Chingford Cricket Club News story


Essex League Week 16 Round Up

29 Aug 2006

1st team
Chingford look set the win the promotion race from division one after defeating bottom club Fives and Heronians by thirty two runs. There are five clubs who will feel they have a chance of claiming the second promotion place if the final results go their way. At the moment they are led by Chelmsford who beat Upminster by two wickets at Chelmer Park closely followed by Colchester who lost to Hutton by twenty six runs. Fives look likely for the drop into division two following their defeat by Chingford with one from Hornchurch, Woodford Wells and Westcliff to join them. Chingford 279-5 Fives and Heronians 247-10. N Odedra 81 S MacMurray 60 M O'Sullivan 63, McGregor 6-88. Chingford are 25 points ahead of 2nd and 28 pts ahead of 3rd. With 2 games left, 16 points will give us the title and 12 points will guarantee promotion.
2nd team
Chingford 77-10 Brentwood 80-7, R Offord 6-45. This defeat ends our outside chance of promotion as we drop from 4th to 7th. We are still 22 pts above the drop zone.
3rd team
Fives and Heronians 203-9 Chingford 115-9. Just 4 pts were collected from this draw, however, our promotion chances are still alive as Harold Wood lost and picked up 5 pts. They now lead us by 11 pts. West Essex are now level on points with us.
4th team
Fives and Heronians 173-10 Chingford 117-9. P Hart 6-32 M Campbell 50. Despite only getting 4 pts from this draw, the 4ths are comfortably placed 4th in the division with no chance of promotion and virtually no chance of relegation.