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Collegiate 245-4 (McKenna 112, Patmore 56)
Hull 192 all out (Josh Jones 5-40)

Josh Jones produced a superb display of fast bowling to help send Collegiate through to a semi final clash with the Academy in a fortnight’s time.

Collegiate 200-7 (Adams 64, Nads 31, Blade 31)
Rotherham 189 all out (Nads 4-61, Dicko 2-29, Jones 2-25)

Following a run of 3 weeks now with points...best for several years, another nice day meant rain couldn’t affect the points again, a trickier game away at Sheffield Friends on the picturesque Norton Oakes ground.
Having text more than half the club to get 11 players out this week, with majority saying “not available”, some with no reason, others in Wales, and 1 angry looking 5th teamer opting to go Salsa dancing instead.

The midweek Massive on a run of points from the last 2 weeks...due to rain, had to actually play a game this week! Previous fixture against TOA, on the top pitch, was called off due to poor outfield at start of season!

Yorkshire League

League game vs. Barnsley (Home) on Sat 4 July at 12h00. Meet at Club 11h00.

1. N. Gaywood
2. W. Root
3. M. Root
4. E. Mckenna
5. M. Simpson
6. A. Patmore [w/k]
7. N. Khan
8. K. Nayager
9. J. Jones
10. M. Dixon [c]
11. A. Wylie

Scorer: H. Brebner

S.Y. Premier

League game vs. Whitley Hall (Away) on Sat 4 July at 13h00. Meet at Club 11h00.

A very sad day indeed.

Having played against MPV when he was a lad following his career with Yorkshire and then especially with England has given me an absolutely huge amount of pleasure.

Everything had an added excitement and pleasure when he was involved, the wonderful innings leading up to and then in the series in Australia were as good as anything I have seen (first at Bramall Lane for the Aussies in 1961) in nearly 50 years.

Excellent practice on Thursday. Out in the middle until gone 9. Thanks Blade, Ri and Crofty. You guys can take some of the credit for the seven well earned points achieved by the Academy on Saturday. Some but not all. Read on.

On an overcast, humid day at Warmsworth the Academy gave a performance which demonstrated exactly why the club is investing so much time and effort in encouraging junior cricket.

SCCC U17’s V Whiston PC U 17’s

Whiston 107 for 1

SCCC 104 for 7

A thrilling finish to the match this Tuesday, on what appeared to be a very lively pitch the Whiston team put up a score of 107 for 1. Only one wicket taken but nearly half the total overs only giving a maximum of 4 runs per over, left what seemed an achievable total.

Possibly the pick of the bowling being M Cork with 4-0-12-0, Whiston opener Taylor stroked the ball around the ground and had 6 four’s in his unbeaten 51.

Castleford 192- 9 (Dixon 5- 65 , Khan 4- 64)
Collegiate 193-6 (Wall 50, McKenna 54, Javed 36)

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Sheffield Collegiate made it four wins out of five in the league with a four wicket victory over a strong Castleford side which probably goes down as the finest win of the season so far.

Yorkshire League

League game vs. Rotherham (Away) on Sat 27 June at 12h00. Meet at Club 10h15.

1. N. Gaywood
2. W. Root
3. C. Wall
4. E. McKenna
5. D. Adams
6. A. Patmore [w/k]
7. N. Khan
8. K. Nayager
9. J. Jones
10. M. Dixon [c]
11. B. Watson

Scorer: H. Brebner

S.Y. Premier

League game vs. Tickhill (Home) on Sat 27 June at 13h00. Meet at Club 11h45.

Mid summer and due to the Under Seventeens being in cup action only 4 Academy players attended nets, one of them late as he had to take the first team kit to Bawtry Rd as they had forgotten it.

5 Academy Players were in the under 17s game, one of them playing for Hallam!! I won't name names but he is in line to be the next James Bond!

As an aside there were 3 other players practising from three teams in relegation slots.

Sheffield Collegiate 5th XI 145 ao (Pitchfork 39, Liver 38)
Apperknowle 2nd XI 147-6 (Lacey 3-45, Pickford 2-31)

The 5ths had a home game against Apperknowle 2's, with us still looking for win number one!! We had no Ben Shaw, so VC Pete Lister was skipper. We batted first, with Chris Pitchfork and debutant James Harrison opening up. These batted well, seeing off one of the openers, before Harrison was bowled for 14. Picko followed soon after, also bowled, by the same bowler for 0.

Important game against third place Frecheville. Mansfield Massive 191-2, Frecheville 148-9.

Location

Wickersley 273-7 dec (Bennett 4-52)
S.C.C.C 205 all out (Colton 90 Thompson 33)

The seconds travelled to Wickersley knowing that there was a chance for some points as they werent in the best form themselves

The day (as always) didnt start off very well with the side not knowing who their 11th player was and who the scorer was (a massive thank you to Gill yet again!) It turned out it was Riaz who was our 11th man but nobody could get in touch with him and we didnt know what time he would be at the ground! Brilliant! Big thanks to Mrs Simpson for driving Riaz around and getting him to the game

And

A mainly first eleven side travelled to Rotherham for the qualifying round of the South Yorkshire Twenty20 at Bawtry Road against Houghton Main.

Hallam U17’s V SCCC U17’s. 2nd round Paramore Cup.

SCCC 110 for 7 after 20 overs
Hallam 113 for 1 after 18.1 overs

This was always going to be a tough test, and my gut feeling after our 20 overs was that we were about 25 runs short of a total that would have given us something to defend.

After a shaky start we were 13 for 2 after 3 overs the killer over being the 3rd were we lost 2 wickets for no runs. But credit to Josh Jones and Chris Pickford they dug deep and started to build a steady partnership.

Sheffield Collegiate recorded their fourth victory in five games with a fine five wicket win away at beautiful Hull. On a hot and humid day, Hull won the toss and elected to bat first on a bit of a pudding. With Kam doing all sorts with the ball at one end, and Josh Jones, opening the bowling for the first time, showing plenty of promise at the other, Hull’s decision to bat first began to look misguided. The pressure finally told, Kam taking two wickets, one thanks to Kuram who brilliantly took a skier. This was followed by a brilliant run out by Billy Root.

Sheffield Centralians 2XI 152 ao (S Woodward 3-35, W Lacey 3-40)

Sheffield Collegiate 5XI 134 ao (W Lacey 38, B Shaw 15*)

The 5’s travelled to Niagra, on one of the week’s better days weather-wise, to face Centralians’ 2nd team, in front of a capacity crowd of dogs, from the police dog shelter next door.

After much chopping and changing during the week, we ended up with an 11 completed 10mins before meet time, by Laurie Brennan set to make his debut.