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Doctors beat Butterworth Jones by 6 wickets Of the 4 teams that wanted to
play us on the 7th we chose a re-match with the Accountants. Very
overcast with rain just down the road, we elected to play 15 overs. Rumour
had it that our skipper Sam Powell had gone to N Newton instead, and so Rob
Adcock kindly seized the initiative, won the toss and put them in. With our opening attack of Imogen Mann and wily
Sedge, their batsmen were never able to get away. In a mean spell of 1-15
Imogen clean bowled the threatening Edworthy and Sedge spun out two
more. Their innings never really gathered momentum thanks to Steven
King, Matt and Will Bere and an over from Jeremy Budd, and they ended on 78. The rain held off and our openers Matt Bere and
John Ogle who initially had to see off the tight bowling of Mortimer and
Philips went on to create a platform. After some circumspection Matt rapidly
moved into boundary mode, soon reaching his 25; Rob Adcock came and went,
John Ogle reached 16 before falling LBW to one that kept low. It was
left to the stalwart Jeremy Minchin and belligerent Chris Cullum to see us
home with 13 and 26 respectively with 20 balls and 6 wickets remaining.
The rain reached us just as we were leaving. PS no news from Sam Powell who must have taken on N
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