Published: Wednesday, 1st July, 2009 4:00pm

Batting woes continue to haunt Wokingham

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WOKINGHAM fell to another heavy defeat last weekend as their batting unit failed once again.

The eight wicket loss at Aston Rowant leaves the Wellington Road outfit third from bottom in Division Two West approaching the midway stage of the season.

Batting first Wokingham lost the early wickets of Rukshan Soza (6), Martin Bushell (5) and Nick Hartley (10) to leave themselves struggling on 34-3.

The experience of Dan Reddyhough and new boy Sunny Grover then steadied the ship but when Reddyhough (16) sent a leading edge to point Wokingham collapsed.

It was 85-5 when Grover (43) went next ball before the bottom order of Matthew Noden (0), Rahu Thava (1), Greg Smith (5), Ryan Hiscoe (0) and Martin Wilson (0) fell apart to leave the visitors 104 all out.

Things didn"t go much better with the ball either as Tim Morgan (36) and Alex Jewell (43no) helped the home side ease to 105-2 to claim a comfortable win.

Vice captain Dan Reddyhough said: 'When we turned up we looked at the track and our intention was we would bat first as we thought it would break up throughout the day.

'But they won the toss and put us in, using a bit of their local knowledge. The pitch was certainly more down than up.

'There wasn"t a lot of bounce in it and we failed to adjust to that. They bowled okay but we fell to some average cricket really, they weren"t scintillating balls which got us out.

'It was the same old story. We only got 104 on the board and that put far too much pressure on our bowlers. It was nowhere near a good enough total.'