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S&N Target too much for StaffJim Nicholson Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:02 GMTTuesday night's game aginst Scottish & Newcastle followed the same script as quite a few midweek games so far this season as the Staff, batting second, were chasing too large a total after a combination of wayward and unlucky bowling. S&N won the toss and chose to bat on a grey and gloomy, but thankfully dry, evening at Peffermill. Chris bowled an excellent opening spell of 4-1-8-2 as he ignored the wild swishes of the opening bats and kept an excellent line and length. Unfortunately Jim's spell at the other end was nowhere near as disciplined and this took much of the pressure off the batsmen that Chris had built up. Hamish and Dave F were next into the attack but it wasn't until Gareth and Nick L came on to bowl the last 8 overs that any more wickets were claimed and the run rate was reduced. It was a difficult night for fielding with the light so bad and there was a fair assortment of catches but down - some unluckily so but others that really should have stuck. The S&N innings came to a close on 131-4 off 20 overs - once again this looked like 20 or so runs too much to be chasing. Nick and Ewen opened our reply but couldn't really find much fluency on a pitch with variable bounce and against a brace of accurate seam bowlers. Singles and twos were collected but Ewen was back in the pavilion by the end of the 5th over. Nick was joined by Paul D but again the big shots eluded both players and they could only really score in singles. Nick was out to catch on the leg-side and Paul missed the first ball by S&N's deceptively quick Aussie, both for 14, to leave the staff on 40-odd for 3 off 14 overs. The last 6 overs saw a combination of expansive shots from Dave F and impressive running and accumlation of singles by Martin pick the run rate up hugely. The 100 came up off the last ball of the innings with Martin on 14 and Dave on an unbeaten 34. |
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