St Ouen’s CC 155 for 7 in 40 Overs

Caesareans CC 100 all out

St Ouen’s won the toss and elected to bat at LQ1 in the last group game in the Senior Cup knowing that a win would put them into the final.

Unfortunately, it looked as though this decision could prove to be a bad one against the tight bowling of Danny Bower and Fergus Gibson and with Amy (8), Kynman (9), Gomersall (3) and Tribe (1) all back in the pavilion with only 41 on the board.

However, St Ouen’s score of 155 was based around 3 innings, Craig Douglas (35) who took the attack to the Caesareans bowlers and never missed out on putting the bad ball away. Rob Tewkesbury batting down the order due to the excesses of the night before held the innings together with a pedestrian, by his standards, 35 from 77 balls. The impetuous was provided by South African Grant Phillips who hit 30 from 29 balls smashing the last ball of the innings from Richard Huckle straight back over his head for 6.

Phillips was thrown the ball at the start of the Caesareans innings and this proved a masterstroke as he clean bowled both the openers. This brought together Dave Gorman and Meeku Patidar who are the danger men for Caesareans but after 10 overs St Ouen’s introduced Paul Horton and Craig Douglas. Douglas bowling his 8 overs spell and conceding just 16 runs. Horton was equally as miserly only allowing 13 runs to be taken from his 8 overs although he also ripped out the heart of the Caesareans batting line up removing Patidar with the help of the ever dependable hands of Gomersall at cover, Gibson, Ramskill, Elanco and clean bowling Huckle.

Gorman was still there happy just to see off both Douglas and Horton and then with the help of a runner look to increase the run rate. But when Horton threw down the stumps from cover to run out Irtizaali and Santosh was also run out 1 wicket was left between St Ouen and victory. Gomersall then trapped Gorman leg before to see St Ouen’s home.