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Sat 09 Jun 2018  ·  Premier One
Clevedon CC - 1st XI
271/7
146
Bristol Cricket Club
1st XI
1st XI - Game 6 - Clevedon 271/6, Bristol 146

1st XI - Game 6 - Clevedon 271/6, Bristol 146

Will Rudge15 Jun 2018 - 20:11
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Back down to earth as 1sts lose heavily to Clevedon

Clevedon 271-6, H Ellison 96, M Curtis 65, T Probert 2-49, L Shaw 2-49
Bristol 146 (38.3 overs), M Brewer 40, F Trenouth 35, J Lintott 3-19
Clevedon won by 125 runs
Bristol came down to earth with a bump: a week after their heroics against Bath they were soundly beaten by Clevedon at Dial Hill, putting in a below-par performance with both bat and ball. The game followed an oddly similar pattern to the Bath game in many ways, but without the extremes of performance and with Bristol playing the opposite role. It was a third wicket stand of 150 between Max Curtis and Harry Ellison that established Clevedon’s advantage, and, faced with a challenging target of 271, Bristol quickly subsided after an explosive start from Trenouth was brought to a premature and calamitous end.
With Bracey and Noema-Barnett on county duty, Lisle Durrans and Vir Lakhani returned to the side which found itself in the field after Clevedon won the toss on a perfect summer’s day. Bristol conceded five an over in the first powerplay as Willows raced to 16 off eleven balls with two fours and a dismissive six off Probert into the houses at deep square leg. But they did pick up two wickets in this period, Shaw taking a good diving catch at point to dismiss Willows off Probert, and Rudge inducing Masoor Kahn to edge behind to Trenouth.
This brought together Curtis and Ellison who set about building their decisive partnership. Early in his innings, Ellison just got enough elevation on a shot over backward point to elude the trampolining Shaw and an over later there could have been a run-out had Brewer’s throw hit the stumps.
Shaw replaced Probert from the orphanage end and despite conceding 13 off this first over, he found his groove, and enough turn to ask the batsmen some questions. In the course of the only maiden in the innings at 97 for 2, Curtis nearly played on as the ball span back from his defensive shot and narrowly missed the stumps.
While Curtis had more of the strike, Ellison scored more quickly and reached his fifty first, off 48 balls, with a fine sweep off Pollard who had replaced Shaw. A double change saw Lakhani coming on at the other end, and from 105-2 off 21, the pair managed to slow the scoring rate to just 36 off the next ten. During this period Curtis gave a caught-and-bowled chance on 45 that Pollard was unable to hang on to. In Pollard’s next over, as if to add insult to injury, Ellison finally shook off the shackles, striking three sixes over cover, extra and mid-wicket.
Fielding at deepish mid-off, Probert had taken a painful blow to a sensitive area and, after completing his pick-up and throw, collapsed to the ground. He carried on, in obvious discomfort, and cruelly, was called upon to field the next four balls. He returned to bowl a tight three over spell of 1 for 8, finally breaking the partnership when Ellison hit a catch to Will Young at short cover, leaving him four short of a century, having hit 4 sixes and 10 fours off just 82 balls.
Jacob Lintott made productive use of the reverse sweep against Shaw, returning for a second spell from the opposite end, but the bowler had the last laugh when Lintott was LBW trying the shot once too often. Shaw had another LBW shout upheld to end Curtis’s 107-ball 65, and a couple of late run-outs gave Bristol two more wickets to take them to a third bowling point as Connor Crane took a more conservative view than his partners, Rowe and Plummer, about the feasibility of a second run.
Trenouth came out with all guns blazing, hitting Matt Carpenter out of the attack with six fours in that bowler’s first two overs. A leg-glance from Durrans at the other end was as graceful as Trenouth’s strikes were brutal and the total rocketed to forty off just four overs, with Trenouth’s share being 34 of 16 balls. Had he carried on for another few overs he would have made a sizeable dent in Bristol’s target and put an entirely different complexion on the game.
But it was another run-out – almost a carbon copy of the two towards the end of Clevedon’s innings – that saw his premature demise. Trenouth was already half-way down the pitch in pursuit of a second run before his partner’s call of “no” left him stranded.
41 for 1 quickly became 56 for 4 with Young and Tavare both bowled, either side of Durrans dismissal caught behind. The first four batsmen had all got off the mark with a boundary, but none survived beyond the eleventh over. Shaw and Brewer set about rebuilding but the scoring rate nosedived and as Shaw tried to accelerate his lofted drive landed just beyond deep mid-off, and two balls later he was well caught by Lintott at short cover.
Brewer looked secure and played some good-looking shots but was unable to penetrate the field with regularity, either hitting the ball straight to fielders or being denied runs by some athletic stops. He lost a succession of partners: Rudge slog-swept Thirkell for six but was then LBW to his first ball from Khan; Probert poked and prodded for fourteen balls for a single run, then had a swipe and was LBW, and Lakhani also fell leg-before for a three-ball duck.
Joyner joined forces with Brewer to put on thirty for the ninth wicket that saw Bristol to their first batting point, and to just four runs short of an unlikely second before he holed out in the deep. Five balls later, without further addition to the score, Brewer was the fourth LBW victim in Bristol’s innings, the sixth of the match, and the second of the match to fall this way while playing a reverse sweep.

Match details

Match date

Sat 09 Jun 2018

Kickoff

12:30

Competition

Premier One

League position

2
Clevedon CC - 1st XI
6
Bristol CC - 1st XI
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