Ingatestone CricketClub

Ingatestone CricketClub Ingatestone & Fryerning Cricket Club is a family-friendly club in the heart of the village. New players always welcome We are a small but very active club.

Mid-Essex Cricket League Premier Division, Div 7 & 12 club, Sundays, Midweek, U7-U15, year round youth training, All Stars and Dynamos. We have 2 Saturday teams in the Mid Essex League, a Sunday team, a midweek team, a winter Sunday indoor team and a youth training squad for Girls and Boys. Please contact [email protected] for more details

All 4 games today were total washouts (3x league & 1x friendly team). Fortunately for us, the majority of Essex was also...
29/08/2026

All 4 games today were total washouts (3x league & 1x friendly team). Fortunately for us, the majority of Essex was also washed out… this means, we have smashed our goals for the season.

1st XI remain in the Premier Division
2nd XI promoted
3rd XI promoted

UP THE INGY 🏏

What a season, what a club

One last push! 1st team host Basildon & Pitsea today with a mindful eye on results (and weather forecasts) elsewhere, pa...
29/08/2026

One last push! 1st team host Basildon & Pitsea today with a mindful eye on results (and weather forecasts) elsewhere, particularly South Loughton and Little Baddow (vs Tillingham). The aim is to stay up.

The 2nd team head up to Terling, knowing a win sees them promoted from Division 7. However we will be keeping a keen eye on events at Eastwood and Great Baddow, with Brookweald and Boreham Royals still in the promotion hunt.

The 3rd team go into the final week already promoted. They host Rayleigh at the Windmill. Go well everyone! Whatever the outcome, it’s been a season to remember 🏏

Another year and another youth end of season party (despite the rain!). With more teams than ever this year, it was fant...
29/08/2026

Another year and another youth end of season party (despite the rain!). With more teams than ever this year, it was fantastic to see so many people there. Well done to all our young players from U7-U15, boys and girls! Congratulations to all of our awards winners.

Big thank you Leah, Nikki and James for running the bar and Jim for the BBQ! We go again tonight for adult players end of season.

Promotion Sealed in Style as Wharram Hits Ton at CanveyIngatestone & Fryerning 3rd XI sealed promotion from Division 12 ...
22/08/2026

Promotion Sealed in Style as Wharram Hits Ton at Canvey

Ingatestone & Fryerning 3rd XI sealed promotion from Division 12 with a convincing eight-wicket victory over Rayleigh Fairview at Canvey Island.

Canvey is rapidly beginning to feel like a second home for the 3s, with this being our third visit there this season. Previous trips had brought victory over South Woodham & Burnham 4s and the now-infamous win over Benfleet with only nine men. This one, however, looked potentially the toughest assignment yet, against a Fairview side who had already beaten IFCC earlier in the season.

Fairview won the toss and chose to bat, making a promising start before IFCC gradually took control. G Webster anchored the innings with 67 from 80 balls, but wickets began to fall regularly around him.

R Vyas was superb, returning 2-23 from eight overs, while W Mills picked up 3-29. D Higgins also claimed three wickets for 21 from 4.3 overs, including the key dismissal of Webster, as Fairview were bowled out for 169 in 36.3 overs.

With promotion within touching distance, IFCC set about the chase in emphatic fashion.

W Mills made 18 before falling at 33-1, bringing I Steel to the crease alongside D Wharram. The pair proceeded to take the game away from Fairview with a superb 128-run partnership.

Steel struck a fluent 37 from 34 balls, including seven boundaries, but the day belonged to Wharram.

With the winning line approaching, he completed a magnificent unbeaten century from just 87 balls, crashing 20 fours in a match-winning innings. Steel eventually departed with only nine required, before A Nawaz joined Wharram to see IFCC home at 173-2 from just 25.2 overs.

An eight-wicket victory, another memorable afternoon on Canvey Island and, most importantly, promotion secured.

After a season featuring nine-man victories, tight finishes, big run chases and plenty of drama, the 3rd XI have achieved what they set out to do.

Division 11 awaits! 🏏🍾

PS no one took any pictures of today, so here is a Google image of the ground. Now imagine it with no grass, looking like a desert and all locked up… (as successful as we’ve been there, good riddance!)

