Tim takes Carew to victory

 

Carew (195 for 8) beat Narberth (165 for 9) by 30 runs

 

 

Umpires: Trefor Evans & Steve Blowes
Scorers: Julie Davies & Gwyneth Johns

 

A cracking innings of 128 not out by experienced opener Tim Hicks helped Carew to victory over a gritty Narberth side in an entertaining tussle where they just about held the edge despite some solid batting by a handful of Narberth batsmen.

The Rooks looked in trouble at 55 for 6 but were led to a healthy final total of 195 for 8 as only James Hinchliffe (28) and Dai Rees (11) managed to support – and show how important Hicks’ boundary-laden runs were.

For Narberth, their best bowlers were skipper Ben Hughes (2 for 37), Ben Quartermaine 1-41, Matthew Johns (1 for 17) and Had Luff (2 for 33).

Narberth’s batting had steady innings from Had Luff (31), Richard Adams (26), Dan Hughes (33), skipper Ben Hughes 31) and Rhodri Dyer (20) but no-one was able to compile a big score, had Hicks had done.

Sam Harts claimed 1 for 30 in nine overs after he had moved ‘down the hill’ from neighbours Cresselly, with Iori Hicks (4 for 51), James Hinchliffe (2 for 22), skipper Shaun Whitfield (1 for 20) and Tim Hicks (1 for 12) also amongst the wickets for Carew in a welcome win.
 





 

Bailey’s big hitting Batters The Town

 

Cresselly (303 for 8) beat Haverfordwest (96 all out) by 207 runs

 

Umpires: Save Bonner & Allan Hansen
Scorers: Teagan Cartwright & Jayne Cole
 
Some massive hitting by Alex Bailey helped Cresselly to a victory over Haverfordwest which led locals to ponder whether either side had won by such a wide margin in the past.

Yet Cresselly hadn’t made the best of starts as Jonny White and Clive Tucker reduced them to 30 for 3 and Phil Williams (11) was the early batsman in double figures before Matthew Morgan (53) and Simon Cole (25) managed to redress the balance.

But then Bailey totally changed the balance of play with his siege-gun hitting as he blitzed six fours and SIXTEEN SIXES en route to fantastic final tally which helped the homesters to reach a massive 303 for 8; a daunting tally for any team to chase.

White (2 for 31) and Tucker (2 for 44) were principal wicket-takers for The Town whilst other wicket-takers in skipper Dai Davies (1 for 72) and Danny Potter (1 for 76) certainly fared less well!

The Town made the better start when they replied as they reached 50 without loss and looked relatively comfortable on 86 for 2 thanks to Ben Field (36, including five fours and a six) and Potter (24) but then Simon Cole came on to trundle his canny slow stuff to such amazing effect that he had four maidens in his five overs to claim 5 wickets for just a single!

Tom Arthur (3 for 24) and Ryan Lewis (2 for 10) were the other successful Cresselly bowlers as Haverfordwest completed a day to forget as they lost their last eight wickets for only 10 runs and were shot out in 29 overs!

 

Lawrenny stroll to speedy success

 

Lawrenny (38 for 0) beat St Ishmaels (36 all out) by 10 wickets

 

Umpires: Dave Brandon & Richard Merriman
Scorers: Malcolm Thomas & Wendy Bradshaw


There was a very early finish at Lawrenny as the home side asked St Ishmaels to bat first, shot them out for a paltry 36 runs – and then reached their target in eight overs without losing a wicket!

Tish were without several key players but even so this was poor batting as Jordan Milich top scored with eight runs as Rob Williams and Jamie Lewis caused the damage with early respective figures of 3 for 5 in six overs and 2 for 7 in five overs.

There was to be no let-up as Ryan Morton claimed the best analysis of the match (4 for 13 in 4.2 over) and Steve Lewis rounded matters off neatly with 1 for 6 in his four overs.

Then James Buckle (20 not out) and James Phillips (16 not out) opened for Lawrenny to finish things off in only 8 overs – and at least it meant that they could watch all of the Swansea City versus Brentford play-off in the championship league, although The Swans sadly lost!

 

Leaders Neyland win with ease at the seaside

 

Saundersfoot (120 for 8) lost to Neyland (124 for 3)

Umpires: Gareth Brace and Neil Thomas
Scorers: Adge John & John Laugharne
 
Neyland continued their unruffled progress at the top of the table as they travelled to Saundersfoot and easily overcame The Seasiders by restricting them to 120 for 8 in their allotted 45 overs and then taking only 30.4 overs to reach their target with seven wickets still in hand.

Tom Mansbridge scored an early 22 for The Seasiders but with Nigel Banner (3 for 11) and Ross Hardy (3 for 14) causing havoc in their nine-over stints they managed to reach their final total thanks to an unbroken half century stand by Yannik Parker (39 not out) and Tudor Hurle (23 not out) as Brad McDermott-Jenkins (1 for 13) and Patrick Hannon (1 for 34) were the other Neyland wicket-takers.

Neyland soon settled into their batting with runs from Ashley Sutton (34), Patrick Bellerby (24) and Banner (21) despite Seasiders’ bowling success for Hurle (1 for 25), Nick Cope (1 for 38) and John Mansbridge (1 for11) – but Andrew Miller (15 not out) and McDermott-Jenkins (23 not out) saw Sean Hannon’s team to another victory.

 

Borderers win basement battle

 
 

Whitland (202 all out) beat Llechryd (105 all out) by 97 runs

 

Umpires: Jonathan Willington & Chris Stapleton
Scorers: Anne-Marie Jenkins (Whitland)
 
After the excitement of promotion in the last league campaign Llechryd’s disappointing return to the top echelon continued as Whitland beat them with plenty in hand and were delighted to make a welcome return to action after losing four matches out of five to the weather.

Asked to bat first, Whitland’s total of 202 all out in their final over owed much to a typically aggressive innings from No 3 Geraint Jones as he belted eight fours and seven sixes in his 85 – and had some support from Scott Newton (22), Jonathan Thomas (20), Wayne Howells (18) and Gwion Howell (16).

For Llechryd, their bowling came from John Curran (3 for 47), Andrew Fletcher 3-35, Rhys Beard (2 for 35), David Dunfee (1 for 33) and Graham Keen (1 for 25).

Dunfee then top scored for Llechryd with 39 alongside Tom Davies (22) but no-one else was able to stay long against Newton (3 for 16), skipper Thomas (2 for 19), Howells (2 for 23), Connor Bowen (1 for 12) and Jack Bowen (1 for 1 from three balls to wrap things up.)

It gave The Borderers a maximum 20 points haul and allowed them to leap-frog their opponents and out of the bottom two in the table.