Southern Rocks v Mashonaland Eagles - Castle Logan Cup 2011/12 season – 1st Day's Summary
Southern Rocks 262/9 (90.0 ov) v Mashonaland Eagles - Mashonaland Eagles won the toss and elected to field
Southern Rocks managed to post 262 runs on the board for the loss of nine wickets against Mashonaland Eagles on the first day of the four-day match in the Castle Logan Cup 2011/12 season at Masvingo Sports Club, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 on Monday, September 26, 2011.
Earlier in the day, Southern Rocks who are based in Masvingo were put in to bat by Mashonaland Eagles after winning the toss as the Eagles wanted to field first in a bid to restrict the opposition on a meagre tally.
Coming out to bat, Southern Rocks openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Prince-Masvaure-c82674 knew that they needed to give their side a solid start to take lead in the game.
However, on the last delivery of the fourth over the Eagles struck when after knocking just four runs off the bat, Masvaure was trapped in front stumps off the bowling of right-arm fast-medium pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kyle-Malcolm-Jarvis-c71974. At the time of this wicket, Southern Rocks
had managed to post only 18 runs on the board.
It was then the 25-year-old right-hand batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Regis-Wiriranai-Chakabva-c84623
off the bowling of pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TN-Garwe-c2695.
After this wicket, it was then time for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MA-Vermeulen-c1872, the 32-year-old batsman to share the crease with Kaia. For Southern Rocks, his arrival was an omen of good fortune as the batting side gained momentum against the opposition by exhibiting commendable
batting in front of an intimidating bowing outfit.
The two batsmen posted 29 runs together as they clobbered the opposition all around the park, taking the sting out of the bowlers.
It was on the penultimate delivery of the 17th over when right-arm pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mashonaland-Eagles-c814 broke the partnership of Kaia and Vermeulen by trapping the opener in front of stumps after the batsman had played a knock of 35 runs off 56 deliveries.
At this time, the batting side had posted 60 runs on the board for the loss of three wickets.
However, this wicket did not deter the batsmen from going after the bowlers as Vermeulen and the newly arrived batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Richmond-Mutumbami-c85399 played sensational shots all around the park to give the spectators something to cheer about.
The two batsmen posted 33 runs as they took the total tally to 93 before Vermeulen was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mark-Mbofana-c1907.
Later in the Southern Rocks innings, right-hand batsman Richmond Mutumbami and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alester-Maregwede-c43107 dominated the bowlers as they scored 70 and 43 runs to help their side post a daunting total on the board. However, the duo failed to bat through the day as
at stumps it was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taurai-Muzarabani-c92904 (1) and Nigel Mupurura (0) who were standing on the crease.
Mashonaland Eagles now require only one wicket to get their batsmen in the middle to overcome the tally posted by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Southern-Rocks-c845.
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