Match Report vs South Glam 26 May 2009

South Glam won the Toss and elected to bat first. It was clear from the first ball that South Glam weren’t going to hang around. With Allen and Sparks at the crease, Lewis and P Stephens opened up for the Casuals and both took a bit of punishment. After 8 overs the Casuals were wicket less with the score on 61. A bowling change saw Hood and Dave “Super Star” Thomas take over the responsibilities and Thomas struck straight away removing Allen. Bowled for 40. Hood kept the pressure on at the other end and next over dave had two back in the club house. Some sharp work behind the stumps by Smitty…sorry I mean Jonny F (Those two are easily confused) saw Richardson stumped adding only a single from the bat, and his replacement Lansdown didn’t last long as Dave rattled his timbers. Warwick and Bannister finished off the casuals overs with Bannister picking up the wicket of the other opener Sparks. Bowled for 36, and an excellent bit of fielding from Lewis coming in from the boundary resulted in a direct hit run out.

South Glamorgan 127/5 off 20

D Lewis 4-0-31-0
P Stephens 4-0-29-0
Hood 4-0-13-0
D “SS” Thomas 4-0-19-3
I Warwick 2-0-19-0
R Bannister 2-0-11-1

Now The Casuals batting performances of late had been getting a bit of stick, with most members of the club admitting that we should be doing better. If you are of a nervous disposition then don’t read on.

C Ryde and M Stephens opened up for the casuals but Easy was walking early on, bowled. Scott Hand was next in, and next out. He fell to an absolute jaffa of a delivery that pitched on middle and then clipped the top of off. Kim came and went adding just one to the total. M Stephens who had been battling hard against some good bowling eventually mistimed one and it popped up in the air for and easy catch. Warwick, Bannister and Hood added 3 runs to the total between them. The only two batsmen to make double figures were JF and D Lewis. JF was eventually out caught for a difficult 16. Lewis smashed a couple of boundaries’ before eventually being bowled.

Cardiff Casuals 59 All Out off 17.2 overs.

South Glamorgan win by 68 runs.

Ryde 0
M Stephens 7
Hand 0
K Swain 1
P Stephens 7
I Warwick 2
J Furnham 16
J Bannister 0
A Hood 0
D Lewis 11
D Thomas 0 Not Out

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