Pain of rain wrecks victory chances

1:39pm Monday 18th August 2008

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Ashton on Mersey 210-6 Cholmondley 94-4

Match abandoned

ASHTON on Mersey’s first and second XIs both looked on course for victories last Saturday before rain washed out play for the day.

Their first XI knocked up their highest score of the season at home to bottom placed Cholmondley, the former County League side as recently as 2002 now looking certainties for relegation to Division Two.

There was little early sign of the total to follow as only six runs came off the first nine overs and a wicket then followed.

But stand-in skipper Anthony Roscow led a revival. After MacGibbon fell for 14, Brad Giles came together with the captain, the pair adding 70 for the wicket.

After Giles was out for 36, Chris Roscow piled on the agony for Cholmondley. He hit 40 not out in 45 balls while Anthony accumulated 75 before being adjudged LBW.

An injection of 18 from Ben MacDonald saw Ashton to 210-6 at the close.

The Cholmondley reply was something of a one-man show, Hockenhull smashing 70 not out of their team total of 94-4.

The game continued through some steady rain but it got heavier and heavier and with 16 overs left the umpires called a halt to proceedings.

Ashton earn 12 points from the match to cement their midtable position.

Meanwhile, the second XI knocked over Cholmondley for 127, Aidan Miners bagging 5-32 and Dave Webster 3-20. However, the rain arrived at tea and play never resumed.