Century Club Winners
7th January 2026
BULLS SUCCESS IN PRE-SEASON FRIENDLIES V BLACKHEATH & DCA
13th Apr 2026
BULLS SUCCESS IN PRE-SEASON FRIENDLIES V BLACKHEATH & DCA.
Sat 11th April 2026 SNCC v Blackheath (h) 50o
SNCC 337 -6 (50o) Chris Hewison 60 (rno), Sol Bell 50 (rno), Jonny Bushnell 81(rno), Adam Cragg 44, Sam Ewart 34, Nicky Phillips 33*: Matthew Golding 0-21, Tejpal Birdi 1-77, Anant Prabhu 0-57, JO Ogbimi 2-59, Charlie Sid-Speller 1-30, Karanjot Singh 1-38, D Kotedia 0-13, Hassan Khokhar 1-33.
Blackheath 210 ao (38.5o) Tejpal Birdi 22, Mason Robinson 75, Tamash Raaj 39*: Jonny Wightman 1-60, Jonny Bushnell 0-30, Oli McGee 2-33, Nicky Phillips 2-44, Hamish Barrie 2-39.
SNCC won by 127 runs.
A cold day at Roseworth Terrace welcomed visitors Blackheath for their return trip to the NE. The Bulls gave debuts to Jonny Bushnell, Nicky Phillips & Hamish Barrie, won the toss & chose to bat. The wicket, cut towards the Roseworth Terrace side, played well.
An opening partnership of 112 in 20 overs between Hewi (60, 54b, rno) & Sol (50, 67b, rno) set the scene against a Blackheath side with only one seam bowler. Jonny Bushnell (81,51b), an attacking innings including 9x4 and 4x6, also retired not out sharing a partnership of 97 with Adam Cragg (44). Sam Ewart (34) & Nicky Phillips (33*) ended the innings with a flourishing partnership of 71.
In reply Blackheath started strongly scoring 49 in 7 overs before Jonny Wightman struck. Opener Matthew Robinson batted nicely for 75 being 5th out at 132 caught by Adam Cragg off Hamish Barrie's off spin, the first of two wickets for him.
Oli (sla) & Nicky (ob) also took two wickets each & pleasingly, the fielding was of a high order, three runouts the result of good work by Jonny Bushnell & Oli .
An important work out for the squad missing Nathan Gough, Calum Fletcher, Will Alexander & George Drissell before the NEPL season begins on Sat 18th April SNCC v Shotley Bridge (h) 1200 start: 100o.
Sun 12th April SNCC v Durham Cricket Academy (h) 20/20o
DCA 114-8 (20o) Aditya Paul 14, George Stewart 38, Tom Briggs 20: Jonny Bushnell 2-25, Nicky Phillips 1-19, Oli McGee 2-17, Hamish Barrie 0-20, Will Young 0-16, Will Phillips 0-9.
SNCC 118-3 (16.1o) Sol Bell 31, Sam Ewart 11, Rob Peyton 50, David Edwards 23*: Zac Mawdsley 0-16, Max Percival 0-15, Jim Twiddy 0-28, Teddy Minto 1-34, Zac Smith 0-8, Harry Walker 1-15.
SNCC won by 7 wickets.
A less cold but sunny day saw the Bulls, missing Cragg & Wightman, give Will Phillips his 1st X1 debut. The Academy batted first & lost Dalton to a sharp piece of fielding by Sol, run out with the score at 17 in the 2nd over. Paul (14) was lbw to Oli in the 5th & Twiddy c & b by Jonny Bushnell in the 6th at 31.
There followed a partnership of 57 between George Stewart & Tom Briggs as the bowlers, Will Young, Nicky Phillips & Hamish Barrie were rotated. At 88 in the 15th Stewart (39) was bowled by Oli & at the same score Briggs very well run out by bowler Will Phillips with a direct hit as the batsmen attempted a short single.
In the 18th Temple (6) was very well caught by Will Young moving smartly to his left at short fine leg off Nicky, Mawdsley was bowled by Bushnell in the 19th & Harry Walker run out courtesy of a Nicky Phillips throw. The final total was114-8.
Sam Ewart & Sol Bell faced the seam of Mawdsley & Percival & then the sla of Twiddy. At 20 in the 4th over Sam (11) drove to mid off but was unable to beat the throw of the left handed Twiddy to the bowler's end. Rob Peyton joined Sol & the pair added 28 before Sol (31) timing not quite working, slog swept high to mid wicket to be caught off Minto's slow left arm, 48-2 in the 9th over.
David Edwards joined Rob & the pair batted positively. They had some fortune in missed chances to long on, the w/k & mid off whilst putting together a winning partnership of 66 only for Rob (50 4x4,1x6 ) to drive Walker's of spin straight to mid on when the scores were tied at 114 !
David Edwards (23*) stroked the winning boundary through the covers from the first ball of the next over, the17th.
Another good work out, getting used to lengths, pace & shot selection on a true but slow surface. The high standard of fielding on both days was heartening & made a difference.
Duncan.