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Big Ben strikes again!

In the final game of the season at Swalwell, against the Nine Pins, Rowlands were first into bat. Ben and Shaun (remember him?!) opened up and put on 143 for the first wicket. Ben reached 86 before being caught in the deep off Tom Nichol after hitting 4 sixes and 8 fours with some style. Shaun for once was the quieter member of the pairing but he accelerated and made 79 before Paul Smith bowled him off the last ball of the game with Shaun so far down the pitch he was almost looking to be hand fed! Shaun hit 11 fours. Meanwhile Davo hit one four and 9 singles in his 5 over visit to the middle. Rowlands amassed 189-2 off 15 overs with all the Nine Pins bowlers taking punishment.

The Pins reply began aggressively against the opening attack of Jeff Thomson and Gary Hall. Gary had the short boundary and went for 24 off his 2 overs whilst Jeff's occasional leg side balls were chased by Ben who almost needed a passport to go and collect them. Skipper Alan persevered with Jeff who improved his line and had Ben claim the wickets of Tom Nichol and Michael Armstrong from skiers to record 4-0-38-2. Don replaced Gary and recorded 4-0-35-2 by bowling out Andy Gibson and another having not received any umpiring acknowledgement of any lbw successes. Roy made up for being padded up for 15 overs by bowling a useful 4 overs and taking 1-19. Capitano Alan bowled a cameo over which went for 16 with no wickets, despite an impressive attempt by Davo on the short boundary, Pins were down at 133-5 having not been able to maintain the early run rate. Guy kept the byes down behind the wicket as the 10 man field did its best to cover the gaps over the strongly biased field.