2nd August v. Pelsall (home)
Skipper Ghazi Zaki lost the toss and Penn were put into bat. A tricky wicket, some accurate bowling and some fairly indifferent batting contributed to Penn being dismissed for a paltry 67 with only Bully Patel and Pritpal Grewal reaching double figures. George Nock stuck around for a relatively credible 8.
In response, Pelsall lost only one wicket in reaching the total. A very bad day at the office.

24th May v. Highcroft & Great Barr Unity (home)
A sunny but blustery day greeted the players at Gamesfield Green. Skipper Steve Tranter lost the toss (again) and Penn were put in (again).
The batsmen did Penn proud. A typically robust 55 from Steve Tranter and a dashing 75 from Harnake Sanghera saw Penn reach 204 in their allotted 50 overs. Glyn Martin chipped in with 38. The key to the innings was the partnerships forged by those three. An 86 partnership between Sanghera and Tranter, and a 100 between Sanghera and Martin.
Penn roared at the start of Highcroft's innings with Chris Asbury and James Thomas both taking a wicket in their first overs. Highcroft were staggering at 12 for 3 once Thomas struck again. However, Highcroft were made of stern stuff and their Captain Tozer struck a brutal 85 in fairly quick time. Highcroft reached 112 in 30 overs and looked in good shape. Fortunately for Penn, wickets began to tumble at fairly regular intervals once the skipper was removed by Thomas. 'Spinderella' Glyn Martin cast his revolving spell once again and snatched 3 for 49. Young James Thomas ended with 5 for 34 and bowled pretty swiftly with great character. He looks a fantastic prospect.
Eventually, Highcroft were dismissed for 175 and Penn claimed the 25 points.

17th May v. Pelsall (away)
A thoroughly cold and miserable day with drizzle hanging around for most of it meant a fair amount of to-ing and fro-ing between the playing area and the pavilion. Skipper Steve Tranter lost the toss and Penn were invited to bat. It was a late start and frequent rain interruptions meant it was difficult to get going. The innings got reduced to 34 overs and Steve himself top scored with 32 as Penn were dismissed for 92.
The medium pacers of Penn started the reply but in truth never troubled the batsmen on an excellent wicket in the circumstances. It was only when spin king Glyn Martin came on that wickets started to tumble. Glyn bagged 4 for 27 and there was a stunning run out by Sunil which claimed a bowling point for Penn, but the first innings total was never enough as Pelsall cruised to victory in 21 overs.

10th May - v. Wednesbury (home)
Penn were invited to field first on a hot day and Chris Asbury partnering Eddie Slimm got us underway with the bowling. A decent opening spell brought no reward for the unlucky pair. David 'Out of Retirement' Potts came on first change and bagged a couple of wickets and Glyn Martin did the same. A number of chances in the field went untaken and Wednesbury finished on 212 for 6.
A dogged response from Penn meant they saw out a losing draw. Dev Penn deserves particular mention for his determined 23 off 29 overs. Tim Smith finally faced the nightmare scenario of going in to bat to survive one ball at 112 for 9 when losing his wicket would have meant losing the match. Tim stood strong and saw us through.

26th April - Penn 127 all out 49.5 overs lost to Milford Hall 128-4 42.4 overs

Once again Penn lost the toss. The dreaded £2 coin!!! We were put in to bat and started off very slowly but did not lose many wickets. Ghazi Zaki stuck with it on a tough wicket to bat, tight bowling did not help but he batted 43 overs for 29, a good effort. The idea was to bat around him. Simon Eaton (13) fought well for 23 overs but the runs weren't coming too fluently. In steps S.Turner and blasts a lovely 25 runs in no time and at this point we were stepping up the pace. As he fell this brought to the wicket D.Gibson (37) who played some sublime shots all around the ground and guided us past 100 off 45 overs, ending up on 127 was a valiant effort against a team that has won the league the past 3 years.
With something to bowl at,  J.Rudge (3-46) and D.Gibson (1-28)  got us off to a good start and we took wickets at regular intervals. R.Ball (0-24) and A.Bhogal (0-18) put up some resistance and kept the runs down and T.Howard bowled a nice line towards the end and looks to be a good prospect. Unfortunately no points to bring back but we fought well against a very good team. Well done boys

19th April - Penn 3rd XI 257-9 dec. Tettenhall Wergs College 75 all out

A bad start from the skipper losing the toss, and Penn were put into bat so maximum points were at stake. A 1:30pm start at Mount Road saw the Penn openers get a great start getting 65 and 61respectively . This gave us a good solid start to the innings. Unfortunately not all of the team took advantage of time in the middle but Lee Homer survived an early L.B.W shout and went on to get 50. As we passed the 240 mark, a young promising player came to the crease and played three beautiful shots each reaching the boundary. Richard Kimberlin looks like a promising star and this year will shine. This was just the start of a good all round display for the youngster. Penn declared on 257-9 off 42.3 overs which gave us 57 overs to bowl a young Tettenhall Wergs College team.  Bhogal and Richard Kimberlin came later to the bowling attack and both got 3 wickets for hardly any (Bhogal 3-6 and Kimberlin 3-7). Kimberlin topping off a superb performance on possibly the coldest day of the year, all out for 75 for the full 25 points.

2007 Match reports