Newton Aycliffe Cricket Club’s first team sponsored by Lift Right Fork Lift Training played two league games in division 3 of the the NYSD over the holiday weekend and earned an excellent victory away at Wolviston on the Saturday and then on the Bank Holiday Monday they were defeated by Preston at home.
At Wolviston the homeside were asked to bat first on a difficult wicket and were dismissed for just 78 after 29 overs thanks to excellent bowling from Aycliffe’s Sean Morgan, who took 4 for 28 and Luke Telford with 3 for 22.
In reply Aycliffe also struggled thoughout their innings and were thankful for good contributions from Michael Howe (17 runs), Sam Telford (14 runs) and Joe Haines (9 runs). The last wicket pair of Tony Travis and Tom Wickins held their nerve in a tense finish to see Aycliffe to an exciting one wicket win in the 44th over.
On Monday, the first team were heavily defeated at home to Preston by 148 runs after being bowled out for just 58 runs when chasing a challenging 207 for victory. There were however, good performances with the ball from Aycliffe’s spin twins, Sam Telford (4 for 39) and his cousin Luke Telford (3 for 50) and captain Chris Palmer top scored in Aycliffe’s feeble reply with 19.
The club’s u13’s team lost away at Darlington RA despite good performances from Daniel Bowmer and Adam Lamb, who both scored 15 runs for Aycliffe and the u15’s lost by 8 wickets away at Crook in the semi-final of the league cup.
