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Saturday 19^th July 2014 saw Bates Cottages 1^st Team arrive at the “REC” on a day when we expected no play due to the severe weather warning where we expected heavy rain, thunderstorms and hailstones. The toss was very important with the conditions being heavily overcast, yes you guessed it we lost the toss again and was put into bat by Bates.

The Bates boys had the ball swinging around quite a bit and this caused our batters a lot of problems and we never really got going and thus we could not build any partnerships of any note only Dean Hardy made it to double figures with his patient 19, we ended up 70 all out.

After the 1^st Innings our grounds man was remarking the crease lines etc. when the rain came and did it come we pushed the covers on and we had our teas and sat for quite a while and we thought we may have to go back out when the rain cleared or eased off a little and then came a very heavy shower which put paid to the game both captains shock hands and agreed that no play would take place now.

Ashington RCC 5 points and Bates Cottages 10 points.

Our 2^nd team travelled to top of the table Monkseaton CC to plat their 1^st team we lost the toss and M. Kleynhans had a great day with his swing bowling taking 7 wickets for 11 runs which ripped the heart out of our weakened team which we could not recover from we finished 45 all out. Only Steven Henderson made it to double figures with his 19.

Monkseaton decided that they should go for it with the weather looking grim and they blasted their way to the total in not many overs to clinch maximum points, with the loss of only 1 wicket. With  M. Kleynhans hitting 24 not out, a great day for him and a one to forget for the rugger boys.

Monkeseaton CC 30 points and Ashington RCC 0 points.

Our midweek team progressed into the Semi-final of the RE Wood Shield following Warkworth CC conceding their game with our club on Wednesday 16/7/2014.

The Northumberland Cricket League have asked our club to host the Barlow Cup Final between Bomarsund CC and Cramlington CC on 15th July. Come along and watch the game and the bar will be open.

Cramlington CC crowned Barlow Cup champions they chased down Bomar's 115 with 1 over to spare. 

12^th July 2014 saw the 1^st team travel to Chopwell to play GEMS CC, buoyant after their great win over Blagdon CC the previous week, with only Adam Peacock missing (holiday). We lost the toss and GEMS decided to bat and early on they went after the bowling attack swinging from the hip, with the small field the boundaries came quickly scoring over 7 runs an over for the first 10 overs.

B. Krishan scored 32 and H. Tahir 34 they then both fell in quick succession, this gave us an inroad into their middle order, we then took hold of the batsmen with some tight bowling where the runs dried up. Scott Maddison bowled a good tight spell of spin bowling which strangled their run scoring. We eventually bowled GEMS out for 160 which we thought was a great effort after they were 80+ for 1 wicket.

Our wicket takers were Dean Greaves 3 for 32, James Richards 2 for 62, Cory Milburn 1 for 40, Scott Maddison 1 for 14 and Lewis Tanney 2 for 5.

We then set about the run chase after we decided to move the batting order around for our success last week. Chris Harwood fell early on for 6 bringing Paul Milburn and Dean Hardy together they dug in against a good bowling attack and got the score to 51 before Paul fell on 26. Dean was out quickly after on 14 and the only two other batsmen to score double figures were Scott Maddison with 17 and James Richards 12 we eventually were all out for 106, very disappointing. This result losing by 54 runs meant that GEMs went above us in the league.

GEMS 28 points and Ashington RCC 6 points.

Our 2^nd team were at home playing against Ulgham CC 1^st team; however we were in a position on Friday night that we were struggling to field a team and came close to conceding, however we just managed to get out a team. We bowled first and Ulgham opening batters enjoyed themselves with Colin Tait scoring 24 and Mark Plumber 124 not out, Ulgham scored 228 for 6 off their 50 overs. Our wicket takers were David Wanless Snr 3 for 44 and Captain Trevor Elliott 3 for 51.

In reply the young guns Andy Mathews 34 and Steven Parsons 68 (1^st 50 for the club) made a fight of the run chase before we were all out for 148, valiant effort by a weakened team who fought to the end with a great spirt shown.

Ashington RCC 5 points and Ulgham CC 30 points.

Saturday 5th July 2014 we found our ground flooded after the dry weather, we were just about to call the game off at 8:30am when we decided to give it a go to remove the large amount of ground water at the bottom end of our ground. Thanks to Dean Greaves, Michael Adamson, Chris Harwood and Paul Milburn they ended up removing approx. 40 to 50 barrow loads of water. We then spiked the wet areas with the aerator to help the wet areas to dry out quicker.

We got the game on which was a 1st team fixture against Blagdon we won the toss and put them into bat we bowled well and all our bowlers had the ball seaming all over the place beating the edge on numerous occasions and James Richards took 4 wickets, Lewis Tanney 2 wickets and Cory Milburn 2 wickets only 1 Balgdon batsman really got going and that was Shaun Collins who was eventually run out by Mick Nicholson when on 62, they finished with 152 all out. 

