Lancashire beat Surrey by five wickets in the Yorkshire Bank 40 match – Cricket News
In the Group B match of the ongoing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Surrey-c851 on Sunday, at Woodbridge Road, Guildford.
Ashwell Prince’s match winning knock of 76 helped his side successfully chase down 265 runs to win the match in 37.3 overs for the loss of five wickets.
Earlier after winning the toss, Lancashire invited Surrey to bat first and were given a rude welcome, as they got hammered for 101 runs by the Surrey openers Jason http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Symonds-c44611 and Steven Davies.
This partnership was broken by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jordan-Clark-c69229 after hammering a half century. At the time
of this wicket, Surrey had posted 117 runs on the board.
With both openers back in the pavilion, Vikram Solanki and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377 tried to rebuild the innings as they took the score to 139, before this partnership also met its end on the wicket of Ponting who fell on a run out after
scoring 17 runs.
Solanki and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Steven-Croft-c2583 trashed the party by dismissing Solanki for 34 off 33.
Wilson was then the next man to find his way off the field as he left his side on 190 runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Azhar-Mahmood-c1116 perished for 16 with his side lingering on 198.
Zander de Bruyn’s unbeaten 34 played a crucial role in helping his side post 264 runs on the board.
Chasing a decent score, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stephen-Moore-c2572 perished after hitting 30 runs off the bat.
Prince and Steven Croft then forged a daunting partnership as the two batsmen steered their side towards 140 runs before the latter was dismissed by Jade Dernbach after smashing 25 runs off 26 deliveries.
Azhar Mahmood then grabbed the prized wicket of Prince, who faltered after hammering 76 runs off 73 deliveries. At the time of this wicket, Lancashire were on 152. On the next delivery the bowler struck once more by nabbing the
wicket of Karl Brown for five.
Nonetheless, Simon Katich’s unbeaten 57 was enough to take his side across the finish line.
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