A tame draw despite Scriven's onslaught
OCCC 306 for 8 (Scriven 117, Ross 73) drew with Grasshoppers 243 for 7
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The game against the Grasshoppers petered out into a tame draw after what was always going to be a stiff target became a nigh-on impossible one after the visitors lost wickets regularly through their chase and opted to play out time.
A rather bizarre interpretation of the weather forecast by Eds Copleston meant he set the finish to be 5pm plus 20 overs. Needless to say, the closing overs were played out in glorious sunshine, and the extra half hour might have kept the Grasshoppers interested. Grasshoppers won the toss and put us in on a pitch which has offered little but heartache to bowlers all week.
Nonetheless, we lost three early wickets before jack Scriven joined Nathan Ross, back on Jubilee for the first time in five years. The pair added 176 for the fourth wicket in 89 minutes, Scriven cutting lose in a quite savage onslaught of 117 from 89 deliveries, his second hundred of the season. Four times he sent the ball sailing into the field behind the pavilion, and in ten balls after he reached fifty he smashed 30 runs. Ross was almost a bystander during the carnage, although he too joined in the fun after lunch.
Scriven and Ross eventually fell to tame dismissals, Duncan Allen bowled reverse sweeping and then Copleston, having told all and sundry he needed ten to overtake his brother on the all-time run list, spooned a catch when he had made 9. Morgan Fletcher gave a reminder to the Cranleigh CC selectors with a chirpy 19 not out.
Set 307 to win in what turned out to be 52 overs (we received 47) Copleston attacked with only one man in front of square – at short leg – and Will Rollings made an early breakthrough. But wickets were hard to come by, although Fletcher struck with successive deliveries and then saw the hat-trick ball loop over the slips, and Grasshoppers gradually lost interest.
Hardman held the innings together with a patient 79, and Pickard clubbed an agricultural 38, mostly over the pavilion, but Grasshoppers lacked the depth to seriously challenge. Copleston came took two late wickets and also conceded a basketful of runs, giving the final scorecard a more balanced appearance than was deserved.
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The game against the Grasshoppers petered out into a tame draw after what was always going to be a stiff target became a nigh-on impossible one after the visitors lost wickets regularly through their chase and opted to play out time.
A rather bizarre interpretation of the weather forecast by Eds Copleston meant he set the finish to be 5pm plus 20 overs. Needless to say, the closing overs were played out in glorious sunshine, and the extra half hour might have kept the Grasshoppers interested. Grasshoppers won the toss and put us in on a pitch which has offered little but heartache to bowlers all week.
Nonetheless, we lost three early wickets before jack Scriven joined Nathan Ross, back on Jubilee for the first time in five years. The pair added 176 for the fourth wicket in 89 minutes, Scriven cutting lose in a quite savage onslaught of 117 from 89 deliveries, his second hundred of the season. Four times he sent the ball sailing into the field behind the pavilion, and in ten balls after he reached fifty he smashed 30 runs. Ross was almost a bystander during the carnage, although he too joined in the fun after lunch.
Scriven and Ross eventually fell to tame dismissals, Duncan Allen bowled reverse sweeping and then Copleston, having told all and sundry he needed ten to overtake his brother on the all-time run list, spooned a catch when he had made 9. Morgan Fletcher gave a reminder to the Cranleigh CC selectors with a chirpy 19 not out.
Set 307 to win in what turned out to be 52 overs (we received 47) Copleston attacked with only one man in front of square – at short leg – and Will Rollings made an early breakthrough. But wickets were hard to come by, although Fletcher struck with successive deliveries and then saw the hat-trick ball loop over the slips, and Grasshoppers gradually lost interest.
Hardman held the innings together with a patient 79, and Pickard clubbed an agricultural 38, mostly over the pavilion, but Grasshoppers lacked the depth to seriously challenge. Copleston came took two late wickets and also conceded a basketful of runs, giving the final scorecard a more balanced appearance than was deserved.
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