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Game 18: 1st XI vs Lechlade 1st XI, Away
Michael Cox3 Sep 2017 - 12:26
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Keith's final game write up!
Lechlade v Bristol, WEPL Premier 1, 2 September 2017
Bristol 360-9 (50 overs), K Noema-Barnett 110, L Shaw 74, F Trenouth 59, L Smith 3-55
Lechlade 120 (31 overs), T Young 44, T Probert 4-28, N Pollard 2-11
In the end, when it came to the crunch, Bristol’s firsts got the job done with the minimum of fuss, and a high quality performance with bat and ball. Their huge 240-run victory over Lechlade not only guaranteed them Premier 1 cricket next season, but ensured they end this WEPL season fourth in the table. Sadly for the home side, who extended the warmest of welcomes to their visitors and played the game in a commendable spirit, this result, and others that went against them, mean they failed to escape the drop to Premier 2 after just one season in the top flight.
Bristol got off to an explosive start after being inserted by the home side’s stand-in captain Dylan Higgins. Against the spin of Benny Ellis, Fin Trenouth showed his intent by stroking the first ball he received to the boundary wide of mid-off. In the next over, which yielded eighteen runs and proved to be the bowler Joe Breet’s only one of the innings, Trenouth was responsible for the first of the afternoon’s many lost balls, with a straight six into the adjacent meadow. James Bracey chipped in with two fours in the first over from Breet’s replacement Liam Smith, including a sublime on-drive, and four fours from Trenouth in Ellis’s third over saw that bowler’s participation cut short for the time being. Barnes replaced Ellis from the southern end, but the sole over of this, the first of four spells he would bowl in the innings, went for a further eighteen, including a six behind square off a high full toss for Trenouth.
Come the end of the seventh over, the opening pair had raced to 79, making good use of the short boundary on the pavilion side; Trenouth had brought up his half-century in just 22 balls, and Lechlade were already turning to their fifth bowler (they would end up using eight in total). The stand progressed to 93 in the tenth over before Lechlade started to drag themselves back into the game. Trenouth was bowled for a fine 59 and Bracey under-edged to the keeper for 19, both wickets falling to Smith, who, along with Jack Taylor, started to exert a bit more control after the end of the powerplay. Lakhani was dropped at slip first ball, but was bowled by Taylor soon afterwards, and 93-0 had become 108-3.
Kieran Noema-Barnett began his innings in restrained fashion, and Louie Shaw, who joined him on Lakhani’s departure, exuded confidence from the start, batting in a cap against the spinners and using his feet to great effect. Shaw moved into the twenties by dispatching a full toss from Harvey Jupp clean over the pavilion shortly before drinks, and into the forties with the shot of the day, a six over extra cover off Ellis. By this time Shaw had overtaken Noema-Barnett, and reached his fifty three balls earlier than the Gloucestershire player in the 33rd over (but off one more ball faced, 58).
Noema-Barnett though now pressed firmly down on the accelerator and moved from fifty to a hundred in 34 balls, and when he was finally out, caught on the deep mid-wicket boundary for 110, with 3 sixes and 13 fours, Bristol were well placed for a final assault at 280 for 4 in the 42nd over. He and Shaw putting on 172 in 25 overs. Both players, while having a certain amount of luck with balls either falling short or sailing just over the top of fielders, completely dominated the bowling.
Shaw fell two overs later, giving a huge skyer to cover, for 74 off 76 balls. The last eight overs added eighty further runs. Significant contributions came from Ralph Hardwick (four sixes in a 15-ball 32, including one even further over the pavilion than Shaw’s effort, before being stumped by a mile), and Matt Brewer, who took 14 off the final over of the innings but was culpable for a terrible call to run out Tommy Probert.
Lechlade’s openers Young and Palmer briefly gave Bristol a dose of their own medicine in the powerplay, taking 33 off the first four overs, but they could not sustain the pace. Noema-Barnett became harder to get away as he went deeper into his initial five-over spell, Hardwick, after conceding two boundaries in his first over, was his normal miserly self, and Rudge, after his first three overs went for 27, returned at the other end to replace Noema-Barnett, and immediately had Palmer caught behind by Bracey, with the total on 64. The remaining nine wickets failed to muster as many runs between them as this opening stand. In a steady procession, Bracey grabbed three more catches, all standing up to the stumps, one off Hardwick and two off Probert. Breet attempted a suicidal second run off a no-ball in Probert’s first over and failed to beat the throw from Lakhani. Mortimer and Higgins were both bowled by Probert to give him his third and fourth wickets; Jupp gave the gentlest of catches to Shaw at short cover off Neil Pollard; and Harwood gave himself room to force Pollard on the off side and played on.
The final pair survived for three and half overs, trying to inch their way towards a first batting point, but finally Matt Brewer’s throw left Barnes stranded short of the crease attempting a quick single. In the final indignity for Lechlade, this final wicket fell off the seventh ball of the over.
