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EUSCC Batting Fails to Reach Required StandardJim Nicholson Friday, June 15, 2001 10:41 GMTThursday night's game against Standard Life produced EUSCC's second defeat in 3 days - but this game was played in a far better spirit than Tuesday's against S&N and the game remained competetive for much longer. Jim, once again, lost the toss and EUSCC were invited to field on a bitterly cold and gloomy evening that, thankfully, remained dry. Chris and Gareth opened the bowling and despite bowling tidily found their overs expensive as SL's left-handed opener played some huge shots off fairly decent balls (the hockey and tennis players came under attack over the short, western boundary). Nick L and Gordon joined the attack after 8 overs and quickly got the run rate down by giving the batsmen no room and keeping the leftie off the strike. Nick made the breakthrough with the wickets of both openers (one with a stinging c&b) while Gordon bowled a miserly spell from the pavilion end. The last 4 overs bowled were made up of Paul D steaming in from the far end, Rebecca (making her debut) putting the ball on the spot and claiming her first wicket froma good catch by Chris at short midwicket, and John bowling his deceptive outswingers. Standard Life finished their 20 overs on 100-4 (who got the 4th wicket?) - a really good effort in the field by the Staff after their innings had looked to be heading for in excess of 120. Nick and Rob opened the Staff's reply but found it hard going against some decent swing bowling. Rob decided to hit out after a few overs but got bowled and Paul who replaced him was caught behind off a very fine edge when he was looking to build a big innings. When Nick became the 3rd wicket to go down and with the score not yet at 30 from 10 overs the omens did not look good. However Russell and John then settled down and started to put together a decent partnership - John driving strongly on the off-side and Russell showing off his repertoire of cuts and flicks off his legs. In the last 10 overs the pair put on an undefeated 50, to take the staff score to 73-3. So, defeat by 27 runs - but the Staff put in a useful performance and everyone contributed. It was far too cold to be playing cricket though - but at least that meant that tempers didn't get the chance to get too hot! |
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