Middlesex take easy victory over http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kent-c802 by (Duckworth-Lewis) D/L method: Friends Life Twenty20
Middlesex overcame Kent by 28 runs by the (Duckworth-Lewis) D/L method, in a match of the Friends Life Twenty20, at the Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 on Friday, June 24, 2011.
The visitors posted 149 runs in their allotted 20 overs. The star of the show for them was opening batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 by 15-20 runs in the end, as they would have liked to score at-least
170 after a strong start.
In reply, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817 team was given a flying start by their top-order, which helped them get ahead of the target according to the D/L method. The team reached 79 runs for the loss of just one wicket in eight overs when rain came pouring down.
The showers got heavier with time and no play was possible after that. However, the home team was comfortably ahead, winning the match convincingly in the end.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Neil-Dexter-c2091 had decided to field first after winning the toss for Middlesex. The overcast conditions suggested that the batsmen might find things hard against the new ball bowlers, as the ball would swing quite a lot in the air.
Kent started their innings with regular openers, Denly and skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robert-Key-c2349. The latter failed to get going and was dismissed after adding just six runs to the total. He got out in the fourth over of the innings.
Star http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Richard-Griffith-c41953
impression.
Mahmood was sent back to the pavilion after adding 10 runs to the total off the same number of deliveries.
The next man to go was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Darren-Ian-Stevens-c52453, who collected only six runs from seven balls in his short stay at the crease. The visitors were struggling at that stage with three wickets down for 53 runs on the board.
However, the innings was held together by Denly and South Africa’s, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Martin-van-Jaarsveld-c74944. The pair put together 96 runs for the fourth wicket partnership and remained unbeaten until the end.
Denly top scored with 84 runs from 64 balls with the help of eight fours and two massive sixes. The Proteas player also batted well, scoring 43 runs from 32 deliveries. He struck five fours in his knock.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-Christopher-Smith-c93347 took two wickets for the home team and didn’t allow the batsmen to free their arms.
Middlesex got off to a magnificent start, as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Paul-Robert-Stirling-c81193 peppered the bowlers. He remained unbeaten on 51 from just 23 balls, smashing five fours and four sixes. The lone wicket to fall in the innings was Adam Rossington, who was dismissed by Mahmood.
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