2012 Friends Life T20: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Phillip-Hughes-c2185 star in Royals’ 47-run win – Match Update
Quick half-centuries from Moeen Ali and Phillip Hughes were well complemented by a promising bowling performance from Jack Shantry and Gareth Andrew to allow Worcestershire to open up their Friends Life t20 campaign with an emphatic 47-run win over Gloucestershire,
at County Ground New Road, on Sunday, June 17.
Moeen Ali’s pugnacious knock of 82 runs from 44 deliveries (eight fours and four sixes), well complemented by an unbeaten belligerent innings of 48-ball 78 from Phillip Hughes, pushed the Royals' total to a formidable 213 for 2.
Shantry (4 for 33) and Andrew (3.5 for 20) then took charge of taking the side home and dismissed the opposition for 166 on the second last ball of the penultimate over to hand the Royals a comprehensive 47-run victory. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hamish-Marshall-c1525 top scored for the
Gladiators with a belligerent 23-ball 43. Kane Williamson’s (37 off 29) and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Herbert-Frederick-Fuller-c65789 (36 off 22) were the other major contributors in Gloucestershire’s 166, while the rest of the line-up fell for scores inside 20, including four single digit scores.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Payne-c1336 for four fours in the second over of the day, which went for 18. Solanki tried to pace up the scoring by smashing
Fuller for back-to-back sixes in the fifth over, but the next ball saw the right-hander moving back to the pavilion, bowled out by Fuller on 16.
In walked Phillip Hughes, who went on to plunder nine fours and a six in his unbeaten 78 that came off 48 deliveries. Hughes and Moeen shared a three-digit stand for the second wicket from 9.4 overs. Kane Willaimson broke the 100-run partnership having belligerent
Moeen bowled out in the 15th over. However, the run scoring only paced up when Gareth Andrew came into the scene. The Somerset-born left-hander struck two sixes and two fours in his 17-ball cameo adding 32 runs to the scorecard as the hosts wrapped
up at 213 for 2 in their allotted quota of 20 overs.
This was Worcestershire’s first win of the season, after their tournament opener against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Somerset-c843 was also abandoned without a ball bowled, reason being the
same, merciless weather.
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