Bowling effort secures victory

‘‘Jon Harris also did a fine job as wicket keeper behind the stumps.’’

MASTERS CRICKET

Antiques vs WBOP

The Antiques took on the WBOP team at St Peter’s School Cambridge on Sunday.

Captain Webb won the toss and the Antiques went out to bat on a flat wicket.

Openers Murray Maysto,n 55 runs not out, and Rudie Swanepoel, 33 runs, got the Antiques off to a good start.

Neil Rogers (Man of the Match) 41 runs not out, and 2-11 in 4 overs, Jon Harris, 16 runs, and Garry Webb, 7 runs, were the other main run scorers.

The Antiques ending up on 207/9 in 40 overs.

After lunch the WBOP went in to bat.

Their opening batsman made it look easy on a low and slow wicket as they raced out to 5 runs an over by the 20 over drinks break.

The Antiques clawed their way back into the game with good bowling spells by Garry Webb, 0-11 in 4 overs, Sam Leander, 1-8 in 4 overs and Glen Bruce, with 2-18 in 4 overs.

Jon Harris also did a fine job as wicket keeper behind the stumps.

With the WBOP team needing 26 runs of the last 5 overs, Neil Rogers got rid off two batsmen in his 4th over and in the 39th over Rudie Swanepoel managed to take the final wicket ending up on 3-35 and the WBOP were bowled out for 192 runs.

The Antiques winners on the day by 15 runs.

SENIOR CRICKET

Cambridge vs MorrinsvillePiako

On Saturday, Cambridge took on Diprose Miller MorrinsvillePiako in day 2 of their two dayer in the Champions Trophy.

MPC resumed at 42-1 and Darryn Howse and Brayden Silvester (10) were solid early.

Jake O’Connor (20) struck some nice boundaries, while Darryn Howse held the innings together top scoring with a solid 40 off 85 balls.

MPC lost wickets at regular intervals to be all out for 118 off 54 overs setting Cambridge just 38 to win in thier final innings.

Liam Koch (1-9) picked up an early wicket while off spinner Lushan Joshi, fresh off bowling to the touring English batsmen in the Seddon Park nets, bowled well without luck with Cambridge winning outright by 9 wickets.

Next Saturday, Cambridge reverts back to the 50 over format.