Four wins and two defeats for the Saturday League sides. T Rippon Mid Essex Premier Division. The 1st XI travelled to Great Baddow 1st XI and elected to bat. At 58-4 this did not bode well for the rest of the innings. However, Jon Cook (69) and Under 15 Jess Walker (31) making his debut
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A disappointing weekend with two wins and four defeats for the Saturday League sides and failure of our batting to achieve fairly moderate targets T Rippon Mid Essex Premier Division. The 1st XI entertained neighbours Rettendon 1st XI who batted first and scored 169-7 in their 45 overs, Luke Sullivan taking 3-37. An opening stand
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A better weekend with four wins and two defeats for the Saturday League sides despite poor availability with a large number of players unavailable due to holidays T Rippon Mid Essex Premier Division. The 1st XI travelled to Brookweald 1st XI and batting first scored 222-8, Jason Ox (84) and Will Nolde (24) leading the
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One win and five losses for the Saturday League sides. Almost all matches were played with a reduced number of overs on wet pitches and in these circumstances it is best to win the toss and field first but in all but one game the toss was lost and Rayleigh were asked to bat. T
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Three wins and three defeats for the Saturday League sides. T Rippon Mid Essex Premier Division. The 1st XI travelled to Old Chelmsfordians 1st XI who batted first and scored 222-8 in their 45 overs, Ian Bryant, Matt Gilmore and Will Nolde all taking 2 wickets. The Rayleigh reply stared disastrously losing 4 wickets for
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Two wins and four defeats for the Saturday League sides. T Rippon Mid Essex Premier Division. The 1st XI entertained Springfield 1st XI who batted first and scored 228-3 in their 45 overs with a number of catches being dropped allowing the batsmen to settle into high scoring innings. Only three Rayleigh players, Matt Gilmore
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A better weekend with four wins and two defeats for the Saturday league sides. T Rippon Mid Essex Premier Division. Saturday saw the visit of Old Chelmsfordians 1st XI who batted first and were bowled out for 105, skipper Matt Gilmore taking a career best 7-23. Rayleigh passed this score for the loss of six
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One win and five losses (one by default) for the Rayleigh teams in the T Rippon Mid Essex League. The holiday season certainly took its toll on Saturday at the club with an unprecedented level of non-availability and a number of players playing two or even three teams above their normal level. T Rippon Mid
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Wins for the 2nd, 4th and 6th Rayleigh teams in the T Rippon Mid Essex League. T Rippon Mid Essex Premier Division. Saturday saw the visit of top of the table Springfield 1st XI for the fourth League fixture this season and batting first the Rayleigh 1st XI innings, anchored by Ben Francis (82), got
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Three defeats and three wins for the Saturday League sides. T Rippon Mid Essex Premier Division. Once again because of the reduction in the size of the Premier Division to eight teams the 1st XI have to play the top two teams in the League four times and they travelled to play leaders Springfield 1st
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Three wins, one by default, and three defeats for the Saturday League sides. T Rippon Mid Essex Premier Division. The 1st XI entertained Goresbrook 1st XI who batted first and scored 219-9 in their 45 overs, Ian Bryant and Jim Ewing both taking 3-40. Andy Impey (59) and Ben Francis (41) gave Rayleigh another good
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