Team for this Sunday away at Gledhow….
Rory Collins; Ed Contreras (wk); Angus Crawford (c); Chris Stephenson; Ned Tomlinson; Sandy Eyre; Amy Kilby; Charlie Foulkes; Jacob Millson; Ollie Riley; Tom Woffendin
see you there, 0930 for a 1000 start
cheers
adam
Some action snaps from the 1XI victory against Hornsea at the weekend. Continue reading
Ah Lovely sunny warm May!! Are you kidding? This has to have been the coldest Sunday morning ever for a game of cricket!!
This time, in the month that never sees us home in the league, we were up against Shadwell, complete with their very nice and very new pavilion.
Captain Chris Stephenson won the toss and decided to bowl, and as in the previous week it was opening bowler Rory Collins who got in amongst the wickets, some really good bowling here, 4-0-9-3. Rory really is in great run of form.
Some good fielding as well, with two terrific catches one from Ned Tomlinson and the other from Angus Crawford, both text book catches, well done. Add into that a nippy piece of fielding from Amy Kilby to run out Burnhill who was looking good on 26, it was a pretty good performance in the field.
Sadly, that performance couldn’t transfer into our batting, and chasing a target of 81 to win, TABS lost by 6 runs.
Tomlinson (14), Collins (13), George Gibson (11), Stephenson (11) all contributed, but unfortunately, there was some careless batting elsewhere in the order, and if we want to be challenging the top of the league teams, then we need to bat sensibly and responsibly.
A pity, because this is a game we should have won.
We are now in joint 6th place, 4 points behind the leaders Whitkirk, but with a game in hand. Still a long way to go!
Next Sunday it’s Gledhow away, meet there at 0930, team news on the website by Wednesday evening.
The teams selected for the TABS U11 matches on Monday are shown below. Pleaser text Jim if your player is not available – as you can see, we have many players ready and willing to step in!
We are currently organising the next TABS U11 friendlies v Spofforth & Collingham for next weekend – details of which should be available shortly.
Players not initially selected this week will be chosen first for those games.
TABS Blues v Ledsham
Home; meet 6pm
Harrison Gilmore
Will Powell
Henry Mountford
Ollie Riley
Dan Kilby
Joe Bates
Reece Bennett
Frank Price
Reserve: Jack Price
TABS Maroons v Old Mods
Away; meet 6pm
Robert White
Jack Farrington
Ed Westmoreland
Ollie Larking
James Taylor
Matthew Bird
Will Pritchard
Ted Robinson
Reserve: Will Taylor
I could not let the weekend pass without reference to the historic event that has seen TABS CC, for the first time, field 12 teams into competitive cricket.
Over the last four days the club has turned out 4 senior teams and 8 junior teams further evidence of the development and progress that the club has made over the last few years. It is a great testament to the hard work and efforts of Jim and his committee and further evidence of the growth that TABS CC has made.
Can I congratulate Simon, the 4 senior captains and their players, the junior managers, their players and parents who all made this happen it was a triumph in terms of organisation, commitment and logistics however it was only the first of many weekends to come and all of us will need to ensure that the progress we have made continues through the rest of the season.
Once again congratulations to all involved.
Steve Thomas
President
TABS CC
U15’s TEAM ORDER
V. Shadwell (away) Sunday 13th May
Meet at Shadwell @ 09:30
BATTING
1 Sandy Eyre
2 Chris Stephenson (c)
3 Angus Crawford
4 Ned Tomlinson
5 George Gibson
6 Rory Collins
7 Jacob Millson
8 Ed Contreras (wk)
9 Amy Kilby
10 Sophie Atherton
11 Charlie Foulkes
Lots of heads in hands and despair at the end of a thrilling match over at Barwick tonight. The Maroons team fell behind after a single on the penultimate ball which put Barwick ahead by one run. Our players then had to watch agonisingly as the final ball rebounded off the batsman’s pads and trickled to a halt just short of the stumps. The finish couldn’t have been closer.
It’s tough to take a defeat like that, but I was really proud with the way the boys stuck to their task after being put into bat on a bouncy new artificial surface that the Barwick lads clearly knew better.
We batted ok – the running between the wickets could have been better and we missed out on a few four balls (except Westy who batted superbly). 258 was a modest total, and Barwick’s stand-out player almost got their to it single-handedly. The TABS fight back was good; great catch by James Walsh and some decent ground fielding. But we were just 5-10 runs short really.
Onwards and upwards…
It’s never easy playing Oulton away, they always put out a good, strong side. And yet today, the stronger side was TABS.
An all-round top performance from the moment Rory Collins opened the bowling with a wicket in his first over (4-0-10-3), to the winning run scored by Collins (not out 5).
TABS bowled and fielded very well, chasing everything down, getting the ball back in quickly and accurately, a great first half to the game. Very good bowling from all five bowlers, Tom Woffendin, Ollie Riley, Sandy Eyre and George Gibson, with the stand out performance from Collins.
Oulton restricted, then, to 67 for 6 on a pitch that gave nothing.
TABS responded with some good, sensible batting, hitting out when it demanded, and defending it when necessary. Eyre hit some great boundaries, (four in all) in his fine knock of 27, well supported by Ned Tomlinson (20).
TABS reached their target of 68 with 8 balls to spare, losing just 4 wickets in the process.
Overall, a terrific performance, one to be proud of, well done.
Next Sunday, Shadwell away. Meet at Shadwell at 0930. The team will be posted on the website after nets on Wednesday.
In a top of the table clash against local rivals Collingham A TABS Blues maintained their winning start to the season. Collingham unfortunately had players missing due to last minute injuries by always represent a major challenge and have a very talented squad.
A good toss to win for skipper George Gibson put Collingham into bat. We talked a lot in the dressing room about good lines of bowling and nothing better than for Toby Giddins to knock the middle peg back of one of Collingham’s Yorkshire stars first ball. Collingham then regrouped very well but tidy bowling from 7 bowlers and a fine stumping from Will Atherton resticted the opposition to a steady 80-2 of 20 overs. I was particularly pleased at only giving away 10 extras so a massively improved effort overall. Well done!
80 to defend was not a bad score so we had to be on our game against a very talented Collingham attack. Thankfully both Luke and Harry played in a very measured fashion and ooozed class with good stoke play and good calling. Luke retired at 30 in a truly quality innings to allow Will Atherton to score a quick 10. Harry ‘when will he be out’ Contreras was unbeaten with the skipper to see us home with overs to spare.
So a great win and one in which all of the team played a part. Jack Murray gets a mention for being the pick of the bowlers but everyone did well. Shame Collingham were missing two players as they are a talented group and were always very competitive – but we are delighted to win. We now need to build on the good habits with a cup game next week and another tough game next Friday. Its all there for us to win if we keep doing the simple things well!’
Get in there!!!!!!!
We’ve had a few players who are unavailable (or likely to be) for the two U11 matches on Monday due to other sporting commitments. So the revised teams for Monday (and the match v Walton on Tuesday) are now shown below.
The weather forecast for Monday is unsettled, so we’ll update everyone via text if the game(s) are off. Continue reading
