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Game 9: 1st XI vs Lechlade 1st XI, Away
Michael Cox11 Jul 2017 - 13:23
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Bristol 1st XI v Lechlade 1st XI, WEPL Premier 1, 1 July 2017
Bristol 180 (48 overs), F Trenouth 38, J Ellison 34, B Ellis 3-12, H Jupp 3-39, L Smith 3-40
Lechlade 181-4 (47.1 overs), T Young 41, F Martin 35no, V Lakhani 2-49
Lechlade won by 6 wickets
A disappointing batting display left Bristol woefully short of runs, and although a committed performance in the field managed to extend Lechlade’s chase into the 48th over, Bristol’s habit of losing to teams in the lower reaches of the league is becoming a worrying one. They now slide to sixth in an increasingly bunched table.
Continuing his successful run of tosses, Bristol skipper Will Rudge elected to bat, and the openers James Bracey and Fin Trenouth started solidly enough against a ten-man Lechlade (their eleventh arrived at the end of the 15th over). The seventh over was eventful: Bracey playing and missing for the first time in his innings to the first ball, then square-driving the second to the boundary. There was a near run out off the fourth as Trenouth was stranded mid-pitch, but the throw came in to the wrong end, and two overthrows resulted. Bracey stroked the final ball to the cover boundary.
Two overs later, Bracey departed, caught behind, and Louie Shaw joined Trenouth. Trenouth’s fine one-bounce four over extra cover in the 18th over was the closest any Bristol batsman got to a six. It was to be the last of his six fours, however, as two overs later he sent a towering skyer into the leg side off left-arm wrist spinner Jupp, and Breet judged the catch well. From 95 for 2 at this point, Bristol’s innings subsided. Brewer prodded a catch to short cover off the same bowler, and Shaw was bowled, possibly via the inside edge, by seamer Barnes at the other end. When Redwood chopped Jupp on to his stumps, a ball after striking Bristol’s first boundary for 12 overs, they were 124 for 5. There was a mini-revival as Rudge and Jack Ellison put on 47, but they did so at barely more than 3 runs an over, and the last five wickets fell for the addition of just 9 runs.
Despite the modest target, Bristol started confidently in the field, and the could have made an early breakthrough when, in the seventh over, with the score at 24, a ball flew off the edge of Young’s bat between first and a wide second slip at catchable height. It took them until the 13th over to take the first wicket when Jupp top-edged a sweep off Lakhani and the relief on Neil Pollard’s face as he took the catch was palpable.
Pollard himself was the bowler in of the 20th over in which fine boundary fielding by Lakhani and Trenouth turned two likely fours into twos and, off the final ball, umpire Bob Hampshire was induced to raise his finger and send Dial on his way LBW. Soon afterwards Young edged Lakhani to slip where Rudge pouched the catch. At the other end, Breet never looked comfortable against Pollard and finally played an awful shot to Hardwick to give Rudge a second slip catch. Although his catching in the cordon was flawless, Rudge had earlier been comically overtaken by Shaw from a 30-metre start chasing a sweep to fine leg.
Breet’s departure left Lechlade 121 for 4, and Bristol feeling they were still in the game. Had a confident appeal for caught behind against Martin off Dan Jones one run later gone Bristol’s way, it might have been a different story. But although Hardwick and Pollard applied the squeeze, Jones discomfited the batsmen with some well-directed short stuff, and the fielders backed the bowlers up, they could not find another wicket. Martin and Ellis batted sensibly, taking most of the overs available to them to score the sixty further runs required, and well deserved their victory.
Statistically the game contained a few curiosities: Despite 361 runs being scored, no batsman scored more than 41 of them, and there were 9 scores between 21 and 41, although the pitch appeared blameless. Although the average run-rate was well under four per over, there were no maidens in Bristol’s innings, and none until the 21st over in Lechlade’s. Bristol again came out poorly in the boundary count: scoring just 14 fours, and conceding 20 fours and two sixes. They did win on dot balls though, facing 189 but bowling 202.
