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Doctors beat Taunton Deane Council by 65 runs Doctors 140 for 7
TDBC 75 all out
Andrew Paisley and Bobby Barthakur began
cautiously on a well worn Cannington strip against tight bowling by Matt Wyld
and Nick Collins but both perished trying to accelerate. Paisley feathered a
catch to keeper Bruce Carpenter off Collins (1-24) and Barthakur’s lofted
cover drive off Wyld (1-13) was plucked out of the air by Steve Hughes. Graham Fergusson and Harry Lee rebuilt
steadily and had put together a solid platform when Lee (18) was bowled by a
ball from C.Cox (1-28) which kept low.
Oliver Budd began scratchily but then found majestic form in the space
of one over from the hitherto miserly Cox which yielded 4 boundaries and 2
twos to all corners of the ground.
Fergusson retired having accumulated 31 stylish runs and Peter Weaver
((1-47) triggered a mini collapse by catching a leading edge from Budd (28)
off his own bowling. I.Hoskins (3-16)
clean bowled three victims by the simple expedient of bowling straight on a
full length. Doctors’ fortunes were
restored by an exceptional innings from Ed Johnson whose 32 not out off 10
balls contained 5 fours and a six. The
visitors’ bad day was exacerbated when Burt, having bowled two overs of tight
left arm spin, had to leave the field with a calf strain. The Council’s Cox and Gareth Clifford
started off at a good lick but neither played Lee with any comfort and
Clifford (10) was bowled off an inside edge.
Four wickets fell in quick succession with another wicket for Lee
(2-17), the dismissal of Cox (12) to a superb diving catch by Barthakur of
Paisley and a good run out by Phil Barker.
Hoskins signalled aggressive intent with 2 sixes and a four and formed
a useful partnership with Wyld but Oliver Budd took an excellent running,
diving catch to give Paisley (2-38)
the wicket of Hoskins (19) and
Doug Johnson stretched at mid off to catch Wyld (17) off Peter Reed. There was little further resistance as Reed
(2-17) and Budd (1-7) each took another wicket and then combined to run out
last man Weaver. |