ONE MORE PUSH FOR THE SUMMITAfter months trekking through the foothills, negotiating crevasses and occasionally wonderin...
22/08/2026

ONE MORE PUSH FOR THE SUMMIT

After months trekking through the foothills, negotiating crevasses and occasionally wondering whether anyone actually packed the map, Ingatestone 2’s arrived at the penultimate base camp of the league season with one objective: keep climbing.
Ingatestone won the toss and elected to field, sending Bentley off to make the first ascent while we waited below with ropes, ice axes and the sort of expedition planning normally associated with a 2nd XI WhatsApp group.
At 104-1, Bentley appeared to have discovered the scenic route to the summit. Then we removed the mountain.
Darren Smith and Adam Smith decided sharing a surname wasn’t enough and shared six wickets, taking 3 apiece. Darren 3-30 and Adam 3-28, while Mark Stratton joined the avalanche with 4-32.
The collapse was assisted by some enthusiastic mountaineering in the field. David Lee and Freddy Panton produced diving exploits worthy of men hurling themselves across a crevasse to save the expedition’s last packet of biscuits. They were throwing themselves around like two Sherpas who’d spotted the bar was about to close.
From 104-1, Bentley were eventually bundled out for 171, their expedition having taken a dramatic wrong turn.
Our chase then began in textbook expedition fashion: 2-2. Two climbers gone before we’d properly left Base Camp, and the route looked considerably steeper.
Enter Conor Brailey.
Conor planted his ice axe and compiled an excellent 56, while D Brown cracked 47 from 42, including three sixes, to haul the expedition back above the snow line.
At 125-5 there was still a final ridge to negotiate, but James Brailey (16*)and James Bates (34*) roped themselves together and calmly marched us to 175-5.
Victory by five wickets. 24 points safely in the rucksack.
And those points matter.
After 17 games, Ingatestone sit 2nd on 330 points, just 18 behind leaders East Hanningfield, with Brookweald only three points behind us. The view from up here is getting interesting.
Base Camp is behind us. The ropes are packed. Oxygen checked. The summit is in sight.
One league game remains.
Next Saturday comes the final ascent — one last push, and there is still everything to climb for.

Week 17. All to play for! Big games for all 3 sides. 1s travel to Springfield, 2s host Bentley and 3s play Rayleigh Fair...
22/08/2026

Week 17. All to play for! Big games for all 3 sides. 1s travel to Springfield, 2s host Bentley and 3s play Rayleigh Fairview. Let’s go! 🏏

INGATESTONE, WE HAVE LIFTOFF“Houston, we have a problem.”Well, Ingatestone actually. And the problem was simple: three g...
16/08/2026

INGATESTONE, WE HAVE LIFTOFF
“Houston, we have a problem.”
Well, Ingatestone actually. And the problem was simple: three games remaining and we needed three wins. Failure was not an option.
First stop on Apollo 2nd XI’s journey home: South Woodham & Burnham.
Brown won the toss and elected to bat, presumably after consulting Mission Control.
Freddy Panton departed early, but Dan Holloway, whose bat has occasionally resembled malfunctioning NASA equipment this season, suddenly announced that all systems were operational.
Holloway and Conor Brailey (55) added 103 before Brown chipped in with 30. Dan eventually departed for a superb 88 from 86 balls, with 14 fours and three sixes. Form rediscovered at precisely the right moment.
At 201–4, Jason Bates decided rockets were unnecessary and launched an unbeaten 78, including five sixes. Mark Stratton added 28* as an unbroken 110 partnership propelled us to 311–4.
South Woodham needed 312. Or, in Apollo terminology, a substantial mid-course correction.
Their chase never escaped Earth’s gravitational pull. Joe Grant struck first, Adam Smith removed two and wickets kept falling.
Then came a technical malfunction.
Holloway, keeping wicket, bruised his finger and had to surrender the gloves. Brown took over and, because captaining, batting and bowling apparently weren’t enough jobs, promptly became emergency-module Adam Gilchrist.
He finished with two catches and a stumping. Apollo 13 had engineers improvising a carbon-dioxide filter; we had Brown, some gloves and no warm-up.
“Mission Control, will this work?”
“Apparently, yes.”
Mark Stratton guided us through re-entry with 3–15, Adam and Darren Smith took two wickets each, and South Woodham were dismissed for 172.
Won by 139 runs. 26 points.
One stage complete – but we’re not safely home yet.
We sit second on 306 points, with Brookweald just four behind, and the equation remains simple.
Two games. Two wins needed.
Next: Bentley. Then the final descent: Terling.
The heat shield is holding. Holloway has found form. Brown has discovered emergency wicketkeeping.
Two matches between us and splashdown.
Failure is not an option.

