Saturday 4th XI Match Reports & Scorecards

Havering IV played their last home game of the season at Upminster Playing Fields and entertained a young Stanford Le Hope 5th team. Havering lost the toss and were put into bat and were soon in trouble being 6 for 1, but a stand of 43 for the 2nd wicket between Nick Hine and Roger Honey with Honey scoring most of the runs before Hine was out for 11. Honey was joined by young Ryan Hurley who with Honey put on 56 for the 3rd wicket with Honey falling 1 short of his maiden 50 and Hurley hitting a fine 57 before being caught behind. A stand of 28 between Alan Roe (11) and Howard Bancroft (28no) saw Havering finish on 195 for 7 off 40 overs.
In reply Stanford were bowled out for a 101 with a fine allround bowling display from openers Tom Buckley 5-3-8-2 and young Jack Sainty 5-1-14-0, Mick Houghton 8-3-32-3, Howard Bancroft 8-2-31-2 and Andy Trowse 3-0-2-3 who is on a hatrick, having taken 2 in 2.
Havering won by 94 runs

Mick Houghton won the toss and elected to bowl on a damp hall lane wicket. Stock were reduced to 147 all out after 38 overs with some good bowling from Jack Hurley 6-2-15-1, Adam Thain 7-2-23-1, Matt Lanagan8-4-12-2 and skipper Mick Houghton whos first 4 overs went for 37 and his last 4 overs for 10 finishing on 8-0-47-2 and Sean Jackson 5-0-20-3 who at one stage was on a hat trick, and young Alfie James making his debut 3-0-29-0.
In reply after a slow start due to some tight bowling form stock Havering were all out for 112 with Sean Jackson being the pick of the batters with 39, John French 20 and Matt Lanagan 17 the only ones to get in to double figures.
Havering lost by 35 runs.

The 4th XI entertained a young Harlow Town side at a much improved hall lane. Havering skipper Mick Houghton won the toss and put Harlow Town in. They were soon in trouble with some tight bowling from Howard Bancroft and young Adam Thain with Bancroft taking a hat trick in the 3rd over and finishing with figures of 5-18 off 8 overs. Harlow Town were 27-5 but a stand of 85 by two colts, J.Smith and A.Simpson, allowed Town to reach 159 all out with young Thain taking the last 2 wickets. Howard Bancroft 8-2-18-5, Adam Thain 8-1-31-2, Mick Houghton 8-0-36-1.
In reply Havering were soon in trouble losing wickets and at one stage they were 25-5 but operner Simon Trowse was still there and he was joined by his dad Andy and they put on 93, Andy playing the anchor role with Simon reaching his 50, but the overs were being eaten away and at this stage needing 10 an over. Dad Andy was run out for 16 but a stand of 41 between young Trowse who by then had hit his maiden 100 and Howard Bancroft, with Bancroft hitting a 6 to win the game with two balls to spare. Simon Trowse 109n/o Andy Trowse 16, Howard Bancroft 15.
Havering won by 4 Wkts

Havering 4th XI skipper Mick Houghton lost the toss and were put into bat on a damp Upminster wicket and were soon in trouble losing regular wickets to some tight bowling. Hearn taking 3 wickets and Gajadhar in his 2nd spell taking a hat-trick,there were some resistance from the batsman with young Adam Thain making his debut scoring 10 and a 30 wicket partnership between Clive Tickner (21) and Matt Lanagan (15) but Havering were all out for 83.
Matthews knocked off the runs in 20 overs losing 4 wickets, Matt Lanagan getting 2-15 and skipper Mick Houghton 2-35.
habcc 4th x1 83 all out Havering lost by 6 wickets

Havering entertained Old Citizens, a conference fixture,at Hall Lane. Havering won the toss & elected to bat. Openers Dave Roe & Andy Hurley got of to a solid start, putting on 39 for the 1st wicket before Hurley fell to an excellent one handed slip catch - they either stick or they dont & this one certainly stuck.
Roe & Matt Lanagan promoted up the order then took the score to 82 before Lanagan was given out caught behind for 15. A mini collapse then ensued with a further 2 wickets falling without an addition to the score - Kyle Butler out LBW for 0 & Dave Roe being bowled for a fine top scoring 45. At 82 for 4 & with the run rate up at circa 4 an over, Havering were still in good shape. However the loss of those 3 quick wickets proved costly & Havering never really recovered as they got bogged down & the runs dried up. Clive Tickner & Colin Gentle then put on 32 for the 6th wicket, before a mix up in the running saw Gentle run out for 18 - Tickers holding his hand up to that one. Another mini collapse then took place, where Havering lost 3 wickets for 1 run. Firstly Andy Trowse looking for a quick single to mid wicket starting running towards the other end but forgot to tell his partner & was run out for 7. The score 125 for 6. Tom Buckley then came to the crease & got a shocker that kept low & was bowled for 0. Alan Roe was then out soon after LBW for a duck. The score now 126 for 8. Jack Sainty had a brief sortie at the wicket, before being stumped for 8 with the score on 140. This brought skipper Mick Houghton to the wicket. Unfortunately he never faced a ball & Tickers was last man out, bowled for a protracted 19. Havering finished on 145 all out in 36.3 overs. Those "lost" overs were to prove costly.
Old Citizens got off to the worst possible reply, with skipper Gaj getting bowled in the 1st over for a duck to a ball from Gentle that just didnt bounce. Other opener Saldanha proved to be the match winner as he batted through the innings for a fine 69 not out. Only 2 other Citizens batsmen got double figures (Ringer 26 & Sen 20) as they reached their target for the loss of 9 wickets in the 35th over. Wickets were shared between Gentle 2-27, Sainty 1-25, Butler 1-29, Buckley 1-20 & pick of the bowlers Matt Lanagan who bowled 6 fine overs of spin & took 4-15. A special mention to Andy Trowse who literally throw every body part at the ball when fielding at deepish mid-wicket. He stopped lots of runs & if not for his efforts, the game would certainly have been over sooner. An exciting game which for the 2nd week running saw the 4ths on the wrong side of a narrow defeat.

HABCC IV made the visit to Stock in this friendly fixture, which turned out to be an exciting match. Stock won the toss & elected to bat first. Openers Grundy & Boxer both made steady starts, both getting into the twenties before both became the victims of Tyler Gale, his 1st wickets in adult cricket. Gale finished with 2-26. No3 bat Pratt also scored into the twenties before he was bowled by Trowse. Skipper Hodges fell cheaply for 4, bowled by Houghton, who bowled economically for 1-27 from his 8 overs. Those were the only wickets to fall. Star batsman for Stock was young Jack Mayhook who scored an unbeaten 86 and was well supported by veteran Ted Woodgate who chipped in with 32 not out. Stock finished their 40 overs on 211 for 4.
In reply, HABCC got off to the worst start, losing Roger Honey for a duck early on, caught and bowled to opening bowler Wright. Other opener Hurley (37) & Lee McVelia (36) then steadied the ship before both fell either side of the drinks interval. Evans then went cheaply for 2 leaving Andy Trowse and Dave Roe at the crease and needing to score at around 8 runs per over. Roe put the bowling to the sword smashing 95 which included 19 fours and a five and was out, bowled, with the penultimate ball with only 2 runs needed for victory. The scramble to then get at least a single off the last ball to earn a tie, was too much and Alan Roe was run out. Andy Trowse remained undefeated on 14.
Havering lost by 1 run.