Another away day for Galleywood saw us make the trip to Coronation Park. Springfield won the toss and elected to bat.
Galleywood made an immediate breakthrough, with Clayden in the 7th ball of the match, where Jasani picked out Murray at square leg. Powell came to the crease and looked to play his game of hard hitting to get runs on the board quickly. He put on 37 with Evans, contributing his 26 runs to that partnership before he drove the ball to Rayner at cover who was able to take the catch. A big partnership then followed as Galleywood lost their way with the ball in the middle overs, allowing Evans some lives and captain Southwell was taking advantage of regular width from the bowlers finding 15 fours and 2 sixes in his innings overall. Evans was ticking along nicely, while still managing to encourage the Galleywood bowlers but he stayed resolute in his 118 balls on his way to 79 before being out caught from the bowling of Storey. Scoring was frequent and by the time that wicket fell, captain Southwell was just 7 away from a century. He batted through the innings to end on 113 not out from just 104 deliveries. Tyler was a run a ball for his 10, but no doubts the stars of the innings were Southwell and Evans in their 178-run partnership. Clayden’s 1-41 from 10 overs was the leading performance with the ball in this innings.
The heat was still around at Coronation Park, and Springfield’s breakthrough was a slightly quicker; 5th ball of the innings had Murray bowled on his first ball. Galleywood continued to dig in to chase down the total, but batsman were getting in and the getting out, with this happening to Brace, Sturton and Swann in the middle of the innings. Day batting at 3 added 45 to the total but the spin of Tickoo got him out. Most productive partnership of the Galleywood batting was between Rayner and Felton, worth 60 runs, and this was broken by a run out of Felton leaving him 42 in 34 balls. Galleywood were right on the run rate at this point, but wickets were falling, and Springfield’s tails were up. Rayner batted on and scored 47 and make him the top scorer in this innings, but his wicket really ended the hopes. The tail couldn’t wag, adding just 11 between the 4 batsmen. Galleywood were 215 all out, and Jamie Trim’s 2-21 were the best figures.
Springfield win by 40 runs and the full match card is here: https://galleywoodcc.play-cricket.com/website/results/4754548