North Elmham (24 pts) beat Old Catton "B" (2 pts) by 10 wkts in Norfolk league Division 7.

Highlights: North Elmham - Grant King 70 not out & 4 - 17. Stephan Malherbe 40 not out.

North Elmham returned to winning ways after traveling to Sprowston Rec on Saturday to take on Old Catton "B". Loosing the toss, Elmham were made to field on a hot afternoon.

Old Catton made extremely slow progress against the Elmham new ball bowlers Iain Sinclair and Ant Keeble, so much so that at the 15 over drinks break the total was 26 without loss. Grant King and Andy Kay took up the attack post drinks and both struck twice as Old Catton soon became 36 for 4 wickets.
Further pedestrian progress was made as the score crawled along.
Christo "Honda" Slabbert replaced King and soon got the ball to swing taking two wickets in his seven over spell.

With 10 overs to go Old Catton were 89 for 6 wickets. King who had earlier forced Hooper to retire hurt was immediately reintroduced when he returned to the crease at the fall of the Billings wicket who was bowled by the returning Sinclair.

King and Sinclair wrapped up the innings as Old Catton were all out for 116  with King taking 4 for 17 from his 7 overs. Number eight, J. Billings was the highest home scorer with 18. 16 year old, Josh Hall took an excellent catch at mid wicket to assist King in taking the wicket of T. Burke.

After tea Elmham set about the Old Catton innings with gusto, King being very severe on the bad ball as he raced to fifty from 38 balls faced.

Stephan Malherbe struggled to find his usual fluent timing but eventually came to grips with the council prepared pitch and the pair knew that the target was to get to 116 then score a boundary to collect an extra batting point. This was achieved in the 17th over with King undefeated on 70, Malherbe on 40.

The next two weekends see North Elmham play back to back games against league leaders Blundeston, the first game being at Elmham next Saturday,
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Old Catton B

I. Sinclair  11.4  -  1  -  24  -  2,  
A. Keeble          7  -  4  -  7  - 0,  
G. King           7  -  3  -  17  -  4,  
A. Kay           10  -  1  -  29  -  2,
C. Slabbert    7  -  2  -  23  -  2, 1

J. Billings     4  -  0  -  20  -  0,  
T. Nash        4  -  0  -  22  -  0,  
D. Spinks     3  -  0  -  30  -  0,  
W. Fossey    3  -  0  -  16  -  0,
A. Hooper  1.5  -  0  -  16  -  0,  
T. Betts          1  -  0  -  10  -  0.