Sunday 17th May 2015
Stoke D’Abernon 188 all out (39.4 overs)
Badgers CC 153 for 6 (40 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon won by 35 runs
Stoke’s Sunday XI doubled their total of wins in 2015 by defending a total of 188 on a good pitch at the Rec.
The foundations were laid by Nico Spreeth and Peter Phipps who added 80 for the first wicket after a watchful start against new ball pair Jenkins and M.Smith – who both opened with maidens – before the runs started to flow.
Mixed fortunes for the U8s.
The U8s played two league games on Sunday winning convincingly against an Esher Lions team in the Central Division and coming up short against a strong Farnham outfit in the second fixture in the South Division.
Match reports below:
Friday 15th May saw a big Stoke representation at the Oval for the T20 match against Glamorgan.
A number of familiar faces made the trip to see 455 runs.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/natwest-t20-blast-2015/engine/match/804459.html
A few pictures are starting to appear on social media, here are a few of them, including a couple posted by former Stoke Secretary Andrew Hall who we found out later on was sitting in the enclosure next to us! If only we knew we could have had a pint and another chat about that famous win at Effingham : http://sdacc.play-cricket.com/website/results/2323075
Saturday 16th May 2015
Chertsey 2nd XI 107 all out (37.1 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 2nd XI 109 for 3 (29.4 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 2nd XI won by 7 wickets
Stoke’s 2nd XI recorded a second league win out of two with an efficient performance against a Chertsey side missing a few familiar faces due to 1st XI call-ups and an injury to their main all-rounder and captain.
Saturday 16th May 2015
Stoke D’Abernon 213 for 9 (50 overs)
Chertsey 216 for 3 (46.3 overs)
Chertsey won by 7 wickets
So the game finished and we lost. Disappointing, but that doesn’t tell the story.
First of all by the time we got to the bar after the game the scorebook was missing. Working on the assumption that one of the oppo may have taken it to copy it up and somehow neglected to leave it behind your correspondent gave Greg, (Chertsey CC captain), a call. Alas no sign of the scorebook here or there so I’m writing this report from memory.
Following on from our recent news article, (http://www.stokecc.co.uk/2015/03/19/stoke-team-up-with-the-cricket-paper/), amid all the Kevin Pietersen fall-out, it’s surprising that Peter Moores seems to be already long forgotten.
He went down without much of a fight but maintained his dignity, as proven by him attending last week’s Malahide washout. Now let’s see Moores prove the ECB wrong regardless of whether it was the right or wrong decision to sack him.
Sunday 10th May 2015 – Friendly
Stoke D’Abernon 198 all out (44.5 overs)
Harrow Wayfarers 152 for 9 (44 overs)
Match Drawn
A match where the balance of power ebbed and flowed throughout ended in draw.
Batting first, Stoke openers Nico Spreeth and Baz Medlycott made steady progress, adding 38 at 4s before both fell in successive overs; Medlycott bowled repeating a shot that brought him runs the ball before; Spreeth, (17), was leg-before to left-armer Hallam who was his usual competitive but good-natured self throughout.
More new good news from Ollie Slipper who writes:
The U8s continued their winning start to the season with a 60 run victory over Blackheath in a scenic setting overlooking the Surrey Hills.
A strong bowling performance saw Lawrence W, Freddie H, Morgan S, (U5), and Louis W all take a wicket.
Surrey Championship Division 4 – 2nd XI competition
Maori Oxshott 2nd XI 125 all out (29 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 2nd XI 126 for 2 (28.1 overs)
Stoke D’Abernon 2nd XI won by 8 wickets
Stoke’s 2nd XI won their opening League fixture at the Rec after making short work of an Oxshott side who were missing three players due to come down after playing their school match. In the end they never made it.
Saturday 9th May 2015
Surrey Championship Division 5
Stoke D’Abernon 182 for 9 (50 overs)
Maori Oxshott 183 for 8 (47.4 overs)
Maori Oxshott won by 2 wickets
A tense start to the season for Stoke 1s as a terrific game of cricket that could have gone either way ended in narrow defeat at local rivals Oxshott.
