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Doctors beat Spaxton by 33 runs Doctors 135 for 6
Spaxton 102 for 5
Tom Eve and Graham Fergusson produced a
sparkling opening stand at 8 an over which got Doctors off to a flying
start. Rodney Parrish bowled
economically but Eve was in particularly good form with 28 of his 33 coming
in boundaries. When he retired Sam Powell
played the perfect innings for a number 3 batsman which
was laced with elegant cover drives. Adam
Richards ended another productive partnership by bowling Fergusson (24) so
Keith Powell joined his son and continued the good work. Harrison Buller (1-32) broke the
partnership with a full, straight ball which bowled Keith Powell (15) and when
Sam Powell (29) came down the wicket to Richards and was also bowled the scoring
rate dropped alarmingly. Richards
(3-24) capped a good spell when Rob Adcock edged to keeper Scott Bellinger
and Tom Bellinger (1-12) induced a lame chip to short midwicket from John
Ogle. Happily for the home team Tom
Adams (19 n.o.) was on hand in the final overs to
ensure a par score.
The first ball of
the Spaxton innings yielded a wicket to Phil Barker when Scott Bellinger
hoisted the ball high to long on where Sam Powell took a good catch. Dave Pople and Darren Langlois made handsome
amends with a boundary-studded 50 partnership. Both batsmen offered chances to deep
midwicket which were spurned and when both retired unbeaten on 30 they had
given their side an excellent platform for victory. Sadly for Spaxton the rest of the train
never left the station. Scoring became
more and more difficult, initially due to a fine spell of bowling from Will
Ogle (2-10) and then to the combination of fading light and the accuracy of Eve
(1-9) and Sam Powell (1-14). Gary Wales
(13) and Buller (11) played useful cameos but Spaxton never got close. |
