Geddington 2nd Team were defeated by 35 runs against Overstone Park 2nd Team, in the Northants Cricket League Division 3 match at Geddington Cricket Club on Saturday.
David Pollard (94 off 76 balls) top-scored with the bat, in an innings which included 12 fours and 4 sixes for Overstone Park in their 218 All Out in 38.1 overs, Fraser Halcrow (34 off 28 balls), Benjamin Sales (27) and Ashil Patel (24) were also in the runs for the visitors, Pollard and Sales both put on 60 for the 6th wicket partnership, which was the highest partnership of the innings. Sam Smith (7.1-0-37-3) was the pick of the Geddington bowlers with three wickets, Cole McWilliam (2-34) and Lee Smith (2-38) also took two wickets, there was also a wicket each for Colin Judd (1-24) and Tiaan Raubenheimer (1-56) for the home side.
In reply, Raubenheimer (78) top-scored with a half-century for Geddington in their 183-9 off their 40 overs, Chris Harrison (35) was the other main run-scorer in the innings for the home side. Tom Cooke (8-0-32-3) took three wickets with the ball for Overstone Park, there was also two wickets each for Sales (7-3-10-2) and Justin Murphy (2-65), and one each for Daniel Thacker (1-26) and Sunil Bhatt (1-30) for the visitors.