The 2nd day of Cambridge MCCU vs Essex was the sunniest day so far with a good crowd, but began in a predictable way.
Cambridge resumed on 20-4, and provided some easy slip catching practice early on as Dean Bell (4), Matt Salisbury (5) and Alex Hearne (6) all fell within the first eight overs to leave the hosts 35-7. Tom Elliott and Alasdair Pollock took the total past 50, thanks to two set of four overthrows, which Essex weren't too worried about before Elliott (18) edged Greg Smith low to Tom Westley at slip, 61-8. Pollock then hammered 3 fours off Tymal Mills next over, including a massive top edge over third man. Alistair Allchin fell LBW for a nine ball duck to give Smith handy figures of 2-0 from 2 overs and Cambridge 73-9.
The Mills vs Pollock battle then hotted up, with the next ball hitting Pollock on the neck who then got up and smacked the next ball back past Mills for four. He followed that shot up by pulling a bouncer off the top edge out of the ground over square leg. The carnage carried in Mills next over as the first ball disappeared through cover for four and another bouncer was pulled just over a leaping Ben Foakes at Square Leg for six, this left Pollock on 44 from 35 balls, and Cambridge on the verge of reaching 100, they didn't, however as Grant Nicholson fell LBW for 1 to the first ball of Ravi Bopara's next over to leave Cambridge all out for 99, 229 runs behind Essex.
With no follow on enforced, Tom Westley and Rob Quiney came out for the 45 minutes before lunch and rattled along to 37-0 without any trouble. Quiney took 9 off the first over after lunch, as the pair looked untroubled by the student attack, with Nicholson coming in for some particular punishment as runs flowed easily. Quiney reached 50 from 73 balls, and celebrated next over by thumping Allchin over long on for six, two fours and another six over midwicket thudding off the wall of Hughes Hall. Westley was slower, reaching 50 from 89 balls but he too began to attack before Quiney reached his hundred from his 116th ball with another four. The score had reached 188-0 at tea, and any contest in the game was long gone with those 151 unbeaten runs that had been added.
The double hundred partnership came off Allchin before Pollock beat Quiney's outside edge and flattened the off stump for 112, Quiney was surprised that he was out, 209-1. Foakes joined Westley who soon reached his own 100 in the 51st over. Both batsmen then went after the bowlers, and spinner Akbar Ansari who seemed to keep bowling full tosses, went for 17 in his first two overs. Westley charged the first five balls of Ansari's next over, hitting the first four into gaps in the arc for two, before missing the fifth to be neatly stumped by Bell for 133, 281-2. Then the big moment of the evening as Bopara came out to bat, having only made four in the first innings, he'd of wanted a nice warmup knock to start the summer, only to be struck on the pad first ball and after a massive appeal, given out to give Ansari his 2nd.
That was to be the last wicket as, after negotiating the hat trick ball, Foakes (49*) and James Foster (34*) saw Essex through the last half hour to 335-3 from 70 overs a lead of 564 with one day to go.
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Friday, 13 April 2012
In A Good Mahmood
Another cold day, this time at Fenner's again for the 2nd day of Cambridge MCCU vs Lancashire. Lancashire resumed on 277-5 and were quickly moving as Steven Croft and Gareth Cross looked to add quick runs. Croft only added 3 to his score when he sliced Peter Turnbull to Craig Park at slip to pick up his 5th wicket. Sajid Mahmood had a quick hit until being caught low down at cover by Zafar Ansari off Turnbull for 14. 313-7 represented a reasonable performance from the students and although Cross (49*) and Kyle Hogg (12*) took this to 348-7 before the declaration, Turnbull's 6-108 stood out as an excellent performance against the county champions.
Mahmood then struck in the third over having Ben Ackland caught behind by Cross attempting a hook for a duck, Ackland's body language implied hat he didn't hit it, but that was to prove a small worry for Cambridge as the day wore on. Cambridge then played out the remaining overs to be only one down at lunch, but then the the superior opposition began to assert their dominance. Luke Procter, when he wasn't bowling one of his 12 no-balls in 7 overs, bowled James Johnson (20) and had Akbar Ansari (11) LBW in the first 35 minutes of the session. Inbetween Tom Smith had Park caught by Cross for 1, meaning Cambridge were now 74-4. Zafar Ansari then edged Smith behind to fall for a top scoring 25. Smith then caught Rob Woolley in the next over to give Procter his 3rd wicket, making it 86-6.
Dean Bell and Paul Best then brought up the 100, but the return of Mahmood signalled the beginning of the end as Best gave Smith his 2nd catch at slip on 18, and Turnbull was yorked first ball to put Mahmood on a hat trick. Matt Salisbury avoided the hat-trick ball, but Bell was then LBW to Hogg playing across the line for 9.
Mahmood then cleaned up having Patrick Sadler easily caught by Paul Horton at slip for 2, leaving Cambridge all out for 123, Salisbury being 1*. Mahmood finishing with 4-38, Procter 3-52 and Smith 2-12 with extras (35) being top scorer!
