Grappenhall go down to batsmen in commanding form

Batsmen dominate at Canterbury

When my father was alive, we used to attend a day of Canterbury Cricket week together every year. Geraint Jones was busy digging Kent out of a hole with a thrilling century during the annual festival when I said what transpired to be my final farewell to him before he died that night. As a result I try to get to at least one day of the four day game during festival week every season. Unfortunately, cricket has changed during the intervening peri…

Grappenhall go down to batsmen in commanding form

GRAPPENHALL travelled to the Wirral to take on newly-promoted Maritime in the Cheshire County League division one – but found the home side’s batsmen in commanding form. Winning the toss, Maritime posted a daunting 330-9 in 50 overs. It was a good day for Grappers’ Arran McCabe, however, who took 6-53 in a nine over spell. Grappenhall fought hard in reply and a number of batsmen got settled, only to fall before reaching the sort of big score tha…