We started our chase with Mick Nicholson attacking right from the start, he got on top of their bowlers who did not have an answer he plundered 88 not out in our run chase with Adam Peacock hitting 41 we won by 8 wickets.

Ashington RCC 30 points and Blagdon CC 4 points (Great win worth all the hard work in the morning to get the game on)

2nd team was away to Hebburn CC we lost the toss and they batted at one stage they were 81 for 0 wickets eventually they fell 158 all out Liam Lavery did the damage with 5 wickets for 12 runs in 5 overs (spin bowling). Some good tight bowling by David Wanless Snr and Trevor Elliott did a good job before Liam did his bit.

We lost an early wicket before we started to build a few small partnerships but we kept losing wickets to rash shots giving our wickets away only Paul Milburn with 44, Steven Parsons and Craig Jobson with some lusty hits got us to within 30 runs but we could not get any closer than the mid-120s.

Hebburn CC 28 points and Ashington RCC 7 points 

Saturday 21^st June saw our 1^st team travel to Clara Vale for our Premier League fixture, we lost the toss and Clara batted first they put on a big score of 271 all out. As Clara normally do they went for it right from the start and carried quite a bit of luck but they also hit the ball well especially M. Rehan who scored 94 with others chipping in with 20’s. Our pick of the bowlers was Dean Greaves 4 wickets for 37 runs off his 13 overs and James Richards with 3 wickets for 64 runs.

When we set about our runs chase we lost C. Harwood early on with a smart catch down the leg side from their keeper, our pick of the batters was Dean Hardy with a workman like performance with 75 before being run out all of our players got started Mick Nicholson 25, Adam Peacock with 31, Ryan Hogg with 24, Cory Milburn with 56. Only to fall 5 runs short, finishing 266 for 7 wickets, a great effort but not quite enough.

Clara Vale CC 28 Points and Ashington Rugby CC 10 points (maximum for losing)

The 2^nd team entertained Cramlington CC 1^st team in a Division 1 clash at the “REC”. Cramlington won the toss and batted the Rugger boys took regular wickets and prevented Cramlington from building any partnerships. The pick of the bowlers was David Wanless Snr who took 5 wickets for 26 runs off his 12 overs and Steven Henderson who took 2 wickets for 26 runs. Cramlington had a good final wicket partnership of 50 runs which pushed their score from 91 for 9 to 141 all out.

When the Rugger boys took to the crease to chase the total we lost early wickets and never really got going eventually falling all out for 105 pick of the batters was Graham Pattinson with 18 runs, really disappointing as we felt we had more than enough to pick off the target, praise must go the Cramlington bowlers who bowled well. B. Walker 3 wickets for 29 runs, B. Cuthbertson with 3 wickets for 29 runs and A. Livingston with 3 wickets for 5 runs. Cramlington won by 36 runs.

Ashington Rugby CC 6 points and Cramlington CC 27 points.

Wednesday 18^th June saw our Midweek team travel to Warkworth CC in the final Midweek League game.

Warkworth batted first scoring 62 for 9, only M. Clark who scored 26 was the only one to get into double figures. Tom Stokoe back from University did the damage with the ball in his 4 overs he took 5 wickets for 8 runs the other bowler to mention was S. Maddison his 5 overs he took 2 wickets for 11 runs.

We took to bat with Cory Milburn (Capt) hit a quick fire 41 not out to win the game by 6 wickets, Warkworth’s main bowler was G. Puddephatt who bowled 5 over took 3 wickets for 13 runs.

We found out later that Alnwick had beat Morpeth which meant we won the league on the final game of the season. "Well Done Boys"

14^th June saw Berwick Travel to the “REC” for the 1^st team fixture, on an overcast warm day. They won the toss and elected to bowl.(surprising on a good looking wicket) We got off to a slow start losing D. Hardy for 0 early on, which then saw Adam Peacock come to the crease, Adam and Chris Hardwood started to build a partnership before Chris fell for 19. Lewis Tanney walked to the middle and him and Adam built a great partnership before Adam fell chasing a wide on for 39. That brought the two young guns Lewis and Cory Milburn together they batter very well putting on a good partnership Lewis eventually falling for 70 and Cory went on to score 50 not out, D. Greaves come in an d hit a quick fire 13 including a big straight six, in our total of 237 for 7.

Berwick’s bowlers S. Emery 3 wickets for 47 and S. Middlemist 3 wickets for 55.

They lost a few early wickets chasing a big total only J. Paterson score a quick fire 63 before falling to Scott Maddison with a good close catch by R. Hogg behind the stumps. B. Soni who hit a quick fire 33 Berwick eventually fell all out for 146.

D. Greaves took 2 wickets for 15, J. Richards 5 wickets for 35 with 1 wicket each for S. Maddison, C. Milburn and L. Tanney. The rugger boys won by 91 runs.

Ashington Rugby CC 30 points and Berwick 5 points.

Second team travel to Tynemouth for a Sunday fixture.