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Third XI - 2005 Season

Kibworth CC 3rd XI Season Report

Kibworth’s young side sat in third or fourth position for the majority of the season following a slow start. The team regularly containing eight or nine, and on one occasion ten under 20’s backed up by some senior players. Of these Malcolm King with 419 runs was a backbone for the batting whilst Kevin Riley with 289 runs and 18 wickets proved to be the player of the first half of the season before his elevation the 2^nd XI. Riley’s performances included 112* against Middleton Cheney and 8-34 against Irchester with a hat-trick as part of four wickets in five balls, the other ball being a dropped chance by his captain.

There were two debut centuries by younger players, eighteen year old Tim Ellwood scored 103* not out against Middleton Cheney as part of a partnership of 231 with Riley and 21 year old Dipesh Patel made also made 103* in the final game against Medbourne. His partnership of 208 with his eighteen year old cousin Kapil Patel who made 96* set up the crucial last day win that saw the side promoted in third place. The two also put on a century stand against Irchester and contributed useful wickets as part of a spin attack that bemused many an opposition line up. Kapil and fourteen year old fellow legspinner Umar Afzal finished equal third highest wicket takers with 13 victims each. Two young allrounders also contributed massively, seventeen year old Scott Clayton finished second in the wickets column with 15 and scored 210 hard hit runs whilst fifteen year old Rishi Patel proved a fine ‘death’ bowler particularly in the closest of the sides 9 victories a fifteen run win away at Bold Dragoon.