Two games to go...

The ladies have two games left for the season one league game v Stourport on Severn away 30th Aug where a win would secure at least a second place finish. The second game is the Midlands Plate Final this will be against either Wellingborough Town or Moseley who are due to play on 6th Sep, this will be taking place at Moseley CC on 13th September time TBC, please come and support the ladies, in our achievement of reaching the final.

Ladies have a shocker...ladies put in an awesome performance...?!

We were drawn against Astwood Bank in the second round of the plate competition away. We again only travelled with 10 players, and were stuck in to bat, a poor wicket with very little bounce along with some poor shots got us all out apart from Lis Bishop who although only finishing with 1* occupied the crease for a while. Ashfield finished on 28 all out off 19 overs...what a shocker! A quick turn around and some inspirational team talking to lift everyone’s heads up, and determined we had the bowlers to test Astwood Bank. With a slight change to the opening bowlers, to take some pace of the ball saw wickets tumbling at regular intervals, some athletic fielding and good catches saw the arrogance of Astwood Bank who reversed their batting order soon knocked down, with them reeling for 11-6 with V.Arch finishing with figures of 4-0-9-3 and accepted the challenge of opening the bowling perfectly, a change of bowling from one end was the decision and Nemo stepped up, bowling brilliantly at one stage was on a hat trick, but decided to get the wicket the ball after- great jug avoidance! Nemo, finishing with figures of 0.4-0-0-3. And Astwood Bank 12 AO...what an awesome performance! Special mention must go to Lis who batted well and fielded superbly and also to Donna who under a little duress took on the challenge of keeping wicket and did a brill job!!

Notable performances

M.Cole 5-3-3-4
V.Arch 4-0-9-3
N.Aslam 0.4-0-0-3

We were drawn against Oxford ladies in the quarter finals who have in the meantime conceded the game to lack of players, so we will meet either Brackley or Shifnal in the Semi-Finals on either 16th or 23rd August tbc. Please come and support us there will be a BBQ!

Meanwhile in the league the last two games v Stourport and Astwood Bank were both abandoned so we picked up a total of 15 points. We still have two remaining league games, the title is now out of our hands, as Walmley who also have two games left and are 3.5 points ahead of us, all we can do is win our two remaining games and hope that Walmley slip up!