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It was a case of not quite enough runs from the 12 overs on the board last night as CCC exited the cup in the first round against Paddlers at Heaton. Put into bat CCC saw Chris heading back to the pavilion with a duck, understandably the pressure was on at once and the wicket would just not let the ball come on, so patience was the order of the night for CCC’s batters. Simon Woodman batted well playing some fine shots but again the lack of pace was a problem and these shots were unfairly rewarded when they went to a fielder or hardly off the square at times. Successive batsmen, Peter caught of a certain 4 and John and Ali all assisted Mussy who played a fine innings scoring 34 to end the innings on lowly 68.
CCC figured Paddlers would have the same problems when they batted.
The seamers started, Derek and Tim, and despite some useful deliveries pace (ish) balling was not the order of the night particularly against Paddlers opening batsmen who was playing well. It seemed by 4 overs 68 was too low a target to post but then enter the Cliff and Ali show supported very well by Gerry. Ali bowling economically and Cliff with two wickets both caught by Ali suddenly turned the game around and when Gerry put in a great over with a wicket from a fantastic catch by Peter (almost Monkseaton standard) it was well and truly game back on. Derek was brought on for the penultimate over and was unlucky to see a batsmen who had not troubled all night hit a four to set up Cliff a last over task of not to concede more than 3. Sadly CCC fell short and the game was over with 5 balls to spare.
Given the lack of proven batsmen who could score a lot of runs this was a reasonable performance, an early wicket would have helped our cause but now CCC can truly and unfortunately concentrate on the league and perhaps go one better than a few years ago when they were runners up?
Team: Chris, Simon W, Mudasser, Peter, John, Ali, Roger, Tim, Derek, Gerry, Cliff
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