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Start of season groundwork 2016

First game of the season is on the 23rd April, so we will being doing groundwork on the following dates: Saturday 9th April 10AM Saturday 16th April 10AM

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14/06/15 Home vs Boughton and Eastwell

Boughton and Eastwell won the toss and elected to bat, and so after a light shower Eastry took to the field. The reliable opening partnership of M Deveson and R Hill got Eastry off to a good start with some early wickets backed up by some tight fielding early on lead by the experienced Alan …

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25/05/2015 Away vs West Farleigh

The marathon weekend of cricket continued with another away fixture at West Farleigh. Confidence was high after a so far undefeated weekend and so Eastry looked to establish a big target for West Farleigh to chase. But after 8 overs they had lost the two openers for not many runs and the wickets continued to …

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24/05/2015 Away vs Goodnestone

Turning up to Goodnestone with just 9 players, Harry Kenton was obviously adopting the less is better approach after winning the previous week with 10. But thanks to the generosity of Goodnestone, Eastry made a loan signing for the day in the form of Steve Patfield. With the sun shining and the band playing in …

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23/05/2015 Home vs Woodcutters

Eastry started the weekend with a victory over touring side Woodcutters. After losing an early wicket, Eastry looked to rebuild and did so gradually with Woodcutters openers bowling tight lines. Seeing off the opening bowlers for the loss of just the one wicket, Eastry looked to kick on. Paul Welch played an uncharacteristic innings scoring …

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Within a hairs breadth

On a surprisingly sunny opening game of the season, Eastry were in good spirits after a pre-season which managed to avoid any major injuries. Canterbury won the toss and elected to bowl on what looked like a solid, dry track. Guest skipper for Eastry was Roger Hill and he sent out Aero and Kevin The …

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