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Doctors beat Bath & Wells Clergy by 24 runs Doctors 130
for 7
Clergy 106
for 9
The Clergy put Doctors in to bat and made early inroads thanks to A.Moore (1-21) and N.Corbin (1-20). David Gwynne Jones, in his first innings of the season, had the scoreboard rattling along in a brisk innings of 24 punctuated with trademark clubbing pull strokes until a top edge off Andrew Spear (2-26) looped up to keeper D.Walrond. This brought in veteran Jeremy Budd to join Andrew Dodden who was playing his first match for Doctors. Youth and experience blended well with Dodden’s style and technique complemented perfectly by Budd’s handsome driving on both sides of the wicket. The pick of the clergy bowling came from P.Winks’ looping off breaks and he broke the partnership when Dodden (24) nicked the ball to the keeper. Further wickets fell to Winks (2-12) and B.Toseland (1-18) as Doctors pressed for quick runs but Budd (34 n.o.) remained to the end and his majestic strokeplay ensured his side a competitive total. A
most unusual event occurred from the first ball of the Clergy innings when
John Down was hit for 4 by Walrond.
Normal service was soon resumed as Down settled into miserly mode and
Steve Witts bowled a thoughtful and probing spell from the other end. Witts (1-11) cleverly changed his angle of
approach and was rewarded with the wicket of Chris Turner, clean bowled but
Walrond and S.Reed took the score on to 44 for 1. Their stand was ended when Dodden and Budd
formed another partnership, this time with the ball, and Reed (19) was well
caught by keeper Dave Rooke off Budd and Walrond (14) fell lbw to Dodden
(1-20). Budd (2-24) then confirmed his
status as man of the match by capturing the prized wicket of Keith Powell who
was plumb lbw. Two quick wickets for |