EWA comfortably beat EWDP U19s

In the last chance for the Academy and EWDP girls to show what they can do before the Winter Training squads are selected later this month, the EWA cruised to an 8 wicket victory with 17 overs to spare.

They were set 151 to win, due in the main part to a solid innings of 43 from Anna Nicholls. Batting at six, she arrived at the crease with the EWDP at 49/4, her team having lost three wickets in seven balls at the same score. Hannah Jones (14) fell not long afterwards and Nicholls was joined by Abbey Freeborn (23) for the only significant EWDP partnership of the game. Together they added 60 runs and took the score to 127/5, but Freya Davies, returning to bowl in the powerplay, had Freeborn well caught by Hennessy at a sensibly-placed slip, and then removed Pape and Norris to finish off the EWDP innings and end with 4/36. Alex McDonald also finished with the excellent figures of 3/19.

In reply the EWA made a good start through Amara Carr (74*), who cut and pulled well, and the hard-hitting Jess Watson (18). Watson eventually fell feathering one behind, but by then the EWA were already well on their way with 55 on the board. Evelyn Jones (36) joined Carr and they batted with freedom, running well between the wickets. The EWDP had no real venom in their bowling attack and it was a surprise when Jones was well-stumped by Freeborn off Patel as she advanced down the wicket. It was the EWDP's last success as Carr and skipper Sophie Luff saw the EWA home with plenty in hand.

[unofficial scorecard]

EWDP u19		batsman	how out	bowler	runs	balls
	1	Lily Reynolds	lbw	McDonald	21	48
	2	Bhumika Doshi	ct Hartley	Davies	9	20
	3	Emma Lamb	lbw	Butler	8	24
	4	Marie Kelly*	ct Hennessy	McDonald	0	2
	5	Hannah Jones	ct Rudd	Hartley	14	24
	6	Anna Nicholls	ct Rudd	McDonald	43	71
	7	Abigail Freeborn+	ct Hennessy	Davies	23	59
	8	Tara Norris	bowled	Davies	9	30
	9	Charlotte Pape	bowled	Davies	1	5
	10	Beatrice Firth	bowled	Hennessy	2	5
	11	Nalisha Patel	not	out	3	5
				extras	17
					150	for	10
					O	M	R	W
			bowling	Freya Davies	9.5	1	36	4
				Georgia Hennessy	9	2	33	1
				Alex McDonald	8	3	19	3
				Steph Butler	10	1	28	1
				Alex Hartley	10	3	22	1
				Jess Watson	2	0	7	0
EWA		batsman	how out	bowler	runs	balls
	1	Jess Watson	ct Freeborn	Norris	18	33
	2	Amara Carr	not	out	74	95
	3	Evelyn Jones	st Freeborn	Patel	36	61
	4	Sophie Luff*	not	out	3	10
	5	Georgia Hennessy	did not	bat
	6	Alex McDonald	did not	bat
	7	Cordelia Griffiths	did not	bat
	8	Steph Butler	did not	bat
	9	Carla Rudd+	did not	bat
	10	Freya Davies	did not	bat
	11	Alex Hartley	did not	bat
				extras	20
					151	for	2
			bowling	Bea Firth	6	1	24	0
				Charlotte Pape	4	0	25	0
				Tara Norris	5	0	19	1
				Marie Kelly	4	0	12	0
				Nalisha Patel	6	1	23	1
				Sophie Ecclestone	7	1	40	0
				Bhumika Doshi	1	0	6	0

MD
07/IX/14