Canvey Island Cricket Club Results

Weekend 31st August - 1st September

Saturday 
Canvey Island                206-7
Rayleigh Fairview II       180-9      
Canvey won by 26 runs 

Canvey made certain of the league title with a 26 run win against Rayleigh Fairview on Saturday. Terry Snowdon was the chief architect of victory, with a magnificent 88, passing 500 league runs for the season in the process. Strangely no other batsman seemed at home on the usually placid Smallgains pitch, with only Lee Banks (24) able to struggle to a score over 20, in a 103 run partnership for the second wicket with Snowdon. Just to cap the family affair, veteran Gary Snowdon chipped in with four Rayleigh Fairview wickets, to extend his club record tally of league wickets for the season to 40. A stubborn last wicket partnership prevented Canvey from taking maximum points, but on the day it hardly mattered as the league title was wrapped up for the second season in succession.

Canvey Island II        155-8
Eastwood                  159-3  
Canvey lost by 7 wickets 

The season for the 2^nd team ended the way it began, with another disappointing defeat. Once again, in a story reminiscent of the entire season, the middle order failed to capitalise on a good start. This time the promising position of 123-1 was squandered. John Scammell (20), Darren Wainer (16) and Ken Roberts (63) manoeuvred Canvey to such a scenario, but then the old familiar collapse took hold, with no one else able to muster double figures. It must have been bittersweet for Roberts, the leading league run scorer in the team to see the same failings rise to the surface again. In reply Eastwood has little trouble in knocking off the required runs. Even league leading wicket taker Wainer went without a victim, James Watson returning the best analysis of 1-10.

Sunday      
Capricorn                   261-5
Canvey Island             236-9     
Canvey lost by 35 runs 

Canvey’s bowlers found themselves on the receiving end of a thrashing on Sunday as Capricorn racked up a mammoth total at Smallgains. Everything looked rosy for the Islanders with three top-order batsmen back in the pavilion cheaply, Gary Snowdon leading the way with 2 for 13. However, a dropped catch off K. Shaahzad before he had scored proved to be the turning point. Shaahzad bludgeoned a quickfire 121, twice hitting three consecutive sixes to run the attack ragged. Chasing such a large total Canvey needed openers Paul Ward and John Gunn to fire as they had done a couple of weeks before against Rayleigh Fairview. However, Gunn was dismissed cheaply, and much as Dave Shroder (42) and Ward (75) battled they were always up against it. Their dismissals effectively put paid to any hope of winning, and though Steve Stacey contributed an entertaining 23, Canvey came up 35 runs short in the final reckoning.