Barnards Green cricket Club Match
Reports.
11th May 2003 |
11th May 2003 |
Worcester vs Barnards
Green 2nds |
Barnards
Green 1sts vs Worcester |
Barnards
Green 2nds took the short trip to Worcester on Sunday for a 40 over friendly,
before the start of next weeks league season. Batting first, Worcester
made a solid start through Chris Genever and Alan Levy despite some tight
bolwing from the experienced Andy Lamb and young Patrick Jelley. The
introduction of Martin Heaton saw the demise of Levy and 13 year old Liam
Paddock was unfortunate not to have Genever caught at mid on. Paddock
bowled a good line and length and picked up the wicket of Cook well caught by
Wajzer at point. The introduction of Emily Price slowed the run rate
down as she bowled an excellent line and length and completely bamboozled
Beeching for a smart stumping by John Wheeler to finish with 1 for 15 off her
6 overs. Skipper Marc Jones then took leave of his senses and
introduced Dick Brown to the attack, presumably in an effort to force a
declaration and this so nearly worked as Dick was plundered to all parts of
the ground for 35 off his 4 overs. Chris Genever ended on an excellent
85 not out as worcester completed their innings on 186. |
Batting on a dry wicket with some
variable bounce, the Green were scoring runs quickly, 50 coming up in the
11th over. But with three wickets down J Curtis and P Drinkwater steadied the
innings until Drinkwater was bowled for 11 by the last ball of South African
Murray Ranger's spell, reaching the excellent figures of 8-4-13-3. Curtis and Judd Doughty added 50 runs
before Curtis was out for 42, then followed a mini collapse and the Green
found themselves at 151-9 with ten overs to go. Matt Brookes (27) and Rich
Brown (15) entertained the crowd with a variety of shots and took the total
to 197. In reply Worcester made a steady
start against accurate bowling from Brookes and Brown. The introduction of
New Zealander Danny Flynn and Phil Spencer in to the attack brought more
tight bowling as Worcester fell behind the rate. Spencer tempted former Green
player Kevin Golder into a rash shot and bowled him for 28. Flynn had the
dangerous Binks stumped by Doughty for 45. Brian Bartlett bowled seven overs
for just 18 runs and Paul Drinkwater picked up four wickets at the other end.
A good performance in the field saw
Worcester fall well short. |
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