February2010 Edition - Hatfield Heath Village Magazine

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HATFIELD
HEATH
Cricket
Club
HHCC 2009 CAPTAIN'S REPORT
HHCC endured a tough season for
the first time since joining the league
in 2007. We moved up to division
four - having won all but one of our
games in 2008. However, 2009 was
unfortunately very different but high in drama! The
first half of the year was very forgetful - we struggled
with players away or injured and were rooted to the
bottom of the table having won just one game. It was
really disappointing because we were not doing
ourselves justice as a club which had been so recently
very successful.
We desperately didn't want to go back down to
division five and proceeded to pick ourselves up with
a much better second half of the summer. The turning
point was when we finally managed to get our
strongest team out at Aspendon. This match showed
what we are capable of as we won by the massive
margin of 129 runs. Effervescent (just looked this
word up - definition: vivacious, gay, lively, sparkling)
Michael Collins hit a personal best of 83 not out, star
batsman John Yates scored precious runs against his
old club and Tom Mascall came in at the right time to
hit some huge sixes. Matt Potter, having returned to
Essex to play for us again, then got a five wicket haul
and the game lifted the team's spirits immensely as we
went on a great run in the league. We had superb wins
at home to a strong Bengeo side and away at
Braughing, but some hard losses against Harlow and
Stansted. We were left with all sorts of permutations
going into the last day of the season at Thaxted, with
our close rivals Aspendon away at Stansted.
Statistician Daniel Collins' brain was doing overtime
to work out how many bonus points we needed. We
put in a good performance, securing maximum
batting and bowling points as we lost a highly charged
game by 1 wicket. It left us needing to find out what
Aspendon had done... And we couldn't believe it
when it was discovered they'd lost by just one run,
leaving us safe by the skin of our teeth!
We felt we deserved to stay up and will obviously
look to be stronger in 2010, especially in the first half
with hopefully our best team available. Big thanks
have to go to our tea ladies who look after us and
produce some tidy melons.. Thanks also go to our
out-going selector Tom Mascall for his time and