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Written by John Burbridge
East Harling 162 - 7 v Horsford B 57 - 10 Lucas Fettes Norfolk League Division 3 played at Horsford. East Harling won by 105 runs.
Welcome to the home of Norfolk Cricket, well on the first pitch anyway. What do we get, a ramshackle hut, no showers and no boundary rope or white line, just flags.
For the second successive week Harling lost the toss and were put into bat. Stuart Hilton and Rob Free made the most of Horsford's inability to take some reasonably easy chances of Hunt putting on 26 for the first wicket, until Free was bowled by Barber having hit him for 6 the previous ball. Ross Pickerill followed 3 balls later caught at slip for 0. Kevin Seymour and Hilton continued to benefit from fielding lapses putting on 30 before Hilton fell to Hunt for an entertaining 36. Skipper Barry Wells and Seymour then took the score to 112 before Wells was out for 26. Adam Howe 6, Andrew Macrow 0 and then Seymour for an excellent 51 all fell within 3 overs before Michael Pill and David Fowler steadied the innings to see Harling through to a repectable 162 - 7.
P Bear was bizarely bowled twice for his 0, umpire Free having got fed up with the bails blowing off decided that we should play without them, 3 balls later the ball allegedly hits leg stump, paggy doesn't hear it and stands his ground, neither umpire can tell whether it hit or not, so after 5 minutes delay he is invited to continue batting, only to get bowled in the guys next over still without getting off the mark. The fielding captain requested the return of the bails.
Whilst all this was going on, the game on the good pitch started to get interesting, Swaffham had slumped to 121 - 9 with Maurice Dye strolling to the wicket and his partner still on 0, at the end of their 46 overs they had reached 170 - 9 and Maurice failed to score off the last over to take the stand to 50. I think they still lost by about 3 wickets.
Horsford seemed to believe that their pitch was full of demons, scoring just 2 from the first 6 overs for the loss of Bowker caught by David Fowler off Michael Pill, 2 wickets for Andrew Macrow, a well judged catch by Adam Howe and another for David Fowler, followed by a great diving catch at slip for Barry Wells off Pill left Horsford in serious trouble at 21 - 4 from 12 overs. Apart from D Weber with a hard hit 25 no other batsman reached double figures, with Hilton and Macrow sharing the remaining 6 wickets in the next 12 overs, dismissing the hosts for 57 and gaining a comfortable victory by 105 runs. Unusually it was Harling's excellent standard of catching and fielding that made the difference, all catches held apart from the last man's nick to the wicketkeeper ( sometimes they just don't stick)
Bowling M Pill 6- 5- 6- 2, A Macrow 12- 3- 29- 5 and S Hilton 6- 1- 12- 3.
Man of the Match Kev Seymour bexcause he kept at it despite the many near misses. Macrow a close second because he held on to a skier as well as his 5 which included bowling a left hander pitching leg and hitting middle and off.
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