Thorpe Audlin Cricket Club

Saturday 13th June Thorpe 1st XI v Bullcroft Main 1st XI

With a cyclone blowing through (at least it felt like one), Captain Roughley won the toss & elected to field first!

Bullcroft Innings

Tricky bowling conditions & not a great start in the field, an edge dropped in the first over followed in the first 18 overs by several other missed chances, put Bullcroft on a good start, adding to the dodgy fielding a ‘debatable’ run out, including possibly the first time the phrase ‘you’re well short’ will have been used to describe the Bullcroft opener. First wicket to fall finally came in the 19th over, S Hibbett (80) b J Lavery, Bullcroft 99/1 & off to a flyer. Joe then replicated the first wicket in his next over, bowling J Dixon (0), repeating this agin, for his 3rd over in a row bowling O Collins (15), 104/3, Joe finishing with 3/42 from a good 10 overs. Roughers took over from Joe to fill a couple of overs before Camilla could return, taking a wicket with the last ball of his first over, M Williamson (13) c S Whitehall, 138/4, swiftly followed by 1 for Chaz M Geary (17)
bowled, 138/5. Bullcrofts final 5 wickets fell for 38 runs with Chamila taking 4, in a cracking second spell of the day, D Lovett (1) b C Wijesinghe, C Harvey (12) b C Wijesinghe, D Birkett (5) c U Malik b C Wijesinghe & A Collins (5) c J Evans b C Wijesinghe, with Faulkner taking the other wicket R Bishop (7) b M Faulkner. Bullcroft finish on 176 all out!

Chamila Wijesinghe - 9.5 overs 1 maiden 4/36
Joe Lavery - 10 overs 1 maiden 3/42

Scott Hibbett - 80 runs from 63 balls with 12 x 4’s & 1 x 6

Thorpe Innings

Joining usual opener Roughers at the crease was myself, we got off to a decent start, 55 runs from the first 10 overs, reaching the 19th over before the first wicket fell, C Roughley (25) lbw M Williamson, unfortunately soon followed by C Abel (0) also lbw M Williamson, from 75/0 to 74/2. Charlie Wentworth the new batter in brought us to 94 in the 24th before being bowled by S Hibbett (9), 94/3 & then 96/4, M Faulkner (55) b M Williamson. A couple of late cameos came from Jamie Evan’s & Usmaan Malik to help Thorpe reach 150 all out, J Mulhern (1) b S Hibbett, J Raynor (4) c O Collins b D Lovett, J Lavery (0) b D Lovett, J Evans (21) c O Collins b D Lovett, U Malik (17) b D Birkett, C Wijesinghe (4) ro (O Collins), leaving Thorpe 26 runs short of the target.

Matthew Faulkner - 55 from 80 balls with 4 x 4’s & 1 x 6’s
Chris Roughley - 25 from 47 balls with 3 x 4’s
Jamie Evans - 21 from 18 balls with 1 x 4 & 2 x 6’s

Matthew Williamson- 10 overs 2 maidens 4/22

Mentions

Usy - first 6 for Thorpe!

Junwin - didn’t put a foot wrong in the field or drop a catch

Scorer - Steve, definitely part of the team, quality again thank you!

Umpire - Andrew Edwards, thank you!

Scorers MOTM -

‘My m.o.t.m was tricky, great 2nd spells from Joe & Chamila but I'm going for Matty Faulkner, 50 & a decent bowling spell.’

Club Sponsors - massive thank you to all our sponsors!

The Rustic Arms - shirt front

Braithwaite Contracting & Driveways - training gear & the new branded pint pots

Fairways Service Station (Ackworth) - shirt rear

North East Aggregates Ltd - shirt sleeve

Berriman Carpets - shirt sleeve

GDZ Sports - shirt printing & production

Not the result we wanted, some tricky conditions for our bowlers & fielding well below our usual standards unfortunately had a big impact on the result! On to the next one & back to winning ways!!

This week sees the first travel to Hirst Courtney to face Batley 3rd XI & the 2’s travel to Ryhill to play Frickey 3rd XI, no home games this week unfortunately but plenty of cricket to watch if you fancy a trip out to support the lads!

UTTACC!!

For those that missed it, lads from Thorpe Audlin Cricket Club, Football XL and Wakefield Wideboys worked together to host a charity football tournament at Thorpe Audlin Sports Field on Sunday. It was an incredible day out which has received immense amounts of positive feedback from players and Thorpe locals.

The charity tournament was a testimonial for an incredible man many of you know called Martyn Broom, who was there in person to oversee the entire event. It was great to see him, his wife and his two lads who also played in the tournament.

I’d also personally like to thank the ladies from Hope & Anchor Fc who volunteered to run the bbq and the bar. They saved the day and I can’t thank them enough ♥️

Thanks to everyone’s incredible generosity we have managed to raise a grand total of:

£2862

This money will be split between Cancer Research UK and The Brain Tumour Charity

Extra donations can be made here:

https://gofund.me/17cd91435

Brain cancer currently receives only 2% of all cancer research funding and the standard treatment of tumour extraction (craniotomy) followed by radiotherapy then chemotherapy hasn’t changed much in 20 years. Hence, the reason for Martyn’s choice in donating to The Brain Tumour Charity. Thank you to everyone for your kind donations.

