Middlesex vs Durham MCCU – Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches – Day 1 Recap
The Marylebone Cricket Club University matches saw the Middlesex County side clash with the Durham MCCU in a 3-day first class match, which started at Northwood, on March 31, 2012. Day 1 of the match saw the Middlesex side close their innings on 368/9 declared,
with the Durham MCCU scoring 25 in reply, losing 2 wickets.
Durham MCCU skipper, youngster Chris Jones won the toss and chose to field first against the Middlesex County side, led by Neil Dexter, who sent openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Henry-Childs-c68031 Wallis and Matthew Green with the new ball.
London was the first to depart, after an 86-run stand with Robson, as he was caught leg-before-wicket by first change bowler Jonathan Salt, managing to score 30 runs off 60 balls. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Rogers-c1249 was the next man in, but could only stay for 5 minutes before
perishing on a duck, caught-behind off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Luke-Blackaby-c73263.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Neil-Dexter-c2091 was up
next and fell in the same exact manner, as Blackaby collected his wicket as well, on a duck.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Simpson-c1722 then came down to lend Robson a supporting hand, and the two took the score from 217 to 231 before it was time for the opener to return to the pavilion, after spending nearly 4 hours on the crease to score his 117 off 190 balls. Following his
dismissal, only http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ollie-Rayner-c2139 and Tim Murtagh added 21 and 31 runs to the total respectively, as it reached 368 for the loss of 9 wickets, when the Middlesex side decided to declare.
Blackaby made the day for Durham MCCU with his 4-wicket haul, which helped restrict the damage the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Middlesex-c817 side could have meted out.
Coming into bat, the Durham MCCU side opened with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rishabh-Shah-c85439 was to replace Jones, but he too fell shortly afterwards,
leaving the side at 7-2 by the 4th over. Waters was then accompanied by Ajay Sangha at the crease, who managed to score a quick-fire 16 before the day was called off with the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782 side at 25-2.
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