Old Southendians v Gidea Park & Romford CC Saturday 4th X1 on Sat 09 Aug 2003 at 1.30pm
Gidea Park & Romford CC Won 77 runs
Skipper Les Hall won the toss and decided to bat. Park opened with the successful Jeff Rodriguez opening pairing of Bob Coombe and Andrew D'cruz.They got Park off to a great start, both making half centuries. Bob went for 78 and Andrew went a while later for 73. This brought Craig Bray and Matt Tarr to the crease who kept the good run rate going with Craig Bray also passing 50. Park ended up on 257 after just 38 overs.
Kershaw and Coombe D openend the bowling and Danny had some success quite quickly, bowling really well to end up with 4-43. Tom Kershaw bowled very tightly and was unlucky to not have taken a wicket. G Coombe and Collard came on and continued to take wickets, around A Baker who managed to get 61*. Park were struggling to remove the number 11 batsmen before Les Hall came on and took a wicket with his first ball.
A good all round performance which gave Park a much needed 18 points
Gidea Park & Romford CC Saturday 4th X1 Batting
257 for 2
Old Southendians Bowling
Old Southendians Batting
180 for 10
Gidea Park & Romford CC Saturday 4th X1 Bowling