3rd Team Match reports

Papp 3rd team continued their winning streak over the bank holiday weekend with two contrasting, but comfortable wins.



Papplewick & Linby 3rd XI 121 all out Misterton 1st XI 76 all out



On Saturday, a long trip to Misterton saw Papp put into bat, and dismissed for 121 with good contributions from Oliver Terry (28), Simon Bacon (24), Adam and Kev Rostance (14 and 12), before a crucial last wicket stand between Andy Bowers (18 no) and Tim ‘Simmo’ Simpson (4) of 18 gave the score some respectability.

In reply, Misterton never challenged and were soon 29-5 with wickets for Neil South (4-5) and Oliver Terry (4-30), backed up by some fine slip catching from Ollie Terry. After a 6th wicket stand of 38, the last 5 wickets fell for 9 runs, with Simmo taking 2 wickets in his only over!



Papplewick & Linby 3rd XI 199-8, Woodsetts Community CC 2nd XI 127 all out



On a cold and windy bank holiday Monday at Papplewick Hall, a fine innings from Tom Bowers of 70 led the 3rds to a competitive total of 199-8, ably supported by Adam Boucher (29) and Curtis Mitchell (36), with late contributions from Adam Bettridge (16), Simon Bacon (15) and James Harvey (12 not out).

An opening stand for Woodsetts of 80 between Manifield (39) and Mosley (30) threatened the unbeaten run of 5 games before bank holiday specialist Simmo (4-32 off 12 overs) and Martin Mitchell (3-46) turned the screws. The end came quickly with ten wickets falling for 47 runs, Neil South clearing up the tail with 3-23.

This Weekends Games

Here is your weekly update on what is going on and around at the home of cricket!


This Weekends Games


Come and show your support for the players with the games this weekend!

Saturday 31st May

1st XI are at home (Papplewick ground) to Mansfield Hosiery Mills, having lost against Welbeck on Bank Holiday Monday the team are desperate to return to winning ways and move up the table! Pam's fruit pies went down a treat last weekend. Thank you Pam, wonder what will be on the tea table this weekend!?!?


2nd XI are away to Mansfield Hosiery’s 2nd XI. Well done to Rohan for his 5 wicket haul last weekend against R&M, but even after their win last weekend the 2nd XI remain in 5th place, can a win this weekend move them up the table?


3rd XI are at home (Burntstump Ground) to Blyth, the 3rd XI are still top of Division 6 currently after a fairly convincing win over Woodsetts Community CC last weekend, Well done to Tom Bowers for his 70 runs.


Sunday 1st June

There is no Sunday League fixture this weekend but is replaced by a Cockspur Cup game. Pap will play Kimberley at home in the 3rd Round of this knockout competition a win here would see us travelling to the winners of the game between Elsecar (South Yorkshire League) and Easingwold (Hunters York League). COME ON PAP!!!!!

This Weekends Games

Come and show your support for the players with the games this weekend!

Saturday 24th May
1st XI are at home (Papplewick ground) to newly promoted Plumtree. Pam's on tea duty this week and so bound to be some lovely fruit pies to wash down with a cup of tea at tea time! Lets hope the light showers that are forecast don't spoil the day!

2nd XI are away to Ransome and Marles. The 2nd team have won 2 and lost 2 so far this season, and are currently 5th in the table, with R&Ms in 9th, lets hope the 2nd XI come home happy saturday night with 20 points in the bag!

3rd XI are away to Misterton, the 3rd XI are top of Division 6 currently, so fingers crossed they are on the winning side to pull further ahead! what with Dane getting his first fivefer last week and Simmo getting one last Bank Holiday Monday who will be next on the Honours Board!

Sunday 25th May
The Sunday League game is the away fixture to PCCC, however unsurprisingly PCCC want to play the game at the home of cricket! game starts at 14:00 at Papplewick ground.


Monday 26th May
For those not doing the normal bank holiday thing of trying to get to the coast, there are 2 games to choose from on Bank Holiday Monday.

The 1st XI are away to Welbeck while the 3rd XI are at home (Papplewick Gound) to Woodsetts Community CC (who are they???? exactly!!!!)

3rd XI Match Report Vs East Drayton 17th May 2008

Papplewick & Linby III 154-2 East Drayton 152-9,



Another convincing win on a wet day at Burntstump Park, took the 3rds to the top of Bassetlaw Division 6.

After winning the toss, Papp’s opening attack of Dane Straw and Neil South soon reduced East Drayton to 31-4, who then recovered through their captain P Lambert 69no (12 fours and 1 six) assisted by J Duncan 19, J Lambert 10 and R Fowler 12. The wicket-takers were Dane Straw with 5-26, his first 5 wicket haul for the club, Neil South 3-37 and Andy Bowers 1-37.

