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Taunton School Staff beat Doctors by wickets Doctors
131 for 7
Taunton
School 133
for 4
Doctors openers were pinned down by accurate bowling from
Harry Popplewell and Dan Godfrey with only 22 runs
coming from the first 6 overs, but Rob Dickens joined the fray as the bowling
changes came and started to accelerate with Tom Eve (22). When Eve was caught at deep midwicket off
Godfrey he was replaced by Harry Lee.
Rob and Harry both retired on 30 not out after some fine batting, but
thereafter Doctors struggled to maintain the scoring rate with only Sam
Powell (12) and John Ogle (14) contributing,
Ogle was run out going for 2 runs off the final ball, leaving Taunton
to chase 132 to win. The
Taunton innings also started cautiously against tidy swing bowling from
Powell and Barker, but Kelly (30 no) and Cook (23) eventually found their
range until Peter Reed (1-26) claimed Cook lbw. Taunton looked to be cruising as they
stayed ahead of the required run rate with Tom Langston and Andrew Paisley
taking the brunt of an assault from Godfrey until he also retired on 31.
Doctors began to claw their way back into the game with two tight overs from
Harry Lee yielding 2 wickets for 4 runs but sadly it proved to be too little
too late as Whitworth took 12 runs off Harry’s next over to see Taunton home. |
