Grappers’ promotion hopes take a severe knock

GRAPPENHALL’S promotion aspirations took a severe knock when they suffered a seven wicket thrashing at the hands of Bollington in the RSK Cheshire County League.
The home side won the toss and put Grappers in – and soon gained their rewards.
Grappenhall were bowled out for 97 – something of a recovery from their earlier position of 66-7. None of the batsmen managed to get settled and Ian Hall’s 21 was top score. The whole side were back in the pavilion inside 35 overs.

Sam Guest struck early to remove the home side’s opener for a duck, raising hopes that Bollington might also struggle for runs, but after that the batsmen took control and they coasted to 98-3 in 17.4 overs, despite Arran McCabe’s tidy 2-19.
The result left Grappers at number five in the table and looking increasingly unlikely to mount a promotion challenge.
Grappenhall 2nd enjoyed a big win in a low-scoring encounter with Stockport Georgians at Broad Lane.
Winning the toss, they asked the visitors to bat and bowled them out for 62 in 22.2 overs.
Sunder Yousaf Bhinder returned the remarkable figures of 4-5 in 1.2 overs while Ross Arrowsmith took 3-16.
Grappers’ openers Lucas Read, 21 and Alex Perry, 27, put on 43 for the first wicket and although three wickets eventually fell, it was a comfortable enough victory.
Grappenhall 3rd lost heavily at Stockport Georgians after the home side had batted first and hit 258. Ben Clissold, 5-40, was the pick of the Grappenhall bowling.
He also topped the scoring with 30 but there was little support from the rest of the line-up and Grappers could only muster108 in 24 overs.
Warrington managed to hang on for a draw at Urmston after the home side had batted first and hit 269-4. James Rudd and Umer Zeb took two wickets each.
The visitors were never really in the hunt, although they were given hope in the middle of their innings when Jonathan Fletcher, 94 and Rohan Luthra, 42, were at the wicket.
But after they fell it became a case of hanging on grimly for a draw, which they managed on 208-8.
Warrington 2nd went down at home to Lindow after the village side hit a useful 205-4. Warrington were rolled over for 70 in 37 overs.
It would have been much worse but for some late hitting by Ravi Sabba, 23.
In the UKFast Cheshire League, Lymm Oughtrington Park lost by two wickets in a low-scoring match with Winnington Park at Oughtrington Lane.
Lymm were bowled out for 94 in 27 overs – something of a recovery after at one time being 33-6 having seen their first four batsmen back in the pavilion for ducks.
Phil Whelan, 28 and Andy Hossack, 20 were top scorers on a day when runs were hard to get.
The visitors were struggling at 29-5, thanks to Matthew Brzadshaw’s 3-16. But they recovered to reach their modest target with two wickets to spare.
Appleton, put in at Langley hit 188-6, Chris Morrison scoring 83 and Martin Cooper 42.
But this proved an easy target for the home side who replied with 190-3. Andrew Jackson took 2-20.
Appleton 2nd did rather better, entertaining Neston, who they bowled out for 99 in 36 overs. Dave Sujith took 3-20 and Aamit Rashid 3-18.
Alex Wright hit 54 not out as Appleton replied with 101-3.
Appleton 3rd won by six wickets at home to Offerton.
The visitors totalled 177-8, with Becca Othick taking 3-46 and Paul Grumley 3-13. Appleton replied with 181-4, with solid batting from Mark Sands 73, Paul White, 46 and Jonathan Owen 44 not out.
Glazebury went down at Frodsham, despite bowling out the home side for 94. Sam Stanier ook 5-24 AND Kyle Keeble 4-28. Glazebury lost both openers for ducks, never recovered and were back in the pavilion for 81.
It was a similar result in the 2d XI match at Hurst Lane when Frodsham hit 141-8, Geoff Roberts 5-26 but Glazebury could only muster 123, despite opener Phil McCue’s 56.