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Doctors beat Quantock Stags by 52 runs Doctors 162
for 9
Stags 110
all out
Doctors were put
into bat on a lovely September day in this traditional late season fixture
and Geoff Shaw struck in his first over.
The Cannington wicket as true but slow and the batsmen had to play
themselves in carefully. Shaw (1-28)
and Simon Foyle bowled tightly and it was not until the12th over that the run
rate rose above two an over, but Rob Adcock and Andrew Paisley played
sensibly and, having laid a strong foundation, steadily accelerated in a
stand of 51. Gordon Elkins bowled well
but was unrewarded and the partnership was broken by Pete Dickens who induced
Doctors’
opening bowler Simon Ogilvie was in a totally different class to all of the
other bowlers in the match and when he was taken off his figures were 3 for
4. Sam Powell (1-6) was the ideal foil
and Stags were reeling at 17 for 4.
Elkins and Coates strove valiantly to repair the damage but with the
total on 58 Elkins (20) was bowled by an excellent off cutter from Bellinger
(1-29). Barks’ aggressive intent
yielded three boundaries but Coates (18) was soon lbw to the excellent Joe
Lee (1-21) and when Barks (12) and Foyle were dismissed in quick succession
in a fiery spell from Johnson (2-11) the visitors were on the slide
again. Father and son Pete and Steve
Dickens kept Stags’ hopes alive but when a towering skier from Pete
Dickens (23) was caught by Ogilvie off Peter Reed (1-19) his father soon
followed, neatly caught by Gower at midwicket in the first over from |
