All-round show by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SB-Styris-c2463 led Essex to an easy win over Gloucestershire
Essex thumped Gloucestershire by 122 runs in a match of the Friends Life Twenty20, at the County Ground, Chelmsford in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 on Friday, June 3rd, 2011. The hosts posted a massive total of 204 runs in their allotted overs and restricted the opposition
to just 82 runs. The star performer for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Essex-c783 in the match was the Kiwi all-rounder, who scored an uneaten 39 runs and took three wickets in the game.
Toss was won by the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alex-Gidman-c984, and he elected to field first. He expected the pitch to be better for batting in the second half of the match, but the decision proved to be terribly wrong, as the hosts amassed a huge total.
Essex didn’t get off to an ideal start in the match, losing opener, Mark Pettini, early. He only managed run-a-ball eight runs before being dismissed in the second over of the innings.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Napier-c1505 scored 36 runs in a very quick time, putting some pressure on the opposition. The latter then got out after scoring a quick fire 25 off just 13 balls with the help of two fours and the same number of sixes.
The visitors had a chance to bounce back in the match, but an 85-run stand between Bopara and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/OA-Shah-c2134 took the game away from them. Both players used all their experience and scored runs quickly without taking too many risks. They got out after scoring
49 and 40 runs in their respective knocks, but laid a solid platform for the lower-order batsmen.
Veteran http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RN-ten-Doeschate-c2338, made most of the good batting conditions. They hammered 71 runs in the last five overs of the innings, putting the opposition under immense pressure.
Doeschate finished with an unbeaten 32 from 16 balls with the help of four fours and one six whereas Styris remained not-out on 39 off just 17 deliveries, clobbering one four and four massive sixes.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Graham-Downton-c44379 Young took two wickets for the visitors, but his effort went in vain, as the opposition got away with plenty of runs.
Gloucestershire needed a solid start to their innings, but failed to get it, as their top-three got out without troubling the scorers. This put the team under a lot of pressure and their hopes ended with the dismissal of young Kiwi player, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KS-Williamson-c1813,
who top scored the innings with 20 runs.
The visitors only lasted 13.3 overs and were all-out for 82, suffering a humiliating defeat.
Styris bowled a sensational spell and proved his worth to the team, picking up three for 12 in his 3.3 overs.
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