Hugh Bear attended to cheer on the teams and the rain held off just long enough to get the 20 over game completed which ended with the victorious home team stealing their first 4 wining points.

Man of the Match was Daniel Dowell-Lee from Harborne for his batting score of 7 and bowling figures 3/2. Mentions to Christian Pritchard- Cairns from Harborne for his 13 runs, Hassan Farooq of Kings Heath CC for his excellent diving catch and Chad Atkinson of Kings Heath for his bowling of figures 3/2.

Louis Langham-Walsh, Wicket Keeper for Kings Heath said “it’s very exciting to be a part of the Junior Bears League and hopefully Kings Heath will win the League. Check this spot every week for ‘game of the week.’ Also every month WCCC and Junior Bears are awarding the Player of the Month at Edgbaston and at the end of the season will award an overall winner with a shield and WCCC goodies.

Pictured:Kings Heath CC in the light blue shirts and Harborne CC messing around with the celebrity guest!

Harborne won the toss and chose to bat on a cold evening at Kings Heath Cricket Club. The first ball of the day saw a stunning diving catch by Hassan Farooq fielding at point, off Mo Akhtar. This was followed up with the batsman being clean bowled two balls later. Harborne struck back in the next over with Danny Evans scoring three consecutive fours. Christian Cairns also batted well scoring 11 runs with two boundaries and took Harborne to 232 at the half way stage of their innings. Callum Bird picked up a wicket in the tenth over thanks to an excellent catch by Mo Akhtar. Chad Atkinson then devastated the Harborne lower order with four wickets, including two excellent stumpings by Louis Langham-Walsh. This left Kings Heath requiring 233 runs to win.

Harborne bowled and fielded brilliantly and Kings Heath got off to a slow start with just 6 runs off the first 4 over with Daniel Dowell-Lee bowling a maiden. The first wicket fell in the sixth over with Andrew Elliot picking up a caught and bowled. Chad Atkinson and Mo Akhtar batted well together each scoring boundaries but as the pressure built the Kings Heath batsmen started taking risks. Harborne with excellent fielding managed to get two run outs, with Jay Reddy scoring a direct hit. With the final pair entering and just 5 to win off 4 overs it seemed as though Kings Heath would win. However, Max Dixon got a wicket with his second ball caught behind and Kings Heath now needed 10 to win. A good four through midwicket by Callum Bird saw 3 to win off the final over. Danny Dowell-Lee conceded just one run off his first five balls. The final ball was nudged to point and as the Kings Heath batsmen desperately tried to scramble a single that would tie the game Elliott Parke achieved a direct hit to run out the batsman and give Harborne a 6 run win.

12/5/08
Sutton Coldfield CC
Sutton Coldfield v Walmley B

SUTTON COLDFIELD AND WALMLEY B ARE JOINED WITH NEIL CARTER, HUGH BEAR AND U11 LEAGUE ORGANISER, WILL GEORGE

Action from the game

Sutton Coldfield were the hosts to Walmley B Under 11's in the 3rd game of the season of the Junior Bear Under 11 League. Neil Carter and Hugh Bear went along to meet and greet the players and managers! Neil Carter, Junior bear skipper said "its great to see these talented young cricketers getting involved in a fantastic league!".

Sutton Coldfield CC ended up victorious with the home side finishing on 269-5 to beat Walmley B's 224-7.

A big well done to Simon Moore of Sutton Coldfield who's debut saw him finish with an impressive bowling score of 2-6! Not bad at all for his first game of competitive cricket.

Sutton Coldfields Aaron Thomason was nominated Man of the Match for his outstanding bowling perfomance of 3-17 and batting score of 31*.

Well done to all players!!!

12/5/08
FOUR OAKS SAINTS V WALMLEY A

Four Oak Sts won the toss and decided to field. Padraig Woods and Joshua Hall opened the batting for Walmley against some very fast and accurate bowling. Padraig Woods batted fantastic against this onslaught and top scored with a magnificent 23 runs. The rest of the team batted well and shared the rest of the runs, Lewis Maisey scored 13. The final tally finished on 266.

Four Oaks took to the crease and unfortunately for them where pegged back early on by some very good bowling from Walmley. After 8 over’s the score was 223. Joshua Hall then took the ball and bowled 2 fantastic over’s finishing with figures of 2overs, 1maiden, 2wkts for 2 runs, the two wickets came back to back followed by the next ball with a run out,  but unfortunately for Joshua this does not count as a hat trick. After this middle spell Four Oak Sts needed to push for the runs they needed but  the Walmley bowling continued to punish them. Sahir Mubarik bowled 4 over’s for 14runs taking 5 wickets.

Four Oak Saints finished on 208 giving Walmley a win by 58 runs.

Picture - Walmley A Under 11 's