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HARRINGTON 100 CRUSHES CAPEL! |
The 2006 Surrey Downs League Division 4 champions Salfords 2nd XI travelled
down to Capel for the opening league encounter with Capel. It was going to
be a tough encounter as last season games were very close and keenly
contested.
Skipper Sanjay Patel lost the toss and was put into bat by his opposite
number M Bygraves who felt he could skittle out Salfords cheaply and then
knock of the runs. The usual opening slots went to D Harrington and P
Gosling. Both openers were finding their feet early and then in the 6th
over Gosling exploded with a burst of several well timed fours and sixes.
The scoreboard seem tick over nicely with Gosling taking a liking to the
bowling of K Patel. After seven overs Bygraves took himself off and
brought Ward onto bowl and in his third ball appeared to trap Gosling in
front of the stumps and with no hesitancy the umpire game him out. Then a
strange sequence of events occurred when Capel seemed to indicate it came
of Gosling’s bat and the umpire called Gosling back! Gosling (68) and
Harrington put on 152 for the first wicket, then Harington exploded with
his first two sixes in about eight years and took the attack to Capel.
Eventually Harrington reached a magnificent 104 with some text book drives
and late cuts Eventually Harrington was out to L Costello (2-46). Ward
picked up 2 late wickets not before R Harvey and R Eaton clubbed a few
fours and sixes to get Salfords up to a respectable 232-7 off 44 overs.
Capel innings got off to a disastrous start when Mitchell walked across his
stumps to give A Weller his first and only victim of the day. It was his
son P Weller that stole the light in the bowling department. Lee and
Bowden seemed to get Capel going but then Weller produced a devastating
spell of fast bowling to remove four of the top five batsmen. Then the
wickets dried up and Bygraves (39) and Buckingham (28) seemed to frustrate
the bowlers including R Eaton (1-33) and Gurdin (1-32) who were bowling
with effort but were unlucky not to pick up more than one wicket. With
game drifting the Skipper brought himself on in an attempt to “buy” a
wicket, in his second over he had Buckingham dropped but in his third over
bowled Buckingham middle stump but with assistance from his legs and
possibly the extreme slowness of the delivery might have undone the
youngster! It was then left up to P Weller to wrap up the innings with two
wickets in two bowls which were identically caught by Eaton at short extra
cover and he took his tally to 4 catches in the match. Salfords won
comfortably in the end by 70 runs and took maximum points with a great team
effort.
For scorecard go to www.salfords.play-cricket.com |
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