SNCL division D
Home– 5 July 2008
A brief summary of the
game from skipper Zak Briggs.
Captain Zak Briggs won
his 6th toss out of 8 on a nice sunny afternoon and decided to
have a bat. This decision looked questionable early on as the
Long Whatton opening bowlers got a fair bit of life out of a pitch
which still had some moisture from the overnight rain. However
the top order battled hard with Nabil Syeed and Tim Caldwell both
scoring 37 and with 6 overs left and the score at 132-5 it looked
like a total of 170 was on the cards. Unfortunately the traditional
Wilsons' collapse was never too far away and the last 5 wickets
fell for 12 runs leaving 15 balls unused. The total of 144 was
probably 30 short and would require a good performance to defend
it.
The response started well
with TC taking a wicket in the first over with Doud following
up with one in the 6th. This was followed by the excitement of
a gust of wind that blew over one of the sight screens and a very
heavy shower.
Returning to bright sunshine Long Whatton made steady progress
with Platts (20) Vellacot (16) and Foster (26) all threatening
to take the game away but getting out at crucial times. The Wilsons
fielding was sharp and backed up a good bowling performance but
with Whatton requiring less than 50 with 5 wickets left the game
was in the balance.
The game swang Wilsons way when Nadeem Ghani dismissed Pettit
which was followed by a brilliant run out from Aimer Khan. Caldwell
came back into the attack and dismissed the dangerous Trigg for
9. This left Ghani to remove the last man to record a 14 run victory.
An excellent fielding
performance backed up by good bowling which earnt a tough victory.
However as was pointed out at the skipper at the end it would
have been so much more comfortable had the team batted its overs.
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