Bristol will view their fourth place finish as a qualified success, particularly given the absence of an overseas professional for the entire season. They will hope that with this addition, and if they can produce their best performances with greater consistency next season, it will be the springboard for greater things.
Bristol 360-9 (50 overs), K Noema-Barnett 110, L Shaw 74, F Trenouth 59, L Smith 3-55
Lechlade 120 (31 overs), T Young 44, T Probert 4-28, N Pollard 2-11
In the end, when it came to the crunch, Bristol’s firsts got the job done with the minimum of fuss, and a high quality performance with bat and ball. Their huge 240-run victory over Lechlade not only guaranteed them Premier 1 cricket next season, but ensured they end this WEPL season fourth in the table. Sadly for the home side, who extended the warmest of welcomes to their visitors and played the game in a commendable spirit, this result, and others that went against them, mean they failed to escape the drop to Premier 2 after just one season in the top flight.
Bristol got off to an explosive start after being inserted by the home side’s stand-in captain Dylan Higgins. Against the spin of Benny Ellis, Fin Trenouth showed his intent by stroking the first ball he received to the boundary wide of mid-off. In the next over, which yielded eighteen runs and proved to be the bowler Joe Breet’s only one of the innings, Trenouth was responsible for the first of the afternoon’s many lost balls, with a straight six into the adjacent meadow. James Bracey chipped in with two fours in the first over from Breet’s replacement Liam Smith, including a sublime on-drive, and four fours from Trenouth in Ellis’s third over saw that bowler’s participation cut short for the time being. Barnes replaced Ellis from the southern end, but the sole over of this, the first of four spells he would bowl in the innings, went for a further eighteen, including a six behind square off a high full toss for Trenouth.
Come the end of the seventh over, the opening pair had raced to 79, making good use of the short boundary on the pavilion side; Trenouth had brought up his half-century in just 22 balls, and Lechlade were already turning to their fifth bowler (they would end up using eight in total). The stand progressed to 93 in the tenth over before Lechlade started to drag themselves back into the game. Trenouth was bowled for a fine 59 and Bracey under-edged to the keeper for 19, both wickets falling to Smith, who, along with Jack Taylor, started to exert a bit more control after the end of the powerplay. Lakhani was dropped at slip first ball, but was bowled by Taylor soon afterwards, and 93-0 had become 108-3.
Kieran Noema-Barnett began his innings in restrained fashion, and Louie Shaw, who joined him on Lakhani’s departure, exuded confidence from the start, batting in a cap against the spinners and using his feet to great effect. Shaw moved into the twenties by dispatching a full toss from Harvey Jupp clean over the pavilion shortly before drinks, and into the forties with the shot of the day, a six over extra cover off Ellis. By this time Shaw had overtaken Noema-Barnett, and reached his fifty three balls earlier than the Gloucestershire player in the 33rd over (but off one more ball faced, 58).
Noema-Barnett though now pressed firmly down on the accelerator and moved from fifty to a hundred in 34 balls, and when he was finally out, caught on the deep mid-wicket boundary for 110, with 3 sixes and 13 fours, Bristol were well placed for a final assault at 280 for 4 in the 42nd over. He and Shaw putting on 172 in 25 overs. Both players, while having a certain amount of luck with balls either falling short or sailing just over the top of fielders, completely dominated the bowling.
Shaw fell two overs later, giving a huge skyer to cover, for 74 off 76 balls. The last eight overs added eighty further runs. Significant contributions came from Ralph Hardwick (four sixes in a 15-ball 32, including one even further over the pavilion than Shaw’s effort, before being stumped by a mile), and Matt Brewer, who took 14 off the final over of the innings but was culpable for a terrible call to run out Tommy Probert.
Lechlade’s openers Young and Palmer briefly gave Bristol a dose of their own medicine in the powerplay, taking 33 off the first four overs, but they could not sustain the pace. Noema-Barnett became harder to get away as he went deeper into his initial five-over spell, Hardwick, after conceding two boundaries in his first over, was his normal miserly self, and Rudge, after his first three overs went for 27, returned at the other end to replace Noema-Barnett, and immediately had Palmer caught behind by Bracey, with the total on 64. The remaining nine wickets failed to muster as many runs between them as this opening stand. In a steady procession, Bracey grabbed three more catches, all standing up to the stumps, one off Hardwick and two off Probert. Breet attempted a suicidal second run off a no-ball in Probert’s first over and failed to beat the throw from Lakhani. Mortimer and Higgins were both bowled by Probert to give him his third and fourth wickets; Jupp gave the gentlest of catches to Shaw at short cover off Neil Pollard; and Harwood gave himself room to force Pollard on the off side and played on.
The final pair survived for three and half overs, trying to inch their way towards a first batting point, but finally Matt Brewer’s throw left Barnes stranded short of the crease attempting a quick single. In the final indignity for Lechlade, this final wicket fell off the seventh ball of the over.
Bristol will view their fourth place finish as a qualified success, particularly given the absence of an overseas professional for the entire season. They will hope that with this addition, and if they can produce their best performances with greater consistency next season, it will be the springboard for greater things.
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