Derbyshire defeat Yorkshire: Friends Life T20 – First Innings Recap
Derbyshire defeated http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 on Wednesday, June 22, 2011. The visitors scored 152 runs in their allotted 20 overs, losing just four wickets.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wayne-Lee-Madsen-c96356 was in impressive form, scoring an unbeaten 61 runs for his side. His innings really proved to be the difference between both the teams. In reply, the Derbyshire team failed to achieve the target and was restricted to 146 runs.
Toss was won by the Derbyshire’s captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Luke-David-Sutton-c73270, and he decided to at first. The conditions were good for the batsmen, as the pitch was dry.
The weather was also perfect for cricket, but the wicket was a touch on the slower side. The ball didn’t come onto the bat, as the batsmen would have liked, but still a good game of cricket was expected.
Derbyshire were lucky to win the toss though, as the wicket got slower in the second half of the match. The hosts found it hard to get the boundaries and eventually lost the match by a narrow margin.
The visitors opened the innings with their regular pair, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 player was run-out in the very first over of the match. He misjudged a run and had to take the long walk back to
the pavilion after adding just one run to the total.
Durston was also not able to make an impression in the match. He found it hard to time the ball and eventually gave his wicket away after scoring five runs.
Derbyshire needed a good partnership to get the innings going and it was provided by Madsen and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chesney-Hughes-c1233. The pair put together 53 runs for the third wicket partnership before the latter got out after collecting 32 runs.
Hughes didn’t take too many risks in his knock and just gave support to his partner at the other end, who was playing some aggressive strokes.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Garry-Terence-Park-c58458 walked out in the middle with his team struggling to some extent, as the run-rate was not very good. He took the team out of pressure though, smashing 31 runs off just 19 balls with the help of four fours and one six.
Madsen played until the end and finished with an unbeaten 61 from 48 deliveries, striking one four and a couple of massive sixes.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Shahzad-c874 proved to be the pick of the bowlers for his side, picking up one wicket in his four-over spell, giving away just 27 runs.
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