In reply, Papplewick never looked troubled, and after losing veteran Kev Rostance early for 11, 15 year old Tom Bowers (58no, 7 fours) and 14 year old Adam Rostance (31, 6 fours) took the score to 62 before Rostance Jnr was bowled by Duncan. This brought in Simon Bacon who brought proceedings to a brisk end with 39 not out (7 fours), winning the game with 6 overs to spare.

2nd XI Match report Vs Blidworth 1st XI 17th May 2008

Papplewick & Linby 2ndXI 141-6 Blidworth MW 1stXI 142-7

Papp 2nd team lost a close match against blidworth welfare on saturday 17th may in a rain affected match reduced to 36 overs per side. put into bat by blidworth, papp 2nds scored 141 for 6 with only graeme roberts (59) and tim clarke (35) coming to terms with the damp conditions. blidworths reply had a flying start with opening bat dave willcock making a very quick 40 and their bangladeshi overseas kabir making 33. papp 2nds own new indian sensation rohan shah continued his good form with the ball taking the first 5 wickets to fall at a cost of 52 runs giving papp 2nds a glimmer of hope but despite 2 wickets in 2 balls from john (dibner) thrower late on, the locals couldnt close out the game and the winning boundary was struck off the 3rd ball of the last over.

This Weekends Games!!

Come and show your support for the players with the games this weekend!

Saturday 17th May
1st XI are away to Killamarsh, this side have lost all of their first three games lets hope the 1st Xi make it their fourth on the trot!!! Directions to Killamarsh can be found on their play cricket website.

2nd XI are at home (Papplewick Ground) to Blidworth.

3rd XI are at home (Burntstump Ground) to East Drayton

Sunday 18th May
Busy weekend for the Club with both a Sunday League game and a Cockspur Cup game.

Sunday XI are away to Caythorpe while the 1st XI are away to Wollaton in the 2nd round of the Cockspur.

Papplewick & Linby III 224-7, Todwick CC 201-9



On a scorching day at Burntstump Park, after losing the toss, an all-round batting display led to a competitive total. Led by an opening stand of 48 by Adam Boucher (69) and Tom Bowers (17), most of the middle order contributed with James Harvey (27), Adam Betteridge (28), Simon Bacon (23), Dane Straw (20 not out) and Kev Rostance (16 not out).



Todwick made a steady start in reply, with tight bowling by Dane Straw and Neil South restricted them to 19-2. However, a fightback by their hard-hitting middle order left them 172-4 needing only 53 more to win in 11 overs. The return of the Papp opening attack however turned the game along with two runouts including that of dangerman Pete Cooper when James Harvey took out one stump with a direct throw from midwicket.



Fine death bowling from youngster Dane Straw, who maintained a straight full length to finish with 1-24 from 9 overs, along with 5-27 from Neil South almost gave Papp maximum points, only prevented by the Todwick number 11 surviving the last 2 balls.



All in all, a good result for the new-look third team.

1st XI Match report vs West indian Cavaliers

WI Cavaliers 88 AO Papplewick & Linby 89-3

They say you can’t keep a good man down. Well after winning the toss on Saturday and asking the Cavs to bat, Phil Defretias showed just what a class act he is. Coming on to bowl first change he destroyed the Cavs batting with a display of swing and seam bowling the likes of which have probably never been witnessed at Papplewick before. Daffy picked up 7 for 23 in 8.1 overs to reduce the Cavs to 88 all out in just 27.1 overs. Yet he was first to admit that everyone played their part and he was quick to heap praise on the rest of the bowling attack.

Opening bowlers Luke Fletcher 7overs for 18 and Brad Matthews 1 for 13 reduced the Cavs to 10 for 2, Matthews having Skipper Steve Atkinson caught behind for 1 and Fletcher showing he can throw that large frame around in the field when hen needs to, producing a diving stop, pick up and throw to run out Hussain for 0.

Jim Rhodes 1 for 29 then got in on the act by dismissing the hard hitting Andy Haye (17) to leave the Cavs 55 for 3. Enter Defretias and the rest is history, John Wakeling picking up 3 catches and a stumping to put the icing on the cake.

Papplewicks’ reply was rocked when opener Tony Betteridge was out LBW to Ricky Anderson for 3. But from that moment on Papp never looked in any danger. Luke Fletcher was next to go for 18, after doing all the hard work he tried to slog-sweep Iftikar and was bowled. This brought Kosela Kulasekara (15) to the wicket, who continued to keep the run rate at 3 an over before being caught behind again off the bowling of Anderson to leave Papp 54-3. However John Wakeling 21 not out and Phil Defretias 26 not out guided Papp home in the 26th of the 73 overs they had to knock off the runs.
Papp 20pts Cavs 1pt

