A brilliant 142 off 119 balls from Gurveen Singh Athwal helped Shrewsbury School U15s cruise into the national semi-final of their One Day Cup with victory over Greshams’ School from Lincolnshire.
Albrighton claimed their first win of the season in the Furrows East Shropshire Mid-Week League Division Two when they hosted Newport.
Shrewsbury School claimed the ECB/ESCA Shropshire Under 15s crown with victory over Thomas Adams School from Wem.
Cricket Shropshire’s Under 15 Boys MCC side are through to the second round of the National Knockout after two contrasting wins.
They travelled to Moddershall CC where the Shrewsbury hub took on sides from Stoke and Wolverhampton. Their first opponents, Stoke, won an important toss and inserted Shrewsbury in bowler friendly conditions.
These conditions were exploited well by Stoke and the batting side found themselves in trouble early on at 15-3.
This brought together Fin Bradbury (27) and Will Reece together who stabilised the innings to take the score to 60-4.
Reece went onto to score 51 and with the help of Kavan Gulati (11 not out) took their side to a workable score of 120.
Stoke took command early on in their chase and at 66-1 off 11 overs were very much the favourites, but good fielding and bowling brought Shrewsbury back into it to leave Stoke needing 12 off the last over.
A wicket from first ball of that over and Shrewsbury were in the box seat but a dropped catch, scampered singles and a 6 left3 needed off the final ball!
A tense situation for all watching, playing and coaching but Toby Cantwell held his nerve to allow just a single leaving Shrewsbury winners by one run.
Next up were Wolverhampton. Shrewsbury upon winning the toss elected to bat and were soon into their stride on an ever-drying wicket.
Runs from Bobby Langton (64) Mark Coleham (31) and Bradbury again (41 not out) helped them to 173 off 20.
Wolves went about their task with gusto and at the halfway stage were ahead of the rate required but spin twins Danny Batkin and Gulati stifled the scoring to leave Shrewsbury the winners by a comfortable 30 runs.
Coach Darrell Corfield said: “It was a great determined display from Shrewsbury where they were challenged in all facets of the game which made it equally pleasing to come out on top.”
The two wins mean Shrewsbury progress to the second round which will take place next month at Kenilworth Wardens CC in Warwickshire.
Due to popular demand, Cricket Shropshire is delighted to launch a pilot Under 17s T20 County Cup this Summer.
More than a hundred primary school pupils from across Telford & Wrekin came together for a day of fun at the Year 5/6 Kwik Cricket competition.
There was another exciting finish in the Furrows East Shropshire Mid-Week League when the Division One clash between Forton and Priorslee ended as a tie.
Forton edged home for a win with a ball to spare against defending champions St Georges in a thrilling finish in the Furrows East Shropshire Mid-Week League.
There were some thrilling finishes in the Furrows East Shropshire Mid-Week League in round two – with Wheaton Aston claiming victory at Broseley by just one run at The Stocking.
Batting first in the Division Two clash, Wheaton Aston were indebted to an eighth wicket partnership between Edward Hargreaves (32 not out) and Greg Lawley (16 not out) to see them to 109-7 from their 20 overs.
Bowling honours went to Chris Lloyd who took 3-10 from his four overs with Levi Humphreyson chipping in with 2-22.
Thomas Holcroft held the Broseley reply together with 52 in a tense run chase but he had little support as the Wheaton Aston attack chipped away with Joe Marson claiming 3-6 from his four overs.
With the hosts on the brink of claiming the win, Hargreaves took the final over and claimed two wickets in two balls including that of Holcroft caught and bowled to seal victory for the visitors.
There was also a close contest at Lilleshall as they edged to victory over Albrighton with four balls to spare.
Batting first, Albrighton skipper Sam Wood hit 42, Hasibullah Shah Gasi retired after reaching his half century and Jack Wood 21 as they finished their innings on 153-4.
In the reply, Adam Binfield made 34, Chris Birkett 32 and Conor Steele a crucial 27 off 17 balls before he was dismissed trying to hit the winning runs off the first ball of the final over.
But new batter Hafeez Rehman hit the next ball for four to claim the win.
In the other game in the division, Codsall maintained their unbeaten start to the season when they beat visitors Newport by seven wickets.
Batting first, Newport made 138-4 with Kyle Hodson unbeaten on 49 and Ryan Jones hitting 23.
Karandeep Singh Aulakh got the Codsall reply off to a fast start with 22 off ten balls, Monti Kunner made 21 and Liam Raby then steered his side to victory with an unbeaten 32 as they claimed the win in the 18th over.
In Division One, Forton claimed their first win of the season with victory over visitors Harpers with an over to spare.
Harpers finished on149-4 with Vivian John and Rama Chaitanya Bammidi both hitting unbeaten half centuries before retiring.
Skipper Joe Roberts hit 39 at the top of the order in the reply for Forton and Ben Yates-Ward chipped in with 35.
But with the game in the balance, it was the fifth wicket partnership between Sam Gill (18 off nine balls) and Chris Hughes (24 off nine balls) which steered the hosts to victory.
Yaswanth Avula claimed 3-21 for Harpers.
Last year’s champions St Georges claimed a comfortable first win of the season when they hosted Priorslee.
The visitors were bowled out for 94 with Raja Janga claiming 3-14, Bobby Gill 2-25 and Jagdeep Singh 3-8. Abhay Srivastava and Siju Thulaskdharan both made 22.
In the reply Ibrar Ahmed hit 22 and Ashish Ashish 24 as the Dragons knocked off the winning runs for the loss of four wickets.
Church Eaton beat visitors Allscott Heath in the other game in the division.
Batting first, Luke Thornton hit 50 off 27 balls for Allscott and Callum Edwards chipped in with 22 as they made 123-7 from their 20 overs.
In the reply, Jason Summers took 2-17 and Isaac Harper 2-20, but Douglas Hughes’ unbeaten 50 ensured the hosts claimed the victory for the loss of five wickets.
The long trip to Northumberland proved well worthwhile for Shropshire’s Women’s XI as they returned with two more wins in their T20 Vitality Blast League 3 Division 2B campaign.
