2012 Friends Life T20: Gloucestershire v Warwickshire – Bears script comfortable seven-wicket over Gladiators – Match Update
Paul Best’s startling performance with the ball was well complimented by an unbeaten half century knock from opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Trichunapalli-Pradeep-Varun-c94404 Chopra as Warwickshire scripted a comprehensive seven wicket win over Gloucestershire in a Friends Life T20 match, played at County
Ground Bristol, on Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
Best, playing only his second Friends Life T20 game, returned with impressive figures of 3 for 19 to restrict the Gladiators to a paltry 122 for 7, before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Varun-Chopra-c2745’s unbeaten 56, well supported by skipper Jim Troughton (30) took the tourists home, with
seven wickets and 11 balls to spare.
After opting to bat, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Benny-Howell-c1147 on the second ball of the match for a duck, as he tried to take a single after playing Chris Woakes to point, but a direct hit from Best at the bowlers
end meant he had to walk back to the dugout.
An over later, skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marshall-c74817, who has been appointed Gloucestershire's skipper for the Flt20, scored 6 runs off just
10 balls.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ian-Andrew-Cockbain-c63756 buckled down to add 41 runs for the third-wicket – with the bulk coming from the former – to restore some normalcy. Cockbain was bowled out by Jeetan Patel in the 11th over, on 13.
Housego continued the resilience but lacked support from his fellow batsmen, all of whom surrendered their wickets cheaply, without entering double-digit figures, baring Batty and Cockbain, as the hosts wrapped up their innings on a meagre 122 for 7. Housego
returned unbeaten on a 61-ball 59, which also included three boundaries and a six, off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657 in 18th over.
Paul Best accounted for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JS-Patel-c1747 and Chris Woakes all returned with one wicket apiece.
In reply, though the Bears lost http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Herbert-Frederick-Fuller-c65789 on the last ball of second over, Chopra (56 not out) and Troughton (30) shared a second-wicket stand of 69 runs in 12 overs, to put the side in a winning position.
Troughton and Maddy’s dismissal in 14th and 15th overs could not derail http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warwickshire-c862’s victorious campaign. Chopra played the winning boundary off Fuller, as the Bears scripted their third victory of the season.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Graham-Downton-c44379 Young and James Fuller all shared one wicket each.
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