Cricket Tournament Report

Cricket Tournament

Tournament Report – Ned Overbury (Captain) and Matthew Coomber

On the 3^rd July the Kelvedon Academy cricket team went to Colchester Cricket Ground and played a tournament with 10 other teams involved. When we arrived at the ground, we all had lunch and a bit of practice. Our first game was against St Thomas Moore. We played really well in our first game especially batting because we scored 314 runs thanks to Nathan scoring 21 runs of the bat.

After our first match we had a break and discussed tactics. We also watched other teams to see how good they were.

With our second match we played against St Johns and won by 60 runs with Matthew contributing 4 wickets with an amazing catch from Ned and our controlled batting. We won the match with the scores 291-3 by us and they scored 231-6.

We moved on to our 3^rd match against Friars Grove. We bowled first and restricted them to 222-2 with good economical bowling from everyone. When it came to us batting, we batted very sensibly and made 305-1. We hit the bad balls and drove the good balls to the boundaries.

Finally, coming to the last match of our group stage against Myland, we had to win this match to get to the finals. We played really tactically in bowling and fielding and only let the other team get 196-10. We batted defensively and attacking and we scored 258-2.

In the final we played against Heathlands. We batted first and scored 259-3. When we came to bowl, we bowled well but were a bit sloppy in the field. In the last over they needed 9 runs to win and Ned bowling it there was a few dot balls and then Franc got a run out that finished off the game.

Batsman of the tournament was Nathan and bowler of the tournament was Matthew this was chosen by the captain.