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In the last league game, against Nine Pins at sunny Swalwell, nine man Rowlands lost out to the Nine Pins despite a good effort. Pins elected to bat first in the 14 overs game and got off to a flying start. Big John claimed a wicket thanks to a catch by Shaun for 3-0-23-1 but Rob Burns could not find his length and went for 32 off 2 aided by the stort legside boundary. Shaun then bowled Tom Nichol for 26 and 3-0-30-1. Don claimed his 30th wicket for the season when Shaun took a spinning catch at point but then bore the brunt of Brian Jarvo's 89* and Colin Myers 25* to suffer 4-0-49-2, supported by a catch at long mid off by Lewis. Roy also suffered 2-0-40-0 with 30 runs coming off the final over. Pins notched up 181-4.
Undaunted, but not feeling overgrand, skipper Davo opened with Craig Turnbull who suffered a first ball caught behind by Gully Greener; the first of his 3 catches! Davo went on to make 54 (three 4s and two 6s) before exhaustion caused him to miss one of Jarvo's straighter ones. Roy made an effort with 17 (a five!) before becoming a Greener victim and Shaun appeared briefly for 2, caught Greener again! Lewis 38* (a 4 and two 6s) and BJ 36* (four 4s and two 6s) did their best and took the score to 161-4, an excellent attempt at the huge score.
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