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1st XI - Game 8 - Bristol 256-5, Bedminster 178
Will Rudge24 Jun 2018 - 21:00
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Another hundred for Young, a fifty for Durrans, and a comfortable win
Bristol 286-5, W Young 118, L Durrans 63, J Bracey 41
Bedminster 178 (46.1 overs), L Shaw 2-32, N Pollard 2-33, T Probert 2-36, N Patel 2-18
Bristol won by 108 runs
Another convincing win moves Bristol up to joint third in the table as the midpoint of the season approaches, thanks to another quality hundred from Will Young, and contrasting but equally valuable innings from the new opening pair of James Bracey and Lisle Durrans.
By the time Durrans got off the mark by edging his nineteenth delivery to the third man boundary, Bracey had already raced to 22 off the same number of balls, including five fours, all but one in an arc between backward point and cover. This came after Bristol won the toss and chose to bat.
Durrans soon got into his stride too, picking up where he left off from his unbeaten century for the seconds the previous week. In the ninth over, he brought up the fifty partnership with a boundary, then added two more, the last a sumptuous extra cover drive. But the following over, after striking his ninth boundary, Bracey was caught behind chasing a wide one from Gibbs, for a 31-ball 41. Bedminster will rue the easy chance that Drissell put down at mid-wicket in the following over, that would have sent Durrans back to the pavilion too.
Durrans made the most of this let-off; with good strike rotation and a smattering of boundaries, he and Young kept the scoreboard ticking over at a healthy rate, Young bringing up the hundred in the twentieth over with a boundary through the covers off Drissell. A flurry of runs just after the midpoint of the innings hoisted the rate above five an over. First Durrans gave a long-hop from Drissell what it deserved, depositing it into the car park for six. Then Young swept Tryfonos for three consecutive fours. Durrans reached his fifty off 69 balls with a nonchalant turn off his legs behind square, and Young brought up his from 65 balls with a pat up to long off.
Young was given two lives, both within a couple of overs of one another. First Drissell, offending for the second time, dropped him on the mid-wicket boundary before he had added to his half-century. Then, wicket-keeper Gareth Elphick failed to take a stumping opportunity. Tryfonos was the bowler denied the wicket in each case.
Soon after Durrans had played one of the best shots of the day - an on-drive that kept the chasing fielder interested all the way to the boundary – he departed, caught by Russell at long off, finally giving Tryfonos his reward. The second wicket partnership was worth 117 took the total to 180.
Trenouth, batting at the unfamiliar position of number 4, played an un-Trenouth-like innings of 8 off 18 balls. Meanwhile, although this wasn’t the easiest pitch to score quickly on, Young put his foot on the accelerator, moving from 50 to 100 in 44 balls, and was well supported by Shaw (18 off 24). Both fell within a couple of overs to catches in the deep, Young’s final tally being 116 off 118 with a six and 15 fours.
Bedminster never recovered from a poor start. Their 36-2 in the powerplay compared poorly to Bristol’s 63-1. Although Probert took a couple of overs to get his sights lined up, he took the vital wicket of Miles Hammond, caught behind driving.
Hughes and Russell saw Bedminster to the first drinks break (the umpires had decreed two per innings due to the hot weather) without further loss, but then Hughes gave an easy catch to Rudge at mid-wicket off Neal Patel, and from 73 for 3, Bedminster subsided to 109 for 6. Drissell was caught behind by Bracey standing up to Patel to give him a second wicket. Russell’s vigil of 35 off 69 balls ended when he tried to break free of the shackles and Durrans took a well-judged catch on the long-on boundary, and Elphick was LBW to Pollard.
Pugsley and Cunliffe arrested the slide for a while, but by the time they came together at the fall of the sixth wicket in the 29th over, the asking rate was nearly 8.5 an over, so it was mainly a question of how many batting points they could amass. Their partnership could have ended sooner: Probert’s direct hit from deep mid-wicket nearly ran out Cunliffe on the second run, and Trenouth couldn’t cling on to a difficult chance above his head from Pugsley off Pollard. Finally Pugsley crept out of his ground and was smartly stumped by Bracey off Shaw.
Gibbs had a swipe the ball following a high full-toss from Probert, perhaps erroneously thinking it was a free hit, and Neill got a leading edge off Pollard. The innings should have been wrapped up the very next ball, when Pollard’s comical failure to execute the simplest run-out, had several of his team-mates on the floor in stitches: he inexplicably opted to underarm the ball at the stumps from two feet away (and missed) rather than carry the ball to the stumps, which he had ample time to do. Order was restored one ball later when Mason pulled in the air off Joyner and Probert completed the catch at mid-wicket.
