Martyn Horleston,  Alex Quaintance, Matthew Holmes, Taiyub Reham, Glen Riley, Marc Townsend, Will Day, Callum Rowley, Ozzy Crump, Tom Baker, Naj, Rob Holmes

April 26th 2009 - Newcastle & Hartshill v MHCC

Our 1st game this season in section A saw the 3rd team come up against Newcastle and Hartshill, we won the toss and elected to bowl 1st.
 
We bowled well and bowled newcastle all out for 144, martyn horleston was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 4-31 and was well supported by Marc Townsend 2-14, Taiyub Rehman 2-23, Tom Baker 1-18 and Ozzy Crump claiming a run out.
 
For the Batting we lost 4 quick wickets which included the losses of Alex Quaintance for 7, Matt Holmes for 8, Callum Rowley with a duck & Naj for 11. Afterwards the ship was steadied by Tom Baker who top scored with 42, Ozzy Crump with 15, Will Day with 6 and Rob Holmes with 26.
 
We held out for a draw in the end, it was a superb effort from all the lads and i hope we can take this onto our next game where hopefully get our 1st win of the season.

September 14th 2008 -  MHCC v Weston

Well it was now are never for The 3rd team to return to the SUNDAY SECTION A all that stood between us and a return to the promised land was the WEATHER/ Little Stoke finding another 30 Points from somewhere or Meir Heath not doing what we have been doing all season and carrying on a wonderful winning run. The lead up to
this game was like a nightmare the weather all week was wet wet wet , and saturdays game was called off due to that wet stuff, So come Sunday morning of the game it stated off brightly and there was a glimmer of hope to get the game on. At this point I would like to THANK ALL The Ground Staff KEV, SMITHY, BRIAN< anyone I missed off I do apologies, Without these people we wouldn't exist ! So come 12pm sunday the lads are slowly getting up the club for a 130pm i'm getting prematch nerves but why ! Well we have come this far and I don't want us to blow it . 1:15pm everyone is up the ground we have had a warm up and ready to toss for the start of the MATCH AGAINST WESTON C.C their skipper calls TAILS and Tails it was he decided to BOWL thank goodness for that I thought, Their Captain expained to me after the TOSS that their lads wanted a longer match this time , as last time we played them two weeks before we bowled them out for 28 and NADJAR and OZZY knocked them off in about 13 BALLS.
BATTING
Asif and Callum opened the Batting Callum played and chipped a shot straight to a fielder out fo 0 not a great start to the game out stepped GO BIG NADJAR having only batted 7 times this year having hit 254 runs in the process not bad ! Nadjar as I call him either get runs or gets out so last time Weston played against us he knocked their score off in 12 balls , Chasing 28 but this time we wanted him to stay out there a
long as poss, so some 30 mins later he was out cleaned bowled playing a shot that wasn't their but having hit 27 on the way with 2x 4's and 2x6's getting the score up to 40 the track wasn't there to slap everything around next in was Matt SAFE HANDS Holmes has been in good form with the bat so no problems, 12 runs later Asif gets himself out scoring 9 runs we are now 52-3 long way to go up steps Tom T BONE Baker having hit 226 runs he needed a good knock to win the averages from Nadjar with his knock giving him an average of 56.2 so out their batting was tom and matt they put on 29 before Matt was dismissed up stepped a Young Talent for next Year Austen OZZY Crump with a combined age of 72 batting you would think there should be enough talent out there to hit runs well there was a 12 year old at one end and a 60 the other Tom had a steady usual knock hitting 43 and young ozzy hitting a valuable 10 when OZZY got caught the score was on 113 so together they put on 32 Great partnership from Teacher to Student next up stepped James FARMER Brookfield he didn't last long run out for 1 , Next in Neil HITMAN Hanton with a steady 5 runs to end innings on125-6 not a bad total with pitch conditions ,,

Bowling

Martyn SKIPPER Horleston opened with Taiyub TOY Rehman M.Horleston had 9 overs for 1 wicket conceding 17 runs and TOY on the other end had figures of 7 overs for 3 wickets for 23 runs should have had 5 but who cares as long as we enjoy ourselves. Next up T Bone Baker didn't take long for him to spin his magic a big hitter at the crease hit Toy the over before for 6 so T Bone had a plan put Young SKIPPER Horleston on COW CORNER let his SOLID catching Chest do the work and of course HANDS BIG SLOGGER R. HEALER slaps one straight to cow corner M SKIPPER
HORLESTON their running to far forward had to back peddle with one foot 2" from the rope caught in on his chest and into his safe hands. WESTON now 44 for 5 and on the other end Marc ACCRINGTON Townsend great future in cricket he had 2 overs 1 wicket for 1 run . Tom finished the innings off with figures of 3.1 overs for 4 wickets at a cost of 2 runs.. This Win had made sure of Winning the league and 25 points Not even Little Stoke could catch us unless they could muster some invisible points from else where. Having played 18 matches 2 rained off we won 12 lost 2 and drew 2 What a great season for MHCC 3RDS a BIG THANKS OUT TO" MY TEAM" we then had a meal out at the MANGO TREE Blythe Bridge where 21 people attended even FREDDY QUAINTANCE Back from his exploits in some HOT Climate We have had 8 Players out of our team this year who have made it into the league averages 4 batting Nadjar, T. Baker ,Asif Khan and Freddy Quaintance, Bowling T. BAKER , TOY, Marc TOWNSEND , M. HORLESTON ,,,, Asif Khan and M. Horleston both having 9 catches each and behind the stumps M Holmes with 9 victims. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY A BIG THANKS TO WENDY, SUE AND EVERYONE ELSE INCLUDING MARCS WIFE AND DAD FOR HELPING TO DO A WONDERFUL JOB IN MAKING THE BEST TEAS IN THE LEAGUE NO ONE COMPARES......OUR TEAM THIS YEAR "great thanks been a pleasure bring on next season" 2 players not playing for the 3 rds Asif Khan and Nadjar all the best in your future... M. Horleston

