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Oceans suffer first loss

Oceans CC lost their first game of the season last night against Sage at Percy Main. The home side won the toss and elected to bat first. They posted a very competitive total of 149/6 off their 14 overs with their opener scoring 96. However, Oceans only have themselves to blame having dropped the same batsman three times and some woeful bowling and fielding effort provided Sage to pose such a total. In reply, Oceans were in deep trouble being 58/5 of 7 overs. Rian played intelligently to make 26. The game appeared to be lost at that stage and enter Javed and Ratty to the crease. Javed hit a swashbuckling 54 of 26 balls and Ratty (16) played an excellent anchor role as Oceans threatened to mount a serious fightback. Both these batsman put a partnership of 75 to swing the match open again. However, needing 18 to win of the final over seemed to much as both Javed and Ratty lost their wickets in chase of sixes. Oceans finally finished on 138/7 off their 14 overs and credit must be given to their batsman who made Sage sweat for their victory.