Lancashire began their 2nd innings with a "handy" lead of 225 but Steven Moore fell in the 3rd over for one, mistiming a flick off Turnbull to Sadler at mid-on, 5-1. Horton and Tom Smith then ground down the bowling, easily picking runs off the loose bowling before Smith decided to cut loose against Zafar Ansari, playing attacking strokes all round the wicket, reaching his 50 with one of a number of reverse sweeps for four. He celebrated by coming down the pitch and thumping the only six of the day off Ansari over long off. Smith looked like he'd reach his hundred before close but, in the cold and dark, he appeared to have some discomfort in his hamstring, or an immense case of boredom, because he promptly retired hurt on 83 off 70 (1x6, 12x4) with the score on 128. Horton batted in a more circumspect manner, scoring 48* off 112 balls but still with eight fours, picking off the bad balls with relative ease given the conditions.
Horton and Karl Brown (0 not out) batted out the last 5 overs to finish the day 134-1, 359 ahead and looking likely to declare early and have some more bowling practice. Turnbull finished with 1-14 from 7 overs.
Mahmood then struck in the third over having Ben Ackland caught behind by Cross attempting a hook for a duck, Ackland's body language implied hat he didn't hit it, but that was to prove a small worry for Cambridge as the day wore on. Cambridge then played out the remaining overs to be only one down at lunch, but then the the superior opposition began to assert their dominance. Luke Procter, when he wasn't bowling one of his 12 no-balls in 7 overs, bowled James Johnson (20) and had Akbar Ansari (11) LBW in the first 35 minutes of the session. Inbetween Tom Smith had Park caught by Cross for 1, meaning Cambridge were now 74-4. Zafar Ansari then edged Smith behind to fall for a top scoring 25. Smith then caught Rob Woolley in the next over to give Procter his 3rd wicket, making it 86-6.
Dean Bell and Paul Best then brought up the 100, but the return of Mahmood signalled the beginning of the end as Best gave Smith his 2nd catch at slip on 18, and Turnbull was yorked first ball to put Mahmood on a hat trick. Matt Salisbury avoided the hat-trick ball, but Bell was then LBW to Hogg playing across the line for 9.
Mahmood then cleaned up having Patrick Sadler easily caught by Paul Horton at slip for 2, leaving Cambridge all out for 123, Salisbury being 1*. Mahmood finishing with 4-38, Procter 3-52 and Smith 2-12 with extras (35) being top scorer!
Lancashire began their 2nd innings with a "handy" lead of 225 but Steven Moore fell in the 3rd over for one, mistiming a flick off Turnbull to Sadler at mid-on, 5-1. Horton and Tom Smith then ground down the bowling, easily picking runs off the loose bowling before Smith decided to cut loose against Zafar Ansari, playing attacking strokes all round the wicket, reaching his 50 with one of a number of reverse sweeps for four. He celebrated by coming down the pitch and thumping the only six of the day off Ansari over long off. Smith looked like he'd reach his hundred before close but, in the cold and dark, he appeared to have some discomfort in his hamstring, or an immense case of boredom, because he promptly retired hurt on 83 off 70 (1x6, 12x4) with the score on 128. Horton batted in a more circumspect manner, scoring 48* off 112 balls but still with eight fours, picking off the bad balls with relative ease given the conditions.
Horton and Karl Brown (0 not out) batted out the last 5 overs to finish the day 134-1, 359 ahead and looking likely to declare early and have some more bowling practice. Turnbull finished with 1-14 from 7 overs.
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Blood Among the Blue Caps
The 2012 season started with a trip to Fenner's for Essex taking on Cambridge MCCU.
Essex won the toss and batted, only to get bogged down by some good bowling from Peter Turnbull, Matt Salisbury and Robert Woolley. Billy Godleman and Tom Westley added 62 before Westley was LBW to Salisbury for 30. Jaik Mickleburgh was then dropped at slip off Turnbull before slicing the next ball to gully to fall for 9, 77-2. He then had Pettini caught behind by Dean Bell for a duck. That left Essex on 91-3 at lunch, which became 91-4 when Woolley got Wheater for another duck caught behind.
Greg Smith, newly acquired from Derbyshire came in began to hit the attack more easily as the bowlers tired.
Cambridge had further chances to take wickets as Godleman was missed from a stumping chance before he passed 50 but Salisbury then splattered his off stump for 57, leaving Essex still in a bit of trouble at 141-5.
