Toss: CW Blue
Cricket Web Blue 1st innings 293 all out
Code:
Cricket Web Black 1st innings Runs 4 6
SG Fitzsimmons c Patrick b Fuller 37 (85) 3 1
DP Smith c & b Demeza 1 (12) 0 0
DA Kearsley b Collins 20 (36) 3 0
AJ Blackman run out (DeSilva) 22 (74) 2 0
CR Butler not out 126 (248) 11 1
DY Dubb-Lynch c Jellett b Patrick 0 (1) 0 0
MW Wilson c Cloete b Demeza 7 (6) 1 0
HG Warwick c Jellett b Halsey 37 (79) 4 0
DP Richards b Fuller 34 (79) 2 0
NS Hoy c Jellett b Halsey 8 (47) 0 0
NS Pickup run out (Wilshere) 2 (22)
Extras 21
Total (113.4 overs) 315 all out
TJ Demeza 20-1-76-2
NL Patrick 20-3-58-1
AAA Collins 27-8-63-1
SE Fuller 19-2-48-2
TC Halsey 18.4-4-34-2
LA Camps 3-0-11-0
Lunch Day 3: Black 179/7 (CR Butler 42*, DP Richards 0*)
Tea Day 3: Black 277/8 (CR Butler 97*, NS Hoy 2*)
- 2.5 Demeza to Smith: OUT! That rushed onto him as he tried to play the pull shot. Very well taken by Demeza as that flew back at his face.
- 2.6 Demeza to Kearsley: DRIVEN away! Great shot through the covers. FOUR!
- 11.4 Patrick to Kearsley: DROPPED! Perfect away-seamer, edged to second slip, and put down. Wilshere has had a good game up till now, but he'd take that catch 9 times out of 10.
- 14.2 Collins to Kearsley: Dragged on! Not a very good shot from Kearsley. Overconfident there and Collins gets a crucial breakthrough!
- 22.1 Collins to Fitzsimmons: Too short and PULLED AWAY! SIX of the best from the ex-Blue.
- 29.5 Fuller to Fitzsimmons: Short and well-lined... hook shot! Patrick runs around in the deep. And he's...juggled... TAKEN! Very good recovery there. The big fish is caught! 7.1 overs left in the day...
- 39.6 Demeza to Blackman: driven to cover and a direct hit! Blackman has to go in the most unfortunate of manners. Run out when he was starting to look really good.
- 40.4 Patrick to Dubb-Lynch: What a ball to get first up! The finger goes up! Patrick beside himself after bowling well without success yesterday. 5 down and the man who has been out of the side for most of the season is under pressure to hold things together for the Blacks now...
- 43.2 Demeza to Wilson: First slip! Cloete doesn't drop those! Wilson's woes with the bat continue...
- 60.5 Collins to Warwick: Driven low to midon. Dropped! Halsey puts it down. That could be very costly...
- 65.3 Halsey to Warwick: There's the googly and OUT! Halsey gets the man he dropped a while back. Big wicket.
- 76.3 Patrick to Butler: driven past midoff... it won't go all the way, but they get two... thats fifty! A very impressive innings from a man who needed it most!
Chris Butler 50 (130 balls), 6 fours, 0 sixes
- Demeza has the new ball in his hand. The Blues need a wicket.
- 92.2 Fuller to Richards: BOWLED by a slower one! He played right over the top of that and Fuller gets the crucial breakthrough!
- 93.1 Collins to Butler: Pulled high and hard! That's SIX! Butler charging toward a hundred here...
- 94.6 Halsey to Butler: Flicked past midwicket and this will be it! One...two... a third... and Chris Butler has played one of the best innings of his career under the greatest pressure of his career! Hundred!
Chris Butler 101 (201 balls), 10 fours, 1 six
[Entering commentary-less mode to make up some time. I've got an appointment in an hour.]