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 North Elmham(25pts) beat Horsford 'C' (7pts) by 52 runs in Norfolk League Division 6.
Highlights:
North Elmham - G. King 60, S. Malherbe 34, I. Sinclair 3-40
Horsford 'C' - O. Inwardes 34, E. Lake 25, J. Snelling 5-40
On a blustery day North Elmham entertained a young Horsford 'C' in Division 6 of the Norfolk League. After winning the toss Elmham, on this occasion led by Vice Captain Stephan Malherbe, decided to bat on a good looking dryish wicket, which after the rain during the week would hopefully not prove as unpredictable in bounce as the wickets of the last few weeks. Runs came steadily from openers Malherbe and Keeble, the bounce of the pitch was proving a little low and and it was also a slowish into the bargain so care was needed. Keeble was the first to fall caught off the bowling of Da Silve for 20 with the score on 36. Grant King came in to join Malherbe and some steady batting, just punishing errant deliveries, saw the score advance to 79 before Malherbe was caught behind off an excellent swinging ball that moved even further off the seam from the bowling of Collinson for 34. King carried on scoring well the pattern being singles to keep the score ticking over or bad balls punished to the boundary. It has to be said that Horsford
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 North Elmham (26pts) beat to Loddon (7pts) by 66 runs at Loddon in Norfolk League Division 6.
Highlights:
North Elmham -
C. Palmer 81, R. Futter 47, R. Joplin 3-27, G. Rossouw 3-30
Loddon -
J. Curtis 48 and 5-33, G.Hall 37
Match Report
Saturday saw North Elmham visit Loddon for what was due to be the return fixture Norfolk League match, unfortunately the original game had been rained off so this was the first time that the sides had met and promised to be interesting as Loddon have are I think the only side i the League to have a lady player Megan Edmunds.
North Elmham were fortunate to win the toss an an extremely hot afternoon and chose to bat (partly to give all the players time to get there as there had been delays getting to Loddon because of the accident on the A47).
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