Moreton Girls Under-15s 109-3 (18 ovs; Lucy Johnson 50*)
Tiddington Girls Under-15s 68-3 (18 ovs; Zoe Soonawalla 22)
Moreton won by 41 runs
The Oxfordshire Cricket Girls Under-15s Hardball Competition concluded with a winner-takes-all clash on a gloriously sunny evening at Tiddington Cricket Club last Monday.
Put into bat by their hosts, Moreton began cautiously against accurate seam bowling from Megan Park (1-13), Emma Park (1-3), and Zoe Soonawalla (1-11); and after 10 overs, the Tiddington attack had limited Moreton to just 38 runs for the loss of Bethan Lewis (12) and Emma Sherwood (0). However, the break for drinks prompted a change in approach from the Moreton batters; and with Lucy Johnson (50*) and Alex Knight (18) adding 69 for the 3rd wicket, Moreton inflated their total to a imposing 109 for 3 from their allotted 18 overs.
In reply, Tiddington suffered an early setback when Alice Stapley was snaffled by Emma Sherwood at extra-cover in Alex Knight’s second over. Zoe Soonawalla (22) and Martha Stapley (17) added 53 hard-fought runs for the second wicket in 14 overs, before the former was stranded short of her crease by Lucy Johnson’s bullet-like throw from 30 yards. Martha Stapley followed in the next over, bowled by the persevering Bethan Lewis (1-7), and the young Tiddington side finished their innings with a creditable 68 runs for the loss of three wickets.
Many thanks to Cally Evans and Owen Lewis for umpiring, and to Robert Johnson for both scoring and running the scorebox on the evening.
Full scorecard: https://mscorer.net/scorecard.
Replay stream: https://youtu.be/Zs3Se_YcUgE
League table: https://oxonwomenscomps.play-