Old Parkonians returned to winning ways with a home victory over Appleton 2nds and a Man of the match performance from Ben Rees. Winning the toss Skipper David Buey put the visitors into bat and threw the new ball to Alex Tucker (7-2-15-1) who responded by taking the wicket of Mannion courtesy of a catch by Rees whilst at the other end Stewie McEwen (15-7-26-3) had Nesbitt on the back foot and he hit his own wicket leaving them 13 for 2. Rees (13-2-32-5) dismissed Arnold LBW, Ryan caught Buey and McEwen bowled I Rashid to leave Appleton at 41 for 5 at the drinks interval. When Rees had Ralston, caught Tucker, then bowled Webster and McEwen took the wicket of S Tomlinson thanks to a fine catch by Terry Marnick at slip it looked to be all over for the visitors with them reeling at 53 for 8. A Rashid (30 no) offered some resistance but when Rees got Cumberland caught Robbie Parr on his debut for his fifth wicket he was running out of partners at 78 for 9. The tenth wicket partnership however took advantage of all the luck that came it way as it appeared to have more lives than a cat. Sean Marnick (2.2-0-13-1) had both Rashid and C Tomlinson out in the same over only for both deliveries to be ruled No Balls, Buey put down a difficult catch off the bowling of Sam Cotgrave (6-0-18-0) and then Marnick dropped Rashid off his own bowling allowing the pair to add 33 frustrating runs to the total. Marnick would have the last laugh though as he took the final wicket with a quite simply stunning caught and bowled dismissing Tomlinson with only four balls of the innings remaining thereby affording the home side maximum bowling points. Old Parkonians reply suffered an early setback when Carl Brannon (7) was suprised by the slower ball giving Cumberland (6-1-18-2) a caught and bowled and John Orr (13) was caught by Ralston at deep Mid Off also off Cumberland leaving the home side on a jittery 30 for 2. Dave Roscoe steadied the ship with a well constructed 40 as Marnick T (7) and S Marnick, played on for a duck, off Tomlinson (7-3-23-1) fell in quick succession to leave Old Parks at 50 for 4. Rees (23 no) and Roscoe added 45 for the fifth wicket when the latter was caught by Ralston off the bowling of A Rashid (8-3-17-1). For the second time in 3 weeks Rees and Buey (10 no) eased the second string past the target with four overs to spare. Team: Brannon, Orr, Roscoe, Marnick T, Marnick S, Rees, Buey, Barr, Cotgrave, Tucker, McEwen.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 10:40:19 +0000
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