KS2 Cricket Tournament
Our school cricket team had the pleasure to compete in the Basingstoke Schools Dynamo Cricket Tournament at May’s Bounty Cricket Ground. As you can see on the faces of the children in the photograph, it was a very enjoyable and successful day.
Our first Match was against St Bede’s which was a close result with Cliddesden winning by 10 runs. We then convincingly beat St John’s B and our final group game was against Longparish. This was an extremely close game but we managed to narrowly win by 6 runs and top our group undefeated.
In the afternoon we played in the semi-final against St John’s A. They were a strong team and despite some good batting from Cliddesden they beat us fair and square. This meant we then had to play for 3rd place. This match was again against Longparish and meant a lot, as the winner would receive the highest placed Small School Trophy.
We batted first and some good hits from Rylan and Aiden gave us a final batting score of 53 runs, but Longparish took 3 wickets so they only had to get 38 runs to win. It didn’t look promising.
Longparish’s batters started strong with 20 runs achieved in the first 4 overs. However, some excellent fielding and bowling stopped them in their stride and the game finished with a narrow win for Cliddesden by 6 runs again.
The children were delighted not only to receive Bronze medals for 3rd place but also to lift the Small Schools trophy.
They all did a dance to celebrate their achievement.
Well done to our Cliddesden cricket stars:
Rylan, Luke, Chloe, Aiden, Hayden, Bailey, Will and Jack L.
