Coggeshall skipper Tom Pickles won the toss and elected
to bat. The pressure from a tight opening spell from Zubair (10-0-36-0)
and Atif Sarwar, which saw one opener chip a catch to Karl, was relieved
by a steady flow of byes, despite the best efforts of last minute stand
in wicketkeeper Gregg to get behind the swinging ball. The game was
beginning to get away from Cavaliers by the time Sid came on to try his
mixture of spinners, and he was immediately rewarded with 2 wickets in as
many balls. Unfortunately from there the fielding got worse, with any
number of catches going down (Ed being a main offender!), which let
Pickles continue serenely towards his second hundred in two innings,
leaving Raj (6-0-42-0) and Sid's (10-0-50-2) figures unjustly bruised.
Some late hitting was countered by the returning Atif (10-2-23-3) and
wickets for David M (5-0-28-1) and Karl (2-0-26-1), but couldn't prevent
Coggeshall posting a formidable 245 for 7.
Unusually the Cavalier response got off to an
electric start, taking 44 from the first 4 overs with Raj taking out his
frustration on the opening bowlers. However once the Coggies opener Egg
(3-35) shortened his run, he regained some control and dismissed Ed (12),
Sid (0) and Raj (41). It was then left to Zubair to anchor the innings with a
well constructed 66. Unfortunately no-one could stay with him for
very long with debutante Steve Bertie (0), Pete (5) and Kelum (0) all
falling to a very tight spell from young Gibson (5-3-9-3), whilst
Karl (9) & Gregg (11) played some lusty blows before joining Atif (1) as
victims of the even younger McCabe (3-21). Zubair was last out with the
total at 171 trying to reach the boundary that would have meant an extra
batting point.
MoM Zubair for his excellent batting and miserly bowling.
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