Bristol 180 (48 overs), F Trenouth 38, J Ellison 34, B Ellis 3-12, H Jupp 3-39, L Smith 3-40
Lechlade 181-4 (47.1 overs), T Young 41, F Martin 35no, V Lakhani 2-49
Lechlade won by 6 wickets
A disappointing batting display left Bristol woefully short of runs, and although a committed performance in the field managed to extend Lechlade’s chase into the 48th over, Bristol’s habit of losing to teams in the lower reaches of the league is becoming a worrying one. They now slide to sixth in an increasingly bunched table.
Continuing his successful run of tosses, Bristol skipper Will Rudge elected to bat, and the openers James Bracey and Fin Trenouth started solidly enough against a ten-man Lechlade (their eleventh arrived at the end of the 15th over). The seventh over was eventful: Bracey playing and missing for the first time in his innings to the first ball, then square-driving the second to the boundary. There was a near run out off the fourth as Trenouth was stranded mid-pitch, but the throw came in to the wrong end, and two overthrows resulted. Bracey stroked the final ball to the cover boundary.
Two overs later, Bracey departed, caught behind, and Louie Shaw joined Trenouth. Trenouth’s fine one-bounce four over extra cover in the 18th over was the closest any Bristol batsman got to a six. It was to be the last of his six fours, however, as two overs later he sent a towering skyer into the leg side off left-arm wrist spinner Jupp, and Breet judged the catch well. From 95 for 2 at this point, Bristol’s innings subsided. Brewer prodded a catch to short cover off the same bowler, and Shaw was bowled, possibly via the inside edge, by seamer Barnes at the other end. When Redwood chopped Jupp on to his stumps, a ball after striking Bristol’s first boundary for 12 overs, they were 124 for 5. There was a mini-revival as Rudge and Jack Ellison put on 47, but they did so at barely more than 3 runs an over, and the last five wickets fell for the addition of just 9 runs.
Despite the modest target, Bristol started confidently in the field, and the could have made an early breakthrough when, in the seventh over, with the score at 24, a ball flew off the edge of Young’s bat between first and a wide second slip at catchable height. It took them until the 13th over to take the first wicket when Jupp top-edged a sweep off Lakhani and the relief on Neil Pollard’s face as he took the catch was palpable.
Pollard himself was the bowler in of the 20th over in which fine boundary fielding by Lakhani and Trenouth turned two likely fours into twos and, off the final ball, umpire Bob Hampshire was induced to raise his finger and send Dial on his way LBW. Soon afterwards Young edged Lakhani to slip where Rudge pouched the catch. At the other end, Breet never looked comfortable against Pollard and finally played an awful shot to Hardwick to give Rudge a second slip catch. Although his catching in the cordon was flawless, Rudge had earlier been comically overtaken by Shaw from a 30-metre start chasing a sweep to fine leg.
Breet’s departure left Lechlade 121 for 4, and Bristol feeling they were still in the game. Had a confident appeal for caught behind against Martin off Dan Jones one run later gone Bristol’s way, it might have been a different story. But although Hardwick and Pollard applied the squeeze, Jones discomfited the batsmen with some well-directed short stuff, and the fielders backed the bowlers up, they could not find another wicket. Martin and Ellis batted sensibly, taking most of the overs available to them to score the sixty further runs required, and well deserved their victory.
Statistically the game contained a few curiosities: Despite 361 runs being scored, no batsman scored more than 41 of them, and there were 9 scores between 21 and 41, although the pitch appeared blameless. Although the average run-rate was well under four per over, there were no maidens in Bristol’s innings, and none until the 21st over in Lechlade’s. Bristol again came out poorly in the boundary count: scoring just 14 fours, and conceding 20 fours and two sixes. They did win on dot balls though, facing 189 but bowling 202.
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