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Rowlands recover from loss of early wickets at Mitford

Rowlands were put into bat on a soft wicket at Mitford and lost three early wickets. Davo was bowled first ball, Roy caught after hitting a 4 and Adeel for 8. Phil then was out for 1 with Ben who opened trying to hold the fort. Craig came in and helped steady the ship and with Ben the pair progressed well until Ben tried to fetch one from wide of off only to be caught for 40 at mid on! Two sixes and no cars hit this time! Chris Nicholson on his debut made an important 13 then at the death Mike Steven scored 1 and Richie Munro 2 not out. Craig meantime had swished away making the occasional contact and a welcome 35 not out in 133-7 off 14. Youngster Keiron Mole claimed 4-15 off his 3 overs by bowling outside off stump.

The Mitford reply was always behind the asking rate and this was a comfortable win for Rowlands. Pratty opened up with a mean spell of 3-0-12-2 with a superb catch by Mike, stretching with one glove and then a sharp catch by Roy in the self appointed gully position. Chris Nicholson bowled comendably to take 2-32 off 4 with another spectacular catch by Mike and one at deep fine leg by Richie, the key wicket of Colin Crowe. Roy achieved a run out after a brief fumble encouraged a suicidal second and Mitford were in trouble. The change bowling of Adeel accounted for the potential of Matt Ellinor and Adeel was as mean as 3-1-5-1. Don bowled 4 overs and went for only 13 plus a late six which just cleared Richie (by only 25 feet!) and suffered a spurned chance at mid off from his last ball. Mitford managed only 62-6 and Rowlands took 8 points from their third league win. Young Andy Gaynor scored 20 and the youngsters from Mitford did well.

The game next week we host GEM at Ulgham on Wednesday.

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