Our last game against Yorkshire was one I would describe it as true team effort by everyone. We knew that a win was our only option to have a chance to win the Div1 title, which only two games are left to be played.
Day 1 we had lost the toss an they put us in to bat. We lost some early wickets, including myself which I had only faced two deliveries. Our initial plan was to gain maximum batting points as quick as possible and look to send them in late in the evening. We had to go to a plan B, but with a brilliant hundred by Sean Armstrong we got to 250-8 which is 3 batting points, we opted not to go for the extra batting point in 300 an decided to declare to get a run at them.
Their opening pair played our bowlers well late that evening ending on 29 without loss. Day two we were faced with some stoppages due to showers at times making the job difficult for our bowlers. They ended up gaining first innings points with a lead of eight runs before we had bowled them out at the end of the days play. So for us to put the game in a position for us to win, some smart,aggressive batting would be the key for us on the final days play.
We knew we needed time to bowl them out, an after gaining a lead of 150 within 15 minutes before tea, our Captain decided we had enough to work with.
We won the game by 29 runs, with our 6'3" fast bowler Jason Holder taking 4 an our newly Wanderers off spinner Kemar Craigg playing in his first Div 1 game for us taking 3.
Kemar's first wicket was a beauty! Batsman came forward defensively, bat and pad to short leg! Every off spinners dream to get a wicket.
After that series we remain in 4th position only 10 points away from the leaders. So it's still all to play for. We head to the country side this weekend to play Barbados Youth, which we'll look to keep the winning trend going.
The guys have faith we'll do it and so do I. So until next time be safe and god bless
Day 1 we had lost the toss an they put us in to bat. We lost some early wickets, including myself which I had only faced two deliveries. Our initial plan was to gain maximum batting points as quick as possible and look to send them in late in the evening. We had to go to a plan B, but with a brilliant hundred by Sean Armstrong we got to 250-8 which is 3 batting points, we opted not to go for the extra batting point in 300 an decided to declare to get a run at them.
Their opening pair played our bowlers well late that evening ending on 29 without loss. Day two we were faced with some stoppages due to showers at times making the job difficult for our bowlers. They ended up gaining first innings points with a lead of eight runs before we had bowled them out at the end of the days play. So for us to put the game in a position for us to win, some smart,aggressive batting would be the key for us on the final days play.
We knew we needed time to bowl them out, an after gaining a lead of 150 within 15 minutes before tea, our Captain decided we had enough to work with.
We won the game by 29 runs, with our 6'3" fast bowler Jason Holder taking 4 an our newly Wanderers off spinner Kemar Craigg playing in his first Div 1 game for us taking 3.
Kemar's first wicket was a beauty! Batsman came forward defensively, bat and pad to short leg! Every off spinners dream to get a wicket.
After that series we remain in 4th position only 10 points away from the leaders. So it's still all to play for. We head to the country side this weekend to play Barbados Youth, which we'll look to keep the winning trend going.
The guys have faith we'll do it and so do I. So until next time be safe and god bless
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