University of Cambridge Sport

UCCE
With many key players leaving, it was a new look Cambridge UCCE that began their 2006 campaign with three first class
games against Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Kent. Despite the setback of captain Richard Timms being ruled out for the
season, stand-in skipper Zoheb Sharif lead Cambridge by example, scoring two centuries against Northants and Kent as
Cambridge put in strong performances against all 3 sides, to set up an excellent season.
Cambridge’s BUSA campaign kicked off with a strong win against Durham UCCE but was then affected by rain, with only 17
overs being possible against Oxford and only one day against Loughborough. In that day, an excellent team performance saw
Cambridge beating favourites Loughborough in a hard fought contest.
In two entertaining games, Cambridge only managed to draw against Leeds-Bradford and Cardiff, both times coming close to
chasing down over 400. At Cardiff, James Heywood was forced to battle it out for over 2 hours to secure our place at Lords.
Runs were shared around the Cambridge’s top 6 this season. Both the opening pair of Cambridge veteran Gareth James and
debutant Chris “Bruno” Huntington had scores. Kunal Joggia smashed his with a highly entertaining 149 against Leeds-
Bradford. Captain Zoheb Sharif scored freely against the strong first class attacks and Ronald Weasley (Nick Lee) took time off
shooting the next Harry Potter movie to top the Cambridge batting averages.
The same can be said with the bowling attack, disciplined seam from Matthew Friedlander, Phil “Swingers” Edwards, Subway
king Mo Amin and Brendan Smith saw wickets being generously shared around. Also, Apu abandoned the Quickie-mart,
changed his name to Vikram Banerjee to bowl some left arm twirlers and burgle some wickets later on in the season.
Cambridge University Women’s Cricket Club
www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuwcc
Captain: Charly Lester, St Catharine’s
Secretary: Sarah Walker, Girton
Women’s cricket is one of the fastest-growing sports, and is gaining in recognition all of the time. Our club exists in order both
to promote the sport and provide an opportunity for beginners to try it out, whilst providing top-class coaching to a squad of
more experienced players who compete in the British Universities Sports Association (BUSA) national competition, and play in
the annual Varsity match against Oxford at Lord’s cricket ground!
Club Development
This year CUWCC received discretionary full blue status in recognition of our consistently strong BUSA performances. Those
players from the Varsity team (including twelfth man) not awarded Full Blues, retain their Half Blue status.
Blues awarded 2005 – 06
Jane Allison, Trinity
Laura Hancock, Sidney Sussex
Charly Lester, St Catharine’s
Lizzie Peto, St Catharine’s
Sarah Walker, Girton
Varsity Match (1st Team)
1st July 2006, Lord’s Cricket Ground
Cambridge 201/10 (47.2 overs) Oxford 218/10 (47.2 overs)
Half Blues awarded 2005 – 06
Sophia Davis, Darwin
Tanya Glanville-Wallis, Jesus
Rachel Hooper, Selwyn
Susan Little, Girton
Amy Perkins, Selwyn
Anna Prowse, Girton
Kim Roach (12th man), Emmanuel
Cambridge won the toss and elected to field first. In hot sunny conditions, a wicket to opening bowler T. Glanville-Wallis
followed by two to A. Prowse (3/23), and the key wicket of E. Wild (42) to E. Peto (3/34) gave us hope of containing Oxford to
a fairly low total. A solid knock by Y Young (84), however, meant that Oxford kept scoring at a steady rate throughout their
innings, and despite a late flurry of wickets, they went to lunch having been bowled out for a respectable 218.
After the break, Cambridge number three J. Allison (40) anchored the scoring, with sound support from A. Prowse (27). The
scoring rate slowed a little throughout the middle of the innings, but L. Hancock and R. Hooper set a solid base from which
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