August 31 - Oulton v MHCC

Skipper M. Horleston won the Toss and elected to
Field with the weather been overcast and raining most of the morning was
a good toss to win. I decided to bowl up hill and slow it down to
contain the runs and put TOY coming down hill at the other end. But it
worked in reverse TOY bowled his allotted 7 overs for 2 runs 2 wickets
and 5 midiens Iv'e been telling him all season to bowl at those 3 things
coming out of the ground, he asked me what were they there for !! Anyway
going back to the game I bowled 8 overs for 29 taking 1 wicket. There
were too many streaky edges I think ! By the time TOY and Myself had
bowled 15 overs they were 31 runs on the board. So as to not get slated
on this message board again by CRUMPY I took myself off. Replacing me up
bank Was "T BONE" BAKER thought I would give him a chance to keep it
tight and take a few wickets so as to stop him moaning at me after every
over. When he would walk past me smile and wave his arms in a circular
motion, Tom did indeed keep it tight Having figures off 17-4 off 11
overs, On the other end was Marc Townsed with his Left Arm medium
swing he had figures of 16-2 off 7 overs What a find he has been this
SUMMER never played cricket before only with Danny Ibbs a lunch time at
work, Nice one keep it up Marc. Behind the STUMPS was MATT HOLMES who I
think had a Great game Catching that RED ROUND THING in his Gloves not
once but THREE times and Hitting the winning runs, NOW TO OUR SECRET
WEAPON young OZZY CRUMP one for the future he has played for us on 3
occasions won the match against WEDGWOODS batting for 2 hours and every
time he has bowled he has taken 1 WICKET for a BOTTLE of LUCOZADE SPORT
so his figures of 5 overs 1 wicket for 8 runs.. Watch out T BONE .. We
ended up having Oulton at one stage for 38-8 and they went on to get 74
all out.

Now to the BATTING

ASIF /NADJAR opened the innings I told NADJAR take your time !! Well
it's like asking a dog to stop barking. He hit 6 runs before given
caught behind off his PADS !! Not at all inpressed. Up stepped A
"FREDDY" Quaintance in fine form this yeat hitting 2 x50's He hit a
steady 22 before been cleaned bowled with a ball that swing not once
but twice in the air pitched and cut back in ,, one hell of a ball if
you ask me.. I thought it was straight. Next in was CALLUM ROWLEY
who hit a fine 51 the day before for the 2nds he went on to hit a
very steady 10 not out. Soon after the second wicket went down ASIF
KHAN went for 20 runs caught behind trying a late cut. Up stepped Matt
Holmes who went on to finish the job with 10 runs. I would like to
THANK THE TEAM FOR ALL THE EFFORT so far this SEASON. MY fingers are
aching now MEIR HEATH 20 points Oulton 2 points next week we are playing
STONE AWAY with a chance of winning the league this year,,,,,,,,,,2
GAMES TO GO

August 24 - MHCC v Weston

Weston CC managed an intersting 28 all out mainly thanks to Mart Horlestons wides and No Balls but he did take 4 wickets as well as bowling too long, along with Sunday pro' Phil Critchlow picking up 3 wickets that Mark would have taken if allowed to bowl, Ozzy also struck again with his 2 ball spell of 1 for 1. Having just 49 overs to knock off the 28 runs required Naj and Ozzy knocked off the runs with only 46.5 overs left, Naj hitting 28 from 12 balls and Ozzy 1 Not Out from 1 ball.

August 4 - MHCC vs Wedgwood 03/08/08
 
Meir Heath won the toss and decided to bowl first.
 
Wedgwood were 94 all out with Asif Khan and Marc Townsend taking the majority of the wickets, Asif with superb figures of 7-1-16-5 and Marc with impressive figures of 8-2-18-4 and also Taiyub Rehman took 1 wicket.
 
Meir Heath chasing 95 to win got off to a poor start with the top order being blown away, mostly playing poor shots, with meir heath being 38-4 up stepped young Austen Crump only playing in his 2nd senior game played an outstanding innings by batting nearly 2 hours and with wickets tumbling all around him, he guided Meir Heath to victory with a good knock of 23 not out which included 4 boundaries,  Asif Khan after taking 5 wickets also contributed with 20 runs.

July 27 - Hey up,
 
just a quick mail to let you no how we got on 
we batted 1st and made 177 all out 
with naj hitting 40, naj's cousin kasim ahmed & callum rowley both scoring 24 
and bowling we fell 1 wicket short of winning bagnall were 130-9 
martin got figures of 16-6-33-3 and tom baker got 9-1-23-4 
overall we drew but are now 2nd in the league,  
if u could please update this on the site that would be great.
 
Cheers
Fred

July 20 - The Thirds came up trumps with another win this time against Stone batting first we reached 126-4
 
Freddie Q top scored with 31, naj's cousin Kasim Ahmed hit 22 on his debut for the 3rds, asif got 27 and tom baker was 25 not out
Stone all out for 63 taiyub rehman took a five wickets with figures of 7-0-17-5 and tom baker took 3 wickets with figures of 9.2-4-8-3

July 13 - Oulton who were top of the league, batted first and scored 251-2 declared,  The thirds held out for a morale boosting draw on 159-9 at the close of play. Freddie Quantaince notching up his first ever half century With James Brookfield chipping in with 20.