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Rowlands keep Aidan House in the dark

The League season saw Rowlands off to a good start last night at the not quite ready New Tynemouth.

Rowlands were surprisingly put into bat by Aidan House with new recruit Blair Parlane and old hand Matty Hynd leading the offensive. After Blair had dominated the strike, Matt had a chance to use his experience. Unfortunately he had been watching too much TV over the winter and tried to emulate Darren Gough by dancing down the wicket to White. He was at the wrong ball and got stumped by one that moved away from him. Blair and the incoming Roy Haygarth dominated the innings with fine arrays of shots. Blair was caught for 40 so in Graeme Redpath for an all left hand attack. G. Brown was surprised to be called wide "so many times down the leg side to left handers so early in the season" but extras at 29 was a good help towards the Rowlands mounting total. Roy surpassed Blair with an undefeated 45 and Graeme did his stuff with 13 before being stumped trying to push on the score. Aidrian Conway brought his usual style to the crease and hit two singles before sacrificing on the last ball with a second run never really on. 130-4 left skipper Alan Hynd happy enough whilst removing his unused pads.

The reply in the already darkening arena saw a lively spell from Paddy Curtis, initially wide of the mark but increasingly threatening for his 3-0-17-0 and some mixed but encouraging overs from Martin Rownan 3-0-21-0. The opening partnership of G Brown and C Lyall had put on 40. Dave Charlton then bowled an over for 4 and Don Catley the next for 2 before Aidan House tried to open up big time. Dave went for 14 but then Don bowled out both openers in his next over. This brought Chris Tuck to the crease and he attacked Dave's next over off which came 15 more runs. Don then struck twice more with furniture removals and Felton joined Tuck. Aidan House to their credit kept going and managed 120-4 with Dave completing on 4-0-43-0 and Don's last over suffering two huge 6's from Tuck man (40*) and 21 coming off it to change 3-0-13-4 into the less impressive 4-0-34-4.

This was a good, enthusiastic fielding display from Rowlands - both young legs and old - as runs were kept down at most opportunities. Eight point was a good start and saw a well deserved first MoM for Roy.

DOn