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Imber Court CC V Kings CC 03-Jun-07 |
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There could have been an early wicket for Richard Sones as Davenport drove loosely to mid off but Mackenzie spilt the chance, however the batsman did not learn his lesson and repeated the shot soon after and the same combination of Sones and Mackenzie completed the dismissal. Imber skipper Jackson led a little bit of a charmed life as he first just cleared Miah at backward square with a lofted pull, then edged between the slips before he skied a pull off Miah straight up in the air and despite their best efforts neither Miah or keeper Smith could make the ground quickly enough to take the chance. Meanwhile Meacroft was also living dangerously, a lofted drive off Sones was dropped by Mackenzie as he moved in off the extra cover boundary, he was also put down when he drove Sones through mid on, this time it was Melligan who could not hold on. However despite these missed chances Kings were bowling well and the batsmen were struggling to score on a pitch that was slower than expected. However the introduction of Tighe started to really swing the game in Kings favour. Having bowled Meacroft he then caught Blakely off his own bowling before the batsmen had scored. However it was an outstanding spell from Jamie Gale that really destroyed Imber. Off his first ball Jackson tried to sweep and only top edged to Miah at backward square, then Deans played the same shot and perished the same way. Rogers was well caught at slip by Miller after Smith had parried the ball to give Gale 3 wickets in as many overs. However the leg spinner had not finished there, he bowled Dayes and then had Cassidy adjudged LBW to complete his first five wicket haul for Kings. When Smith smartly stumped Mooney Gale took his sixth wicket and he finished his eight over spell with the outstanding figures of 8-3-9-6. Despite a late flourish from Mason the Imber innings came to an end when Melligan bowled Edgeworth - 96 all out. In
reply Kings had little difficulty, Dave Perry again looked in
good form in only his second game of the season, driving and pulling
well before he was caught at slip for 27 (35-1). Richard Evans
and an unusually out of sorts Dave Miller then took the score
to 66 before Miller was bowled behind his legs. Despite some good
bowling from the Imber bowlers they had far too few runs to defend
against a long Kings batting line up and Evans and Miah were able
to ease Kings toward the target without concern. There was still
time for Evans to fall lbw to Dayes (88-3) but by then Kings were
all but home and Miah finished the game with an emphatic off drive
boundary. However the day belonged to Gale - whose superb figure
of 6-9 were the fourth best in the Club's history.
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