Canvey Island Cricket Club Results

Weekend 26^th-27^th April

Saturday     
Canvey Island         188-6
Bluehouse               134-8       
Canvey won by 54 runs 

Canvey got the new season underway with the traditional battle against Bluehouse. A traditional result ensued with Canvey running out winners, continuing the habit built up over the last few meetings between the sides. Paul Ward showed little signs of rust in his rather rustic 59, the top-scorer of the Canvey innings. Paul Synnott (32) and Richie Burrill (26) showed much more fluency, but batting wasn’t easy on a strip juiced up by the rain earlier in the week. Having only allowed Bluehouse to bowl one maiden in the entire innings, Canvey’s Darren Wainer showed everyone how it should be done, sending down 31 consecutive deliveries before conceding a run, a magnificent way to start the season en route to figure of 1 for 6 from 7 overs. Julian Curtis (2 for 27) proved to be the most successful bowler on his return from a season-long self-imposed exile.

 Sunday  
Brentwood                 172-7
Canvey Island             156 all out     
Canvey lost by 16 runs

Canvey and Brentwood played out a thriller on Sunday at the old county ground with Mark Gorman’s heroics with the bat counting for nothing in the final reckoning. Despite showing few glimpses of the old form last season, Gorman struck a crisp 17 to put Canvey in sight of victory, but as so often happens he remained stranded following last-man Gary Snowdon’s heave at a straight one. John Scammell (37) and Peter Cook (44) had earlier put Canvey up with the required rate after the bowlers had put in a superb show on a flat, unresponsive pitch. Brentwood got off to a rapid start, but Snowdon (1 for 33) and John Gunn (2 for 27) applied the brakes. However, the target proved too stiff and Canvey crashed to their first defeat of the season.