Harlow Town 1st XI 232 All out

Basildon 1st XI 164 All out

Harlow Town win by 68 runs

HARLOW Town travelled to Basildon & Pitsea after a week without a game due to the rain. Skipper Ashley Alderson won the toss and decided to have a bat. The wicket played with variable pace and bounce and Town were struggling at 57-3. Shiraz Ali, Joe Holland and Ramya Upadhyay where all out cheaply. Neil Gladwin joined Pat Yates in the middle and the pair started to build a partnership before Yates was stumped on 45. Tom Price took to the wicket and hit an excellent 56 to help Town achieve an above par score. Gladwin was eventually out for a resilient 25 during a 60 run partnership with Price. Ashley Alderson hit a quick fire 31 and Town ended the innings all out for 232 after stages where they didn’t look like reaching 180. Dan Bedford took seven wickets for Basildon & Pitsea.

The game was very much still in the balance at the lunch break and Town knew that Basildon would go for the win. The away side got off to a great start with Danny Calver and Daniel Farmer picking up early wickets. Lloyd Lambert (41) and Philip Tooke (21) built a steady partnership before Shaun Alderson was introduced into the attack and dismissed Tooke in his first over with a caught and bowled. Upadhyay eventually bowled Lambert and the home side where 94-4 and still going for the win at a fast rate with only 18 overs having been bowled. Ronnie Yates came on to bowl and produced an excellent spell of spin bowling for the visitors. Yates ended the innings with five wickets after dismissing the middle order and Basildon & Pitsea where all out for 164 runs. Town pick up an extra five points for winning the game batting first.

Alderson said: It was a great win for us. We had two good individual performances in Price and Yates but overall it was a great team effort to win batting first. All six bowlers took a wicket and batsmen at the top and middle order chipped in with runs. Next week will be our biggest test for us as we face relegated Stanford Le Hope who are unbeaten in the league so far.

Harlow Town 2’s 238 for 8 Dec

Basildon 2’s 100 all out

HTCC win by 138 runs

Town 2’s put in a powerful around performance to beat a decent Basildon side on Saturday

Skipper Gladwin lost the toss and was asked to bat on a drying wicket. Town saw off the new ball before Gladwin was out for 11

Baldwin (40) & Hurley (36) built town a solid platform for Charlie Coleman to return to form in style

Coleman batted with patience and concentration before launching a brutal late assault on the bowlers to be out for 96 allowing Gladwin to declare after just 45 overs.

In reply Basildon skipper Amos was in no mood to settle for a draw as proceeded to smash the ball to all parts of the ground from the start scoring a blistering 47, aided by 3 dropped catches, before being caught

Town then brought Simon Rowell & Graeme Eversden together and in tandem they ran through the rest of the batting line up with some fine slow bowling to rattle out Basildon for 100

Rowell 5-44 & Eversden 4-10 taking the wickets plus a sensational one handed run out from Scott Baker

Town face the other relegated team from last year, Horndon On The Hill, on Saturday

3rd XI report

3s continue their good start to the season with an emphatic win away at Wanstead VI and remain unbeaten and top of the league.

3s won the toss and elected to bowl, Wickets from Daniel Gleeson (3) Kevin Tilleard (2) Tyrone Mazarura (2) P‎all Morrell (2) and Alfie Elston (1) saw the home team all out for only 101 off 37 Overs.

Following tea a fine opening partnership of 83 from Johan Cloete (53) and Aaron Simpson (21 Not out) ensured the ‎3rd XI victory in just 25 overs

Harlow Town 4th X1 204 for 4 declared

Basildon and Pitsea 4th X1 126 for 4

HTCC batted first and batted well, top performance from Paul Smith with 51 and Tom Wilcox with 50 not out to reach and declare on 204 for 4.

Basildon and Pitsea started brightly but a couple of quick wickets dropped and caused them to slow the early pace. John Bedford made 61 not out helped see his side through to a deserved draw.