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The 1st team's unbeaten start to the season came to an abrupt end at the rec when Monkseaton came and took maximum points. 

A moment of sportsmanship from the home skipper changed the game as visiting captain Owen Rankin was wrongly given out LBW only to be called back by Harwood.  This proved to be a costly decision as Rankin went on to make an unbeaten 87 in the visitors total of 217-7.  Dean Greaves (3-56) and James Richards (2-40) sharing 5 of the wickets to fall with Adam Peacock and Callum Milburn taking the others.

With the top 3 home batsmen back in the pavillion with the score on 39 Dean Hardy & Paul Milburn added 80 for the fourth wicket, but when Milburn was bowled on 48 by the excellent Stewart Black (5-36) the rest of the rugby club innings fell away and in the end were bowled out for 152.

Sunday 20th June 2010 see's the 3rd Annual 6 a side competition to be held at the "Rec" it is planned to start at 10:30am and finish around 7pm, this is a day when local pubs can enter a team to play against each other we have 8 teams confirmed they are;

Travellers A, Travellers B, Premier A, Premier B, Rugby Club, Booze Brothers, Linton & Woodhorn, Bank Top.

They will be in 2 groups of 4 so each team plays at least 3 games, the winner of group A plays the winner in group B in the Final, there are prizes for the winners and the player of the competition.

Only charge is for each player which is £2 for the day which goes towards the prizes.

This a is a fun day for all the family, cans lager, cider and beer will be served along with juice for the kids and hot food such as burgers, cheese burgers, hot dogs all with onions if required and chips all food and drink is at low prices.

All money raised on the day will go to the funds of the cricket club to help with ground maintenance.  Come along and have a great day.   

Coaching started Friday 21st May 2010 at 6pm till 7:30pm, this will run until the end of August 2010.

Bring along the boys and girls aged between 6 and 16 years old and they will have great fun as well as learning new skills and at the same time make new friends.

Cost is only £1 per session.

The 1^st team won at blustery Hebburn on Saturday making it 3 wins in a row and now sit proudly on top of the 1^st league table of the season.

After winning the toss & batting the top order had to work hard to navigate themselves to 64 for 3 on a wicket where 150+ looked a good score, Adam Peacock with a patient 28 was the main contributor.  However once he perished long time nemesis Aidan Berry ripped through the middle order to leave the innings teetering on 87 for 8. 

Step forward Paul Milburn to became the hero of the innings ably supported by young Jonny(0) Richards.  Milburn finished unbeaten on 64 as he & Richards added 59 for the last wicket with some aggressive running & clever strokeplay by Milburn.  The inexperienced Richards who had been a late call up showed plenty of courage to withstand some short pitched bowling from the increasingly frustrated Hebburn attack who were now without the bowled out Berry.  Indeed the partnership had swung the balance of the game & the ‘Rugga Boyz’ now looked favourites in a game they had looked out of. 

After tea the older Richards came roaring in wind assisted to unsettle the Hebburn top order, however it was the guile of the evergreen Dean Greaves to reap the rewards.  Finding a bit of swing & varying his length he removed 4 of the top 5 to leave Hebburn struggling 4 down with barely 30 on the board. 

Adam Peacock was brought on at the expense of Richards & he struck twice with batsmen offering no shot.  Richards was then brought on for the tiring Greaves who had bowled 8 overs into the wind (despite climbing out of his sickbed to play) & took 3 wickets to wrap the innings up with another for Peacock.

3 wins in a row now for the 1^sts despite not having hit the heights of the win at Bomar in the latter 2 games.  Monkseaton are up next at  the Rec on Saturday!

Meanwhile the 2nds had a good win against Bates on Saturday to consolidate their safe Mid table position.  Veterans Wanless Snr & Elliott took 3 wickets apiece as Bates failed to chase down 144.  Scott Maddsion top scored with 25, Lewis Tanney 24 & Mick ‘Bench’ Hudson 24 the other main contributors.

Sporting new clothing & a new name the 1sts won their opening game of the season against local rivals Bomarsund on Saturday.  James Richards was the hero with a devastating spell of 6 for 40 to leave Bomar all out for 117 chasing 216.

After losing the toss & being inserted skipper Harwood made a patient 34 & Paul Milburn a breezy 42 before a middle order collapse left the innings floundering on 133 for 7.  Sensible late order batting from Dean Greaves (22), Richards (16) & some never before seen strokeplay from number 11 Kirk Newton (16) got the ‘Rugga Boyz’ up to a challenging 216 on decent track offering slightly uneven bounce on occasions.  Nick Wightman bowled well pick up 5 wickets & ‘Big Dave’ Seccombe 3 but 55 extras did not help the Bomar cause!

Following tea an energetic start saw Richards & Greaves bag the key wickets of Steven Thain & Colin Thornton in consecutive orders to leave Bomar reeling.  At this point young ‘Stevey’ took the game by the scruff of the neck obliterating the middle order bowling accurately with decent pace & being backed up by a couple of smart catches by Kevin Hetherington & Midge Adamson.  Indeed numbers 5 to 9 could not muster a run between them & had it not been for a good half century from John Haig Jnr & a late cameo of 27 from Seccombe the result could have been worse.  Paul Milburn (2) bowling spin & Kirk Newton (1) were the other wicket takers.

A first ever league win over their local rivals got the season off to a fine start,  standards were set that need to be maintained throughout the season!

In the reverse fixture at the Rec Bomar were the victors by 33 runs, a century from Brent Mordey helped get them up to 199 for 3, in reply the Rugby Club managed 166 for 7 contributions came from Duncan Storey (45), Rob Clark (34) & 19 not out from Lewis Tanney!             

Come along and collect your new club cricket clothing the items will be available from 6pm till 7.30pm on Friday 16th April in the Rugby Club House (bar will be open just for us).

To all of those who still owe their money no clothes will be given out until you pay up.

Thursday 15th April at 6pm, we will be using an end strip for some much needed out door practice on the square, members are urged to make use of the facility and to get use to the conditions we will be playing on during the coming season.

Chairman thanks members who made an effort to support the club and get ourselves ready for the coming season.

Our day of action saw Dean Greaves, Michael (Midge) Adamson, Dean (Rusty Knees)Hardy, Chris (Money Man) Gray, David (The Grafter) Wanless Jnr, Steven (The Watcher)Henderson, turn out and give their Saturday morning up for the club.

We got our screens set up and out onto the field, score box, kitchen throughly cleaned and the flix strips ready for use.