Cricket Sunday
Week 07
Heiley
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We had a fantastic result on Sunday as Cove CC Women won their first match in 3 years! It was hard to play during the UK’s heatwave however, Naomi and Mimi fought through it building a partnership that lasted 30 overs, scoring 150 together. Our final total was 243!
We gave 100% commitment in the field and with an outstanding bowling performance, we bowled our opponents out in 34.4 overs and won by 36 runs. What a finish for our first win!
Taking our learnings from earlier games and our motto of “little steps lead to big steps” we all made slight changes and contributed to a big result in our favour, it was a great learning experience.
Emma
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It is our second last week in the UK. This week I only have club training and club coaching on. I helped to coach the U13-U15 every Tuesday and this week is their last training session. Every week we have over 30+ kids, and there are always 5-6 coaches or volunteers here to help. At the end, Louise said that all the kids liked me and listened to me, it was very humbling to hear. I think it is because they are very nice kids, they gave me respect even as a non-English speaker. I’ll miss them!
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Hiking is one of my favorite activities in Hong Kong. I hoped to do some hiking from day one in the UK. But I wasn’t sure what the conditions were like and nervous if I were to get lost, I don’t know the area well! I found out there is a small hill in Winchester so we went there instead of a big hike. We went to St Catherine’s Hill and starting at 4pm so we could take a sunset photo, but it was a cloudy day so we gave up.
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St. Cross Cricket Club is in between the hill and the way home so we stopped to watch the last part of the men’s game and have a beer. It was a very exciting game, I thought St. Cross would lose, but in cricket anything can happen. As sit happened, St. Cross took three wickets in the last over with 1 more wicket needed to draw. Sadly the last ball got hit to four. Close games of cricket are the best games, it was fun to watch!
