CRICKET: Weekly round-up (July 18)

Only Jack Sunderland, with 29, made any sort of substantial score.

EP captain Andy Reeves blasted his side's performance, and said: "It was a horrific batting display. It didn't help losing the toss as the wicket was really damp, but we batted like idiots.

"All of the top six got out to shots they shouldn't have been playing. I can forgive Jack as he was the only one to make any runs, but it all comes down to a lack of practice.

"We started the season with two good wins, as we had good pre-season training and a number of friendly matches, but other teams have now caught up with us.

"We need to get down to the nets to practise and work on things that are going wrong."

Mark Coskin started well with the ball and took two wickets in the first over and another soon afterwards to reduce Trinity to 7-3. But Trinity then clawed their way back into the game and reached their target in 22.1 overs.

Reeves added: "We should have had at least 150 runs, maybe even 120, but 80 is just undefendable. All it needs is a couple of knocks and they've reached the target.

"With Mark taking a few early wickets, if we had a decent score to defend, who knows what could have happened.

"It's Portslade this week. They're not unbeatable but there will have to be a massive improvement on what I saw this weekend."

Clymping drew their Division 1 clash against Crawley Eagles.

Crawley won the toss and inserted Clymping, who made 182-6 after 49 overs, before Crawley responded with 157-8 from 45 overs.

Kim Dean top-scored with 43 for Clymping and Sam Orchard (30), Paul Istead (26) and captain Karl Pierce (21) also contributed to the score.

Waqas Hussain top-scored with 52 for Crawley as they attempted to chase down Clymping's score, but ended up running out of overs and opted to bat out the last few to avoid a defeat.

The draw favoured Clymping with points as they earned 12 and Eagles took just the five.

Pierce said: "It was a good start from us but we lost a few quick wickets, and we should have posted around 200-plus really.

"It took us a while to break their early partnerships, and with about five overs to go they shut up shop and we couldn't get their last couple of wickets.

"Things are going well, and we haven't lost for seven games now after a poor start to the season.

"We face Broadwater on Saturday and, hopefully, we can get something from there, although they have been doing very well this season."

Rustington crashed to a nine-wicket defeat at Aldwick in Division 3 after they were bowled out for just 42.

Their innings lasted just 16 overs and Aldwick needed just seven overs to reach their target.

Burpham took the honours over Clymping in the John Burrows Memorial Match on Sunday.

Burpham won the toss and scored 214-6 from their 40 overs, with Andy Dick scoring 39.

Clymping used nine bowlers in their attack, which was led by Karl Pierce with figures of 2-22.

Clymping openers Andy Hancock (51) and Gary Young (27) put on 82 for the first wicket, but apart from Andy Wilkinson's 33, the other batsmen failed to push and they were all out for 183 after 39.2 overs.

Littlehampton Ladies stormed to a 167-run win at Steyning in the Sussex Willostix 20/20 League.

Sarah Kempson struck 64 not out and Sophie Parnell hit an unbeaten 62 as Littlehampton scored 194-3 from their 20 overs.

Steyning were then dismissed for just 27 in 15 overs as Parnell took 4-2 and Tanya Wake grabbed 2-3.

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