Marylebone Cricket Club Universities v Northamptonshire 2nd XI: 3-Day Match Recap – Part 1
Following 3 days of competitive cricketing between Marylebone Cricket Club Universities and Northamptonshire 2nd XI, the fixture finally came to its wrap up after the former managed to secure a 5 wickets win. The match came as part
of the Second Eleven Championship, North Division and kicked off at the FP Fenner’s Ground, Cambridge, on Tuesday, August 23, 2011, will its eventual closure on August 25.
The match took to the field after Marylebone Cricket Club Universities won the toss and forced Northamptonshire into batting first, following which the side opened its session with Robert Keogh and Andrew Reynoldson. While in response,
the Marylebone bowling attack came out with Peter Turnbull and Adam Soilleux.
Suffering an early blow to its lineup, Northamptonshire lost its opening batsman, Keogh, on a disappointing duck, in the first over of the innings.
However, recovering swiftly from the loss, skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robin-James-Boyd-Moss-c86323 White came out to join Reynoldson and went to deliver an impressive knock with the bat.
The newly formed pair continued with the session, adding a solid 104 runs partnership to the team’s total following which Reynoldson marked a much disappointing return to the pavilion, falling a single short of a half century.
As for the skipper, the player cruised into marking his impressive half ton, however, following a successive blow from Marylebone bowlers, the batsman, alongside two down player http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Willey-c1342, exited the crease, bringing the team’s
wicket tally to a troubling 4 in 28.3 overs, scoring a total of 130 runs.
With the game now left at the disposal of the middle order, the players failed to offer much with the bat, and stumbled one after another till the team’s eventual player.
After a play worth 47.2 overs, Northamptonshire managed to come out with a minor total worth 196 runs, losing all its players.
As for the Marylebone batting response, the team kicked off its innings with opening batters William Tavare and Nitesh http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657.
The pair came out with some safe batting but failed to retain stumps after Patel marked an early return during the 7th over of the session.
One down batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harry-Stebbing-Bush-c61903 followed Patel as the second loss for the team, however, for the Northamptonshire bowlers the damage did not stop there after the side went on to earn another couple wickets in some quick overs.
The troubled Marylebone batting side came under fire after the team stood at a worrying 50 runs mark with a loss of 4 wickets.
Following the swift loss of the team’s opening order, the game was then taken over by middle orders http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Luke-Blackaby-c73263, who came out with some decent batting, finally adding some fair numbers to the team’s total.
The duo, however, once again fell victim to the much dominating http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Northamptonshire-c824 bowling, and stumbled into losing out on their stumps.
Losing 7 wickets in all, Marylebone finally declared its batting session at a minor total of 150 in 38 overs.
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