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Davo skippered a strong batting line up and elected to put it to full use. He started off with Ben and the pair tore into the varied GEM attack led by Kamran Mansour. Ben with 96 given out lbw before the big moment (NOT by Don!) and Davo bowled,also in the final over, for 91 hit a huge total. Phil Morse was caught on the boundary for 1 and James Carr left 1 not out with this pair padded up in the cold for 13 plus overs of the 14. Akeel was flattered with 2-0-26-3. Ben hit 6 sixes and 8 fours, Davo 11 fours and 3 sixes. Kamran went for 63 off 4 overs.but the GEM heads did not drop as Rowlands racked up 208-3..
In reply, Tom 2-0-33-0 and Dave Covell 2-0-28-0 opened up and GEM showed their intent with Kamran and Fiaz Ahmed. The change of Peter Finch and Chad Koen was effective with the main men were dismissed; Kamran for 37 and Fiaz 24. Ben Richardson kept well and took the catch of Fiaz for Peter and Chad had Kamran cleanly caught by Dave. There were no other significant scorers as Davo varied the attack with Peter improving all the time for 3-0-20-2, Chad 2-0-13-3, Don 2-0-17-2 including a nonchelant one handed, half effort catch on ther boundary by cheeky MoM Ben, Phil Morse 2-0-9-2 and finally Roy 0.2-0-0-0 with an inspired pressure run out! GEM were out for 125 in the final over. Phil also took a catch snd Ben a stumping as GEM faltered to 125 all out, Maximum 11 points for Rowlands which opened the 2013 account!
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