Waltham St Lawrence 2nd XI
lost to Holyport in the opening friendly of the season
but captain James Woolford will take much heart from
a good all round performance by his team. After losing
the toss Waltham's bowlers worked out the rustiness
of the winter reducing the hosts to 54 - 4 before Bond
set about the attack with great aplomb eventually finishing
with 100*. For Waltham Woolford followed up a tough
winters training with a sustained spell of swing bowling
whilst Rashid was frugal in conceding only 8 runs from
his 8 overs. In addition, new season signing Matt "Magnet
" Nebbett was pantherlike in the field pouching
2 excellent catches. So set a challenging 240 for victory,
Waltham's main aim was to bat out the full 45 overs,
a feat that had eluded them so many times last season
and an excellent 45 from Waltham's man of the match
Adrian Bridgeman enabled them to do exactly that. After
the early fall of both openers Bridgeman steadied the
ship and supported first by Kiani and latterly by a
composed Woolford knock, guided the Waltham score towards
respectability before Rashid and Nebbett finished the
innings not out as Waltham scored 155 / 8. |