It was a heartening performance in the field from Bristol with the wickets being shared around, no bowler going unrewarded and all having economy rates below 4.5. They were backed up by energetic fielding – a spectacular diving stop at short cover by Probert sticks in the mind – and were able to drive home the advantage attained by the batsmen.
Bedminster 178 (46.1 overs), L Shaw 2-32, N Pollard 2-33, T Probert 2-36, N Patel 2-18
Bristol won by 108 runs
Another convincing win moves Bristol up to joint third in the table as the midpoint of the season approaches, thanks to another quality hundred from Will Young, and contrasting but equally valuable innings from the new opening pair of James Bracey and Lisle Durrans.
By the time Durrans got off the mark by edging his nineteenth delivery to the third man boundary, Bracey had already raced to 22 off the same number of balls, including five fours, all but one in an arc between backward point and cover. This came after Bristol won the toss and chose to bat.
Durrans soon got into his stride too, picking up where he left off from his unbeaten century for the seconds the previous week. In the ninth over, he brought up the fifty partnership with a boundary, then added two more, the last a sumptuous extra cover drive. But the following over, after striking his ninth boundary, Bracey was caught behind chasing a wide one from Gibbs, for a 31-ball 41. Bedminster will rue the easy chance that Drissell put down at mid-wicket in the following over, that would have sent Durrans back to the pavilion too.
Durrans made the most of this let-off; with good strike rotation and a smattering of boundaries, he and Young kept the scoreboard ticking over at a healthy rate, Young bringing up the hundred in the twentieth over with a boundary through the covers off Drissell. A flurry of runs just after the midpoint of the innings hoisted the rate above five an over. First Durrans gave a long-hop from Drissell what it deserved, depositing it into the car park for six. Then Young swept Tryfonos for three consecutive fours. Durrans reached his fifty off 69 balls with a nonchalant turn off his legs behind square, and Young brought up his from 65 balls with a pat up to long off.
Young was given two lives, both within a couple of overs of one another. First Drissell, offending for the second time, dropped him on the mid-wicket boundary before he had added to his half-century. Then, wicket-keeper Gareth Elphick failed to take a stumping opportunity. Tryfonos was the bowler denied the wicket in each case.
Soon after Durrans had played one of the best shots of the day - an on-drive that kept the chasing fielder interested all the way to the boundary – he departed, caught by Russell at long off, finally giving Tryfonos his reward. The second wicket partnership was worth 117 took the total to 180.
Trenouth, batting at the unfamiliar position of number 4, played an un-Trenouth-like innings of 8 off 18 balls. Meanwhile, although this wasn’t the easiest pitch to score quickly on, Young put his foot on the accelerator, moving from 50 to 100 in 44 balls, and was well supported by Shaw (18 off 24). Both fell within a couple of overs to catches in the deep, Young’s final tally being 116 off 118 with a six and 15 fours.
Bedminster never recovered from a poor start. Their 36-2 in the powerplay compared poorly to Bristol’s 63-1. Although Probert took a couple of overs to get his sights lined up, he took the vital wicket of Miles Hammond, caught behind driving.
Hughes and Russell saw Bedminster to the first drinks break (the umpires had decreed two per innings due to the hot weather) without further loss, but then Hughes gave an easy catch to Rudge at mid-wicket off Neal Patel, and from 73 for 3, Bedminster subsided to 109 for 6. Drissell was caught behind by Bracey standing up to Patel to give him a second wicket. Russell’s vigil of 35 off 69 balls ended when he tried to break free of the shackles and Durrans took a well-judged catch on the long-on boundary, and Elphick was LBW to Pollard.
Pugsley and Cunliffe arrested the slide for a while, but by the time they came together at the fall of the sixth wicket in the 29th over, the asking rate was nearly 8.5 an over, so it was mainly a question of how many batting points they could amass. Their partnership could have ended sooner: Probert’s direct hit from deep mid-wicket nearly ran out Cunliffe on the second run, and Trenouth couldn’t cling on to a difficult chance above his head from Pugsley off Pollard. Finally Pugsley crept out of his ground and was smartly stumped by Bracey off Shaw.
Gibbs had a swipe the ball following a high full-toss from Probert, perhaps erroneously thinking it was a free hit, and Neill got a leading edge off Pollard. The innings should have been wrapped up the very next ball, when Pollard’s comical failure to execute the simplest run-out, had several of his team-mates on the floor in stitches: he inexplicably opted to underarm the ball at the stumps from two feet away (and missed) rather than carry the ball to the stumps, which he had ample time to do. Order was restored one ball later when Mason pulled in the air off Joyner and Probert completed the catch at mid-wicket.
It was a heartening performance in the field from Bristol with the wickets being shared around, no bowler going unrewarded and all having economy rates below 4.5. They were backed up by energetic fielding – a spectacular diving stop at short cover by Probert sticks in the mind – and were able to drive home the advantage attained by the batsmen.
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