SNCL division D
Away – 12 July 2008
A brief summary of the
game from skipper Zak Briggs.
The day did not start
to well for the skipper with the AA being responsible for some
abysmal directions to Platt Lane, Keyworth. On finally arriving
on a sodden ground the prospects were not great, however the square
drained well and a 40 over match was agreed.
After losing the toss and being inserted, Wilsons initially struggled
against tight bowling from Newton, Boot and Mahmood. At 43-4 after
22 overs the innings was in the balance. However a patient knock
from Tom Moore (38) in 35 overs provided the sort of stability
that Wilsons innings have often lacked and allowed Briggs (26)
and Caldwell (29) to take advantage of some lose fielding and
move the score on to 136-7 off 39 overs. At this point Imran Shahid
decided to make it look all to easy by smashing 20 off the last
4 balls, a total of 157-8 looked a good one at tea as the wicket
had appeared to cut up somewhat.
However upon the restart
the wicket became very unresponsive for the opening bowlers and
the fielding at best mediocre. Tim Caldwell managed to remove
Smith (21) but with a couple of straight forward chances going
down Willoughby cruised past 100 with 9 wickets in hand and there
looked no way back.
The game changed when
the ever talismanic Imran Khan removed Lindley (42) which was
followed up with Nadeem Ghani removing the dangerous Boot and
Johnson in the following over. All of a sudden the fielding side
woke up and we started playing with passion. As the run rate increased
Ghani and Khan kept the pressure on the batsman, catches where
now taken and runs were saved in the field and the home side subsided
to 147-8 at the close although 8 runs where taken off the final
2 balls to sum up a very up and down day.
In many ways a fortunate
win brought about by good sensible batting and tremendous bowling
particuarly from Ghani at the death who took 6-37. However for
promotion to be achieved we need to learn quickly to play the
full match, not just in parts.
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