Massive 57 a.o. Attok more fer none  read more »

The 2nd team hosted Whitley Hall on Saturday – the first game in our run against the so called big sides. Few changes to the team from previous week, notably Butts going up to the 1st team and Simmo/Lister being omitted. All in all – the dressing room looked considerably young.  read more »

S.C.C.C. 92 a.o. (Croft 25) Warmsmorth 94 for 8 (Tasker 6 for 29)
Despite the addition of Sausages Simpson as skipper and to ease some pressure on the batting and keeping, the thirds fell to the side just above them, a defeat which all but confirmed relegation.

Warmsworth didn't arive until ten minutes before the start and even then they were down to ten men. Todd Warburton woke Stefan up and we had a full compliment of players so it was fair to say we had the best of the early exchanges. We lost the toss and batted although (after much debate) it turns out we would have done the same.  read more »

Following Tom Lister’s tactical master class of relieving Udall senior from his team manager duties the team was picked for the match against Frecheville. Tom did not have the problem of getting players to turn up…quite the opposite. On to the game, T Hancock and J Lister opened with Jonny at 3 (me thinks pressure was put on J Lister to open, no guesses as to who it was eh Jon) With the score on 12 the first wicket fell, this had jonny coming to the crease (having a point to prove to Udall senior, who had beat his score on Saturday …..Chin up son).
Both Tom and Jon played some nice shots around the ground both giving the opposition one chance to send them back. Tom retired on 51 and he says he cant bat!! Jonny followed later on 34. The final score being 119 for 3.  read more »

S.C.C.C. 183 a.o. (Sausages Simpson 82, Lister 46) South Normanton 160(ish) a.o. (Croft 3 fer 28, Fiddling 3 fer 11)

A trip to the team top of the league after a long hard day in the sun for most on saturday looked like a tough proposition, especially at about midday when we had 8 players! However, by half past 7 we had full points in the bag and all the frantic phonecalls of the morning had been long forgotten.  read more »

S.C.C.C 192-9 (Richards 86, Butler 40)
Darfield 193-3

On one of the hottest days of the year, the seconds travelled to Darfield in a must win game knowing that everyone had to win to ease relegation fears. The day started off poorly with people turning up late and the warm up being useless, which pretty much set up the tone for the day.  read more »

S.C.C.C. 120 a.o. (K Javed 47) Whiston Parish 121 for 6

Looking to build on last weeks victory the 3rds went to Whiston without Sir Alan and with a quite differnt line up. DJ took over skippering duties and predictably lost the toss and we were inserted on the hottest day of the year.  read more »

On Monday night at a glorious Bawtry Road, the 1st team saw off the challenge of current South Yorkshire league leaders Elsecar to reach the inaugral finals day of the South Yorkshire T20 cup.

Looking resplendent in our new SCCC one day kits, we arrived a little apprehensive as to what the night would have in hold for us.
After winning the toss, popular captain Matt Dixon elected to bat.
Things didn't start too well, when Blade was done for pace by their overseas (I just don't think he could get used to this coloured clothing thing). However Joe Root looked in fine form and was keeping the scoreboard ticking at a serious rate of knots along with Riaz.  read more »

2nd team hosted Hallam on Saturday, with their first game in several weeks at Abbeydale. On arrival to the ground, it is a miracle I am going to write a match report, as the strip was saturated (never mind the square/ground) and the prospect of cricket extremely doubtful. Anyway, sun and wind = pitch deemed well enough to play (albeit delayed start), much to the groundsman’s astonishment. For once, I agreed with Carl and could not see how we could play the game when the square was so damp/dangerous.  read more »

S.C.C.C. 150 for 8 (Hampshire 75*) Outibridge 137 a.o. (Rambo 3 fer 29, Hepplewhite heroics)

The 3rds finally picked up a victory at the expense of the one team below them in the league. Plan A went out the window as Hamps lost the toss and we were put in. The game was so important that we had been promised beer if we won, an offer which clearly made the difference. Not bad for a side that an hour before the start had 9 at one stage, with Lacey Snr and young Hepplewhite coming to the rescue.  read more »

Grassmore 93, Layer's layabouts 95-3. Good win. For the benefit of some reading this a win is the opposite of what happens on Saturdays and feels a lot better.

We arrived before the opposition and after quite a lot of parking and reparking cars to safe locations away from mid on/mid wicket we started on a soft green top exactly unlike the M5 outside Exeter. Lost the toss and fielded. We would have batted. Grassmore are top of the table so a contest looked on but it never quite happened.  read more »

S.C.C.C 64 All Out
Wakefield Thornes 67-3

On Sunday morning the under 13 looked to carry on their fine cup run with a trip to Hartshead Moor Cricket Club to play Wakefield Thornes.

