KMCC falter in promotion chase
Amazingly, both teams were (nearly all) present in time to start a match at the best concealed ground in the league. Batting first the Strays openers made use of the perfect batting conditions to set the scoreboard ticking. Even the exit of substitute keeper, Goldie, to rapturous applause failed to rouse the KMCC attack from its slumbers. Taylor, 56, opening the batting caressed the ball around nicely and at 82-0 from only 18 overs a big score was in prospect. Tufnell, came back hard dismissing both openers and at 145-4 the game was back in the balance. The wheels then came off for KMCC in the last 10 overs as a barrage of short deliveries from Hooks, 1-64, were plundered for 54 runs from his 5 overs and the score finished on 223-7.
Needing a good start, the KMCC innings crumbled to 65-4, and although Fraser, 30 and Harford-Cross, 38 briefly brought some hope to the Kirkby faithful, following their dismissals to the rampant Khan, 4-38 the innings subsided to 171 all out. Whilst Strays celebrated a vital win in the race against the drop, KMCC slipped back into the pack chasing promotion.
| Harrogate Strays CC v Kirkby Malzeard CC (Nidderdale League Division 2) | ||||||||||
| Played at Harrogate on 23 July 2005 | ||||||||||
| Harrogate Strays CC (6pts) beat KMCC (0pts) by 52 runs | ||||||||||
| Strays won the toss and elected to bat | ||||||||||
| Harrogate Strays innings (45 overs) | Bowling | O | M | R | W | |||||
| A Taylor | c Hooks | b | Blackburn | 56 | R Hooks | 12 | 1 | 69 | 1 | |
| D Bunkle | Bowled | b | Blackburn | 26 | D Fraser | 9 | 2 | 35 | 1 | |
| R Stanworth | c Hooks | b | Kirk | 45 | S Blackburn | 8 | 1 | 35 | 2 | |
| P Khan | LBW | b | D Fraser | 1 | P Kirk | 8 | 0 | 43 | 1 | |
| M Coates | c Harford-Cross | b | Armer | 9 | M Armer | 8 | 0 | 34 | 2 | |
| R Sedgley | c Fraser | b | Hooks | 22 | ||||||
| M Sedgley | Not Out | 31 | ||||||||
| M Fox | c Nattress | b | Armer | 11 | ||||||
| J Dewhirst | Not Out | 9 | ||||||||
| I Kenyon | ||||||||||
| C McDonald | ||||||||||
| Extras | 13 | |||||||||
| TOTAL | 223 | |||||||||
| Fall of Wickets | ||||||||||
| 1-82 2-93 3-103 4-145 5-170 6-178 7-212 | ||||||||||
| Kirkby Malzeard innings (41 overs) | Bowling | O | M | R | W | |||||
| A Brownlee | Caught | b | Fox | 7 | P Khan | 12 | 4 | 38 | 4 | |
| C Nattrass | Caught & Bowled | Khan | 7 | I Kenyon | 8 | 1 | 42 | 1 | ||
| K Fielder | b | Khan | 29 | M Fox | 11 | 2 | 41 | 1 | ||
| C Harford-Cross | Caught | b | Khan | 38 | M Sedgley | 8 | 0 | 34 | 3 | |
| B Atkinson | Caught | b | Kenyon | 0 | M Coates | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |
| I Fraser | Caught | b | Khan | 30 | ||||||
| M Armer | b | M Sedgley | 8 | |||||||
| D Fraser | Run Out | 13 | ||||||||
| R Hooks | LBW | b | M Sedgley | 0 | ||||||
| P Kirk | b | M Sedgley | 4 | |||||||
| S Blackburn | Not Out | 7 | ||||||||
| Extras | 28 | |||||||||
| TOTAL | 171 | |||||||||
| Fall of Wickets | ||||||||||
| 1-13 2-47 3-51 4-65 5-111 6-131 7-158 8-158 9-159 10-171 | ||||||||||