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Rowlands Frustrate top team Adders

Rowlands entertained high flying Adders with the first appearance this season of the Hynd twins, Alan and Matt. Matt skippered, lost the toss and opened with Dave Haxon. It was going slowly against the accurate attack of Joy Saini and Chris Gaudi. Off the bowling of Saini, Dave hit a powerful off drive which was superbly intercepted by Gaudi and Dave was run out, stranded at 27-1 for 4 singles. In came Roy and the pair took the score to 107 in tricky circumstances with Dan Clark and Andy Bryant also difficult to get away and the fielding keen. Finally Matt was bowled late on with a swinger by the returning Saini. He had scored a Man of the Match 54 with 7 fours. Craig came in only to be bowled last ball by Saini for 1 with Nick Brown next in but not required on this occasion. Roy meanwhile had hit a powerful 42 not out including 4 fours. So Rowlands made 115-3 off the 14 overs with 2 batting points and denied Adders any bowling points.

The Adders were really up for the victory and discussing how to make maximum 3 batting points as Dan Clark and James Sutton took to the crease. Ian Pratt and Bob Wilson opened the Rowlands attack and did reasonably well to contain the Adders aggression. Pratty completed 4-0-34-1 with a catch by Nick Brown at mid on to dismiss Sutton for 19. Bob recorded 2-0-22-0 and in came Chris Goudie with equal aggression. The change bowling of Don and Dave Haxon slowed the scoring rate to just below that of maximum batting points as every run was put up on the board immediately it was scored. Don had Dan Clark easily stumped by Alan for 43 and then Don bowled J Kimber first ball to record 4-0-29-2 with five highly vocal lbw shouts turned down. Dave had Bob Tulip caught be Phil Hornsey following a rejected stumping appeal to give him 3-0-27-1. Roy with 0.2-0-6-0 was then given an impossible task to avoid the final over runs required but they came in two given wides after a rejected lbw shout. Adders were home with 6 balls to spare but they were denied maximum batting points and only took 7 points from the game after the tight play from Rowlands which earned them 3 points.