St Faiths vs Kings Ely

On the bus to Ely, our team decided that we would try batting first if we won the toss because bowling first had brought us mediocre results of 1 win and a loss. The toss was in favour of Kings Ely, but they wanted to bowl first, so everyone was happy.

We batted well, and their bowlers were not the best, so we scored a lot of runs. The thing is, we didn't actually hit a lot of the bowls. If you bowl a wide or no bowl you concede 2 runs. A lot of their bowls were pea rollers, so we couldn't hit them, or wide, so we couldn't hit them. Still our batters scored many runs and two of them, Sam and Jacob, were asked to retire because they had both scored so many runs. Our final score ended up at 136.

Our bowling was good, although we did concede more no bowls and wides than we wanted to. In general, it was uneventful, but there was one batman who kept on switching hands, and his coach kept on telling him just to bat right handed. There was one play when he batted in a left handed stance, then when the bowler bowled the ball he switched and took a swing at the ball. Their final score was 63. We won, but we can still improve our game.

St Faiths vs Felsted

Felsted are one of the schools that are excellent in sport, but we still had high hopes for that away match after coming from a comfortable win over St. Johns.

We won the coin toss and chose to bowl first, so that when we batted, we knew what score we needed to beat in order to win.. We started well, collecting wickets every so often. Unsurprisingly, Toby, our best bowler, took most of them.

Suddenly,a pair of middle order batsmen started a rhythm of quick singles and sensible batting. They scored many, many runs and our confidence began to droop. However, once Toby had bowled one of them out, we started our bowling rhythm again. This was not enough, though, as Felsted scored a massive 137 runs.

After tea, we started batting to get as many runs as possible. Felsted's bowlers were excellent, though, and they held us at 97 runs all out. It was a disappointing day for the B team.

St. Faiths vs. St. Johns

My very first cricket match ever was a thriller to participate in. I really felt more English than ever while playing. It's too bad that we have to move back to America in 2 1/2 months.

Anyway, we lost the coin toss at the beginning, but we still got to bowl, which was what we wanted; we would know what score to beat when we moved on to batting. Toby, our captain, bowled brilliantly, collecting 6 wickets in the 8 overs (1 over=6 bowls) that he bowled. Our other bowlers added another three wickets to our resume, and Sam caught one of their shots as well. After we had gotten their last batter out, we had only conceded 77 runs. Therefore, we needed only around 3 to 4 runs per over in order to win, considering that the maximum was 25 overs.

We batted so-so; we need to play more reasonable shots rather than just trying to club the ball every time. However, our opening batsman, John, stayed in for the duration of our innings, scoring about half of our total runs. It was our No. 8 batsman who sealed the win with the winning 4 runs, though.