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Cranbourne vs. Kings
BOWLERS SET UP VICTORY AT CRANBOURNE AS SKIPPER YOUNG CELEBRATES 150TH WIN
CRANBOURNE C.C. vs. KINGS C.C.
Sunday 29th August 2010
Kings won by 3 wickets
On a windy day Kings paid their second visit to Cranbourne, in the shadow of Windsor Castle. Recent rain left had left the pitch a little damp but having won the toss the home side decided to bat first. The slowish pitch suited Kings opening bowlers and both Joel Miah and Simon Pipe soon found the pitch to their liking. Miah was difficult to scoring while Pipe was beating the bat and looking threatening from the first ball. Both opening batsmen had to play watchfully but started to chance their arm with some more aggressive shots, but not without risk. Kings got the breakthrough they sought when Pipe bowled Nilpesh (Jnr) (23-1) and it was Pipe who struck again when he removed the other opener in similar fashion (49-2). All the batsmen seemed to get a start before being dismissed, Raza having looked good before he came down the wicket to be bowled by Gale (67-3) and without addition to the score Warne stuck when successfully getting a leg before decision (67-4). The heavens then opened and the players were forced from the field by a heavy shower. As the rain continued the decision was taken to take and early tea. The game restarted with the pitch having absorbing the rain well and the players were soon bathed in warm sunshine. Kings kept the pressure up after the break in play and Warne soon took a return catch at the second chance whilst laying on his back! Gale was also bowling well, and was unlucky when Mumford put a chance down at midwicket. However Gale soon struck twice more (3-40) before Moore and Bygrave wrapped up the innings. The home side losing their last six wickets for 50 runs - 135 all out
Kings response got of to a positive start as Richie Warne went after the bowling, whilst Dave Perry, playing his first innings in several weeks, played more circumspect. Warne's approach was paying dividends as the 50 came up in the 10th over. Warne continued to find the boundary with ease so it was a surprise when he drove one straight back at the bowler who took a good low catch (55-1). Joel Miah came in to join Perry and he made a watchful start before a fin pick up shot brought him three runs before he too fell to a return catch as he drove straight (68-2). Mumford played himself in before he sweetly pulled over deep square leg for six and Perry seemed to be finding some rythem as well with two sweetly timed drives down the ground. However Kings suffered another set back when Perry was adjudged leg before (82-3). Mears and Mumford now looked to work the ball around and were making good progress in taking the score past the hundred mark, but then Mears picked out the extra cover fielder (105-4) and Kings then lost another quick wicket when Mumford was bowled (105-5).
When the inform Simon Pipe also fell cheaply (127-6) the were some jitters on the sidelines, as what had seemed an easy stroll to victory became problematical. The scoring slowed as Bygrave played out defensively whilst Gale tried to keep the score moving along. When Gale was bowled it left Kings just 4 runs short of victory (131-7) but Bygrave played out a maiden before Smith picked up the winning run with two overs to spare
| CRANBOURNE | HOW OUT | BOWLER | RUNS |
| Nilpesh (snr) | Bowled | b. Pipe | 14 |
| Nilpesh (jnr) | Bowled | b. Pipe | 17 |
| Raza | Bowled | b. Gale | 18 |
| Vikesh | LBW | b. Warne | 14 |
| Ricky | Ct. & b. | b. Warne | 19 |
| Rajan | Ct. Mears | b. Gale | 9 |
| Dave | Ct. Bygrave | b. Gale | 9 |
| Matt | Bowled | b. Moore | 8 |
| Vipul | Not Out | 8 | |
| Sohaib | Bowled | b. Bygrave | 6 |
| Tushar | LBW | b. Bygrave | 0 |
| Extras | 14 | ||
| Total | all out off 32.5 overs | 135 |
| Bowling | |
| S Pipe | 8-3-29-2 |
| J Miah | 5-1-9-0 |
| R Warne | 8-1-33-2 |
| J Gale | 8-0-40-3 |
| T Moore | 3-0-9-1 |
| P Bygrave | 0.5-0-6-2 |
| KINGS | HOW OUT | BOWLER | RUNS |
| R Warne | Ct. & b. | b. Matt | 38 |
| D Perry | LBW | b. Matt | 29 |
| J Miah | Ct. & b. | b. Vikas | 3 |
| T Mumford | Bowled | b. Dave | 13 |
| O Mears | Ct. sub | b. Shoaib | 9 |
| S Pipe | Bowled | b. Dave | 7 |
| J Gale | Bowled | b. Matt | 13 |
| P Bygrave | Not out | 1 | |
| S Smith | Not Out | 5 | |
| T Moore | |||
| R Young | |||
| Extras | 18 | ||
| Total | for 7 wickets off 37.5 overs | 136 |
| Bowling | |
| Raza | 8-0-20-0 |
| Dave | 8-1-32-2 |
| Vikas | 8-3-26-1 |
| Matt | 8-2-27-3 |
| Shoaib | 3.5-0-19-1 |
| Rajan | 2-1-4-0 |