KMCC batsmen fail to back up fine bowling display
KMCC found themselves in the field at Alne and an excellent display of tight bowling brought the pressure required to take wickets which fell steadily throughout the day. Goldsmith (3-33) and Armer (3-45) the main protagonists dismissed Alne for a very gettable 175.
Kirkby's batting looked bereft of confidence once a cameo of 22 by Nattress had been snuffed out the runs dried up and wickets began to tumble. Brownlee tried to restore some semblance of order without managing to up the scoring rate, one fine six being a notable exception and Goldsmith again looked cool as he added 25 before falling whilst on the attack. When the ninth wicket fell on 93 it looked like it would be another pointless batting display by KMCC and although Kirk and Pickles battled hard 113-9 just failed to reach the two thirds target and steal the batting point.
| KMCC v Alne CC (Nidderdale League Division 1) | ||||||||||
| Played at Alne on 28 July 2007 | ||||||||||
| Alne (4 pts) beat KMCC (1 pt) by 62 runs | ||||||||||
| KMCC won the toss and elected to field | ||||||||||
| Alne innings (44.1 overs) | Bowling | O | M | R | W | |||||
| S Morley | LBW | b | Kirk | 1 | P Goldsmith | 11.1 | 1 | 33 | 3 | |
| M Kenny | c& | b | Kirk | 3 | P Kirk | 12 | 4 | 21 | 2 | |
| F Raper | LBW | b | Fraser | 11 | D Fraser | 3 | 0 | 19 | 1 | |
| R Proudley | c Brownlee | b | Loraine | 31 | G Loraine | 7 | 1 | 37 | 1 | |
| C Beaumont | b | Armer | 69 | M Armer | 10 | 0 | 45 | 3 | ||
| A Buteaux | b | Armer | 25 | R Pickles | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||
| S Raper | c Nattress | b | Goldsmith | 0 | ||||||
| T Ryder | c D Fraser | b | Goldsmith | 4 | ||||||
| J Ash | Bowled | b | Armer | 2 | ||||||
| J Henley | c Atkinson | b | Goldsmith | 3 | ||||||
| S Kenny | Not Out | 4 | ||||||||
| Extras | 22 | |||||||||
| TOTAL | 175 | |||||||||
| Fall of Wickets | ||||||||||
| 1-1 2-10 3-35 4-96 5-155 6-156 7-164 8-166 9-169 10-175 | ||||||||||
| KMCC innings (45 overs) | Bowling | O | M | R | W | |||||
| C Harford-Cross | Caught | b | Morley | 3 | T Ryder | 8 | 3 | 29 | 0 | |
| C Nattress | Caught | b | Morley | 22 | S Morley | 12 | 7 | 16 | 2 | |
| G Loraine | Run Out | 0 | M Kenny | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | |||
| I Fraser | LBW | b | M Kenny | 0 | J Ash | 9 | 0 | 43 | 3 | |
| A Brownlee | Caught | b | Ash | 18 | S Kenny | 6 | 2 | 14 | 2 | |
| B Atkinson | Caught | b | S Kenny | 5 | ||||||
| P Goldsmith | LBW | b | S Kenny | 25 | ||||||
| D Fraser | c& | b | Ash | 5 | ||||||
| M Armer | Caught | b | Ash | 2 | ||||||
| P Kirk | Not Out | 18 | ||||||||
| R Pickles | Not Out | 5 | ||||||||
| Extras | 10 | |||||||||
| TOTAL | 113 | |||||||||
| Fall of Wickets | ||||||||||
| 1-25 2-26 3-29 4-29 5-72 6-80 7-82 8-86 9-93 | ||||||||||