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Rowlands Fail to Add up!

At Backworth Davo won the toss and decided to bat first against Adders. He opened with Ben and the pair only managed 22 off the first 4 overs with Ben falling to a catch at the wicket off Ben Oliver for 10 (1 four). In came Roy to attempt to push on the scoring with Andy Bryant, fresh from his hip operation bowling off one step and tying Rowlands down, apart from three 4s off loose ones to record 3-0-24-0. The score moved on to 72 before Roy blamed his ear muffs for not hearing the call from the run out Davo. Davo recorded 24 with three 4s. At 53-2 by the end of the 8th over Rowlands were behind the expected rate and in came Ralph to show his intent. A quick 4 and a 6 and he was gone, missing one, for an encouraging 15. Rhys and Roy continued the assault with better effect and in the penultimate over Roy was clean bowled for 29 (three 4s) by the returning Oliver (4-1-24-2) with all eyes on the deep mid on boundary! Rhys went on to score 33 not out (three 4s) with Dave Covell hitting 3 not out in his short visit to the crease. In their 14 overs Rowlands made 122-4 thanks to the late upping of the rate. Dan Clark had taken some punishment with 4-0-46-1 claiming the wicket of Ralph.

The Adders reply with Dan Clark and Mark Minto showed their intent immediately. Pratty went for 24 off 3 and Dave Covell 30 off 3 to see Adders up with the required rate. Sam 2-0-27-0 and Don 2-0-24-0 had even less joy as the pink ball visited the boundary at a regular rate. For what turned out to be the penultimate over, Davo turned to magic Roy who suddenly got lift and movement to have the ball going up in the air. One chance was taken with Rhys catching Dan Clark for 53 who walked despite a no ball call from square leg for a high one from Roy that was falling short; 1-10 off an over could have been even more impressive. Graeme Seddon bowled 4 balls for 8 runs and Adders were home in the 12th over with Minto on 61 not out. Superstar Roy was nominated for his third successive Man of the Match. The fielding was good with not many byes past Gary and several 2s turned back into 1s.