Saturday 10th July 2010.

200 wickets for Jack Walton

Jack Walton became only the third Sway player ever to notch up 200 wickets when he produced typically miserly display 9.1-2.15-3 for the first XI away at Hyde in RD1 South on Saturday.

The curly-haired ball wizard was one of the first colts to graduate to adult cricket from the club's first U11s team and made his senior debut aged just 13 back in 2002. The debut was a rain-affected friendly against Milford in April and whilst the game ended up as a no result, Walton signalled his arrival with 4-0-13-2.

His 202 wickets have come at an ever reducing average currently at 16.77 and with economy of just 3.45 runs per over - and over 60% of his wickets have come in league games for the 1st team.

Perhaps the highlight of his career to date was a truly awesome performance at Bashley IV last year on their artificial strip - bowling 10 overs for just 3 runs and claiming 3 wickets.

Jack Walton (left) - inflictor of many ducks!