WCC entertained Bramshaw on Saturday in a local derby that could have offered a great game of cricket for the neutral, unfortunately it turned out to be a very one sided affair.

Bramshaw won the toss and asked WCC to have a bat, not a bad toss to lose considering there was hope that the wicket might break up later making batting second a challenge. Jon and Laurence walked out to the middle and things got off to a slow start, some good bowling meant we were restricted and found the ball difficult to get away. Jon was caught in the 5th over for 6, so Henry joined Laurence at the crease....unfortunately this was a brief stay as Henry was out having faced 9 balls for 0. Sam joined Laurence at the crease and the runs began to flow and the score increased. Laurence was caught for 31 so Jack joined Sam in the middle, but this was another brief partnership as Jack was out bowled for 0. Rich White was next in, but found runs difficult to come by before being caught behind for 1. AP joined his brother in the middle, but it was only Sam that was adding to the scoreboard. Sam was unlucky to be caught and bowled having had the ball ricochet off his pad, only for it to clip the bat and bounce back to the bowler. Not much to write home about after that; Colin came out and then went back in. AP was caught and bowled for 2. Jason & Skip were both bowled for 9 and 6 respectively. Chaz finished on 2no.

The WCC response with the ball started positively as Jason got No. 2 bat caught behind in the first over. Jason's second wicket came when Jon caught No. 1 for 26 and there was a brief glimmer of hope. Jason had another wicket caught behind and the score was now 47-3 off 10 overs. Surely we couldn't do it? Alas not, despite a change of bowling to Rich and Ian no further breakthroughs were made and Bramshaw polished off the runs in 22.3 overs.

With more runs on the board this could have been a good game, but ultimately some poor batting by the majority left us very short of a defendable total. If we want to continue to compete in this league then batting is something that we must look to improve on.

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