2nd XI Match report vs West Indian Cavaliers 2nds

West indian Cavaliers 2ndXI 113 a.o Papplewick & Linby 2ndXI 114-7

Papp 2nds made it an exciting club double over west indian cavaliers this weekend when they followed up the 1st teams win with a win themselves against cavs 2nds. cavaliers won the toss and elected to bat on what looked a flat pitch with the sun beating down. but they very soon began to regret the decision. both papps opening bowlers john thrower and steve alford put on a classic exhibition of swing bowling to reduce cavs to 13 for 4. their excellent early work was followed up by spin bowlers rohan shah and kriss barfield, to reduce cavs 2nds to 113 all out. only assad hussain (35) offered any real resistance. alford returned figures of 4 for 21, shah 4 for 30 and thrower and barfield picked up one wicket apiece. they were all well supported in the field with graeme roberts (2) matt alford and jamie peat taking sharp catches. in reply papplewick were made to struggle by some accurate bowling from sheldon guerra (3 for 29) and ashad ishtiaq (3 for 25.) but some classy batting by jamie peat (32), rohan shah (25), and some dogged resistance in the middle order from matt alford (21) eased them home in the 38th over by 3 wickets.

This weekends games!!!!

Come and show your support for the players with the games this weekend!

Saturday 10th May
1st XI are at home (Papplewick Ground) to West Indian Cavaliers this will be an exciting fixture as the first team play last years Premier League Champions.

2nd XI are away to West Indian Cavaliers 2nd XI

3rd XI are at home (Burntstump Ground) to Todwick CC 1st XI

Sunday 11th May
No Sunday League game but the under 11's are at Hucknall.

1st XI Match Reports for May 3rd and 4th...

Papplewick & Linby 97 AO Kimberley 98-3

The only bright spot for Papplewick on a dismal day for the batsmen was the performance of Kosala Kulasekara. Having arrived at Heathrow at 6am Saturday morning from Sri Lanka. Kosala defied jet lag to play positively making 56 in an otherwise poor batting display.
Papp were quickly reduced to 17 for 2 by some accurate new ball bowling by Jason Gorman. Luke Fletcher (8) and Graeme Roberts (0) being the victims. When Gorman then removed Skipper Phil Defretias first ball, Papp were left struggling on 45-5. Gorman went on to record figures of 5-33 to rip through the Papp top order, ably assisted by John Shaw who recorded figures of 4-36

Kimberleys reply was jolted by the quick wicket of Nick Langford, who fell LBW to Jim Rhodes for 0 with the score on 9. Enter Josh Mangan Kimberleys Aussie import. Who embarked on a 70 run partnership with opener John Shaw. Before he was trapped LBW by Impressive young leg spinner Wasim Rana. Shaw followed quickly bowled by Rhodes but the damage was done and it was left to Skipper Michael Blatherwick and Tom Collishaw to guide Kimberley home and collect 20 points.

Sheffield Utd 90 AO Papplewick 91-3

Sundays game against Sheffield Utd in the Cockspur Cup could not have been anymore different from the previous day. After winning the toss Papplewick set about their task of bowling the opposition out in quick time. A great opening spell from Brad Matthews (3-23) quickly reducing the visitors to 7 for 2. Then after a mini revival in the hands of David Rogers (20) and skipper Neil Longhirst (25) who took the score to 46, the rest of the Utds batting crumbled to 90 all out with Wasim Rana bowling beautifully to claim 3-15 and Charlie Dagnall picking up 2-17 on debut.

With Luke Fletcher away making his Friends Provident Trophy debut for Nottinghamshire, Wasim Rana opened the innings with John Wakeling. However things did not go to plan as Tom Steel removed Rana (1) and Tiamoor Khan (2) to leave Papplewick 12 for 2. Skipper Phil Defretias then played with his normal aggression and freedom to fire 43 off 34 balls before being trapped LBW. While all this was going on John Wakeling played the anchor role to finish 24 not out and a quick cameo from Rich Winton 11 not out saw Papplewick home and a 2nd round tie away to Wollaton awaits.

This Weekend's Games...Show your support!

Come and show your support for the players with a full weekend of games! And Guess what!!!..........
All games this weekend are Free admitance, so you good people of the local area will be treated to the massive clashes this weekend FOR FREE!!!!! nope you read correct! FREE!! Come wander the oval and show your support at one of theses fantastic venues and cheer on Papp CC to League and Cup victory!

Saturday 3rd May
1st XI are at home (Papplewick(Home Of Cricket) to Kimberley Institute
2nd XI are away to Mansfield and Pleasley 1stXI
3rd XI are away to Weston 3rd XI

Sunday 4th May
1st XI are home (Papplewick(Home Of Cricket and Jonny Thrower) to Sheffield United in the Cockspur Cup
Sunday XI are at home (Burntstump Ground) to Radcliffe

Monday 5th May (Bank Holiday)
3rd XI are at home (Papplewick
(Home Of Cricket) to Everton 2nd XI

Hope to see you there!!