Hinckley Amateurs started off their season with a disappointing loss on Saturday against Loughborough Greenfields. After being put in bat by the visitors, Hinckley has a mixed start with Lester (20) taking the attack to the opening bowlers but once Lester was out this prompted a mini collapse with Skipper Kendrick (0) & Martin (0) not troubling the scorers. The innings settled with patient knocks by Stu Bailey (27) & Jack Horsley (24). With a late blitz by Simon Woodward who top scored with a quick fire 37, Amateurs finished on 175-8 off 45 over. D.Cartilage being the thorn in Hinckleys line up with 5/66.
Loughborough started brightly with hard hitter Moore hitting early boundaries but unfortunately a dropped catch by Kendrick gave Moore a lifeline which he unduly took as he then compiled a superb unbeaten century to lead Loughborough to a comfortable victory with Amateurs looking back on what might have been. Kendrick said “Unfortunately my dropped catch proved vital as Moore went on to make a very good 100, in hindsight I think if the catch would of stuck it would have been a much closer contest than what the scorebook shows, but we must take positives from this, our ground fielding was excellent & I thought the tail batted very well to get us past the 166 mark to get us a extra 2 points. We’ve got a tricky away tie against Elecricity Sports but definitely a very winnable game for us’
The 2nd XI started off with a very good win away v’s Barkby 2nds. Skipper Mustin hitting a fluent 29 but the plaudits were to go to youngster Tom Donnelly who batting at nine hit a superb 45 not out to steer Hinckley to 187-9. Barkby were set a target of 188 to win but were made to work hard by a good opening spell by Thompson (9-1-20-1) but Barkby had no answer to the ‘spin twins’ by the ever green pair of Ensor & Butterworth who shared the remaining 9 wickets between them. Paul Ensor opened his account for the season with 6/57, bowling Hinckley Amateurs to victory with 5 balls to spare.
The youthful 3rd XI were brought back down to a earth with a disappointing loss to Lutterworth 4th XI Hinckley were set 199 to win but fell well short as Amateurs were bowled out for a disappointing 88 the 3rd XI were at one point 25 for 6 and could have been worse if not for Dave Cumbley who hit a brilliant 51 in 28 balls.
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