Cricket Web Blue v Cricket Web Black
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Commentary
Sean Fuller and Brendan Goff saw off the Black bowlers in an amazing display of hitting, and after Chaulk and Thompson added 98 for the first wicket, Black wilted with the bat once again to remain with a woeful one-day record.
Black batted first, and after opening bowlers Warwick and Hoy bowled threatening lines in the first ten overs, Goff freed his reins. He raced to fifty off 38 balls, exploiting the field restrictions like no other batsman in CWLand can. Callum Thompson was brutally hit around, with his first three overs going for 25, before Pickup came on and had Goff caught hoiking to Hoy.
Dinu de Silva and Sean Fuller accumulated runs well, though Fuller played out a maiden over from Kexing before he, too, began swishing. Smith, whose three previous one-day overs had gone for 27, was called upon in the 29th over; he couldn't stop the barrage of boundaries, either, though his economy rate went down by a couple of points. In the end, only Pickup escaped with credit, as Hoy's three wickets were due to Crampton and Cribb swinging out. Richards was called upon for the last over, and did manage to ruin Fuller's chance of a century when three big turners beat Fuller's attempted drives.
Black started well, though cautiously. Thompson at opener swung and missed a lot, and faced a maiden over from Camps, the 14th. However, by the end of the 19th over 98 runs stood on the scoreboard, and it was time to cut loose.
However, Camps got two key wickets with patient bowling, before Tom Halsey clinched the match with a brace including Thompson and the out-of-form Law. A procession of wickets followed, as Black clung on for 40.4 overs to make 183: Halsey's ten overs yielded five for 31, his best career bowling figures.
Cricket Web Blue 291 for 6 (50 ovs, Fuller 98*, Goff 60, de Silva 60; Hoy 3/59, Pickup 2/47)
Cricket Web Black 183 all out (40.4 ovs, Chaulk 49; Halsey 5/31, Camps 2/34, Smith 2/40)
Cricket Web Blue won by 108 runs
Points: Blue 5, Black 0
Man of the Match: S. E. Fuller