Burn Cricket Club

Division 1

Team                      Played    Won        Lost        Tied        No Result               Points

Hemingbrough      4              3              0              0              1              99

Burn                        4              2              1              0              1              73

Bishopthorpe        4              2              1              0              1              69

North Cave             3              2              0              0              1              69

Uni                          4              2              2              0              0              64

Clifton Alliance      4              2              2              0              0              61

Copmanthorpe      3              1              1              0              1              49

Barmby Moor         4              1              3              0              0              48

Wheldrake             4              1              2              0              1              46

Heworth                  4              0              4              0              0              19

Division 5

Team                       Played    Won        Lost         Tied        No Result               Points

Stockton & Hop     4              4              0              0              0              109

TABS                       4              3              0              0              1              94

York                        4              3              0              0              1              92

Burn II                     4              2              1              1              0              82

Malton  II                                4              2              2              0              0              62

Drax                        4              1              2              1              0              55

Selby II                    4              1              2              0              1              47

Tadcaster               4              1              3              0              0              36

Thorpe II                                4              0              3              0              1              6

Carlton Towers      4              0              4              0              0              -26

All kinds of records were broken for second team cricket at Burn as the Linnets notched up an impressive victory in this local derby.

Burn fielded a strong team comprised of a mixture of youth and experience against the ten men of Thorpe Willoughby. When home skipper Marc Crowther won the toss he had no hesitation in choosing to bat first on a dry looking wicket. There was little indication of what was to come as Burn’s openers scratched away against the tight bowling of Thorpe’s young duo of Mitchell and Carse and after 15 overs only a modest 50 was on the board. The wicket was proving to be past its best before date and getting the ball away was difficult at times.  An increase in bowling pace seemed to suit the experienced pairing of Lee Adamson and Martin Trevaskiss and the scoreboard began to race as Adamson in particular went on the attack. He despatched several sixes to notch up his century before duly retiring.

Not to be outdone, Trevaskiss then took up the challenge to follow suit with his own century a few overs later. With Jamie Bingle(57) coming in to join the party several balls were lost in adjacent fields and the score clicked past 250 before the first bona fide wicket was to fall when Parker was adjudged LBW. Crowther added 11 before being bowled and at tea Burn had recorded a daunting total of 295 from their 40 overs.

Thorpe, to their credit seemed unfazed by the colossal target and started brightly in reply despite the early loss of Bawker. Jackson and Priest put together a useful stand before young Jacob Webster found his aim and began to make inroads. His 4 wickets together with two more from young Luca Reddix ripped apart what little heart the opposition had left and with the other wickets being shared around Thorpe were bowled out for only 84. Burn duly took the spoils with an immense victory margin of 211 runs and go into this weekend’s cup game full of confidence.

BOO NOT OUT!

Ray "Boo" Adamson continues to be "not out" following his score off 99 not out last week. This week saw him 65 not out and push Burn 1st Team to their second win of the season over one of the favourites for the title Barmby Moor.

Despite Captain Clark losing the toss and being asked to field first Burn soon took the upper hand with fast bowler Prescott back in 1st team action pinning the hosts back with a hostile spell: returning figures of 24 for 2 off 10 overs.  Burn were creating more pressure on the Barmby Moor batsmen with energetic fielding and this showed with early wickets falling.  Barmby Moor continued to be frustrated by Burn, inparticular the evergreen Matthew Smith's consistent bowling saw him take 4 for 37 off 10 overs and could of have had more wickets but for a number of dropped catches late on in the innings.
An overall good performance from Burn in the field restricted Barmby Moor to a total of 128 for 8 off 40 overs.

Burn took to the field knowing that the wicket was lively and needed to concentrate early in the innings. Just as Burn started to look in control Clark was bowled for a duck.  Next in was the young former Selby star Tom Rich to join the experienced Adamson. The young and experienced partnership worked well with the majority of the target being accumulated by the pair. Tom ended his innings late on in the game after some superb shots caught for 43.  It was left to R Webster to hit the winning runs with Burn reaching the total in 26 overs.

Burn entertain North Duffield in the cup on Saturday at Linnett Park and also host Selby on Sunday in the Eric Smith Twenty20.

Saturday 7^th May

Heworth V Burn

As the song goes-it was a case of “Wake up Boo” as Burn’s season finally kicked into life with a win at Heworth’s Elm Park ground.

Burn batted first and the regular top order continued with their indifferent form and after three overs the score of 7 for 3 seemed to be making a mockery of the decision to have first use of a fairly docile pitch. Ray Adamson scratched around using a few overs in lieu of winter nets before finding some fluency and  support from Nigel Croad (12) putting on 35 for the next wicket to bring some respectability to proceedings. Adamson never looked back and certainly seemed at ease in a languid knock gaining further assistance from Ashley Abbott (28) and Gareth Beavors (11 not out).

Much though their contribution was appreciated the latter two managed to somehow contrive to deprive Adamson of the strike for the last two overs to leave him stranded on 99 but with a now half-decent score of 167 posted he didn’t seem to mind too much.

After a hearty tea Heworth came out firing on all cylinders and clearly in a hurry to try and find a result. Opener Barrat’s quick fire innings came to an abrupt end when he danced down the track once too often to be stumped by Rob Webster off the bowling of Richard Miller. The scoreboard racing round seemed to galvanise the Burn fielders and when Croad scored a direct hit to remove Heworth’s other opener the tide began to turn. Wickets fell at regular intervals with only Padwore (50 not out) putting up decent resistance. Wickets were shared around the bowling attack and Miller’s team spirit went so far as to sportingly drop the simplest of caught and bowled chances thus depriving himself of a five wicket haul just to allow Jamie Bingle to take the final wicket. Heworth were all out for 107 to give Burn victory by 60 runs.

Burn take on the altogether more challenging proposition when they travel to Barmby Moor on Saturday.