The Report on the Final of the Lancashire Cup

The Report on the Final of the Lancashire Cup

On Monday 20th June Merchant Taylors under elevens cricket team travelled to Blackburn to defend their Lancashire cup trophy. Our opponents were St James Primary School. Merchant Taylors won the toss and Jack Carney the Merchants’ captain chose to bowl.

It was a wet pitch so the ball did not bounce much making runs rather difficult as the ball didn’t travel very far.

Ethan Howard was the opening bowler, followed by Matthew Hennessy, Jacob Millar and Ben Jackson. On the second over the pair got run out and lost five runs from their score. After that over Rhys Davies bowled and took two wickets.  Max Whitehurst then bowled and captured one wicket. Most wickets were taken due to the low bounce of the pitch. Oliver Raw then bowled a tidy but wicketless two over spell.

 St James made a fair score of forty one runs for seven wickets in 12 overs.

When Merchants batted the first two pairs reached the score of forty two and all the last two pairs had to do was to defend the score. Unfortunately, Matthew Hennessy was bowled because of a ‘shooter’. Thankfully Merchants were still in front. The last pair came in and safely kept the score with Jack Carney hitting several boundaries. Unfortunately a further five runs were lost when Rhys Davies was dismissed bowled.

At the end Merchant Taylors had increased their score to 69 to take the trophy by 28 runs, winning the Lancashire cup for the second time in a row. Well done to all the boys for this achievement.

Reported By Ben Jackson and Matthew Hennessy