Napa Valley Cricket Club Celebrates First Win

The Napa Valley Cricket Club won its first game of the 2012 season with a big win on the road to Marin CC at Piper Park in Larkspur.

Napa batted first and solid performances with the bat from John Ditton and Bijoy Ojha set the tone for a solid Napa Valley performance.

With individual scores of 69 and 61 respectively they built a 3^rd wicket partnership of 116 by seeing of the brunt of the Marin bowling attack with Aussie Paul for Marin bowling excellently for 10 runs off his allotted 7 overs. They were supported in compiling a healthy and defendable total by Tim Irwin (16 off 9) and Scott Curwood (15 off 12).

After lunch it was Napa’s turn to defend their total of 208 with the ball and an excellent and disciplined start by Tim Irwin and Martin Mackenzie brought early results with 3 wickets in the first 6 overs.

The removal of Marin’s opener, Kanishka, clean bowled by Peter Carson was a major breakthrough in the 14^th over. 

By drinks break the teams were as good as level with Marin having less wickets to play with. The following over possible changed the game with English born off spinner, Matt Wood, taking 2 wickets with his pinpoint bowling and Napa finally taking some catches thanks to the solid hands of Clive Richardson.

A great over from Mark Buckley finished off the Marin tail and the Napa Valley Cricket Club celebrated into the warm Marin evening!

Club Captain Tim Irwin, an Australian who works for Penfolds Wines, says “it was a great team performance especially as we were playing away from home to secure our first win of the 2012 season. The batting partnership from John and Bijoy set the tone for the team for the rest of the day and everyone played their part. We batted all the way down the order with a nice flurry from the tail. Our bowling was consistent and we got the wickets at the right time, just as the respective Marin batsmen were looking well set. The bowling attack had a great day with Mark finishing off any last Marin resistance with 2 great wickets to bring us home to a well deserved victory”

Score Summary

Napa Valley CC 208 / 9 defeated Marin CC 147 / 11 by 61 runs. (35 over game)

NVCC Batting - John Ditton 69 runs off 71balls, Bijoy Ojha 61 off 67, Phil Bourke 17 off 22.

NVCC Bowling – Matt Wood 3 wickets for 24 runs, Martin Mackenzie 2 wickets for 16 runs, Mark Buckley 2 wickets for 8 runs.

For more details please contact Andrew Healy on 707-227-4273 or by email at NapaValleyCricket@gmail.com

More details on the Napa Valley Cricket Club can be found on the website – http://napacricket.com/ where you can find details of their games for the summer ahead on the Calendar page.

More details on the game of cricket can be found on the following websites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket

http://icc-cricket.yahoo.net/

http://www.espncricinfo.com/

Video series on “How to Play Cricket”

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66F1E5A61B2F5A6B

Sponsors

The Napa Valley Cricket Club wishes to acknowledge the assistance of the following sponsors:

Taltarni, MASilva (Cork & Glass), TricorBraun Winepak , Tonnellerie Saint Martin.

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