Donate to Martyn Broom, organized by Alex Briggs Hi all, one of our players (Martyn Broom) has been diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour. But he’s a fight… Alex Briggs needs your support for Martyn Broom

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/9jxaa8wu9avcxo9e5crpu/AKm0i-qR3m_kogiykRIbXXw?rlkey=3tvkxphf38gutleri0gwaem3t&st=acikkizu&dl=0

Link to photos from the 2026 Martyn Broom trophy provided by Fusion Sports Photography

If you havent already kindly consider donating, its going to a great cause 🙏

https://gofund.me/eda98fb9f

2026 Martyn Broom Trophy Shared with Dropbox

An amazing day at Thorpe Audlin CC and the village playing host to a football tournament that has resulted in over £2000 being raised for an amazing charity. Great to see so many in attendance all for a worthy cause.

Weekends squads are locked in

First team travel to Bullcroft Main while the Second team host Balby Rec.

Both 1pm start.

Thorpe welcome 2 new signings into the club for their Saturday league debuts, Jake and Frank Mulhern.

The score inn will be open as normal for a nice cold cheap pint aswell as other options.

Thanks as always to our sponsors
The Rustic Arms
Braithwaite Contracting & Driveways
North East Aggregates Ltd
Fairways Service Station (Ackworth)
Berriman Carpets
GDZ Sports

See you all this Sunday!

Saturday 6th June Thorpe 1st XI v Newton Hill 1st XI

Morning rain & a few sore heads threatened to prevent play but thankfully with some work a wicket was ready & the game going ahead! Newton Hill won the toss & knowing there may be a few hangovers in the Thorpe XI decided to field first!

Thorpe Innings

We feared the worst when in the first over Captain Roughley fell for 2 runs to one that nipped back b B Pappachan. Run scoring was fairly steady, on a wicket offering a bit for the bowlers & bowling a good line/length Thorpe were 20/2 in the 10th over when Jack Unwin was out on 10 b A Raghav. With Chaz & Evo now in for Thorpe, the run rate began to climb, a solid 146 run partnership saw Thorpe reach 166 before Evo fell for a better than a run a ball 76 b S Punnasseril Joseph followed in the 39th over by Chaz, also on 76 but a slightly slower rate, ro (T Thomas), Thorpe now on 190/4 adding just 3 more runs for 1 more wicket (C Wijesinghe (1) c J Toulson b A Santhosh) finishing on 193/5 from the 40 overs.

Jamie Evans -76 from 67 balls with 13 x 4’s
Charlie Able - 76 from 112 balls with 10 x 4’s

Newton Hill Innings

Thorpe took the first wicket in the 3rd over, Y Portel (4) a good catch by Charlie Wentworth b C Wijesinghe, followed in the 5th over by another good catch, this time a high one S Punnasseril Joseph (12) c & b C Wijesinghe. 2 down but scoring quick runs, 64/2 off 9, brought the first change, leading wicket taker Jack Unwin replacing Joe Lavery, a change of pace & inevitably, a change of batter in the 14th T Bilsborough (33) b J Unwin, 79/3. Newton Hill reached the 100 mark for drinks with no further wickets, this looked like it was going to be a close one with Newton Hill scoring at 5 runs an over & 7 wickets remaining. After the break however, things changed when R Harris (42) was bowled by J Unwin & a spell of tight bowling/fielding started to put pressure on the away teams batters to push for runs, Jack taking his 3rd wicket in the 24th, A Santhosh (2) c C Wentworth & then completed a superb 5 for in the 28th first removing J Mathew (14) c U Malik followed 3 balls later bowling A Khan (0) completing another 10 over spell, 125/7! Thorpe finished off the remaining batters by with over 5 overs to spare, T Thomas (9) c C Abel b M Faulkner, another sharp (painful) catch, J Toulson (0) c C Abel b C Wijesinghe & B Pappachan (9) b M Faulkner. All out 135, 16 points for Thorpe!!!

Jack Unwin - 10 overs 2 maidens 5/32
Chamila Wijesinghe - 9 overs 1 maiden 4/29
Matt Faulkner - 7.3 overs 2/20

Russell Harris - 42 from 50 balls with 4 x 4’s & 3 x 6’s
Tom Bilsborough - 33 from 42 balls with 6 x 4’s & 1 x 6

Mentions

Evo & Chaz quality innings from both

Chaz’s - right man b**b for the assist on the catch!

Dave Abel - help with the wicket to ensure the game could go ahead!

Alex Briggs - helping with pitch/ground before the game & with the bar during!

Scorer - Steve in the scorers gazebo, quality thank you!

Umpire - Yunus Bismillah, thank you!

MOTM - 3 people in with a shout this week, a hard one to pick…..

Chaz Abel ‘sponsored by Belle Vue Conservative Club and National Flexible’ - battling his way through a hangover to get a cracking 76 runs!

Jack Unwin sponsored by Football XL and Park Electrical (Wakefield)- another one battling through the after effects of Fridays trip to headingley getting another 5 wicket hall & taking his league total to 26 before we reach the turnaround!

Jamie Evans (available to sponsor) - battling with a load of players who thought a skinful the night before was a good idea, oh & getting an excellent 76 runs too!

This week MOTM goes to Jack, selected by our scorer, Steve who said ‘3 lads in the frame, gonna go Jack, his bowling changed it’.

Quality again Jack Unwin!!!

Club Sponsors - massive thank you to all our sponsors!

The Rustic Arms - shirt front

Braithwaite Contracting & Driveways - training gear & the new branded pint pots

Fairways Service Station (Ackworth) - shirt rear

North East Aggregates Ltd - shirt sleeve

Berriman Carpets - shirt sleeve

GDZ Sports - shirt printing & production

This weekend the firsts are away at Bullcroft & the seconds at home to Balby.

Our midweek team are also at home tomorrow against Notton 6pm start!

With the weather looking good this weekend the Score Inn will be serving the refreshments!

Join us from 12 for our delicious carvery. Also.available to order for delivery on Uber Eats 😋