Sport Like syrup and the batting stuck
Ashley Hulme stuck it for 30 overs for 45, and took four wickets.
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Easingwold 129-6
Goole Town 1st XI 127
Goole slumped to a tortuous defeat at the hands of Easingwold, despite battling back bravely with the ball after a sub-standard batting performance.
Easingwold won the toss on their home ground and had no hesitation in asking Goole to bat first on a pitch that had seen more than its fair share of rain in the previous seven days.
An outfield so damp and slow - playing on syrup would have been better - combined with a tired pitch, forced the usually fluent Anthony Gibbins into his shell.
He survived one close call when a regulation slip catch was spilled, but was caught in the gully for 10 off Skilbeck.
Kev Murphy (0) and Neil Foster (1) both followed quickly, falling to Skilbeck and Steve Piercy respectively, before Dan Murphy joined Aussie opener Ashley Hulme at the crease with the score on 35-3.
They batted Goole back into the game, seeing off the steepling bounce of Skilbeck and pushing the hosts onto the back foot for the first time in the match as they took the score to 104-3.
But just as they had set their sights on a total in excess of 200, Hollinaike dragged Murphy (34) out of his crease, keeper Tom Piercy doing the rest.
Murphy's dismissal sparked a spectacular collapse, and having clawed their way back in to the match, Goole suddenly found themselves clinging on for dear life as they lost Hulme (45), John Burton (0), Eddie Oliver (0) and Lee Hayward (1) for just two runs, all to the off-spin of Stuart Piercy.
It was left to Richard Mann and James Kerr to give the score a semblance of respectability, the latter striking Piercy for a six-over mid-on on his way to an entertaining 13, before he also fell to the spinner.
It was Piercy, fittingly, who ended the Goole innings, bowling Ben Lamb to finish with 7-38. The final wicket fell in the 43rd over, gifting the hosts an extra seven overs.
As Easingwold set about chasing down a modest total, Goole knew they had to bowl well and take early wickets to stand any chance of turning the game round again.
Richard Mann did just that, Hulme clinging onto a sharp catch at slip to get rid of Martin Piercy.
Hulme removed Steve Piercy with the first ball of his spell, Ben Lamb saw off Skilbeck and Hulme disposed of Copeland, and at 78-4 Goole prepared to move in for the kill.
If - in circling their prey - Goole resembled a grisly bear, Easingwold did exactly as you should in such a situation - they stood almost stock still.
The fifth-wicket partnership between Marwood and Hollinaike was, to put it mildly, one for the purists.
In the next 19 overs they combined to contribute just 18 runs to the total, although the efforts of Hulme and Mann - who consistently beat the bat - should not be underestimated.
When the partnership was finally broken, one wicket bought two, Redshaw following Hollinaike back to the pavilion, and Goole were back in the game at 96-6.
Tom Piercy joined Marwood with 32 still needed, and it is an indication of Marwood's sudden intent that Piercy managed to score only 22 of the remaining runs. Marwood finished unbeaten on 44 to see Easingwold to a four wicket win in the 52nd over.
Goole learned the hard way - in every sense - that you can't afford to hand valuable batting overs away in this league. Despite some excellent bowling from Hulme (4-42), and a mammoth 19 overs from Mann, who deserved far more than his 1-49, it was Goole's batting that cost them in this match.
And therein lies the problem. While Goole hover in mid-table obscurity - which no doubt they would have taken at the beginning of the season - they need to work on producing consistently in both facets of the game because, as they have discovered this season, you don't win many games in this league by performing well in one innings.
Published on 21st August 2008 in Sport.
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