Victory against Gosfield

A FANTASTIC win for the Earls Colne Sunday XI today against second placed Gosfield…
 
After losing the toss and being put into the field…EC kept Gosfield to a very low scoring rate…with the new bowling salvo of Smith, Mason, Moon and Wilkinson keeping Gosfield down to 46 for 1 off 22 overs…with Smith removing ex Kent 2nd XI opener Bloomfield for 5. This pressure increased and the tight bowling of Moon (his first game for over a year) and Wilkinson with a rare oppurtunity to bowl a long spell producing wickets… Wilkinson removed Dicker for 16, Smith for 42 and J Subrahmani for 3 to end with figures of 10-1-13-3 (Including 90% of these deliveries being down the leg side). Dave ended with 10-0-39-0 a good effort!. Gosfield never really got going after this point, we fell asleep for a little while in the field to gift them 10-20 runs when we switched off. Dan Grice encouraged into sending a few seamers down returned with 2 wickets. Smith then came back on at the end to do his usual job of mopping up the tail finishing with 9.4-2-27-4. We dismissed Gosfield for 140. All bowlers played a part Ben Mason 8-4-19-1, Dan Grice 3-0-17-2 and Adam Page 3-0-19-0, a great effort and all the bowlers put in a good shift.
 
After an impressive gourmet-like tea we set about the task at hand…
 
Now as many know in the team I get very nervous when it comes to chasing any small total, Kirby 2011 being evidence in proof of this..However today, today was a change from the norm. Harry Callaghan and his new opening partner Dan Grice put on 98 for the first wicket and effectivley did 90% of the job for us. Dan was eventually caught on 30 off another full toss!. Henry Holme came and went for 1 (he was convinced it was a bumped ball). New man Dave Moon came into the crease at number 4 and proceeded to impress greatly by hitting some lusty blows through square, cover and straight in his 30 not out. Harry Callaghan once again with his 5th 50 of the season was integral to our victory (great effort behind the sticks as well!). In the end Harry was out for 58 and it was left to Paul ‘Del Boy’ Harrington and Dave to tick the runs off to lead us to a great Victory!…
 
EC 143 for 3…
 
EC 20 Points. Gosfield 3 points..