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02-06-07
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Worlington visited Earl Stonham for the second meeting of the side this
season. Despite the good conditions Worlington asked Stonham to bat
first.
The opening Worlington bowling was tight, and after a solid start Ed
Player eventually fell for 6 to B Cole. Cole was easily the pick of the
bowling attack, bowling consistently and with reasonable pace. His spell
of 13 overs, 2 wickets for 27 runs was more than deserved for the effort
and application he put in. Rob Wrinch batted well against the best of
the bowling but was Cole's second victim, falling lbw to his second last
ball of the 13 over spell. By this time R Wrinch had amassed 58, and his
partnership with John Hails had set a solid platform for Stonham to
build upon. John Hails and Stephen Lewis then built another partnership
of their own both passing their half centuries. A visibly tiring Hails
eventually fell to a stumping for 65, being replaced by Simon Edgar. S
Edgar and S Lewis maintained and accelerated the run rate even further
until Lewis fell for 66 playing a rash shot in the second last over. S
Edgar finished unbeaten on 27, while Stonham had amassed a daunting 254
for 4.
Worlington's run chase started badly when Jeff Lewis snared a good catch
from the bowling of Charlie Tunstall to remove J Bayes. Even at this
early stage it was quite clear that Worlington were going to struggle to
reach Stonham's total. Once P Peachey (20) had been removed courtesy of
a John Humpreys caught and bowled, and S Smith (36) had been run out by
a superb bit of fielding from C Tunstall on the boundary only B Cole
(37) and S Collen (13) batting at number 10 managed to make it to double
figures. The bowling was of very high quality - Humpreys (1-24), Jeff
Lewis (2-41) and T Prior (3-45) all put in good performances with the
ball. Worlington fell 111 runs short, only managing to card 143 all out
completing a comfortable victory for Stonham.
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