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THERE appears to be plenty of life in the old dogs of the Hunts Over 50s team.
Captain Nick Andrews of Market Deeping smashed a brilliant 150 and Gary Scotcher of Barnack finished unbeaten on 108 as Hunts moved closer to the knockout stages of the National Veterans Cup with a 119-run win over Norfolk at Wisbech.
Andrews and Scotcher added over 200 for the second wicket as Hunts piled up a county best 326-3 in their 45 overs. They piled up 200 from the final 20 overs with the final 50 of Andrews’ innings coming off just 20 balls.
Norfolk were restricted to 207-7 in reply.
Hunts have now won two of their three fixtures in an eight-man group. The top three qualify for the last 16 which is played on a knockout basis.
Scotcher said: “It must be the strongest side we’ve had in years, although ironically we were missing a couple of important batsmen this week.”
Andrews (58) was recording his first ton for five years, but it wasn’t quite a personal best.
Andrews said: “Forty years ago as an 18 year-old I hit 192 in a club match in Amersham, so on that frequency I’m looking forward to another biggy when I’m 108!”
“It was just one of those days. Scotcher was brutal as well.”
Hunts are next in action against Northants at Great Oakley next Wednesday. Hunts have only qualified for the knockout stages once before when they were beaten by Lancashire 10 years ago.
Hunts (v Norfolk): Andrews, Scotcher, Bob Milne (Peterborough Town), Barry Cavilla (Eaton Socon), Kevin Cole (Waresley), Pat Ellerbeck (Waresley), Gary Whitbread (Kimbolton), Martin Moore (Kimbolton), Stan Cox (Buckden), Paul Strickle (Wisbech), Shaun Hubbard (Alconbury).
n PETERBOROUGH Town Under 13s reached the final of the ECB Hunts Cup by dismissing Sawtry for just 15 in their semi-final. Mo Nasiri did the bulk of the damage with a 6-6 spell.
Town play Eaton Socon in the final at Bretton Gate tonight.
And Town Under 15s cruised into their Hunts final with a nine-wicket win over Warboys. Marcus Howard led the way with an unbeaten 59 and Town will now play Orton Park in the final at Orton on June 25.
Results: Town Under 13s 16-0 beat Sawtry 15 (M. Nasiri 6-6, F. Adil 3-5) by 10 wkts.
Town Under 15s 132-1 (M. Howard 59no, R. Sayer 44, J. Green 21) beat Warboys 135-5 by 9 wkts.
n STAMFORD eased past Ufford Park in the quarter-finals of the Stamford KO Cup.
Result: Stamford 118-2 (A, Hulme 43, T. Williams 24) beat Ufford Park 84-7 (R. Bapodra 32, B. Hall 4-22) by 34 runs.
n ELLIOT Smith (Ramsey), Obidullah Ahmedzai (Nassington) and Rob Sayer (Peterborough Town) all enjoyed good games as Hunts beat Bucks in the ECB Under 15 County Cup at North Crawley.
Hunts top their group after winning their opening three matches.
Result: Hunts 101-4 (E. Smith 41no, R. Sayer 25no) beat Bucks 100 (E. Cafferkey 4-23, O. Ahmedzai 3-41) by 6 wkts.
n ASHTON Wold defeated Farcet Fen Farmers in the Dereck Rawson memorial match. Dereck’s sister Shiela presented the trophy.
Result: Ashton Wold 213-8 (S. Palmer 53, M. Buckley 43, D. Blatch 28. G. Palmer 25) beat Farcet Fen Farmers 142 (C. White 42, J. Wood 23, D. Blatch 3-4, C. Wood 3-33).
n SEAN Patchett cracked an unbeaten 132 as Motley Crew enjoyed a comfortable friendly win over Spalding.
Result: Motley Crew 219-6 (S. Patchett 132) beat Spalding 147-4 (B. Westlake 66) by 72 runs.
n CASTOR’S Ross Porter, Robert Dunn and Neil Wilson all recorded half-centuries in a friendly win over Wansford.
Result: Castor 219-5 (R. Porter 54ret, R. Dunn 50ret, N. Wilson 50ret, S. Taylor 3-39) beat Wansford 150 (G. Johnson 50no, D. Sweary 34, J. Dunn 5-24).
n CAMRA’S Nick Bradbury smacked 155 and still finished on the losing side in a friendly against Rushden Wanderers.
Result: Rushden 264-9 (M. Smith 4-37) beat CAMRA 254-4 (N. Bradbury 155, N. Wright 47no).
n CAPTAIN David Gillett smacked three sixes off successive balls during an innings of 43 not out from 20 balls as Market Deeping eased into the semi-finals of the Stamford KO Cup at the expense of Uppingham this week.
Result: Market Deeping 111-3 (D. Gillett 43no, G. Yeeles 25) beat Uppingham 110-7 (J. Binley 41no) by 7 wkts.
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