An excellent second spell of
pace bowling by Wasim Javed (4 - 35) allowed Waltham
St Lawrence 2nd XI the rare luxury of bowling a team
out for the first time this season. All started well
for Waltham with Javed picking up a fortuitous wicket
in his first over but in general he struggled to get
his rhythm and was promptly taken out of the attack.
Thompson and Lugthart probed away and Lughtart bowled
proudfoot with a shooter for 8. This brought Blair and
Peter Hayden together who played excellently taking
quickly run singles at every opportunity and moving
the field around. When Burge got Hayden to drive uppishly
to Chris Sharpe at mid off the pair had put on 53 for
the third wicket and with Extras scoring well Peppard
were looking at a score well beyond 200.
To their credit Waltham stuck to their guns as the Bridgeman
/ Woolford combination effected a superb run out from
the boundary to get rid of Stuart Slade. At this point
Javed rejoined the attack and with Nathan Thomas keeping
the other end tied up Javed ripped through the lower
order to take 4 wickets including the wicket of Blair
who had scored a fantastic 77. Lugthart came back at
the death and picked up two wickets in two balls to
end the innings.
For Waltham to win they were going to need a good start
and they got it as Connor and Thomas put on 35 for the
first wicket before both were dismissed by the impressive
youngster Slade. Bridgeman continued the good work with
some excellent shots inspite of losing his partner Woolford
as he slashed to gulley.
Waltham however were about to suffer a mini collapse
as Bridgeman himself, Sharpe and Burge all fell with
score on 70. With Waltham on 73 - 7 Thompson together
with Christodoulou began the rebuilding phase as both
began to find some fluency driving and pulling to the
boundary with regularity.
Thompson was eventually out for 22 bringing Lugthart
to the crease. All the talk had been of a salvaging
last partnership but all we got was the "Hokey
Kokey" as he played a shot then didn't then did
then got bowled. Andy Smith lasted two full overs before
topping the duck gallery for the season.
Captain Connor was pleased with the effort but realised
that 53 extras cost his team dearly. Thanks must go
to Peppard for an excellent match.
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