The matches scheduled for this week were brought forward a day because of a clash with the District sports. Only two games were played but a contest between two of the unbeaten teams saw Greasley Beauvale beat Priory by 63 runs to go top of the league. Joe Coxon,Ryan Davey, Joe Blackbourne and Jack Smith put on 63 runs in the last 8 overs to give a total of 191. This was despite Owen getting figures of 2 for 7 in his two overs and Frank bowling a maiden over for Priory.

In the other match Lynncroft set Eastwood Juniors a target of 159 with Reece and Stephen scoring 32 in their 4 overs. Only Ollie and Dylan looked like threatentening the target with a partnership of 20 but eventually Eastwood finished on 121.

Table

Greasley B      P3   W3  L0  Pts 9

Priory                3      2    1        7

Eastwood CC       2      2    0        6

Lynncroft           3      1    2        5

Eastwood Jun       3      0    3        3

Brookhill Leys    2     0     2       2

 

Next week sees the finish of the season with 6 matches to be played to catch up on the first week wash out.

At last the Eastwood Primary schools cricket league got it's 3rd season going when three matches were played at the attractive setting of Eastwood Cricket club.

Joe Blackbourn and Jack Smith for Greasley Beauvale put on 35 runs to set Brookhill Leys a daunting target of 159 runs.This was despite Aaron Coyle and Sam Brown bowling their 4 overs for only 1 run and taking 1 wicket. Eventually Greasley won by 80 runs.

Seven runs was the difference between Lynncroft and Eastwood Cricket club. Ben and Denby top scored for Lynncroft with 16 runs in their 4 overs but Oliver and Sam saw the cricket club home with 23 in their last 4 overs. 

A weakened Eastwood Juniors were well beaten by Priory with only Tom and Jake making headway against some good bowling by Priory, particularly Liam, who took 3 wickets in one over and Frank who bowled two maiden overs and picked up a wicket.

The standard of batting, bowling and particularly some of the fielding has improved immensely since the leagues started 3 years ago. The games start at 4.00pm next Thursday, weather permitting.