BY GLEN SANDS
Having secured the Broughton Evening League title, newly crowned champions Broughton took the opportunity to field a team of youth and experience at Luddington and despite the best efforts of a couple of old heads they suffered their first defeat in what was their last game of the season.
Luddignton batted first with Darren Clark and Scott Buttrick putting on an opening stand of 43 before the latter played on to a Robbie Glentworth delivery having scored 18. Russell Fletcher joined home grown Clark and they took the total to 79 when Clark was caught by David Tierney off Oliver Wood for an excellent 39. Broughton gave no lessseven players two overs each and it was Robbie Ward who picked up the third wicket to fall when Fletcher was caught by Shaun Clark for 17 then home skipper Andy Lawson was caught by wicket keeper Sam Benson off Wood again for eight with the overall total on 91. Jamie Arrowsmith then blasted a quickfire 22 not out including two huge sixes to guide Ludd to 115 for 5 from their 14 overs , Shaun Clark picking up the final wicket to fall when bowling Jason Whiteley for just a single , Oliver Wood finishing with 2 for 22 from his brace of overs.
Broughton's response got off to a flier when Robbie Glentworth smashed 13 before he was well caught in the deep by Russell Fletcher off brother Graeme's bowling then Shaun Clark was caught by skipper Lawson to earn Jonathan Wroot a wicket and Broughton were stuttering on 21 for 2. Shaun Clixby was batting well and was joined at the crease by Neil Simpson but the latter was out for four to a sharpwe catch by Jamie Arrowsmith off Jason Whiteley and he quickly made it 36 for 4 when he bowled Lee Stothard for two in the sixth over. Jake Parker and Clixby then took the total to 9 with some good running in the face of some splendid fielding from the Isle side but that man Whiteley then struck in the tenth over when bowling Parker for 14 and it appeared to be down to opener Clixby if Broughton were to maintain their unbeaten tag for the season. He had reached 24 when he was superbly caught by Russell Fletcher , again out on the boudary to earn Whiteley his fourth wicket of the innings and that heralded a collapse that saw Luddington ease to a 44 runs victory. Arron Curry picking up two wickets thanks to an excellent catch from Liam McAnaney and a straight delivery that beat Oliver Wood's defences and it was left to Anthony Fitzgerald who wrapped things up when he bowled Sam Benson with his very first delivery, seeing Luddington to their second evening league win of the season.
So the Broughton Evening League has proven to be a success having returned to the local cricketing calendar with all six teams that competed having enjoyed some excellent matches with some quality participents as well as bringing on their youngsters throughout the ten weeks.
The committee would like to thank Mick Walker and the Scunthorpe umpires that have stood in all the games over the past months and hope that there might be further interest when next season comes around.
Wed 25 July: App-Frod 127 for 8 (Jack Harrison 50 retired), Scunthorpe Town 91 all-out (Paul Hilton 4 for 10, Liam Grimes 2 for 23; Dale Coy retired with 50 and Jon Taylor hit 28 for Hibaldstow who set a target of 134 for 3 against Normanby Park who were restricted to 93 for 4 by way of reply.
FINAL TABLE
1. BROUGHTON 10 7 1 2 0 23
2. APP FROD 10 6 2 2 0 20
3. SCUN SCORPIONS 10 5 2 3 0 18
4. LUDDINGTON 10 2 4 4 0 10
5. HIBALDSTOW 10 2 5 4 0 9
6. NORMANBY PARK 10 0 8 2 0 2
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