07/07/2026
Weekend roundup.
Our 1st XI played two T20s, winning one and securing a spot for finals day.
RGA Walkovers Cricket Club were the first opponents who, having won the toss elected to bat.
The bowling unit did well to pick up early wickets and continued to chip away at the visitors before the middle-order took them to a total of 147/5 from their 20 overs.
The reply just didn't get going as wickets fell, with the only real resistance came from Scott Van Breda (33 off 25) and Adam Bradbury (20* off 22) as we came up short to lose by 47 runs.
In the afternoon we took on OVs who also won the toss and elected to bat.
Scott took the early wicket of Brennan, caught by Chuggy whilst at the other end Ed Giles (36 off 11) was on a charge, but when he fell wickets kept coming and were shared out amongst the attack.
The chase went to plan after the early loss of Chuggy as both Choppers (32) and Smithy (27) kept things moving ahead of the required rate. George Richardson (21*), in at 6 then took up the baton and saw us home with 2 1/2 overs to spare.
Also playing on Saturday were our 3rd team who travelled to LQ2 to take on Chirpy's Cricket Club.
Having won the toss we elected to bat on the mat, and the top order all put in a shift with Bucco (42), Josh (51), Oliver French (19) and Jimmy Vallois (53* retd) keeping the scoreboard ticking along well to reach a total of 222/7.
Chirpys were very slow to get going in the face of tight bowling by the opening duo of Finn and Robbie and were always behind the required rate.
The pick of the bowlers was Josh with a 4fer when he swapped out of his pads and gloves midway through the innings, and we closed out the game to win by 56 runs.
On Sunday the 2s hosted OVs, and having been put into bat posted 128/7 from their 20 overs.
In reply, OVs got off to a flyer with both openers striking the ball cleanly to put on 87 for the first wicket.
Faudie rotated the attack using 7 bowlers, but only saw one more wicket fall as the visitors chased down the target with just under 6 overs to spare.
In other cricketing news, we were well represented as Jersey HERA took on their Guernsey counterparts in an u15 inter-insular, with no fewer than 10 girls out of the squad of 13 coming from Farmers.
Jersey batted and bowled well to secure two comfortable victories, and this bodes well for the future.
Jersey Cricket