The next wicket wasn't to fall for a while, quite a while as it happened as captain James Foster proceeded to hit the bowling around freely, easily milking the spinners including 16 off an over from Josh Poysden as Smith went past 50 and then on to a hundred from 103 balls, despite nearly being run out on 95. Foster reached his 50 soon after. Essex were 286-5 (Smith 106*) at tea and afterwards went about walloping a few more. Smith hit two more sixes before being bowled by Salisbury, only for it to be called a no-ball. Smith managed 21 fours as well as he raced to 160 before to edging Poysden to third man where Salisbury took a great diving catch making the score 366-6. Normally you'd expect the county side to declare now, but Essex, obviously incensed by the morning collapse went on a slaughterfest as Graham Napier joined Foster in 12 overs of Twenty20 hitting as Foster reached his hundred off 103 balls as the score went past 400 then 450 with Napier reaching a 32 ball 50. but that wasn't all as Napier carted 20 off the 87th over from Paul Best including the last ball being taken by the fielder who fell over the rope for six. This left Napier on 77 and Foster gave him the strike before carting 23 more off the over from Salisbury ending the over with a six towards the pavilion, a four over midwicket and finally a colossal six over the Hughes Hall at square leg to reach a crazy hundred from 48 balls with eight fours and eight sixes (including 6 of them in the final 9 balls). Essex promptly declared 506-6 from 88 overs with Foster on 114 (off 117) as well, and the bowlers nursing some painful figures including Best 0-148 from 22, Poysden 1-96 off 11, though Turnbull 2-75 showed some reward from the good morning.
There was just enough time for David Masters to dismiss Bell LBW for 10 as Cambridge ended the day 26-1 from 8 overs.
Essex won the toss and batted, only to get bogged down by some good bowling from Peter Turnbull, Matt Salisbury and Robert Woolley. Billy Godleman and Tom Westley added 62 before Westley was LBW to Salisbury for 30. Jaik Mickleburgh was then dropped at slip off Turnbull before slicing the next ball to gully to fall for 9, 77-2. He then had Pettini caught behind by Dean Bell for a duck. That left Essex on 91-3 at lunch, which became 91-4 when Woolley got Wheater for another duck caught behind.
Greg Smith, newly acquired from Derbyshire came in began to hit the attack more easily as the bowlers tired.
Cambridge had further chances to take wickets as Godleman was missed from a stumping chance before he passed 50 but Salisbury then splattered his off stump for 57, leaving Essex still in a bit of trouble at 141-5.
The next wicket wasn't to fall for a while, quite a while as it happened as captain James Foster proceeded to hit the bowling around freely, easily milking the spinners including 16 off an over from Josh Poysden as Smith went past 50 and then on to a hundred from 103 balls, despite nearly being run out on 95. Foster reached his 50 soon after. Essex were 286-5 (Smith 106*) at tea and afterwards went about walloping a few more. Smith hit two more sixes before being bowled by Salisbury, only for it to be called a no-ball. Smith managed 21 fours as well as he raced to 160 before to edging Poysden to third man where Salisbury took a great diving catch making the score 366-6. Normally you'd expect the county side to declare now, but Essex, obviously incensed by the morning collapse went on a slaughterfest as Graham Napier joined Foster in 12 overs of Twenty20 hitting as Foster reached his hundred off 103 balls as the score went past 400 then 450 with Napier reaching a 32 ball 50. but that wasn't all as Napier carted 20 off the 87th over from Paul Best including the last ball being taken by the fielder who fell over the rope for six. This left Napier on 77 and Foster gave him the strike before carting 23 more off the over from Salisbury ending the over with a six towards the pavilion, a four over midwicket and finally a colossal six over the Hughes Hall at square leg to reach a crazy hundred from 48 balls with eight fours and eight sixes (including 6 of them in the final 9 balls). Essex promptly declared 506-6 from 88 overs with Foster on 114 (off 117) as well, and the bowlers nursing some painful figures including Best 0-148 from 22, Poysden 1-96 off 11, though Turnbull 2-75 showed some reward from the good morning.
There was just enough time for David Masters to dismiss Bell LBW for 10 as Cambridge ended the day 26-1 from 8 overs.
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Off to University
So a sunny day in Cambridge for Middlesex vs Cambridge MCCU, should be an easy game you'd think, however Chris Rogers was out for only nine. Dan Housego struggled along throughout the morning session but Scott Newman looked in form with a run-a-ball 80 until he chipped one to cover. Housego then fell from the last ball of the session for 36, 137-3.
After lunch Malan was joined by Dexter and between them they batted throughout the session, easily swatting away whatever the students bowled, with both passing 50 and by tea the score was looking much more convincing at 312-3.
After tea Dexter finally fell unluckily short a century for 91. Simpson came in and they batted through to the declaration with Malan on 142 not out and Simpson six not out at 373-4.
The 13 overs left before close proved too long for Cambridge, as Murtagh grabbed the wickets of Ackland and Hughes before nighwatchman Bell fell in the final over of the day to Toby Roland-Jones to finish on 40-3.
After lunch Malan was joined by Dexter and between them they batted throughout the session, easily swatting away whatever the students bowled, with both passing 50 and by tea the score was looking much more convincing at 312-3.
After tea Dexter finally fell unluckily short a century for 91. Simpson came in and they batted through to the declaration with Malan on 142 not out and Simpson six not out at 373-4.
The 13 overs left before close proved too long for Cambridge, as Murtagh grabbed the wickets of Ackland and Hughes before nighwatchman Bell fell in the final over of the day to Toby Roland-Jones to finish on 40-3.
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