Staffordshire Cricket hits the right notes

Staffordshire Cricket has had some wonderful successes in the last month. With fantastic performances for England under 15s from Moddershall’s Sam Kelsall and good performances for the Midlands from Richard Brazier, Greg Massingham and Tom Fell. The County under 17 girls also reaching the national final.

Sam in the runs for England

Moddershall's Sam Kelsall has just starred for England under 15's as they defeated England under 16's 2-1 at Loughborough in a 3 match series.

Game one was played on the 6th August with the under 16's reaching 305-3 off 50 overs.
Sam was in great form with 60 in the reply, putting on 125 with Singh for the 2nd wicket. Despite this partnership the under 15's fell 53 runs short at 252-8.

Game two saw the under 16's again post a great score of 303-7 off 50 overs with Sam bowling 2 overs for 8 runs.

County under 17's retain place in Division 1

Staffordshire under 17's under the coaching of Alan Hill and the management of Tony Thane, pulled off a fine achievement in finishing third in division one north.

After losing at home to Lancashire, Staffs were further troubled by the loss to England of star batsman Jack Manuel.

Under the captaincy of Joe Leach, Staffs did beat second place Durham at Walsall in the penultimate game. This was a very mature performance that included centuries by Michael Hill and Tim Maxfield as well as a good contribution from Alex Hughes.

The title was won by Yorkshire who only narrowly defeated Staffs at Tamworth earlier in the competition.

South West felled by Tom

Wolverhampton batsman Tom Fell was the star man as the Midlands beat the South West by 6 wickets at Loughborough, in the under 14 regional festival.

The South West were bowled out for 159 with the Midlands knocking off the runs for 4 wickets with Tom scoring 54.

Also starring for the Midlands with 49 was Steve Leach. Steve played his cricket for Staffs until under 13 level but after gaining a scholarship at Shrewsbury school is now playing for Shropshire due to travel issues.

Ten Wicket win in Semi Final for Girls 17's

The Staffs under 17 girls team have once again reached the National final for the second successive season.

Having beaten Warwickshire in the quarter final on Monday 11th August by 2 wickets at Nutbrook C.C. in Derbyshire Staffs went through to play in the semi final.

In the semi final payed at Loughborough University on Friday 15th August, Staffs were expecting a tough game as Kent were the team that beat Staffs in the final last season.

Georgia Elwiss the captain won the toss and asked Kent to bat first.