Report of week ending 19 July

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Two wins and four defeats for the six Saturday League sides and the Women & Girls team win their semi-final.

T Rippon Mid Essex League Division 1.  The 1st XI entertained Ingatestone 1st XI, who batted first and scored 254-8.  Ben Francis (76), Andy Impey (65) and Rhys Howard (30) gave the reply a good start but 55 runs were still needed off the last 7 overs. Some clean hitting by Jon Cook and good running and innovative strokes from Matt Jahanfar saw Rayleigh home for the loss of eight wickets.

T Rippon Mid Essex League Division 2. The 2nd XI visited Little Waltham 1st XI who batted first and scored 215 all out, Sean Druce taking 5-42 and Mike Law 2-23.  In reply Danny Frost scored 83 and Matt Lennox 52 to see Rayleigh home for the loss of 7 wickets. 

T Rippon Mid Essex League Division 5. The 3rd XI hosted South Woodham Ferrers 1st XI who batted first and scored 277-2.  The home side made a spirited reply with Josh Jones (59*) scoring a maiden half-century, Luke Keeley (44) and James Wratten (37) but fell short by 25 runs

T Rippon Mid Essex League Division 8. The 4th XI visited Boreham 1st XI and batting first scored 252-7, Richard Verrinder (97), Steve Gosling (48) and Brad Walker (45*) top scoring. The home side passed this target on the last ball of the game having lost 5 wickets.  Sam Levett took 3-53.

T Rippon Mid Essex League Division 10.  Weakened by very poor availability the 5th XI travelled to Upminster to play top of the table St Andrews and were shot out for 38, which score the home side passed for the loss of one wicket.

T Rippon Mid Essex League Division 12.  The 6th XI hosted St John’s Billericay 2nd XI and batting first scored 168-7, Alan Brown scoring 37 and Chris Slough 25 not out.  With Rayleigh lacking several regular bowlers the visitors passed this score for the loss of 1 wicket.   

As winners of the South Division of the Beaumont Seymour Essex and Suffolk League the Women & Girls XI entertained Abberton runners up in the North Division in the semi-final of the competition. Rayleigh batted first and were restricted to 77-9 in their 20 overs by some excellent bowling, fielding and throwing, only Kelly Castle 37 not out making a significant contribution to the score. This did not look enough but with tight bowling and some good catching by Rayleigh the visitors were always behind the required run rate and they fell short by 13 runs, Catherine Hodge taking 3-11. Rayleigh go through to the final for the first time. The match to be played v Colchester on Friday at a venue to be decided.      

South Essex District Cricket Board Under 15B East Group. Hadleigh U15B 151-8.  Rayleigh U15B 74-9 Jamie Coleman (31).  Hadleigh won by 77 runs. 

South Essex District Cricket Board Under 13 East Group.   Hadleigh U13 91-6.  Rayleigh U13A scored 92-4 Elliot Ward 25*   Rayleigh won by 6 wickets. 

 

 

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