After losing the toss we were asked to have a bat on a decent looking pitch. However we didnt make good use of it. Alex Thomas was brilliantly stumped after a legside take and Chris Pickford was run out and we slumped to 3-2. James Harrison and Elliot Calis got a bit of control back but wickets fell at a regular occurrence. Some good bowling backed up with good fielding made it hard to score which led to pressure and resulted in some poor shot selection. We managed to scrape to 64 all out. Wakefield made it really hard to score and kept the extras down.  read more »

http://sheffieldcollegiate.play-cricket.com/scoreboard/scorecard.asp?id=...

The 2nds travelled to Barnsley in a quietly confident mood after winning the last game and beating Barnsley earlier in the season. Things didn't get off to the best starts after we left Riaz at Abbeydale, thankfully we were only at the top of twentywell.  read more »

S.C.C.C 95-4
Doncaster Town 94-8 (Gibson 30*)

Sundays cancelled cup Semi-Final was moved to Abbeydale and was played on Tuesday night.

Captain Elliot Winter lost the toss and we were asked to bat on a wet and green wicket.

A steady start from Openers Alex Thomas and Elliot Callis until both men fell playing lazy shots. At the half way point Chirs Pickford (22) and James Harrison (13) carried us to 50 and looked good, playing shots all around the ground, until both were dismissed. Jack Lister (21*) and Levi Atherton (8) got us up to 95 which was probably 20 less than we should have got. In fairness Doncaster bowled very well at the death.  read more »

As the Henley regatta drew to a close yesterday the 4ths matched the rowing venue in a cockless eights show at Parkhead. Arrival at the ground was accompanied by a deluge of monsoon proportion and heeding the Weather warning Webster dragged Shabby into the thunder free environment of the Wheatsheaf. If Carlsberg did cricket it would be this way. As the Parkhead boys removed their plastic 'coverings' a few vessels were dismissed as Webster detailed the antics of the 'boobs with willies brigade' who reside on the 4th floor of The Crazy Horse in Bratislava and would appear to recieve a large proportion of this tax exile's depravity fund. Umpires inspect the pitch and the 'coverings' have left a wet patch that dear old John Holmes would have been proud of.  read more »

On a damp morning at Abbeydale the first ever SCCC Academy XI played Mentone Grammar School, a touring side from Melbourne, Australia.

We won the toss and put Mentone in to bat a decision quickly vindicated after the opening partnership of Chris Pickford and Rob Shaw reduced Mentone to 18 – 2, Rob picking up both of the wickets, the second of which a fantastic catch by Josh Jones at second slip.
Josh then came on to replace Chris and bowled two overs picking up a wicket with an absolute jaffa sending off pole flying. Then Josh who had come in to the game with a back niggle felt a twinge so was taken out of the attack and was replaced by Jack Lister.  read more »

Rufforth 28 all out
S.C.C.C 32-2

The Under 13's played their quarter final of the cup in Rufforth and thankfully managed to get the game in due to the weather being alright in York.  read more »

Barnsley 132 AO Wainwright 74
SCCC 135-6 Turgid 32*

Tarn came to bright lights big city and expected to roll us with the multitude of pros at their club.

Beast and Pitch had a chat about seasons gone by on the balcony whilst the other 20 players warmed up.

Won the toss on a wet one. Good opening spell from Greaves and Pistol and some dreadful running saw the end of SW.

Rooty came on and frustrated the tarn and Wilson and Morris went. Pistol decided to drop Wainers twice having already dropped two c&bs.

Nads bowled his worst spell of the season and still picked up three wickets.

Pete dropped another before taking a blinder and 130 was an excellant performance.  read more »

The second team had the daunting trip to Shiregreen on Saturday, with pressure increasing to grow with a big game against our relegation rivals. It was the proverbial 14 pointer – and thankfully we came out on top!

Riaz lost the toss, and we were inserted. I kid you not, we had no idea which wicket we were playing on, as the pitch had not been cut at all (phone call to league before hand by umpires). That said, too much talk beforehand by our batsmen about this, who managed to talk themselves out before even batting. Anyway, Butts went off and got the chip butties in.  read more »

Rotherham pheonix 55 all out[callis 4-11,ramzan 2-9,mines2-10)
Sheff Coll 56-2(lee 34*)

Having dissmissed Pheonix for 27 at Rotherham Collegiate were in confident mood for the return match at Abbeydale.
The Pheonix manager told me that they had a far stronger team out this time ; but they were soon in trouble when Danny Mines had the opener caught behind by chris Norris . Pheonix then took the score on to 28 before Danny clean bowled the no 3 . Chris Pickford bowled a very good spell without any luck, and when the opening bowlers had completed their overs pheonix were 28 for 2.  read more »