Graham puts a Dent in Dunstall as Rolleston win
ROLLESTON got off the mark in the Beechwood Mazda Derbyshire Premier Division with a low-scoring win over Dunstall at the Deer Park.
The visitors could muster only 124 all out after being put in but they tumbled out their opponents for 110 with seamer Graham Dent grabbing five wickets.
It did not look good for Rolleston at first as opener Louis Burrows collected a first ball duck, bowled by Adam Leigh, as did captain Tom Liversage, the same way, with Leigh also having Gareth Marshall caught to make it 15-3.
It was not long before that became 43-7 as Dan Featherstone took the next four wickets.
Given what was to come later, an eighth-wicket partnership of 54 between Sam Bates, who finished on 43 not out, and Liam Goode, who made 25, was a match-winner.
Leigh ended with 3-23, Featherstone with 4-25, Aidan Brodrick took a late wicket and Tom Hill took 2-24.
However, Dunstall were also soon in trouble with the bat against Dent and Alex Brown, who took five wickets between them to make it 23-5.
Dunstall’s mid-innings partnership came for the seventh wicket, Dan Welch adding 53 with Hill, but Welch was out for 45 as Dent returned and the end came at 110 not long after, Dent finishing with 5-28 from 12 overs and Brown typically tight with 2-18 from 12 overs.
Hishaam Khan took 2-31 and Goode 1-16.
Alrewas also got off the mark with a solid 59-run win over visitors Denby.
It was much better with the bat for the Herons after last week’s problems as James Burton and Gareth Woolley reached 102 for the first wicket before Woolley was out for 38.
Burton followed for 54 at 107 after a 105-ball vigil but Jahurul Islam hit a breezey 22 with two sixes, Stephen Cole also hit two sixes in his 17, Ben Foley added 22 in 23 balls and William Hodgkinson added two more sixes in 29 not out from 26 balls.
That got Alrewas past 200 and they closed on 209-6, with Joe Wilson having taken 5-62 for Denby.
Craig Swinfield and Matt Frend soon got among the Denby batsmen, two early wickets for Swinfield and one for Frend making it 7-3.
That gave the visitors a big rebuilding job and although the next six batsmen reached double figures, none could really get to grips with the bowling.
By the time Charlie Wilson top scored with a run-a-ball 27 not out, the game was gone for them and they were bowled out for 150 after collapsing to 115-9.
Swinfield finished with 3-22, while Hodgkinson and Will Smedley also took three wickets each.
After being edged out by one wicket in their first Learn UK Division One game last week, Ticknall got up and running with a 120-run win away to Morton Colliery on Saturday.
The familiar opening partnership of Tom Wood and Paul Borrington was back in harness and they put on 83 for the first wicket after being put in.
It was Borrington who was the more fluent and Wood was the first to go, for 26.
There was then a wobble as Luke Harvey (four) and Greg Cork (six) departed quickly and William Tarrant could only add 13.
However, Borrington found a good partner in Matt Holdgate and the pair added 93 for the fifth wicket before Holdgate was out for 43, with two fours and three sixes.
Borrington went next, having scored 111 from 109 balls with 14 fours and two sixes, the innings closing at 251-7.
Morton’s reply never got going as Ousman Khizer took 3-23 from eight overs and Cork chipped in with a wicket to make them 51-4.
A fifth-wicket partnership of 52 between Jake Else (21) and Blair Matthews (31) held Ticknall up for a while but William Orpin bowled Else and Rahim Akram had Matthews leg before.
Wood saw to the tail with a spell of 3-19 from 6.5 overs as he oversaw his first win as this season’s captain.