Totton & Eling vs. Paultons
Report supplied by Steve Cummings
Match report 17/06/10
After our confidence-boosting win against Wellow we were looking forward to the visit of our neighbours Paultons.
They batted first and soon were on the back foot with a lively spell from Dan and Matt each taking a wicket with the score only on 7,unfortunately these overs contained many extras which all though didn’t affect bowling figures they gave our rivals an impetus
And although Dan picked up his 2nd wicket with the score on 25,Paultons soon picked up runs and with us continuing to bowl some wild deliveries they soon passed the century and eventually finished on 110 for the loss of only 3 wickets…
A decent score but without our extras it would have been 68.
This meant that we had to perform again with the bat to stand a chance of winning
The 2 Ollie’s started again together and formed an impressive opening partnership with Ollie H retiring in no time on 31.
The arrival of Rory didn’t change much as he and Ollie M kept the runs ticking over.
Unfortunately when on 11 Rory decided to advance across his stumps and was bowled around his legs.
George was the next in and continuing his fine form he took the game to our visitors and quickly took the game away from them. The only blot in his copybook was when he creamed a straight drive into the bowlers hand and then on to the stumps leaving poor Ollie M stranded and was unluckily run out for 26,but Ollie can hold his head up with a superb and mature batting performance which many others should learn from.
Disappointingly Jack soon was out to a fine delivery and carried on his low scores since his 20odd against New M.
This was not a problem and aided with some wayward bowling we managed to reach the target with an over to spare with George on 17 and Dan on 4.
A great effort by our lads to recover from a poor bowling performance lets
Hope we get this right next week and continue this mini unbeaten streak.