07/09/2026
Saturday 5th September
The 1st XI completed their league season with a home game against Three Bridges 2nd XI.
Having won the toss, we batted first with Rohan Patel opening and making his second consecutive half century the score progressed steadily to 83 when he was third out. Jack Gold (25) and Rhys Beckwith (22) add a few more runs before Rob Deane at number eight struck a quick 49 from 29 balls with 5 sixes before he was last out with a moderate 219 runs on the board with over four overs remaining in the innings.
In the Three Bridges innings, things all went well with wickets falling at regular intervals with Max McAteer performing best with 3-23 from his nine overs. There was a little bit of resistance from the last few wickets but eventually they were all out for 124 in the 33rd over.
Having got the maximum points, things needed to go our way in the other games, but leaders Burgess Hill thrashed Broadwater by 208 runs and won the division with 402 points and Horsham failed to beat Crawley Eagles so they end 2nd with 398 points. We finished a creditable close 3rd with 393 points.
Div 4 West Table: https://horshamtrinity.play-cricket.com/website/division/135622
In their final game, the 2nd XI travelled to Broadwater to take on their 2nd XI.
The host’s won the toss and chose to bat first, but found runs hard to come by against good opening bowling by Tim Street (1-32) and George Horner (1-24) and they were backed up by Lewis Fiddaman (2-26) and James Arnould (1-27), but star of the day was Will Lawson with 5-25 from only seven overs aided by three catches by Jake Lovett. Only Broadwater Captain Ryan Silverthorne offered much resistance with 51 out of a total of 148.
The reply started well with John Kimberley and Jake Lovett. Jake was first out for 19, but John remained there and when he was fourth out to Ryan Silverthorne for 56 with the score on 115 things were progressing nicely. But things changed as Ryan took a further four wickets to end with 6-18 to see Trinity on 142-9 with plenty of overs in hand. Tim Street saw off the final five balls of the over. Lewis Fiddaman then faced the next over and that produced a Wide, a four, a No Ball and the winning single to close out a nervous win.
As with the 1st XI, having achieved 30 points, we were relying on other results in the bid for promotion, but unfortunately, the clash between the top two teams of Arundel and Horsham did result in a defeat for Horsham, but they still obtained enough points to edge out our 2nd XI. So, the table ended with Arundel 431 points, Horsham 416 and Trinity 413.
Div 9 West Table: https://horshamtrinity.play-cricket.com/website/division/135639
The 4th XI finished their season with a home game at Lower Beeding against Horsham 4th XI.
Captain Rory Lawson won the toss and elected to have a bowl first against a strong opposition line up with the hope of taking early wickets. This almost worked, but a couple of drops let the batters off, but we still had them 27-2 as Alan Wyatt only conceded 17 of his first six overs even with James Gatward missing for the first 15 overs due to work issues. The next wicket didn’t fall until 130, but that only brought ex-Trinity player Neil Rampersad to the crease who with Daniel Winder took the score to an imposing 336-3 as the bowlers struggled. Daniel finished with 151no and Neil 113no.
The reply started OK with Alan hitting two fours in the first over, but he unfortunately sliced his fourth ball to cover. Batting at three and returning to action was Matt Cole who ended up top scoring with 15 as a bunch of single figure scores were then entered on the score card. Arthur Scott made 12no as further wickets fell to see Trinity dismissed for a disappointing 69.
In what wasn’t a good looking season from the position in the table, things were looking positive with the confidence to bat first on several occasions and a few narrow losses along the way.
Div 12 West (NW) Table: https://horshamtrinity.play-cricket.com/website/division/135655
The 3rd XI final game was two weeks ago, but below is their league table.
Div 12 West (N) Table: https://horshamtrinity.play-cricket.com/website/division/135656
Sunday 6th September
The Sunday Development XI had a friendly game against Kirdford 1st XI.
The home side won the toss and elected to bat first and were quickly two wickets down, but the innings was rebuilt with a couple of thirties and then two batters retiring after reaching their 50s. There were two wickets each for Jake Lovett and Xander Lawson as the innings closed after 35 overs with 236-6 on the board.
In the reply, Lewis Fiddaman opened the batting and retired in the 21st over after reaching 50 having had a good stand of 89 with Christian Cole who went on to make 48. Ollie Nottage contributed 21 runs to nearly cover the runs from his one expensive over. With several cheap wickets then falling, Lewis returned to bat again in the 33rd over but only made another five runs before Xander was bowled for 14 to see Trinity all out for 169.
Full match details are on our Play-Cricket website https://horshamtrinity.play-cricket.com/
