Captain's Match Report

The first match of the season got off to a very good start for the Marress team. The team fielded and bowled to a very good standard. Once the cob webs were blown away(especially from Derek Parks shirt) the team settled down and went about the business in a very determined way.
Particular mention must go to Josh Conway and Craig Sharpe who did very well with the bowling. A couple of good catches from Craig Sharpe and David Ingram and we soon had the wickets tumbling.
The opening innings of whiteinch ended with them scoring 154 all out.
A score that had the Marress men feeling confident during the tea break(a special thanks to Susan Neil for all the help with the tea and great sandwiches).
After tea the batting order was announced and the Openers (Craig & Josh) entered the arena. Unfortunately the confidence off the field did not develop on the field and it was not long before we were 19 for 4. Mike Ingram then entered at No. 5 and tried to develop the innings but sadly the remaining batsmen offered a limited resistence and after a few small stands the Marress team were eventually bowled out for 102.

We must try to learn from our mistakes and try and get to training and practise hard on our game.

Our next match is at home to Ardencaple on Saturday, hopefully we will be able to build on a fairly promising start and secure our first win.

Good Luck to everybody

Mike

MARRESS v WHITEINCH

MARRESS
The opening match of the season started with Whiteinch winning the toss and electing to bat, Marress had a good day in the field, the highs included brilliant bowling by Craig and Mike, most of the away team finding it hard to read Craig's bowling and completely unable to play Mike, despite dropping at least 4 catches Marress managed to restrict Whiteinch to 154 all out. the second half was a completely different story, Marresss batting was shambolic with only Mike managing unbeaten 41, had it not been for 41 extras including 38 wides irvine would not have managed to cross the century mark

SCOREBOARD
Whiteinch won toss and elected to bat
Bond.......Ct C.Sharp b S.Wilson.........5
Salar.......run out C.Mudunuri b J.Conway...32
Haider....Bowled C.Sharp...................31
Ullah......Ct D.Ingram b C.Sharp.........3
Qudoos...Bowled M.Ingram...............10
Aslam.....Bowled M.Ingram...............0
Chaudary...Ct J.Conway b M.Ingram..9
Wasim.....Not Out............................15
Aftab......Bowled C.Mudunuri.............0
Drummond...Bowled D.Ingram..........3

total 154

bowling analysis

J.Conway 8 1 25 1
S.Wilson 5 1 38 1
D.Neil 5 1 14 0
C.Sharp 8 2 26 2
M.Ingram 9 o 17 4
C.Mudunuri 4 1 14 1
D.Ingram 1.2 0 3 1

Marress batting

J.Conway......b Quddos.........3
C.Sharp........Ct ..b Aftab.......3
R.Tauro........b Aftab.............0
J.Doolan......Ct b Quddos......1
M.Ingram.....not out.............41*
D.Park..........b Quddos.........0
S.Wilson.......b Amar.............6
C.Mudunuri..b Amar.............0
D.Ingram.......b Aftab.............0
J.Cooney.......run out.............0
D.Neil...........b Quddos..........6

Extra...........41 ( wides 38)

irvine v stmichaels

the opening game of the season for the first team had to be called off due to damp pitch.

fixtures

IRVINE CRICKET CLUB

Ground - Marress, Irvine Sports Club, Waterside, Irvine.
Tel : 01294 275788

2007 Fixtures

Irvine 1st XI – Division 1 Marress (Irvine 2nd) XI – Division 5

L- LEAGUE, RC- ROWAN CUP, ST- SCOTTISH TROPHY

* Sun 29 Jul – game to be played at Marress


Sat 28 Apr IRVINE v ST MICHAELS L
Sun 29 Apr MARRESS v WHITEINCH L

Sat 5 May PARTICK v IRVINE L
" MARRESS v ARDENCAPLE L
Thu 10 May AYR v IRVINE RC
Sat 12 May HILLHEAD v IRVINE L
" MARRESS v BEES L

Sat 19 May IRVINE v KELBURNE L
" HOME PARK v MARRESS L

Sat 26 May SHAWHOLM v IRVINE L
" MARRESS v SCOTINDIANS L

Sat 2 Jun IRVINE v GHK L
“ CROW ROAD v MARRESS L

Sat 9 Jun EAST KILBRIDE v IRVINE L
“ MARRESS v ALPS L

Sat 16 Jun IRVINE v TITWOOD L
Sun 17 Jun HILLHEAD WAN v MARRESS L

Sat 23 Jun GALLOWAY v IRVINE L
“ MARRESS v HILLEND L
Sun 24 Jun MURRAYFIELD v IRVINE ST

Sat 30 Jun ST MICHAELS v IRVINE L
" WHITEINCH v MARRESS L

Sat 7 Jul IRVINE v PARTICK L
" ARDENCAPLE v MARRESS L

Sat 14 Jul IRVINE v HILLHEAD L
" BEES v MARRESS L

Sat 21 Jul KELBURNE v IRVINE L
" MARRESS v HOME PARK L

Sat 28 Jul IRVINE v SHAWHOLM L
Sun 29 Jul* SCOTINDIANS v MARRESS L

Sat 4 Aug GHK v IRVINE L
“ MARRESS v CROW ROAD L

Sat 11 Aug IRVINE v EAST KILBRIDE L
“ ALPS v MARRESS L

Sat 18 Aug TITWOOD v IRVINE L
“ MARRESS v HILLHEAD WAN L

Sat 25 Aug IRVINE v GALLOWAY L
Sun 26 Aug HILLEND v MARRESS L