Gloucestershire v Kent: County Championship Division Two – Match Recap
Gloucestershire thumped http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, on Friday, July 22, 2011.
The hosts scored a mammoth 515 runs in the only innings they played in the four-day game. The highlight of the innings was a spectacular century from middle-order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Taylor-c1253, who missed-out on a double-ton by just four runs, scoring 196.
This sensational performance from the Gloucestershire team gave them a first innings lead of 310 runs in the match, which was enough to win.
Kent managed 205 and 168 in both their innings. There was only one half-century scored in the match for the visitors, which came off the bat of middle-order player Darren http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stevens-c91368.
The hosts’ captain, Alex Gidman, put the opposition into bat after winning the toss. There was some dampness in the pitch, which didn’t allow the Kent batsmen to settle down and the entire team was dismissed cheaply for 205.
The first six wickets in the visitors’ innings went down for just 59 runs on the board. They were struggling to even reach 100 at that stage of the innings, but Stevens and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JC-Tredwell-c1676 put together 83 runs for the seventh wicket partnership. They scored
67 and 45 in their respective outings, rescuing the team from disaster.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Will-Gidman-c2793 was in menacing form with the ball, as he captured a five-wicket haul in the innings for the home team.
Gloucestershire’s start was a decent one, as the team’s top-order collected some useful runs. However, none of the top-four managed to capitalise on the start they got to the innings, leaving the team at 116/4.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alex-Gidman-c984 put together 160 runs for the fifth wicket partnership, taking the game away from the opposition. The latter was dismissed after scoring 79 runs with the help of nine fours and a couple of massive sixes.
Taylor didn’t miss-out on a good batting pitch, as he contributed 196 runs to the total in his marathon innings. He struck 24 fours and one towering six in his impressive knock, but would have been a touch disappointed, not to reach 200.
There were no significant performances from the home team’s lower-order, as the team was all-out for 515.
Kent’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Balcombe-c1327 picked up five wickets in the innings, but lacked support from the rest of the bowlers in the team.
The visitors only had a chance to bat out the remaining days and draw the game, as winning was almost impossible for them. However, the pressure was too much for the batsmen and the entire team was dismissed for 168.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Simon-Hewitt-Cook-c90350 scored an unbeaten 46, top scoring the innings for Kent, but the rest of the batsmen were below par.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Payne-c1336 exerted a lot of pressure on the opposition, picking up four wickets in the innings.
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