Gidea Park & Romford Cricket Club

Gidea Park and Romford U9s took on a very strong Woodford Green team at home on Sunday.  Invited to bat after losing the toss, Gidea Park found scoring difficult as the result of tight bowling and some excellent catches by the visitors.  Henry, Robbie and Connor were the pick of the home team’s batting in a total of 179.

The visitors were made to fight for every run when it came to their time to bat and tight bowling and excellent fielding kept the home side in the game.  Robbie, Liam, Max, Simon and Alex (his first for the club) all picked up wickets.   In the field, Gidea Park were superb – everyone contributing (exemplified by Leah, whose safe hands ensured nothing got past her, Adam, and James who fielded with his usual boundless enthusiasm).  In the end however, the visitors were victorious, closing on 210.
 
Despite the result, it was a good performance by the entire Gidea Park team – it was especially good to see the older players encouraging the younger ones, and the team-work which pulled off run-outs off consecutive balls.

Well done all!