The T Rippon Mid-Essex League season got under way with both of Tillingham's Saturday teams in action. The first team travelled to newly promoted Chignal and came away with a victory in a low scoring game. The home side batted first and were spared the prospect of facing a lengthy spell from Tillingham's opening bowler when Tom Ford broke down with only four balls bowled. Despite this setback, the rest of the bowlers responded and two wickets for Andy Mee soon had Chignal in trouble. They never recovered and wickets continued to tumble at regular intervals, Mee finished with figures of 2 for 8 from his 12 overs while Chris Rowland returned 3 for 14 from 10 and George Parlour 3 for 21 from 4. Chignal did have the satisfaction of batting through their 45 overs, losing their final wicket in the last over, but could only muster a score of 110. Rob Ashworth showed good form with the bat in Tillingham's reply and he scored 36 but early wickets also fell with Tom Ford (16) the only other batsman in the top six to make double figures. Tillingham's new recruit, Alex Warren, looked good at number four without going on to make a big score. This meant that it was left to skipper Jim Chapman to steady the nerves when he appeared at number seven to see the score through to the winning total in the 42nd over.
In typical early season conditions at Vicarage Lane, the second team played Gt Waltham for the first time at this level with Tillingham having been promoted to Division 7 this season, The visitors put Tillingham in and it was felt that a score of around 160 would be competitive. Gt Waltham used all of their experience to make things difficult for the home batsmen but Phil Hurst looked assured before falling LBW for 73.
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