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Ashling v Compton

4th September 2005

Ashling 206-5 (40 overs) Compton 88 all out (23.3 overs)

Nick Loubser 57, Nick Jones 47, Stuart Edwards 3-8, Chris Judd 3-16, Nick Loubser 2-2

Another win, but a little bit hollow. Games with Compton have been hotly contested over the years and we were therefore more than a little disappointed when they arrived with a scratch team in which there were only a handful of first team regulars.

The captains agreed that Ashling should bat first, and after Dick Holden departed early, Nick Loubser and Nick Jones set about the rather ordinary Compton bowling attack. Ashling scored at six per over as the second wicket partnership added 95 runs before Loubser (57, one six, seven fours) tried to sweep the ultra-slow bowler Gilbert White and was caught at deep backward square leg. Chris Williams came in at four and after surviving a streaky couple of overs, got the measure of the bowling and added a quick 22 including a big six and two fours. Nick Jones had been playing a quiet anchoring role and having scored 47 including five fours eventually got out to a dreadful ball which he hit straight to a fielder. Chris Williams continued the trend by mis-hitting a long-hop to mid on. Paul Colley added a useful 18 before Chris Judd (not out 22) and Craig Mason (not out 8) closed out the innings at 206-5.


Chris Judd opened the bowling from the clubhouse end with James Ford bowling from the pond end. After 4 overs Compton were 11 for 4 with the bowlers taking two each despite James Ford bowling 5 wides in his first over having forgotten his spiked cricket boots - his second over was a double-wicket maiden in borrowed boots!) Stickley (27) was the pick of the Compton batsmen as he stood up to the fast bowling onslaught and Brett (5) kept everyone amused as he retreated to leg at every ball and still managed to keep the ball out for eight overs. Stuart Edwards repaced Ford and took three wickets for only eight runs as it became obvious that the Compton batting line up lacked any depth, and only the veteran captain Gilbert White putting up any real resistance, batting resolutely for 19 over ten overs in a lost cause. Nick Loubser chipped in with clearing up the tail and finished with 2 for 2 off 1.3 overs!