Josh carrying on in fine form after his 94 in the previous round. Alex made 34 and Josh powered on to his first 100 in the CC finishing on 117 off 143 balls. Joel Cox and Dan Holland came together for the final assault with Dan repeating his last years Final performance to take us to 297-4 off the 50 overs.
This was a very good score on a very dry wicket but OMT’s set off at a good pace after losing an early wicket to Angus Catto. At 81-1 off 14 overs they were in good shape but on came the spinners Josh Haynes/ Dan Holland / Josh Dickenson. The change was dramatic with Josh taking 5-13 off 7 overs and Josh Dickenson 2-24!!!
What a transformation in the space of 10 overs—81-1 to 104-8 and finally all out in the 34th over for 150.A win by 147 runs and naturally our Captain was the Man of the Match for his 117 and 5-13.
A big thank you to all those OM’s/ Patrons and parents who came to support the team — it really does make a difference to our very young team .
The next round is back at Malvern again when we will play Bradfield on Sunday 14th July so hopefully we can triumph again and move on to the semi final.
Bryan Richardson (3.57-62)
President of the OMCC and Founder of the Patrons Club
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