York Cricket Club maintain good start

9:03am Monday 5th May 2008

Comments (0)   Have your say »

REIGNING champions York Cricket Club maintained their 100 per cent start to the Oxbridge Yorkshire ECB County Premier League season with a 135-run demolition of Appleby Frodingham.

After losing the toss, York were put in to bat by their hosts on a damp green wicket at Brumby Hall, in Scunthorpe.

Overseas player Dan Wilson was adjudged lbw to the third ball of the day, bringing Simon Mason in to join Alex Collins.

The pair produced the only substantial stand of the entire game, adding 84 runs for the second wicket, before Collins was bowled by Hilton for 44, an innings which included five boundaries.

Mike Mortimer went cheaply and, after Mason was caught in the slips by Morland off Heath for 65, including 11 fours, York's batting collapsed dramatically.

Their score of 120-3 soon became 124-7 as the wickets tumbled.

Skipper Marcus Wood, batting low down at number nine, hit three boundaries but, after he and Nigel Durham were dismissed, York were 156-9 with ten overs to go.

The last pair of Graeme Tomlinson, a newcomer from Scotland, and Alex Renton, also newly recruited from neighbours Clifton Alliance, batted with a great deal of common sense to add 36 runs for the last wicket.

York were finally all out in the 52nd over for a respectable total of 192.

Tomlinson was last out for an excellent innings of 41, but Renton's not out 11 was almost as valuable to his side.

All five Frodingham bowlers took wickets, with the best returns coming from Duncan Heath, with 3-44, and Paul Hilton, with 3-40.

When the hosts replied, the best way to describe their innings was short but sweet.

Neil Laidlaw, a newcomer from Thirsk, and Tom Bartram, returning to Clifton Park after a year's absence in the North-East, opened the York attack and quickly reduced Frodingham to 37-7 by the end of the 14th over.

When they were rested, Tomlinson took over and claimed two cheap wickets.

With the aid of a run out due to some excellent fielding by Nick Kay, Appleby Frodingham were dismissed inside 20 overs for a paltry 57 runs.

Only John Parker, with 36 not out, and Carl Taylor, with 14, got into double figures.

The rest of the home team, including extras, only contributed seven runs between them and the entire Frodingham innings lasted for only 78 minutes.

Bartram took 4-18 and Laidlaw claimed 3-21.

York took all eight points, giving them a welcome boost ahead of today's visit to Hull, who beat Rotherham by six wickets on Saturday.