Clydesdale Bank 40: Netherlands v Leicestershire - Foxes script their first CB40 win of the season - Match Update
A pugnacious half-century knock from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-Hoggard-c1926 and James Sykes, helped Leicestershire script their first Clydesdale Bank 40 win of the season against Netherlands, at VRA Ground,
Amstelveen on Wednesday, July 11.
Thornely blazed away with the bat, plundering five lofty sixes and six muscular boundaries, to take the tourists to a par total of 208 for 7, in their quota of 36 overs, before Hoggard and Sykes scythed through the opposition batting line up to bundle them
out for 175, handing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Leicestershire-c807 a rare 33-run win. The duo claimed six wickets between them, while conceding 65 runs in their combined 12.1 overs.
Cameron Borgas top scored for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Netherlands-c753, while six of the opposition batters fell for single digit scores, including two ducks.
Netherlands’ skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/PW-Borren-c2225 won the toss, but not much else went his side’s way, as his decision to bowl first in the overcast conditions came unstuck against a rampant Thornely, who proved to be unstoppable, smashing sensational shots all around the
park to post a match-changing 86.
Put into bat, Leicestershire were dealt an early blow as Timm http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Greg-Smith-c1508 was run out in the 11th over before Der Gugten struck again in the 13th over to claim the prized
scalp of Cobb’s opening partner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RR-Sarwan-c2371 - leaving the tourists 51 for 3.
Thornely and Wayne White buckled down to add 69 runs for the fifth wicket, to put the side on course to a respectable 208-run total.
In reply, the hosts never looked in a winning position and kept losing wickets at regular intervals after opener Stephan Myburgh was retired hurt. Hoggard removed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahbaz-Bashir-c89333 caught by Wayne
White on five to leave Netherlands reeling at 35 for 3, a position from which they never really recovered.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Cameron-Borgas-c1212 tried to stabilize the chase with a hard-fought 40 from 48 balls, but his lone effort was not enough to see Netherlands home on a day, when most of his fellow batsmen were off-colour - eventually being rolled over by the 33rd over.
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