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Batting All time records - Davidson passes 1500 runs.

A quiet season on the batting front saw little change at the top of all time run scorer charts. The biggest mover was again James Davidson who passed 1500 runs but is still to make a century. Colin Tait lies 11th and is 35 runs short of becoming the 11th man to pass 1000 runs.

1 S.Collins 3719
2 M.Hynd 3441
3 C.Thornton 2580
4 D.Boothroyd 2421
5 A.Hynd 2352
6 C.Robson 2158
7 J.Davidson 1524
8 D.Catley 1522
9 D.Paul 1398
10 S.Phillips 1257

Bowling All time records - Catley closes in on 600 midweek wickets !

Don Catley extended his lead at the top of the all time charts and now stands just 12 wickets away from the 600 mark. The next highest 'active' player Dave Charlton is 491 wickets behind and stands just 3 wickets away from being the 4th man past 100 victims.

1 D.Catley 588
2 P.Melville 168
3 M.Stanbury 105
4 D.Charlton 97
5 S.Collins 89
6 A.Hudson 87
7 G.Grear 68
8 D.Boothroyd 65
9 E.Collins 60
10 A.Robson 50

Runners Up !

Rowlands completed the wet 08 season finishing runners up after only 6 matches were completed ! With Rowlands failing to play a game in the last month of the season they were piped at the post when Gentics won their final match.

Nine Pins Four Over Saxed!

First of all sympathies to Aiders who has a neck injury and so missed the game. Get well soon our injury prone pal!

At the peaceful setting of Ulgham, surrounded by mist, Rowlands waited anxiously for their final three men to appear and fielded innitially with Daves Charlton and Moore making up the numbers. Guy Saxton took matters into his own hands with Alan a little nervous behind the stumps. First over, Sax bowled Cameron and in his second over he took out the other opener Darren Stillwell. James Morris joined in the wicket taking and in his second over had Ruddock caught by Alan. Pins were reeling at 13-3 after four overs, Sax having conceded just one of these! MoM Sax bowled out with 4-1-9-3 when he bowled out his third victim after two lucky edges skidded to the fine leg boundary from outside off stump! James completed ghias spell with 3-0-20-1. Keith then took over and had the ball bouncing and moving well off the hard pitch. He claimed a suberb, nonchalent c&b to dismiss Ainley then later bowled Jackson to record 4-0-17-2. Not the one to miss out, Don had number three bat and mainstay of the Pins' innings, N Eyes caught behing by Alan for 24, then trapped Sanderson 'plumb' (Davy Greener officiating) lbw for 3-0-18-2 to reach 20 wickets for the season. Pins were dismissed for 66, with number 11 not batting, when Alec Dodds was run out. Runs had been difficult in the humid conditions although two sixes and four fours were hit with Ian Richardson on 16 not out at the end.

Rowlands sent in the new recruit Ben o'Brien and James Davidson. Ben hit two fours in the first over off Richardson and James one off Stillwell in the second over but was promptly bowled by him for a rare dismissal. Colin was next in and soon off the mark with a trademark single. Ben kept hitting boundaries else fending off dot balls until he was run out for 20 (5*4) in a mix up with Colin. That was 31-2 and Rowlands seemingly in total control in the sixth over with the arrival of Roy at the crease. Pins were fielding and bowling tightly and this pair became becalmed with only the occasional single and rare two coming in the next five anxious overs. The score moved only to 42-2 off 10 and it took late acceleration by Roy who hit three boundaries and one from Colin whose powerful shots always seemed to find a well placed fielder. Colin was caught for his solid 19 leaving Rob Burns to run two byes and a 1 for Roy without facing a ball. Rowlands were home by 7 wickets in the 13th over of 14 and one batting point was secured. This win takes Rowlands back to the top of the table with three games to play (Friday, Wednesday, Wednesday). Another new recruit, Dan 'Hedgehog' Metcalfe, late replacement for Lewis, had fielded enthusiastically.

Rowlands Break the Genetic Code!

Alan won a toss and eleceted to bat on a glorious evening but play did not commence until 6:20 owing to several Genetics players arriving late. Davo and Shaun opened with the loss of Shaun, splendily caught at backward point off veteran Brian Taylor in the first over. Jonty Tarbuck was also bowling tightly and only 16 runs came off the first four overs with Matt Hynd batting three. Davo opened up with three 4s in Taylor's third over and bowler 3 was generous with wides for his one over as the score pushed on to 63 off 10. Davo was playing the lead role, hitting boundaries and dropped twice in the deep. Matt worked the ball around well until stumped off Tarbuck on his retunr for 32 (3 fours). Tarbuck then bowled Davo for 60 (9 fours) as he went well forward to attack the ball. The remaining overs were hectic as Rowlands middle order tried to add as many runs as possible. Dave Hawke made 3 before being caught off Taylor then Keith hit a quick 10 (1 four) before Taylor bowled him. Ed Tait bowled Roy for 1 and Alex first ball off the last ball of the game to give Rowlands a fairly comfortable 131-7 off 16.

Guy Saxton and James Morris opened up the Rowlands attack with Sax bowling Gardner with the first ball of the innings; a swinging Yorker - the ball not the bowler!Tait and Bennett then took the score on to 33 off the first four overs including a six by Tait off Sax. Then Sax bowled out two and James took three in the next over, including Tait bowled for 23, to kill Genetics' aspirations. Guy completed on 4-0-28-3 and James 4-0-22-3. Change bowling was Alex Giles 3-0-16-1 and Don 3-0-3-1 with the batsmen seeming content to bat it out with no reward! There were catches by Alex, Davo and Keith to make up for a couple of earlier missed chances. Keith wiped up the tail with a bowled and an lbw in the 15th over which was 0.7-0-0-2 and genetics finished short of their batting point on 72 all out. Alex claimed the key wicket of Andy Jeffery, bowled by a slower one for 18. Matt behind the stumps was his usual sharp self, taking cleanly on all occasions despite some variations in line from the quicker bowlers! Don was just plain boring and in danger of being replaced for the final over which was not required.

Rowlands moved up to 9 points behind leaders Genetics and have three games in hand.