Category: Sunday

17/07/16 Away vs Tilmanstone

It was a lovely afternoon at Tilmanstone, but after a light drizzle in the morning and overcast conditions, Tilmanstone won the toss and elected to field. Eastry’s attempt to set a decent score in their 40 overs got off to a solid start with Aaron Friend and Michael Eastman building a 59 run opening partnership. …

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15/05/16 Away vs St Margaret’s

It was a young team who took the short journey to St Margaret’s on a sunny yet cold afternoon. Eastry lost the toss and were put into bat on a pitch which looked slight damp but with plenty of bounce as usual. With short boundaries on 3 sides and a quick outfield, the batsmen look …

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8/5/16 Home vs Dover Cosmos

First home game of the season and the ground was looking at its best on a hot Sunday afternoon. Eastry batted first and got off to a steady start with Aaron Friend and Harry Kenton before Aaron uncharacteristically hauled out to mid on. When Harry Kenton fell shortly after, Ned Gleave and Ian Dartnell started …

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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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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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Back to winning ways

Sadly the saturday team had their game rained off against Woodcutters after just 23 overs. The sunday team however had a great game against Goodnestone (scorecard) and were back to winning ways after their defeat last week to St Margarets (scorecard) Eastry won the toss and captain Harry elected to bowl hoping the pitch would …

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