Medlocks Southend Evening Cricket League, Tuesday June 8
On another fine summers evening in South Essex, I made my first trip to Rankins Cricket Club on the border of Rochford and Stambridge in an idyllic setting for some Southend Evening Cricket League fare, and this contest saw Hockley host Southend on Sea & EMT.
A not so prompt start meant the game was to be reduced to 17 overs a side, and the hosts batted first and after a slow but steady start against some decent opening bowling, the openers managed to put on sixty odd for the first wicket before a catch saw the first wicket fall, but the visitors were to only take one more wicket as some decent late accumulation of runs saw Hockley post a respectable 115/2 in their innings.
This meant SOS & EMT needed to score at almost seven runs an over from the start to chase the 116 run target down, and they had an awful start to their innings, sliding to 14/3 and miles behind the rate, however a batsmen who was known as 'Simmo' by his teammates came in and played a marvellous knock of 51 in a fourth wicket partnership of 78, however once he retired out with the score on 92, the batsmen who followed could not score the required runs to win the game and the visitors fell ten runs short.
A decent game though and a fairly close one in the end, and a wonderful way to spend a gorgeous summer evening I must say.
Here are some pictures I took during the contest this evening:-
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