Harlow Cricket Club

🏏 Team News 🏏

Good luck to all our sides today and hopefully the weather stays away enough for us to get games in.

🌧 Unfortunately the 5th XI has been called off with a waterlogged pitch.

📆 Date for the Diary 📆

We're delighted to inform you that we will be having an Asian Supper following the matches taking place on Saturday 13th June.

Sample the culinary delights of Sunni and his crew as they wow us with their delicious cuisine!

All members, families and friends welcome!

🏏 Fantasy Cricket 🏏

Another high scoring week across the board for all our teams taking part in the HCC Fantasy League.

Player of the week was 1st XI Captain Ben Yeats scoring a whopping 210 points.
Zach Burns, listed as a bowler, showed off his batting credentials as he amassed 155 points.
Ever reliable Jon Allen scored an impressive 142 points for his teams.

Manager of the week goes to Jake Messenger.

Adam continues to lead the overall pack by the barest of margins.

Also pictured, is the highest scoring players for each category, plus the most selected players!

Is it time for a change up... or time to follow the crowd?
Perhaps it's time to use your triple captain?

Good luck for next week!

🏏 Fixtures - Week 6 🏏

The 1st XI return to Marigolds looking to build on their impressive victory last week as they welcome .

The 2nd XI go travelling away to looking to return to winning ways.

The 3rd XI travel to looking for a much improved performance.

The 4th XI are on Spicers field as they host

The 5th XI are at home as well this week as they welcome with the game being played at Molehill Green CC.

Good luck to all our XI's this weekend!

🏏 Results - 30.05.26 🏏

A mixed bag of results with some convincing victories, emphatics defeats and nail-biting wins!

✅ The 1st XI showed their dominance on a scorching weekend as they dismantled Barking by 7 wickets.
Spin duo of Chris Whitworth and Jake Messenger grabbed 7 wickets between them before seamer Joe Riddell came and finished the innings picking up 3 wickets himself.
Chasing 190, Harlow set the tone early and scored at a heavy rate. Skipper Yeats scored a truly magnificent century (110) ably supported by Munim (33*) and Zabi (26).

❌ The 2nd XI would've been confident walking off at half time with a score of 275 on the board from their 45 overs.
Billy Clark scored a magnificent 85 opening the innings while Freddy Crook knocked up 48.
None the less, it was Gidea Park who took the bull by the horns and chased down the target with 4 overs to spare.

❌ It was a day to forget for the 3rd XI as they were heavily beaten by West Essex 3rd XI.
Having won the toss and electing to bat, it certainly wasn't the plan to be skittled for just 129. Arshad (30) and Eliot (26) showed some early promise before falling. Some late resistance from Asim (26) and Ahsan (22) gave Harlow a sniff, but ultimately, a scorecard with 4 ducks is never going to be enough.
West Essex wasted no time and knocked off the runs in just over 20 overs for the loss of 3 wickets.
Time to bounce back next week for the 3rd XI.

✅ Members of the 4th XI surely can't have any nails left after their close victory over Woodford Green.
Backing themselves to chase, Harlow were inserted and perhaps Woodford may have regretted that decision as Harlow rattled along at a great rate, with the top 3 punishing anything loose. Every batter got themselves in to pile on the runs.
Jon Allen (72), Zac Burns (53), Marius Scholtz (43)
In reply, Woodford Green made a tremendous effort to chase it down, with their batters scoring at a run a ball. We may not have taken 10 wickets, but we held our nerve to secure victory by 5 runs.
Emilia Allen the pick of the bowlers taking 3 wickets.

❌ Unfortunately, the 5th XI had to concede their match due to player availability.

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Outstanding Harlow Dominate at Barking
https://www.harlowcricketclub.co.uk/news/outstanding-harlow-dominate-at-barking-2981294.html

🏏 WEEK 5 TEAM NEWS🏏

1st XI away
2nd XI home to
3rd XI away to
4th XI home to
5th XI - Conceded due to player availability

Good luck to all our teams. All support welcome across the grounds!

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Week 5 Fixtures

Another great week in the Fantasy Cricket League as the leaderboard takes another turn!

Adam takes over top spot with a hand 100 point lead over the ever present Sam.

Manager of the Week went to Ally with a brilliant 711 point which stormed her into the top 5 overall.

Player of the week went to Atif Mustehsan scoring 145 points for his respective managers!

Keep an eye out for the 'Champions League' draw