Year 3 & 4 Cricket House Matches

The U9 Cricket House matches saw one of the closest finals played for many years at Copthill!  

The two teams in the final were Casewick and Burghley and with Casewick possessing a number of regular U9 players looked to be very firm favourites before the competition even started two weeks ago.  However this certainly was not the case for the final.

Burghley put on a very respectable 252 as they opened the batting.  This looked to be enough to win the game, especially as the final pair for Casewick came in needing to score 20 off 12 balls.  After their first over, William Gardner and William Le Voi needed 8 in the final over to win the match for Casewick.  They managed this with 3 balls remaining, Burghley now needed a wicket which they didn't achieve, however they managed to reduce Casewick to 0 from the final 3 balls.

The third and fourth play-off saw Milton take third as they beat Lindsey.  Lindsey batted first and scored 231 runs; they would have scored more had it not have been for some terrific bowling from Milton, who managed to take four wickets. 

Lindsey were unable to take any wickets despite some great bowling. Some strong batting from Ashton Hunt, Oliver Perkins, Will Taylor and Elliott Noble ensured third place was theirs, and they managed to score a whopping 293 runs!

Very well done to all the boys who took part in these excellent Cricket House Matches this term!

Mr Smith & Mr Arthur