Cricket

Ansar Hussain and teenage talent Paddy Harrington shared a 113 partnership to steer Spalding 2nd to a 74-run win over Moulton Harrox on Saturday. A pivotal 95 from all-rounder Hussain proved the key for Town in the South Lincs and Border League Premier Division clash, but Harrington’s mature 37 also helped steer the hosts to 205 at the Memorial Field. ...

A top team display helped steer Spalding Town to their first Lincs ECB Premier League success of the season on Saturday. Town picked up the maximum 20 points on offer at Sleaford as they amassed 236-6, before bowling their hosts out for 193. Having been put into bat, Spalding started pretty well with skipper Rob Ambrose making 42 and Warren ...

Spalding 1st team captain Rob Ambrose admits that his team are in need of a lucky break to get their first win of the season. It comes in light of a fifth-straight defeat in the Lincs ECB Premier Division. Town have handed very comfortable first wins of the season to Lincoln Lindum and Grantham over the last two weekends, and ...

A sunny day in the eye-catching surroundings of Belton Park inspired Pinchbeck to victory in South Lincs and Border League Division Two on Saturday. Skipper Danny Jackson led from the front with a solid knock of 89 and then added two wickets with the ball as his side secured a 31-run win over Belton 2nd. After choosing to bat, Jackson ...

Long Sutton continued their march up the South Lincs and Border Premier Division table with an emphatic nine-wicket win over Belton Park at the Paradise Field. Belton were asked to bat first on a hard, bouncy track and it didn’t take long for that decision to pay off as paceman Barry Stanway (4-35) ripped through the top order. Belton’s middle ...

Spalding Town’s Under-15 side suffered a bruising home defeat to Uppingham on Friday (May 15). Batting first, Butcher (16) and Harrington (17) made a robust start with Harrington hitting boundaries from three successive deliveries. The partnership ended prematurely with Harrington run out after being called for an unwise second run. Senior (1) was bowled playing back to Reece, but in-form ...

Spalding Town 1st (69) lost to Grantham (326-6) by 257 runs: Spalding 1st were cut adrift by 19 points at the foot of Lincs ECB Premier League following this heavy defeat on Saturday. The gap grew from six points after they were skittled out at Spalding Grammar School by Grantham for just 69 runs in little more than 25 overs. The ...

Spalding Town have snapped up record-breaking all-rounder Mark Joyce as they bid to kick-start their Lincs ECB Premier League season. New Zealand ace Joyce, who cracked a South Lincs and Border League record of 1,204 runs for Billingborough at an average of 75.25 back in 2010, will make his Town debut against Grantham on Saturday (noon). The Kiwi ace can ...

Spalding Town slipped to the bottom of the Lincs ECB Premier League table after suffering their fourth defeat from as many games this season. Having been put into bat against a Lindum side that had failed to win any of their opening three games of the campaign, Town were bowled out for just 121 in 37.3 overs. Daniel Milgate (34), ...

A brilliant bowling display from Jake Pollard consigned Moulton Harrox to a narrow 15-run defeat against Belton Park in South Lincs and Border League Premier Division on Saturday. Having won the toss and elected to field, Moulton were probably pretty happy with their efforts in holding Belton to just 153-7 from their 45 overs. Only a fine half-century from 14-year-old ...

A stunning bowling performance inspired Long Sutton to their first South Lincs and Border League Premier Division win of the season on Saturday. Hosts Sutton were asked to bat first by Woodhall Spa 2nd on what was a pretty stick Paradise Field track. They found it tough going, but openers Jimmy Wright (22) and Chris Booth (36) got the team ...

For the second-successive week, Pinchbeck were left to rue their luck in South Lincs and Border League Division Two as Boston 3rd took the spoils in a well-contested match at Spalding Grammar School. Chasing 185 for victory, early wickets cost Pinchbeck dearly and, despite the best efforts of the middle order, they fell short by just nine runs. After inserting ...

Spalding Town’s winless start to the new Lincs ECB Premier League season continued on Saturday as they were handed a seven-wicket defeat by hosts Lincoln Lindum. Having been put into bat against a Lindum side that had also lost their opening three games of the campaign, Town were bowled out for just 121 in 37.3 overs. Daniel Milgate (34), Nuwan ...

Spalding Town have been told to buck up their ideas after suffering three successive Lincs ECB Premier League defeats. Winless Town are just four points above rock-bottom Grimsby Town after Saturday’s six-wicket home defeat against Market Rasen . They make the trip to Lincoln Lindum, one of the three sides below them in the table, on Saturday (noon) – but ...

In-form pace ace Charlie Kearns feels that Spalding Town’s slow start to the Lincs ECB Premier League campaign is just a temporary blip. The fast bowler reckons that there have been plenty of positives that he and his team-mates can take from defeats against Woodhall Spa, Bracebridge Heath and Market Rasen. Kearns also thinks that Town will prove a difficult ...

Long Sutton are still searching for their first South Lincs and Border League Premier Division win of the campaign after another agonising defeat on Saturday. With hosts Sleaford 2nd posting 206-9 batting first, Sutton closed on 187-8 after their 45 overs – just 20 runs shy of success. Having won the toss and elected to bat on what looked like ...

Amazing figures of 5-25 from 15-year-old Amelia Gardner couldn’t stop Spalding Town 3rd suffering a bruisng defeat against Claypole at the Memorial Field on Saturday. Playing only her second senior game for Spalding, Gardner’s figures were the only real positive for Town in the South Lincs and Border League Division Two clash as Claypole smashed 321 batting first before being ...

Rob Ambrose lamented a bad day at the office for his Spalding Town side on Saturday as their winless start in the Lincs ECB Premier League stretched to three games. A typical century from Warren Nel (103) steered Town to a solid-looking 205-7 at Spalding Grammar School, but visitors Market Rasen knocked that off with six wickets to spare – ...

A hat-trick from James Langford and a swift five-wicket haul for Nick Crook couldn’t stop Pinchbeck suffering a 12-run defeat at Baston in South Lincs and Border League Division Two on Saturday. On a slow, low wicket offering plenty for the bowlers, Pinchbeck won the toss and would have felt the hard work was done when they dismissed their opponents ...

Teenage talent Jimmy Hook is targeting a regular spot in Spalding Town Cricket Club’s first team after shining on Lincolnshire under-17s recent tour of Sri Lanka. The all-rounder, who is a pupil at Spalding Grammar School, made an unbeaten 100 for Lincs as they won the final game of their tour against Dharmaraja College in Kandy. His innings included 19 ...