Just the 2 league matches today. Big games for the 1s and 2s at South Loughton and hosting SW&B. 3s host St John’s in a ...
15/08/2026

Just the 2 league matches today. Big games for the 1s and 2s at South Loughton and hosting SW&B. 3s host St John’s in a friendly at the windmill. 4s match was unfortunately cancelled during the week. Go well all! 🏏

1st XI Report - Saturday 9th AugustLittle Baddow 253 all out (Shafi 46 - P Bonnington 4/39, H Bonnington 3/31)Ingateston...
09/08/2026

1st XI Report - Saturday 9th August

Little Baddow 253 all out (Shafi 46 - P Bonnington 4/39, H Bonnington 3/31)
Ingatestone and Fryerning 254 for 3 (Grobler 89*, Roy 77*)

Little Baddow were delighted to win the toss on a baking day at The Rec, and rightly so. There was a little in the pitch, but no real pace and an outfield of scorched earth where the ball seemed to gain speed across the turf.

Enter "Bonningtons - The Cream of Ingatestone". Young Hayden opened the bowling and showed his fellow opener, veteran skipper Roy, how it's done with by dismissing Baddow's 1 and 2 cheaply.

On a day showcasing 5 of the top 7 run scorers in the T Rippon Premier League this season, the game moved to a crucial point. Shafi scored 46, then the classy pairing of Haris Mahmood and Waqas Mahmood both came in and showed just why they ranked so highly. Crucially, neither went beyond 40, both succumbing to the left arm spin of Grobler in what was an intriguing contest.

The game ebbed and flowed, as did the overall quality of batsmanship on show, with P Bonnington, a stalwart of the club through the 90s and 00s, mopping up a lengthy tail to claim 4/39 with his wily drifters.

253 is always a good score, and takes composure and positivity to overcome, but more overs of either Mahmood could have taken the chase well beyond 300.

H Bonnington and Corbyn started the chase well, moving to 55 off just 5 overs, before Corbyn was adjudged LBW. The scoreboard slowed down, and Ingy were 81-3 before Roy and Grobler found each other.

Grobler had recently moved to the upper/middle order, and the shoe certainly fit yesterday. He plundered the slower bowling without undue risk, rotating the strike excellently with the evergreen but increasingly silver Roy and ended the day 89*, finishing a chase with 10 overs to spare.

Roy showed his usual poise and hunger, matched with some classy cuts and drives through the off side. Relief was only given by the regular need to find balls stuck in hedgerows or rolling down the concrete path towards the church.

It was a vital win for the 1s.

THE BATTLE OF BOREHAM – 8 AUGUST 2026Ingatestone 2s travelled to Boreham for what was advertised as a Division Seven cri...
09/08/2026

THE BATTLE OF BOREHAM – 8 AUGUST 2026
Ingatestone 2s travelled to Boreham for what was advertised as a Division Seven cricket match, but rapidly became the Battle of the Somme with pads on.
Boreham, 2nd to our 3rd, won the toss and batted. Their advance barely made it out of the trench before Vyas opened the artillery, removing both openers for ducks. 0 runs between them from 17 balls – less an opening partnership, more an organised retreat.
Then Field Marshal Stratton was deployed.
His orders: take no prisoners.
He duly demolished the Boreham ranks with 6-51, Smith adding 2-27, as the hosts were dug out for 159 in 30.5 overs.
Meanwhile Rahman patrolled deep mid-wicket like an anti-aircraft battery, taking two superb catches.
Boreham also unveiled an unusual tactic: shrieking after virtually EVERY delivery, including while THEY were batting. Dot ball? Shrieking. Single? Shrieking. Boundary? Shrieking. Someone adjusted a thigh pad? Presumably shrieking. It sounded like a mass group of foxes on heat in mid-summer.
It was less village cricket, more an artillery barrage conducted entirely by human vocal cords.
Then came our chase. The shrieking, naturally, continued.
Wickets fell: 0-1, 16-2, 57-3, 78-4. Brown launched a counter-offensive with 30 from 30, but by 98-7, headquarters were checking the pub's opening hours.
Stratton, apparently deciding six wickets wasn't enough for one afternoon, dug in for a vital 44 from 68.
Eventually: 146-9. Fourteen required. One wicket remaining.
Enter Rahman and Vyas.
Singles were stolen. Deliveries survived. The shrieking reached frequencies detectable by dogs in neighbouring counties.
Finally: scores level. One ball remaining.
Rahman took guard. Boreham prepared one final vocal bombardment. The bowler charged in...
CRACK. FOUR.
163-9. INGATESTONE WIN BY ONE WICKET.
Rahman had taken two screamers before casually winning the battle with a four off the final ball.
Victory against the side above us, moving Ingatestone from 3rd to 2nd after the weekend's fixtures.
Vyas: two early strikes. Stratton: 6-51 and 44. Rahman: two catches and the last-ball winner.
The guns fell silent. For the first time all afternoon, so did Boreham.

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