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All four teams who took part in the competition this year were from the North-East Mid-Week Cricket League. Kings School Old Boys had two teams and YAARS and The Boiler Clinic were the others. A round robin saw YAARS win their three games and all the others one each. A bowl out resulted in the Boiler Clinic winning through with two strikes from Don Catley and Roy Haygarth against one each from Kings A & B with Marcus Turner and Phil Morse the hit men.
The final resulted in a tie at 58 each and then there was a toss of coin because YAARS favoured a super over rather than the bowl out preferred by the Boiler Clinic. YAARS heads won this! Boiler Clinic scored a creditable 19 off their over with Roy supported by Sam Thornton. However, YAARS hit 23 to take the trophy with main man Rehan Mohammed supported by Naveed Iqbal. Congratulations to YAARS for the second year running.
Thanks to Peter and Gillian Woodley with David Craven for umpiring and scoring and to Erin Richardson and the rest of the Macmillan team for a super day set up by Blagdon and their obliging groundsman. In the background someone pointed out that the football was not going well for England and we saw the last 20 minutes to confirm this!
Teams in the final: YAARS = Wasim Hashim, Naveed Iqbal (Aka DC), Rohail Ahmed, Zain Ahmed, Rehan Mohammed and Basit Ali. Boiler Clinic = Robert Tulip, Ian Younger, Roy Haygarth, Jack Concannon, Sam Thornton and Don Catley. Photos with Erin Richardson and the YAARS youngsters. Incidentally YAARS is Punjabi for friendship.
In excess of £1000 will have been raised from the cricket alone for Macmillan and there is still the chance to donate, for example via the Just Giving site:
http://www.justgiving.com/Robert-Tulip
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